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05/01/2005
Film Directors: Lesbian Lesbian and female bisexual directors have had an important and continuing impact on both Documentary and dramatic Film. Several have helped combat lesbian invisibility and empower women by raising lesbian and feminist issues in their work. view feature
04/30/2005
Neil Miller, 1994 In this 1994 interview with Owen Keehnen, journalist Neil Miller, author of Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok (1992), discusses some of the differences between American attitudes and those of other countries toward gay and lesbian life, with examples from both the most repressive and the most progressive cultures. view feature
Janis Ian, 1993 In this 1993 interview with Owen Keehnen, singer/songwriter Janis Ian discusses her album Breaking Silence (1993) and the difficulties in getting it produced, her public coming out, the subjects of her most popular songs, the issues she confronts in them, and her inspiration for writing them. view feature
04/15/2005
Music: Classical, Before the Twentieth Century From Hildegard of Bingen to Jean-Baptiste Lully to Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, queer composers and performers have had a substantial impact on classical music. view feature
04/14/2005
Samuel Steward, 1993 In addition to writing memoirs, erotica, literary fiction, and mysteries, Samuel Steward was at one time a university English professor and at another a tattoo artist. In Paris in the 1930s, he knew Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Thomas Mann, André Gide, and Lord Alfred Douglas, and he was a lover of Thornton Wilder. In this interview with Owen Keehnen in 1993, shortly before he died, Steward discusses his varied careers and his famous friends and acquaintances, and he draws provocative distinctions between being gay in the 1930s and in the 1980s and 1990s. view feature
Michael Craft, 2004 Michael Craft is the author of two mystery series, one featuring gay newspaper publisher Mark Manning as the detective, the other with straight theater director Claire Gray as the sleuth. In this 2004 interview with Owen Keehnen, Craft discusses the Manning series, the art of mystery writing, keeping his series books fresh, and what lies ahead for him. view feature
04/01/2005
English Literature: Lesbian, 1600-1900 Woman-loving-women contributed significantly to English literature during the Restoration, the Eighteenth Century, and the Nineteenth Century. Some described Female Romantic Friendship while others celebrated explicitly lesbian love. view feature
03/31/2005
Tommy Tune, 1997 For nearly forty years, Tommy Tune has been one of the most celebrated dancers, choreographers, and directors on Broadway. In this 1997 interview with Owen Keehnen, Tune discusses his career on the stage and in motion pictures, an injury that interrupted his career, his memoir, and some of the consequences of being gay in the spotlight. view feature
Dick Sargent, 1992 Known to most people as "The Second Darren Stephens" in the television situation comedy Bewitched, Dick Sargent was much more than a television and movie actor. He was an active supporter of the Special Olympics, and in the last years of his life, a gay activist. In this 1992 interview with Owen Keehnen, he talks about his outing by The Star, his public declaration of his homosexuality, the public and personal consequences of his coming out, and the nature of the Hollywood closet. view feature
03/14/2005
Allan Gurganus, 1997 Gay novelist and short story writer Allan Gurganus is author of the best-selling The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, the prize-winning short story collection White People , and the AIDS novel Plays Well with Others. In this 1997 interview with Owen Keehnen, he discusses Plays Well with Others, the spiritual quality of care giving, his battle with Harpers magazine, fending off the affections of John Cheever, and more. view feature
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