The Best Of Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review by 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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