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Lambda's play 'Miss Saigon,' Paul Verhoeven's film 'Basic Instinct' and St. Patrick's Day Parades in New York and Boston question the accepted concept of popular culture. The message conveyed in 'Basic Instinct,' St. Patrick's Day Parade and 'Miss Saigon' is that unless the whites understand the need for multiculturalism, racial equality cannot be achieved.

If you believe social conservatives, marriage in America has been under dire assault for more than a century--from adultery, divorce, feminism, birth control and now, apparently, gays and lesbians, who […]

The Uninvited Produced by Charles Brackett; directed by Lewis Allen; screenplay by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos, based on a novel by Dorothy Macardle; cinematography by Charles Lang Jr.; art [...]

As political books move to the front of stores, some titles are left behind. What does it bode for spring? The publishing industry has always had a finger on the [...]

1984: Selected Letters by Samuel Delany ON the face of it, Samuel Delany's 1984 is a simple enough book, but reading it is a complexing thrilling experience. Delany, an indefatigable [...]

Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern Carolyn Dinshaw Duke University Press, 1999 345 pages, $24.95 IN the postscript to her breathtaking investigation into the myriad 'queer' connections between [...]

Produced by William Horberg and Tom Sternberg; directed by Anthony Minghella; screenplay by Anthony Minghella, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith; cinematography by John Seale; production design by Roy [...]

ISN'T that the cute Matt Damon playing a beguiling, if decidedly dangerous, homosexual in Anthony Minghella's new film The Talented Mr. Ripley? And, indeed, Damon acts to perfection the role [...]

In a bold new book, biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling challenges science on its prejudices about gender We've come a long way from believing that sugar and spice, snails and puppy dog [...]

Multitalented academic Ed Stein takes on the nature-versus-nurture argument with The Mismeasure of Desire, a smart book that raises skepticism to a fine art Ed Stein is not afraid of [...]

Bronski is the author of The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash and the Struggle for Gay Freedom (St. Martin's Press, 1998). He lives in Cambridge, Mass. ACCOMPANYING THE novel1st and social [...]

OUT ON A LIMB The news sent shock waves through gay and lesbian literary and publishing circles. On December 4th Sarah Pettit, Out editor-in-chief, was fired by President Henry Scott; [...]

The author discusses the role of gay liberation movements in child rearing. He mentions the relationship with the women's liberation movement of the same period, the issue of families and their role in raising children, and how gay participation in child rearing could change social values.

Screening Sex by Linda Williams. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 412 pp., illus. Hardcover $89.95 and Paperback $24.95. The conflation--conflagration?--of sex and cinema seems so natural as to be [...]

BETWEEN WOMEN: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England Sharon Marcus Princeton University Press / $19.95 ISBN-13: 0978-0-691-12835-1, Paperback, 356 pp. It's been four decades--with the publication of Steven Marcus's [...]

BEHIND THE MASK OF THE MATTACHINE The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation James T. Sears, Ph.D. Haworth Press / $34.95 soft / $49.95 hard / [...]

After simmering at the state and federal level for a full decade, same-sex marriage is now very nearly a reality. In a year when it's likely to become a wedge [...]

Eva Hoffman opens her new book--After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust--by contemplating a paradox. Writing about the Holocaust, she notes: 'as this immense catastrophe recedes [...]

When the details of Lillian Faderman's new book--Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir--became public knowledge a few years ago, many of her colleagues and readers found it difficult to [...]

edited by David Batstone and Eduardo Mendieta Routledge ISBN 0415920930 hardback $21.00, 167 pp. 'There is no more central institution to democracy than that of citizenship' writes Eduardo Mendieta in [...]

Donna Minkowitz Free Press ISBN 0684833220 hardback $24.00,175 pp. Reading through Donna Minkowitz's political/sexual memoir Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Far Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and [...]

by Jeffrey Escoffier University of California Press ISBN 0520206320 paperback $17.95, 316 pp. 'The desire to live honestly underlies the political emergency of lesbians and gay men in our time,' [...]

It is becoming increasingly difficult, under this new reign of terror against homosexuals and sexuality as promoted by Mr. Gingrich and Company, to even approach talking about gayness, AIDS, or [...]

Gay male and lesbian writing has had to survive many burdens. It has been censored, it has been neglected, it has been denounced, it has been accused of being both [...]

For many of us working in the early years of gay and lesbian liberation, the excitement of the times was manifest in the plethora of vivid, exacting, argumentative and highly [...]

Steven Corbin has never been afraid of tackling difficult topics. In No Easy Place to Be he re-viewed the history of the Harlem Renaissance through the complicated relationships of three [...]

Death of gay artists, committed to gay liberation, due to AIDS is a great loss to the gay community which should continue to take inspiration from their works. Deceased gay artists such as novelist John Preston, filmmaker Marlon Riggs, poet Walta Borawski and playwright Terry Helbing sustained the gay culture by interpreting it for others and broadening their vision.

Gay men are reluctant to communicate their real fantasies when they talk about sex and their language is highly affected and rehearsed. Gay male sexuality as portrayed by the mass media influences their talk, which does not reflect their true desires. The rampant homophobia inhibits gay men from talking about their fantasies.