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05/31/2005
George Chauncey, 2004 In this 2004 interview with Owen Keehnen, gay historian George Chauncey discusses the historical background of the opposition to same-sex marriage, putting it in the perspective of earlier opposition to interracial and interfaith marriage and suggesting profitable ways of countering the arguments of its opponents. view feature
Kate Bornstein, 1998 Transsexual S&M feminist, performance artist, and playwright Kate Bornstein became a celebrated gender theorist with the publication of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (1994). In this 1998 interview with Owen Keehnen, she discusses her book, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (1998), an interactive work designed to cause a rethinking of the binary man/woman gender system and a breaking down of its restraints. view feature
05/15/2005
The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany The German homosexual emancipation movement emerged decades before the 1969 Stonewall Riots inspired the gay liberation movement in the United States. It began with the formation of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in 1897, but was crushed under the boot of Nazism in the early 1930s. view feature
05/14/2005
Michelangelo Signorile, 1994 In this 1994 interview with Owen Keehnen, controversial journalist/activist Michelangelo Signorile discusses the three closets of power (New York, Washington, and Los Angeles) and how to dismantle them, as well as his outing of closeted celebrities. view feature
Jaime Manrique, 1993 In this 1993 interview with Owen Keehnen, Colombian author Jaime Manrique discusses his first English language novel, Latin Moon in Manhattan (1992), his writing career, his coming out in a repressive society, and his intent to master the English language. view feature
05/01/2005
Film Directors: Lesbian Lesbian and female bisexual directors have had an important and continuing impact on both Documentary and dramatic Film. Several have helped combat lesbian invisibility and empower women by raising lesbian and feminist issues in their work. view feature
04/30/2005
Neil Miller, 1994 In this 1994 interview with Owen Keehnen, journalist Neil Miller, author of Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok (1992), discusses some of the differences between American attitudes and those of other countries toward gay and lesbian life, with examples from both the most repressive and the most progressive cultures. view feature
Janis Ian, 1993 In this 1993 interview with Owen Keehnen, singer/songwriter Janis Ian discusses her album Breaking Silence (1993) and the difficulties in getting it produced, her public coming out, the subjects of her most popular songs, the issues she confronts in them, and her inspiration for writing them. view feature
04/15/2005
Music: Classical, Before the Twentieth Century From Hildegard of Bingen to Jean-Baptiste Lully to Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, queer composers and performers have had a substantial impact on classical music. view feature
04/14/2005
Samuel Steward, 1993 In addition to writing memoirs, erotica, literary fiction, and mysteries, Samuel Steward was at one time a university English professor and at another a tattoo artist. In Paris in the 1930s, he knew Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Thomas Mann, André Gide, and Lord Alfred Douglas, and he was a lover of Thornton Wilder. In this interview with Owen Keehnen in 1993, shortly before he died, Steward discusses his varied careers and his famous friends and acquaintances, and he draws provocative distinctions between being gay in the 1930s and in the 1980s and 1990s. view feature
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