From the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang (Princeton): Homosexual Behavior in the United States, 1988-2004: Quantitative Empirical Support for the Social Construction Theory of Sexuality; Gwendolin Altenhoefer on Friend hoppers, pleasure activism, the Schlampagne and the Octopus: Non-monogamous activism in the German lesbian-feminist subculture; and a review of The World We Have Won by Jeffrey Weeks. From Curve, an interview with Sarah Schulman, author of Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences; and an interview with Julie Abraham, author of Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities. From The Gay and Lesbian Review, a review of James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile by Magdalena Zaborowska; an interview with Edmund White, author of City Boy (and more and more on White); get to know Bruno Vogel: A German soldier’s WWI novel was a herald of gayer tomorrows; and the last Englishman: E. M. Forster was also one of the last fully closeted writers (and more on Maurice). Dale Peck on how homosexuality is the key to E. M. Forster's personal life, but not to his work. From Hipster Book Club, is literature post-queer? Musings on the GLBT Genre. Like their straight counterparts, LGBT comics offer a wide range of world-views. The gay media jump the page: On-line sites now reign, but can they survive without hard copy? Penn will use admissions data about sexual orientation to recruit gay students — does that open the door for true diversity? A review of Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose. There goes the gayborhood: A straight man’s lament for the demise of gay neighborhoods. The Gay Option: Same-sex love is a choice — and it’s time LGBT activists start saying so.
