I think that “Howl” (produced, written, and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) is a very interesting movie with…
I am puzzled that movies about the early daze/days of the beat writers keep being made, despite their limited commercial…
In reviewing the movie “Brokeback Mountain” I looked forward to the DVD release so I could find out what some…
One October afternoon in 1997, I settled down with the latest issue of the New Yorker and started reading a…
I am very grateful to Criterion for excellent DVDs of many important and/or great movies, but sometimes puzzled by picks…
It seems to me that British gay movies are recurrently overrated (e.g., “Weekend”). Though I think there is much to…
Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy’s novel No Past, No Present, No Future (Heinemann African Writers Series, 1973) begins and ends with…
Tom in America Directed by Flavio Alves Written by Flavio Alves, Scott Alexander Hess, and Jeffrey Solomon Premiered June 17, 2014 at…
“Anthony Burgess [1917-93] was a novelist of indisputable genius who never published an indisputably great novel,” according to Dana Gioia…
Though clearly not a gay writer, the prolific Anthony Burgess (1917-93) recurrently focused on gay characters and/or Brits who struck…
