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08/01/2011 

Lesbian and Bisexual Female Poetry Before Stonewall
 
No canonical list of pre-Stonewall lesbian poetry exists, but few would disagree that each of the six women profiled here contributed significantly to the lesbian literary heritage.
 
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07/01/2011 

Re-Turning to the Bible
 
Contributor Tony Hoshaw reviews the extensive work of theologian and Chicago Theological Seminary Professor Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. in which Jennings re-reads the Christian Scriptures in a gay-affirming way and expresses his view that Christian homophobia comes from cultural traditions rather than the Bible.  view feature

07/01/2011 

Music: Classical, Twentieth Century
 
The term classical music is a convenient shorthand that refers to the body of Western art music, as distinguished from popular or folk music. It is an important component of Western culture to which glbtq people have contributed significantly.
 
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06/01/2011 

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
 
Filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) introduces Burroughs (1914-1997) as a leading writer who helped construct the Beat Generation, was an important gay icon, inspired the counterculture of the 1960s, and was the muse and godfather of Punk Rock. According to reviewer Wik Wikholm, the film is an excellent and unflinching introduction to Burrough's hard-to-like personality, his importance as a writer and artist, and his influence on American cultural history.
 
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06/01/2011 

Confessions of a Blog Addict: Or Why I Love to Hate GetReligion.org and FamilyScholars.org
 
An anonymous contributor writes about his favorite glbtq-friendly blogs and the two right-wing blogs he most loves to hate: FamilyScholars.org and GetReligion.org. The article includes descriptions of the people who write for and fund these right-wing, culture-war driven blogs and the issues that concern them.
 
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06/01/2011 

Jazz and the Blues
 
Jazz and the Blues, two of the most prominent musical forms to emerge from African-American roots, differ sharply in their relationships to glbtq performers. While jazz continues to be hostile toward glbtq musicians despite the significant contributions of several gay male jazz artists, the Blues has been more welcoming, particularly to lesbian and bisexual women.
 
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05/01/2011 

Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free
 
In the documentary film Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free (2002), city-dwelling narrator Zakhi Ranebe teams up with hairdresser Martin Machapa to travel to the hinterlands of black South Africa and explore queer male communities there by connecting with rural gay hairdressers to gain entry into their tiny queer communities. The video reveals an enormous variety of identities and lifestyles that challenge Western gay, bisexual, and transgender categories and uncovers a surprising degree of social integration between rural queer black subcommunities and the villages and towns within which they exist.
 
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05/01/2011 

Nineteenth-Century American Art
 
The accomplishments of nineteenth-century lesbian American artists, some of whom are only now receiving recognition, are all the more remarkable for the obstacles they faced as homosexuals and as women working in a male-dominated field.
 
Nineteenth-century gay male American artists often suffered from guilt, but artists such as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins celebrated male camaraderie and affection, while expatriate John Singer Sargent depicted the dandy. Some American artists, including Eakins, used the relatively new medium of photography to celebrate the beauty of the male nude as well as male friendships.
 
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04/01/2011 

The Mormon Proposition
 
The documentary film 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010) indicts the Mormon Church as the puppet master that orchestrated, funded, and deliberately concealed its role in what appeared to be a successful grassroots Evangelical and Roman Catholic campaign for Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that ended same-sex marriage in California when it passed on November 4, 2008. The film cites evidence that shows that the Mormons have honed a deceptive, but winning strategy they continue to use against same-sex marriage today.
 
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04/01/2011 

Japan
 
Blending elements from indigenous traditions and recently imported Western discourses of sexual identity, Japan is home to one of the most diverse and dynamic queer cultures in Asia.
 
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