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David Hockney’S Great Yes to Life JAMES CASSELL the Gorgeous Bleakness of Hugh Auchincloss Steers JOHN R BODY IMAGE The Gay& Lesbian Review WORLDWIDE May–June 2018 $5.95 USA and Canada JAMES M. SASLOW Michelangelo’s Gifts to Tommaso STEVEN F. DANSKY David Hockney’s Great Yes to Life JAMES CASSELL The Gorgeous Bleakness of Hugh Auchincloss Steers JOHN R. KILLACKY Peter Hujar’s Eye for the Interesting Arch Brown on the Making of a Porn Star BY ANDREW HOLLERAN Vindication for John Boswell BY NORENA SHOPLAND Remembering Bob Smith BY EDDIE SARFATY Michelangelo Buonarroti JACCOOB’S PILLLLOW D A NCE FESTIVAL2018 With morethan250free performances, talks&tours, community events, exhibits, ###+ "+ %$ !" "# " &#$ $ * JUNE 20-AUGUST26,2018 413.243.074745 | jacoobspillow.org WEEKEND OUT AT | AUGUST3–5 &" & . "% &# " '$#+ #$ " $ &" " ( &" ( # "#+ #! !" " ) !" + $&") $ !"$) #$ ) ))" #)+)+ &! &#(, Sponsored by ) - # '( ! # " # # ! ! ! ! # ! # " ! The Gay & Lesbian Re view May–June 2018 • VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 3 WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® WORLDWIDE CONTENTS PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118 Editor-in-Chief and Founder Body Image RICHARD SCHNEIDER JR. ____________________________________ FEATURES Literary Editor MARTHA E. STONE Michelangelo’s Gifts to Tommaso 12 J AMES M. S ASLOW Poetry Editor The artist presented his beloved with both drawings and poems DAVID BERGMAN A Certain Gorgeous Bleakness 16 J AMES CASSELL Associate Editors Hugh Auchincloss Steers painted the humanity of the plague era JIM FARLEY Of Maine, Men, and Marsden Hartley 19 P HILIP CLARK JEREMY FOX How a regional artist smuggled hunky men into his paintings CHRISTOPHER HENNESSY MICHAEL SCHWARTZ David Hockney’s Great Yes to Life 22 S TEVEN F. D ANSKY Contributing Writers Same-sex desire is central to his ecstatic vision of the world ROSEMARY BOOTH Belated Vindication for John Boswell 26 N ORENA SHOPLAND DANIEL BURR COLIN CARMAN Did gay men marry in the Middle Ages? It all hinges on one word ALFRED CORN Squaring the Disability 29 D ENISE NOE ALLEN ELLENZWEIG Being LGBT tends to complicate issues of care and community CHRIS FREEMAN PHILIP GAMBONE How to Be a Porn Star 31 A NDREW HOLLERAN MATTHEW HAYS Arch Brown reveals how he invented quality gay porn in the ’70s ANDREW HOLLERAN IRENE JAVORS JOHN R. KILLACKY REVIEWS CASSANDRA LANGER ANDREW LEAR Martin Duberman — The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression ... 34 D ANIEL A. B URR DAVID MASELLO George Klawitter – Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation & 17th-C. Poetry 35 A LAN CONTRERAS JIM NAWROCKI BRIEFS 37 JAMES POLCHIN JEAN ROBERTA Alan Bennett — Keeping On Keeping On 38 P HILIP GAMBONE VERNON ROSARIO Bonnie J. Morris & D-M Withers — The Feminist Revolution 39 R OSEMARY BOOTH HEATHER SEGGEL Joe Hagan — Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner 41 J IM NAWROCKI YOAV SIVAN Nicholas Frankel — Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years 42 F REDERICK S. R ODEN Contributing Artist Alan Hollinghurst — The Sparsholt Affair 44 F ELICE PICANO CHARLES HEFLING Yvonne Welbon and Alexandra Juhasz — Sisters in the Life 45 J EAN ROBERTA Advertising Manager Amy Hoffman — The Off Season 45 M ARTHA MILLER STEPHEN HEMRICK Moshe Sakal — The Diamond Setter 46 C HARLES GREEN Magnus Hirschfeld — Berlin’s Third Sex 47 I RENE JAVO RS Webmaster Dome Karukoski, director — Tom of Finland (film) 49 J ACK NUSAN PORTER BOSTON WEB GROUP ____________________________________ Peter Hujar: Speed of Life (art exhibition) 50 J OHN R. K ILLACKY Board of Directors STEWART CLIFFORD (CHAIRMAN) POEMS & DEPARTMENTS ART COHEN EDUARDO FEBLES GUEST OPINION — An Anti-LGBT Bill Moves through Congress 5 CHRIS JOHNSON DONALD GORTON (CLERK) CORRESPONDENCE 6 DIANE HAMER N EMORIAM DDIE ARFATY TED HIGGINSON I M — On Losing Bob Smith 8 E S ROBERT HARDMAN BTW 10 RICHARD SCHNEIDER JR. DAV I D LAFONTAINE POEM — “Oh, This Was a Long Time Ago, When I Was a Vampire” 18 GREGG SHAPIRO ROBERT NICOSON ART MEMO — On Being Changed by a John Wieners Poem 21 STEVI-LEE ALVER RICHARD SCHNEIDER,JR.(PRESIDENT) INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM – Zimbabwe after Mugabe: Few Signs of Progress 28 JOYLINE MAENZANISE MARTHA E. STONE OEM IANE URTNEY THOMAS YOUNGREN (TREASURER) P — “Riddle” 33 D F AUTHOR’S PROFILE — Mark A. Roeder’s Youths of Indiana 43 ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE WARREN GOLDFARB (SR. ADVISOR EMER.) CULTURAL CALENDAR 48 The Gay & Lesbian Review/WORLDWIDE® (formerly The HarvardGay& Lesbian Review, 1994-1999) is published bimonthly (six times per year) by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational corporation located in Boston, Mass. Subscriptions: Call 844-752-7829. Rates: U.S.: $35.70 per year (6 issues). Canada and Mexico: $45.70(US). All other countries: $55.70(US). All non-U.S. copies are sent via air mail. Back issues available for $12 each. All correspondence is sent in a plain envelope marked “G&LR.” © 2018 by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. All rights reserved. WEBSITE: www.GLReview.org • SUBSCRIPTIONS: 844-752-7829 • ADVERTISING: 617-421-0082 • SUBMISSIONS: [email protected] May–Jun! 2018 3 FROM THE EDITOR Pride Issue: Body Image HE HUMAN BODY is the ultimately fascinating subject artistic closet for the next few centuries. The female nude has a for visual representation; thus the most dangerous, shock- history all its own, and certainly fared better through the ages. Ting, subject to taboo—and the most irresistible for artists As late as the early 20th century, we still find artists having to to explore. One option is to ban all depictions of the body, as contrive a symbolic pretext for painting the male form. Thus, for Islam basically does, but this is a road that Western art has never example, as Philip Clark explains, Marsden Hartley was able to taken. We have been faithful to what the Greeks bequeathed: an paint nearly naked men in the 1930s only by presenting them as extreme naturalism in style combined with an idealization of the heroic workers who came by their muscles honestly. human form. It was a confection that often turned pornographic The cultural sea change following World War II greatly ex- in Roman hands, after which Europe might well have abandoned panded the possibilities for representing male and female bodies the nude under Christendom. And yet, even in the Middle Ages and (homo)sexual situations. David Hockney’s poolside paint- it was possible to depict the unclothed male, however stylized in ings of the 1950s are remarkable because the bodies don’t rep- execution, as the image of Christ on or off the cross. resent gods or workers or anything other than themselves. Even The artists of the Renaissance took full advantage of this so, as Steven F. Dansky argues, Hockney’s male figures are part loophole and depicted the dying God as a fit servant of man, ex- of the artist’s ecstatic vision of life, which places homoerotic de- panding this to include non-Jesus biblical figures and mytholog- sire among the things to be celebrated. ical ones in various stages of nudity. Michelangelo advanced this Two other artists, both from the post-Stonewall era, take us practice by dispensing with both the literal and figurative fig leaf, into a world that didn’t exist before: that of LGBT people living barely staying within local standards by calling his hero “David” socially distinct gay lives. Photographer Peter Hujar got started or placing his subjects in the Garden of Eden. Beyond these very soon after Stonewall and documented the burgeoning street cul- famous works, he made hundreds of drawings of young men, ture and political consciousness of the 1970s (see John R. Kil- again in mythological settings, including some homoerotic ones. lacky’s piece). Hugh Auchincloss Steers captured on canvas the These he presented, along with love poems, to various men with tragic decade that followed, portraying the suffering and caring whom he was enamored, notably Tommaso de’ Cavalieri. It’s all that marked the plague years—scenes in which, writes James laid out here by James M. Saslow. Cassell, the bodies of the sick retain a warm sensuality that be- The Renaissance continued along this trajectory for a while, lies their owners’ decline, a final affirmation of their humanity. but then the male body largely retreated into something of an RICHARD SCHNEIDER JR. Gay Iccons From Chicago The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward Samuel Steward Paper $30.00 From Hirmer Publishers Andy Warhol Drag and Draw www.press .uchicago .edu 4Th! Gay & L!sban R!v!w / oRLdide GUEST OPINION An Anti-LGBT Bill Moves through Congress eral contractors. Although the legislation would not apply to CHRIS JOHNSON federal for-profit contractors, it would apply to nonprofits, such EN. MIKE LEE (R-Utah) has reintroduced legislation in as church-affiliated hospitals or universities, which would be the U.S. Senate seen to enable anti-LGBT discrimination able to engage in anti-LGBT discrimination and still obtain gov- Sin the name of “religious freedom”—and Donald Trump ernment contracts. Jennifer Pizer, law and policy director for made signing such legislation a campaign promise. Lambda Legal, said of the bill: “One of the main goals is to The purported intent of the First Amendment Defense Act freeze-frame the lack of civil rights protections for LGBT peo- (FADA) is to protect individuals from adverse action by the ple. Many religiously affiliated non-profits want to keep get- U.S. government if they oppose same-sex marriage. Lee said ting lots of public money and want to be able to discriminate.” in a statement: “FADA simply ensures that federal bureaucrats David Stacy, government affairs director for the Human will never have the authority to require those who believe in the Rights Campaign, said in a statement that FADA “would legal- traditional definition of marriage to choose between their living ize state-sanctioned discrimination and undermine key civil in accordance with those beliefs and maintaining their occupa- rights protections for LGBTQ people.
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