‘Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex...
What do “The Man in the Arrow Shirt” and the original “Blue Haired Lady” have in common? As Rodger Streitmatter explains in this brisk series of double biographies, both were one half of a long-term...
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2012 NBCC Award Winners, Victories for Gay Rights Activists, and a New...
Each January, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announces a list of 30 finalists, five books for each of six genre categories. After about six weeks of close reading and deliberating, the NBCC...
View ArticleNew History Exhibits, Recent Research Findings, and the VIDA Count
From June 7 to Sept. 15, the New-York Historical Society will feature an exhibition called “AIDS in New York: The First Five Years.” The exhibition, which draws from a variety of archive materials such...
View ArticleA Historic Week for the Gay Rights Movement
Recently, the California Department of Education released their list of recommended reading for students in grades K-12. The list, which contains over 7,800 publications, includes 32 books that are...
View ArticleA Look at Anti-Gay Problems in China and France, Camp Aesthetics, and Other...
In China, where same-sex marriage is not legal, gay men are looking to get married to lesbian women in order to obtain what is known as a xinghun, a “cooperative marriage”—essentially, a marriage in...
View ArticleCapote’s Manuscript Sells for a Ridiculous Amount of Money, Shane Bitney...
On Wednesday, April 24, the state Senate of Rhode Island passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, with a vote of 26 to 12. Sometime this week, the bill will likely be turned over to Rhode Island...
View ArticleThe New Yorker’s Mother’s Day Cover, the Fascinating Stories Behind Classic...
Last week, Rhode Island became the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. This week, Delaware became the 11th. On Tuesday, a half hour after the bill passed in Delaware’s Senate with a vote of...
View ArticleCharles Henry Rowell, an Anti-Gay Children’s Book, Lorca in New York, and...
This week the Los Angeles Review of Books published an online interview with Charles Henry Rowell, editor of Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. For the first time ever, Rowell...
View ArticlePeople that Make You Pay Attention to Poetry, the Golden Crown Literary...
On Thursday, August 1, dozens of same-sex couples in Rhode Island and Minnesota exchanged vows in honor of the first official day that a marriage of this kind could be officiated according to the laws...
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