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“I wanted to sound an alarm. But nothing had happened.” Alfieri, A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. In the current revival of A View from the Bridge, the alarms ring throughout. The play’s big Greek epiphany centers on a matter of trust: Eddie Carbone, the dockworker, commits a betrayal so huge that…
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Woodstock isn’t the only anniversary being celebrated this year; the summer of 1969 was also marked by the Stonewall Riots, an event seen by many as the birth of gay liberation. That uprising ignores years of work by a lot of brave forward-thinking folk whose activism, while discreet, embodied the age-old frustrations of men…
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Time flies, I thought, as my partner and I wandered the main drag on a recent, all-too-brief trip to Woodstock. The media heralds the 40th anniversary of the event that besieged Yasgur’s farm and a generation’s doobie-fueled conscience, but little of its genuine spirit (what I imagine that to be) lives in the new land…
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Sad to hear of the suicide of McFarlane, one of the founders of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and more recently, of the Gill Foundation, an advocacy organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights. I keep reading articles bemoaning the lack of gay heroes; McFarlane…
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…well, yes, I was Jack Wrangler’s butt boy…I’m totally kidding. But I actually worked for him back in 1997, under circumstances more akin to an ass-kicking; I was a replacement for one in a trio of boy singers who backed the female lead in a review called It Could Happen to You: The Songs of Jo Stafford….
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The time is right for Milk. Gus Van Sant’s cinematic consideration of the man who arguably did more than anyone to raise this country’s gay consciousness arrives at a crucial time. What a cruel joke that in the space of a month, our democracy managed to bestow the highest office in the land on a…
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Reading William Styron’s obit last week reminded me of a literary symposium I attended a while back.Writing what you don’t know was the clever umbrella topic, but the moderator suggested the real issue had to do with writing outside one’s own experience—in this case, the “experience” being queerness.Notable was the response of one woman who…
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