The Best Of Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review by Richard Schneider

The Best Of Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review

Richard Schneider

Among the periodicals targeted to gay and lesbian readers, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review stands out as the forum for the serious discussion of contemporary politics and culture. This collection of lively and accessibly written essays, commentaries, and interviews features a stellar line-up of writers and activists. Engaging with a wide range of subjects that particularly interest gays and lesbians, these provocative essays take on contemporary issues of gay rights and identity politics as well as recover the pre- and post-Stonewall literary heritage that gives shape to today’s gay culture.

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Contents

Series Foreword – Robert Dawidoff

Foreword – Edmund White

General Introduction – Richard Schneider, Jr.

Being There

1. My Harvard – Andrew Holleran

2. A Tragedy of Bees – Patricia Nell Warren

3. Russia: ‘Invitation to a beheading’ – Yaroslav Mogutin

4. Remembering the Gay Old Times – Edmund White

Origins of an Orientation

5. The Genetic Theory of Sexual Orientation – Richard Pillard

6. Varieties of Biological Explanation – William Byne and Ed Stein

7. Genes in the Service of Gay Pride – Vernon Rosario

8. Do Women Choose Their Sexual Identity – Karla Golden

9. Where Gay Boys Come From – Camille Paglia

Early Outbreaks

10. Lesbians in Ancient Rome – Bernadette Brooten

11. A Gay Civil War Novel Surfaces – Douglas Shand-Tucci

12. Review of George Chauncey’s Gay New York – Robert Dawidoff

13. Deciphering the Gay Halocaust – Lev Raphael

14. Hollywood Watering Holes – Lester Strong

The Gay Decades

15. Lesbian New York – Karla Jay

16. The Real Violet Quill Club – Felice Picano

17. Behind the Door at Red Dora’s – Gabrielle Glancy

18. Reverberations of ‘The NEA Four Affair’ – Holly Hughes

Literary Heritage

19. On Emily Dickinson – Martha Nell Smith

20. On Willa Cather – Marilee Lindemann

21. Stein’s Style – Renate Stendhal

22. Review of Auden – Richard Howard

23. Five Houses of Gay Fiction – Reed Woodhouse

24. Review of Saphire’s Push – Cheryl Clarke

25. David Leavitt’s Inner Child – Michael Schwartz

26. Interview – Edward Albee

On Liberation Strategy: An Exchange

27. Three Articles Exerpted – Barney Frank

28. Reply to Frank – Rich Tafel

29. Interview – Urvashi Vaid

30. Interview – Larry Kramer

Assimilation Versus Ghettoization: An Exchange

31. Open Letter to Bruce Bawer – David Bergman

32. Reply to Bergman and Bergman’s Rebuttal – Bruce Bawer

Postmodernism and its Discontents

33. The Perils of Postmodernism – Richard Mohr

34. The Politics of Sexual Identity – April Martin

35. Review of Boswell’s Same Sex Marriages – Denise Kimber Buell

36. Review of David Halperin’s Saint=Foucault – Andrew Holleran

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Details

ISBN	9781566395960
Genre	LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date	21-Nov-97
Publisher	Temple University Press
Format	Hardcover
No. of Pages	455
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Subject	Gays – United States; Homosexuality – United States
BookID	1066