Best Of Harvard Gay Review

Richard Schneider, Jr., is the editor of The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review.

• CONTENTS Series Foreword: Robert Dawidoff Foreword: Edmund White General Introduction: Richard Schneider, Jr. 1. Being There: Literary Lives and Times Andrew Holleran: My Harvard Edmund White: Remembrances of a Gay Old Time Patricia Nell Warren: A Tragedy of Bees: My Years as a Poet in Exile, 1957-1973 Yaroslav Mogutin: "Invitation to a Beheading" Holly Hughes: Reverberations of "The NEA Four" Affair 2. Origins: The Science of Homosexuality Richard Pillard: The Genetic Theory of Sexual Orientation Wiliam Byne and Edward Stein: Varieties of Biological Explanations Chandler Nurr: The "Gay Gene" Hits the Big Time Camille Paglia: Where Gay Boys Come From Carla Golden: Do Women Choose Their Sexual Orientation? Vernon Rosario: Genes in the Service of Gay Pride 3. Recent Sightings of an Old Desire Bernadette Brooten: Early Christian Responses to Christian Same-Sex Relationships Douglass Shand-Tucci: A Gay Civil War Novel Surfaces Robert Dawidoff: On Being Out in teh 90s -- the 1890s: A Review of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, by George Chauncey Lester Strong and David Hanna: Hollywoon Watering Holes, 1930s Style Lev Raphael: Deciphering the "Gay Holocaust" 4. The Lavender Decades Michael Denneny: The Stonewall Riot as Event and Idea Karla Jay: Lesbian New York Ira Tattelman: The Rise and Fall of the Gay Bathhouse Felice Picano: The Real Violet Quill Club Gabrielle Glancy: Behind the Door at Red Dora's Betsy Billard: An Interview with Larry Kramer: "Life Is about Climbing Mountains" 5. Out Comes American Literature Martha Nell Smith: The Belle of the Belle of Amherst Marilee Lindemann: Willa's Case Renate Stendhal: Stein's Style: A Passion for Sentences Richard Howard: Auden Agonistes: A Review of Auden, by Richard Davenport-Hines Reed Woodhouse: Five Houses of Gay Fiction Tony Kushner: Three Screeds from Key West Cheryl Clarke: An Identity of One's Own: A Review of Push, by Sapphire 6. On Liberation Strategy: An Exchange Barney Frank: Why Party Politics Matters Rich Tafel: Why a One-Party Strategy Fails Barney Frank: Republicans Must Earn Our Vote 7. To Assimilate or Not to Assimilate? David Bergman: An Open Letter to Bruce Bawer Bruce Bawer: What A Place at the Table Really Says David Bergman: No Back-Pedaling, Please Michael Schwartz: A Civil Libertarian States His Case: A Review of Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, by Urvashi Vaid Lester Strong: An Interview with Edward Albee: "Aggressing against the Status Quo" 8. Postmodernism and Its Discontents April Martin: Fruits, Nuts, and Chocolate: The Politics of Sexual Identity Richard D. Mohr: The Perils of Postmodernism Denise Kimber Buell: Did They Or Didn't They? A Review of Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, by John Boswell Andrew Holleran: Pearls of Jargon: A Review of Saint = Foucault by David Halperin About the Contributors

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