Archive for March, 2011

With the nuclear fission meltdown in Japan, gas prices at the pump in the U.S. beginning to soar as the summer months approach, and memories still fresh of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the

With the floodgates open at last in the wake of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, tons of material began being compiled and disseminated on all things homosexual for as far as history would go. It was

The death of actress Elizabeth Taylor yesterday at age 79 profoundly punctuates and adds a somber edge to the Georgetown University commemoration of the 100th birthday of arguably America’s

As pioneering gay activist Edward Carpenter wrote in 1908, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs posited a notion of gay identity apart from sexual orientation, per se, and remains to this day one of the very few

Since it is the month of the 100th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’ birth, it is apropos to note what Williams suggested in his Memoirs was his favorite single word: mendacity. Mendacity

In fairness, it can be argued that the great American illustrator Norman Rockwell’s cover art for the April 3, 1933 edition of the Saturday Evening Post, entitled

All the right-wing, faux-populist agitation and ferment that has been generated since the election of President Obama is now converging on the favorite “wet dream” fantasy of Wall

March 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tennessee Williams, a blazing star in the galaxy of great gay contributors to the progress of human civilization as America’s greatest