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Brigid Brophy’s “ Black Ship to Hell and a Genealogy of Queer Theory” argues that although Brophy’s 1962 exhaustive psychoanalytic analysis of the death instinct in Western culture is now nearly totally forgotten, it prefigures themes found in early gay and lesbian liberation thinking, as well as contemporary queer theory. Bronski argues that revisiting Black Ship to Hell (1962), which Brophy considered her first major work of cultural analysis, may illuminate the ideas and themes in the works of major feminist and queer theorists such as Kate Millett, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Juliet Mitchell, David Fernback, Guy Hocquenghem, José Estaban Muñoz, and Jack Halberstam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the author's reactions to teaching Janet Jakobsen's and Ann Pellegini's Love the Sin in a course titled "Contemporary Issues in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies" at Dartmouth College. He examines not only the students' reactions and the points at which they can or cannot grasp the book's arguments, but also his own responses to their reactions. At the center of the essay is his realization that the students, having been brought up in a liberal mode of "tolerance," have little access to Jakobsen and Pellegrini's social or political concept of "sexual freedom"; and, while they completely eschew state regulation of sexuality, they do not view it as an essential human right, but rather as a private matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the eroticization of the male body in Western culture. Absence of a standard idealized male body in Western societies; Argument that Michelangelo's love sonnets to men attest to his sexual love for men; Occurrence of the most eroticization of the male body in social presentation; Importance of masculine deportment and dress by the end of the 19th century in industrialized European and U.S. culture.

Reviews New York City plays relating to homosexuality. 'Stupid Kids,' written by John C. Russell, directed by Michael Mayer; 'R&J,' adapted and directed by Joe Calarco; 'The Mystery of Irma Vep,' written by Charles Ludlam, directed by Everett Quinton.