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02/01/2009 |
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Film Actors: Gay And Bisexual Male
Although gay male film actors such as Raymond Burr, Rock Hudson, and Charles Laughton have rarely been permitted the luxury of openness, many have challenged and helped reconfigure notions of masculinity and, to a lesser extent, of homosexuality.
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01/01/2009 |
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English Literature: Renaissance
Homosexuality is writ large in the literature of the English Renaissance but, with the exception of a few significant but atypical texts, homoeroticism tends to be expressed implicitly rather than explicitly, seen from the outside rather than from the inside, and is nearly always shadowed by a penumbra of religious and social disapproval.
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12/01/2008 |
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Pink and Bent: Art of Queer Women
Pink and Bent: Art of Queer Women is an exhibition curated by Pilar Gallego and Cora Lambert, who selected work by both established and emerging artists with an eye toward conveying the experience of being a queer woman through art, which can "describe visually what is too complicated" to convey through language alone.
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12/01/2008 |
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Pilar Gallego and Cora Lambert on Pink and Bent
Pink and Bent: Art of Queer Women was an exhibition of the work of dozens of queer women, which was first mounted at the Leslie/Lohman Art Foundation gallery in New York City. Many of the show's images are available online on glbtq.com. In this interview, the project's curators describe their vision for the show--and the reason they did not call it "The Great Lesbian Art Show" despite its enormous size.
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spotlight |
11/01/2008 |
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Cross-Dressers: Female
Women who cross-dress generally do so for reasons quite different from those that motivate male cross-dressers. These historically and culturally significant women have worn male attire to accomplish many different goals.
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spotlight |
10/01/2008 |
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Literary Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the center of American popular culture; it has also been important to the histories of twentieth-century gay and lesbian literature.
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point of view |
10/01/2008 |
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Queer History/American History
In this POV article, historian Vicki L. Eaklor, author of Queer America, observes that the experience of writing her book impressed upon her the sheer magnitude of queer history. She also forcefully argues that American History and Queer History are necessarily intertwined. The glbtq past, far from being "yet another history" is part and parcel of American history.
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10/01/2008 |
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Chris Freeman on Loving West Hollywood
Chris Freeman, co-editor of Love, West Hollywood, talks with Wik Wikholm about the book, an unusual attraction to West Hollywood that eventually drove him to move there, and the state of the queer literary community in Los Angeles.
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09/01/2008 |
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Mystery Man, Talking with Christopher Rice
With his gay-themed plots in gay-friendly settings, Christopher Rice has carved out a lucrative niche for himself in the the mystery/thriller genre. In this interview with Craig Kaczorowski, Rice discusses his thoughts on gay writers, ideal readers, the impact of his famous mother on his work and career, and his fascination with marines.
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06/01/2008 |
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Symbols
The glbtq community has developed and appropriated many symbols, but where did they come from and what do they mean? In this series of slides, you will discover that while glbtq symbols are diverse in origin and meaning, all serve to render visible communities that have been marginalized or erased.
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