Featuring the best of Gip Plaster's LGBTQ press articles.
Do gays exist? In A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self — available from Amazon — Frank Browning begins chapter one by asking that question. Actually, Browning doesn’t doubt that homosexuals — people attracted to others of the same sex — exist; in fact, he doesn’t really doubt that gay people exist. He does question, though, how ‘gay’ is […]
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Bernadette Brooten’s book Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism — available from Amazon — got someone’s attention; it earned the 1997 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Studies and an award from the American Academy of Religion, but it was ignored by much of the lesbian and gay media. Its subject matter, though, has been ignored and misunderstood for centuries. […]
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High-end gay and lesbian investors with a passion for the theatre and some money they can afford to lose are the perfect investors for theatrical productions. Others may be scared away by high minimum investments and high risk, according to experts. “Most investors in the theatre today are large investors and are sophisticated investors. By that I means they have […]
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If you’re planning to start investing, you’ll likely have no shortage of advice, but we thought you might like some good advice — uniquely tailored to our unique community. We asked four of the country’s top investing experts — two who are part of the gay community and two who aren’t (that we know of) — to tell us their […]
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Your friend from the office finally agreed to come to one of your parties. Now, you get to introduce her to the one you love. “Hi. I’d like you to meet my partner — no, that sounds like we own a business together. Really, this is my lover — but sex is only a small part of our relationship,” you […]
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There’s more to being a gay man than AIDS and coming out. But those issues are the primary focus of many gay men’s self-help books. Regardless of how much time and emotional turmoil was involved in revealing your sexual orientation to others and whether or not you carry the HIV virus, we face other situations daily that are uniquely gay […]
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We’re familiar with being different, but our financial situations are also different from the ones modeled by the straight community. Per Larson’s new book explains the differences and offers some advice for using the gay or lesbian difference as an advantage. The book is good (although it generalizes a lot), and I think this review captures its thesis well. By […]
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While some gay and lesbian people spend their lives trying to escape the isolation and loneliness associated with being different, some have the opposite problem. Lee Lawrence had a successful design career in New York, but his personal and emotional life was not nearly so successful. Something had to change, so he left his job and prepared to leave town. […]
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With marriage comes a number of rights that can’t be fully simulated for gay and lesbian couples who are not allowed to legally marry. A few carefully prepared documents, however, can make a big difference in protecting a couple’s rights. While there are a number of documents that gay and lesbian couples may want to consider having prepared, two types […]
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It was the Russian equivalent of Stonewall. A dozen men and women held a press conference in Moscow to announce the beginning of Russia’s first major gay and lesbian organization. Only two of the people there would reveal their names. Stonewall, the riot by drag queens at a Greenwich Village bar that gained visibility for the gay and lesbian movement […]
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