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Decadence
In its broadest sense, decadence refers to the fall of a society from a position of strength and prosperity to a state of weakness and ruin. More narrowly, members of the nineteenth-century Decadent movement in art and literature either describe aspects of decadent life and society or reflect the decadent literary aesthetic.
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Tina Fiveash: A Retrospective
Australian artist Tina Fiveash (b. 1970) often appropriates the iconography of advertising to create a missing lesbian history. Her work is frequently humorous on the surface, but just as often delivers a fierce political punch on closer inspection.
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Spotlight: The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American literary and cultural movement that began after World War I and ended during the years of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The movement was influenced by the many black glbtq writers who contributed to it.
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02/01/2008 |
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Keith Boykin on Gentleman Jigger
Author, activist, and television personality Keith Boykin introduces Gentleman Jigger, a novel by Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent, and discusses the factors that prevented its publication before 2008.
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Eric Patterson on Brokeback Mountain
In this wide-ranging essay about Brokeback Mountain, author Eric Patterson contends that Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and the Annie Proulx short story on which the film is based compels Americans to consider the significance of love between men especially as it relates to the heroic national ideal of the Cowboy.
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10/01/2007 |
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Robert Sherer: Recent Work
Robert Sherer's recent work uses unusual media to address two sharply distinct aspects of gay male experience. His American Pyrographs series explores male adolescence and sexuality while Blood Works comments on--and raises questions about--romance and sex in the HIV era.
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05/01/2007 |
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Lesbian Paris (ca 1900-1940) Part 2
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, Paris was a center of sexual freedom and same-sex sexual cultures. Lesbian American and European expatriates and France's own lesbian writers and artists created a Bohemian social, sexual, and creative milieu that makes this time and place unique in the history of lesbian culture. Part 2 of 2.
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Lesbian Paris (ca 1900-1940) Part 1
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, Paris was a center of sexual freedom and same-sex sexual cultures. Lesbian American and European expatriates and France's own lesbian writers and artists created a Bohemian social, sexual, and creative milieu that makes this time and place unique in the history of lesbian culture. Part 1 of 2.
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Canadian Literature
Canadian gay and lesbian writers have produced a vibrant body of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry since the 1960s.
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Transsexuals of Brazil
Transgender people--more specifically, people who were born male but present themselves as female--are Brazil's single most marginalized group. Though activists and government agencies are beginning to address the problems they face, most Brazilian transsexuals suffer from violence, unique health risks, social isolation, and enormous emotional stresses.
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