White Crane - Gay Culture & Wisdomtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-4863372008-10-29T02:13:19-04:00White Crane is a gay journal magazine dedicated to exploring Gay wisdom, culture & spirituality. Reader written gay perspective on writing, film, media, spirituality and religion. Founded in 1989 it remains one of the oldest publication dedicated to Gay thought and experience.TypePadWC78 - Table of Contentstag:typepad.com,2003:post-577027052008-10-29T02:13:19-04:002008-10-29T02:13:20-04:00White Crane Issue #78Fall 2008 COMMUNITY Hi Friends!Below are excerpts from our Fall 2008 issue on Community. Please understand that we rely on the support of subscribers to keep going.So, subscribe today and keep the conversation going! Consider giving a...EditorsWC78 - Editors' Notetag:typepad.com,2003:post-577023752008-10-29T02:00:30-04:002008-10-29T02:00:31-04:00CommuningOpening Words from the Editors By Dan Vera and Bo Young Bo: Once again we return to a subject that is really in our DNA Dan: We return to a subject that seems connected to every other theme we’ve ever...EditorsWC78 - Circle Voting - Murray Edelmantag:typepad.com,2003:post-577019812008-10-29T01:59:47-04:002008-10-29T01:59:47-04:00Circle VotingA White Crane Conversation with Murray Edelman By Bo Young and Pete Montgomery Murray Edelman was the editorial director of Voter News Service, a consortium of ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC, and the Associated Press that famously was involved...EditorsWC78 - With Death As My Witness - Ha!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-577015252008-10-29T01:59:21-04:002008-10-29T01:59:22-04:00With Death As My Witness By Ha! - Timothy J. Kelleher I live in the hills of Tennessee country. I have lived in community here since 1993. I have been living with cancer since May. I love writing, being outdoors,...EditorsWC78 - Malcolm Boyd - Community of 2tag:typepad.com,2003:post-577011992008-10-29T01:59:12-04:002008-10-29T01:59:13-04:00A Community of TwoBy Malcolm Boyd My hefty unabridged Webster’s New International Dictionary (1960) defines community: “A body of people having common organization or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations.” The same dictionary...EditorsWC78 - Bryn Marlow - In Search of Gay Communitytag:typepad.com,2003:post-577006412008-10-29T01:58:55-04:002008-10-29T01:58:55-04:00In Search of Gay Community By Bryn Marlow When I see an especially sexy man I capture and preserve him the way some people collect butterflies. Oh, I don’t dab camphor on his head, run him through with a pin...EditorsWC78 - Updrafts by Dan Veratag:typepad.com,2003:post-577003272008-10-29T01:58:30-04:002008-10-29T01:58:30-04:00UpdraftsEdited by Dan Vera Oh fellow mortal out there in the world! Until you learn how to join together once more, to fuse your sorrowful and lonely hearts in some new communion, you can never make true music. The sound...EditorsWC78 - Praxis by Andrew Ramertag:typepad.com,2003:post-576998232008-10-29T01:58:19-04:002008-10-29T01:58:20-04:00Community TrustAndrew Ramer What does it mean to be held in community, held and nurtured and encouraged to grow? That was something I yearned for, as a misfit boy few of the other kids wanted to play with, who ended...EditorsWC78 - Review of The 99th Monkeytag:typepad.com,2003:post-576992752008-10-29T01:57:33-04:002008-10-29T01:57:33-04:00The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures With Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics,and Other Consciousness-Raising ExperimentsBy Eliezer SobelSanta Monica Press, 2008288 pages, $16.95 ISBN-10: 159580028X Reviewed by Jay Michaelson Many White Crane readers are, shall we say, veterans of the New...EditorsWC78 - Review of When You're Falling, Divetag:typepad.com,2003:post-576990252008-10-29T01:56:37-04:002008-10-29T01:56:37-04:00When You're Falling, Dive By Mark MatousekPublisher: Bloomsbury USAISBN-13: 9781596913691 320pp How people who have suffered trauma find an upside when they've gone to the brink—and back again. Do survivors of life's greatest trials possess a secret knowledge? Is there...EditorsWC78 - Review of Zany Mystictag:typepad.com,2003:post-576993992008-10-29T01:56:27-04:002008-10-29T01:56:27-04:00Tales of a Zany Mystic by L. B. WhiteBooksurge, 211 pages, $14.99ISBN-13978-1419681196 Reviewed by Steven LaVigne Do you have books on your shelf that practically glow and demand your attention? These books may be a rarity, but I’d like to...EditorsWC78 - Music Review of Theo Bleckmanntag:typepad.com,2003:post-576996392008-10-29T01:56:23-04:002008-10-29T01:56:23-04:00Theo BleckmannBerlin: Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile/Winter&Winter 910 138-2Las Vegas Rhapsody/Winter&Winter N° 910 116-2Website: Reviewed by Bo Young Genre-bending, -skipping and -skirting vocalist and composer, Theo Bleckmann has been a force in the music scene in New...EditorsWC78 - Review of Murder Most Gaytag:typepad.com,2003:post-576987612008-10-29T01:55:27-04:002008-10-29T01:55:27-04:00Murder Most Gay by John Simpson, Dreamspinner Press, 220 pages, $11.99ISBN-13: 978-0981737225 Reviewed by Steven LaVigne When John Simpson contacted me about reviewing his mystery novel, Murder Most Gay, he was concerned that it wasn’t appropriate for readers of White...EditorsWC78 - Review of What Becomes Youtag:typepad.com,2003:post-576986232008-10-29T01:54:45-04:002008-10-29T01:54:45-04:00What Becomes YouBy Aaron Raz Link and Hilda LinkUniversity of Nebraska Press, 296 pages, paperback, $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-8032-1642-6 Reviewed by Chris Freeman Sometimes the most obvious observations are the most profound. Early in his memoir What Becomes You, Aaron Raz...EditorsWC77 - Table of Contentstag:typepad.com,2003:post-517367362008-06-24T15:13:36-04:002008-06-25T14:19:16-04:00White Crane Issue #77Summer 2008 RACE & IDENTITY Hi there. Below are excerpts from our Summer 2008 issue on Race & Identity. Please understand that we rely on the support of subscribers to keep going. So, subscribe today and keep...EditorsWC77 - Opening Wordstag:typepad.com,2003:post-517371182008-06-24T15:13:00-04:002008-06-24T15:13:10-04:00Editors Note:What a Difference a Dash MakesDan Vera & Bo YoungBo: So. We’ve been planning this issue for what...four years? five years? Dan: Easily that. We didn’t want to do it till we felt we were ready for it and...EditorsWC77 - Kai Wright Interviewtag:typepad.com,2003:post-517347962008-06-24T15:12:25-04:002008-06-24T15:12:35-04:00Drifting Toward Love Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the StreetsA White Crane Conversation with Kai Wright By Bo Young This is only an excerpt... As I sit to write this introduction, the radio is filled with discussion...EditorsWC77 - Debanuj DasGuptatag:typepad.com,2003:post-517338802008-06-24T15:11:56-04:002008-06-24T15:12:06-04:00Journeys of a Brown Immigrant FagReflections on building cross-race trust in multiple struggles for justice. By Debanuj DasGupta This is only an excerpt... This morning I was informed via Facebook about the death of Richard Sandman. He was an immigration...EditorsWC77 - Personal Paradoxtag:typepad.com,2003:post-517334922008-06-24T15:11:24-04:002008-07-29T06:33:54-04:00A Personal ParadoxMy Life as an Italian American Gay Man; or, The Identity Crises of Ethnic Queers/Queer Ethnics By Michael CarosoneThis is only an excerpt... Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” — Immanual...EditorsWC77 - Gay Jewish-Asian Thingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-517326802008-06-24T15:10:57-04:002008-06-24T15:11:07-04:00The Gay Jewish-Asian Thingby AnonymousThis is a companion essay with "Confessions of a Kosher Rice Queen" I think Jewish men are hot. I’m not quite sure why this is so. Nothing in my background would seem to predict this. I’m...Editors