The Gay & Lesbian Review
The Gay & Lesbian Review
WORLDWIDE
March–April 2014 • VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 2
WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118
C ONTENTS
Editor-in-Chief and Founder R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . ____________________________ Literary Editor M ARTHA E. S TONE Poetry Editor D AVID B ERGMAN Associate Editors J IM F ARLEY L EWIS G ANNETT C HRISTOPHER H ENNESSY
F EATURES
Notes on Camp—and Anti-Camp 10 B RUCE L A B RUCE
Fifty years after Sontag’s salvo, camp has conquered pop culture
Drag Kings by Any Other Name 14 C LARE W ALL
M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ Contributing Writers
Female cross-dressing from Joan of Arc to Gizell Timpani
DANIEL BURR , COLIN CARMAN , ALLEN EL - LENZWEIG , CHRIS FREEMAN , CASSANDRA LANGER , ANDREW HOLLERAN , JIM NAW - ROCKI , JAMES POLCHIN , VERNON ROSARIO
Vampires Are Us 17 R ICHARD S. P RIMUTH
Dracula and his kind have been a gay metaphor for over a century The Lives and Times of Harry Chess The first gay comic hero (b. 1965) was a man’s man in all senses James Purdy’s World of Extremes His short stories add new nooks to the novelist’s dark expanses Truth and Reconciliation Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons revisits that epic gay bond
Contributing Artist C HARLES H EFLING
22 M ICHAEL J. M URPHY
Advertising Manager S TEPHEN H EMRICK Webmasters H ENRI L ANGLAIS & B OB W ALKER ___________________ Board of Directors S TEWART C LIFFORD ( CHAIRMAN ) A RT C OHEN W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SENIOR ADVISOR ) D ONALD G ORTON ( CLERK ) D IANE H AMER R OBERT H ARDMAN R OBERT N ICOSON R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) M ARTHA E. S TONE T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER )
25 M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ
32 R AYMOND -J EAN F RONTAIN
R EVIEWS
L EWIS G ANNETT D ALE W. B OYER
Sean Strub – Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival 35
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Tatamkhulu Afrika — Bitter Eden
I RENE J AVORS
Nigel Simeone, editor — The Leonard Bernstein Letters 37 Edward White — The Tastemaker: Carl van Vechten... 39
Friends of The Review
B ENEFACTORS L EADERSHIP C IRCLE Henry van Ameringen
R ICHARD C ANNING R OSEMARY B OOTH
Catherine Reid — Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home 40
Eric Anderson/ R.Beck Anonymous Steve Frasheur Seth Grosshandler
Robert Hardman Christopher Lirely Robert Nicoson William Percy Edward Godbersen Warren Goldfarb Patrick Gourley John Hudson Michael Jarvis Dick Land Mark Mullin Daniel Pavsek Jan Schoenhaus Kenneth Trapp
R ICHARD M. B ERRONG
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R. B. Parkinson — A Little Gay History
J EAN R OBERTA
Mitzi Szereto — The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray Vinton Rafe McCabe — Death in Venice, California
S PONSORS
A NTHONY G UY P ATRICIA T ERRI S CHLICHENMEYER
Anonymous Robert Black James Brogan Robert Cloud Art Cohen Gary Domann Martin Duberman
Liza Monroy — The Marriage Act Erin G. Carlston — Double Agents
C HARLES G REEN
C ASSANDRA L ANGER
A Queer History of Fashion — Book and Exhibit at the FIT Museum 48
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B RIEFS
Clinton Elliott Irv Englander Robert Giron
C OLIN C ARMAN
Elton John — The Diving Board (album)
S UPPORTERS
Richard Alther Randall Arndt Margaret Bachtel Stephen Berg Bjorn Bjorklund Donald Blackford David Lloyd Brown Stewart Clifford Michael Cunningham John Desmarteau MD Suzanne Dreyfus
James W. Hendrick Jr. Telaireus Herrin Barbara Hoffman James-Henry Holland Kent Johnson PhD Gary Jung Rob Kvidt Stewart Landers Richard Malmsheimer James Moore Michael O’Connell III Donald Ott Theodore Pietras Charles Popper James Richardson Ron Seidle Laurence Senelick Charles Silverstein MD Alexander Snell Dennis Sondker Ron Suleski & Jonghyun John Tederstrom Robert Tinkler Nan Williamson
P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS
Guest Opinion — Mandela Eulogies Ignored His GLBT Activism 5 J AMES P ATTERSON C ORRESPONDENCE 6 BTW 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . Poem — “after Resume” 31 M ICHAEL M ONTLACK
G. Dryvynsyde Alfred Duhamel David Fertik
Poem — “Provincetown 2013” 38 J UDITH S AUNDERS Poem — “No Geese This Evening” 41 H ELENA K AMINSKI Poem — “Isherwood Journals” 45 B RYAN B ORLAND C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46
Robert Florand Thomas Gerber Sterling Giles/Rudy Kikel
Bill Gorodner James Gother Robert Greene Paul Grzella Dennis Hall Diane Hamer Robert Hellwig
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