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06/01/2010 |
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Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay
You might expect the first significant documentary film about the founder of the gay male movement for equality in the United States to be an exercise in hero worship, but this well-crafted documentary reveals almost as much about the flaws that kept Hay from achieving more as it does about the strengths that led to his substantial accomplishments.
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06/01/2010 |
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Rock Music
Although Rock Music has been closely associated with freedom of expression and rebelliousness, it has frequently been hostile to gay and lesbian performers. Nevertheless, both closeted and out glbtq performers are an important part of the Rock Music universe.
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05/01/2010 |
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Cross-Dressers: Male
Though male cross-dressing is common historically, cross-dressers have often been misunderstood and maligned, especially in societies with strictly defined gender roles. Despite this disapprobation, cross-dressing entertainers have often been accepted and even celebrated in many cultures.
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04/01/2010 |
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African-American Literature: Lesbian
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African-American Lesbian Literature is as concerned with racism as
it is with sexuality, causing many writers to construct Afrocentric sexual
identities that affirm the power of black women.
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03/01/2010 |
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Secondary Education
Despite opposition from largely Christian Right-Wing Groups, resources and protections for glbtq secondary school students have dramatically increased since the first glbtq student organizations emerged on university campuses in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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03/01/2010 |
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Carolyn Laub of GSA Networks
Carolyn Laub, Executive Director of GSA Network, discusses her goals as well as the needs and grass-roots activism of middle and high school students today.
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point of view |
02/01/2010 |
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A Single Man: Ford's Film / Isherwood's Novel
In this review of A Single Man (2009), Tom Ford's adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel, author and glbtq.com General Editor Claude J. Summers argues that though Ford's film substantially alters the story Christopher Isherwood originally told, the film is a considerable achievement in its own right.
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02/01/2010 |
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Film Actors: Lesbian and Bisexual Female
Lesbian and Bisexual Actresses have played a significant role in Hollywood since the days of silent film, but their contributions have rarely been recognized or spoken of openly. The "lavender marriage" is by no means a relic of the past despite the path-breaking careers of openly lesbian stars such as Ellen DeGeneres,Rosie O'Donnell, and Lily Tomlin.
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slideshow |
01/01/2010 |
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Bill Travis: Icons of Desire
Artist Bill Travis uses a photographic process he invented to combine aspects of Byzantine Christian icons with homoerotic images in his series "Icons of Desire."
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01/01/2010 |
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Ronald Firbank: Aggressive, Witty, and Unrelenting
Author and professor Don Adams argues that English novelist Ronald Firbank has been mischaracterized as a frivolous literary lightweight by some prominent critics. Rather, Adams maintains, Firbank was a radically parodic writer who upended the conventional novel's focus on ethics with a liberating expression of individualist aesthetics.
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