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WC81 - 20th Anniversary Issue

 

Issue #81

White Crane's
20th Anniversary Issue

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Columns

"Watch This Space" From Bo Young
"The Big Two-Oh" PRAXIS by Andrew Ramer

Departments

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Featured

A WHITE CRANE CONVERSATION
Two Spirits
A Dialogue with filmmaker
Lydia Nibley about the
documentary Two Spirits.

Clap If You Believe In Faeries
Mark Thompson & Don Kilhefner
on the 30th Anniversary of the First Radical Faerie Gathering

A WHITE CRANE CONVERSATION
The Temperamentals
Bo Young Speaks with playwright John Marans.

A Taste of Twenty Years

Gay Intuition
By Toby Johnson
    From White Crane #58

The Cult of Masculinity
By Arthur Evans
    From White Crane #11

Portrait of An Artist As a Zen Monk
A Conversation with Don Bachardy
By Victor Marsh   
From White Crane #71

Leaving the Priesthood   Web Exclusive
By Bob Barzan
    From White Crane #55

Gandalf the Gay
By Josh Adler
    From White Crane #60

Call Me Ennis del Marlow
By Bryn Marlow
    From White Crane #68

More Than A Sum of Parts
By Darrell g.h. Schramm
    From White Crane #17

Gay Intuition
By Toby Johnson
    From White Crane #58

Culture Reviews

The Second Coming
By Joel Anastasi
Reviewed by Toby Johnson

Vladmaster
By Vladimir
Reviewed by Bo Young

Two Spirits
By Lydia Nibley
Reviewed by Bo Young 

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WC80 Music & Poetry Issue

White Crane Issue #80

Music & Poetry

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Columns

Opening Words "First Amusements" The Editors
Updrafts by Dan Vera
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" Praxis by Andrew Ramer

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Taking Issue

A WHITE CRANE CONVERSATION
"Gay Orpheus" - David Del Tredici
By Ray Warman

The Creative Universe by Arthur Evans

"Come, Creator Spirit" A 9th Century Hymn Translated for the 21st 
By Rabanus Maurus, Translation by Arthur Evans

"The Peace of Gentle Waves" A Poem for Jaheem Herrera by Cleo Creech

"Big Joy" A Documentary Film Project about James Broughton
Bo Young Speaks with Stephen Silha

2009 White Crane / James White Poetry Prize

About the Prize

Winner - James Nawrocki
  “House Fire”
  “Golden Gate,”
  “Fortune Cookie”
  “From Cole Street”

Finalist - Jeremy Halinen 
  “Afternoons Above I-5”
  “I-90 Westbound from Spokane,”
  “Buggering You under an Apple Tree”
 “Note”

Finalist - James Najarian
  “Travelogue”
  “My Big Head”

 

Culture Reviews

Didjeradoo by Dreamtime
    Reviewed by Bo Young
Signals By Ed Madden
    Reviewed by Dan Vera
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing From The Antilles
Edited by Thomas Glave
    Reviewed by Dan Vera

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WC78 - Table of Contents

White Crane Issue #78

Fall 2008

COMMUNITY

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our Fall 2008 issue on Community. 
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Columns
Opening Words "Communing" The Editors
Updrafts by Dan Vera
Owner’s Manual “Stocking the Cellar” by Jeff Huyett
PRAXIS “Community Trust”  by Andrew Ramer

Departments

Opening Words "Communing" The Editors
Call for Submissions
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Taking Issue

Circle Voting:  A White Crane Conversation with Murray Edelman
 by Bo Young & Peter Montgomery
Queering Community: A White Crane Conversation with Chris Bartlett
 by Christopher Murray
In Search of Gay Community  by Bryn Marlow
The Gay Community In Crisis: Commentary on “Gay People at a Critical Crossroads: Assimilation or Affirmation” Thirty Years Later by Don Kilhefner
On Transnational Community Building  by Debanuj DasGupta
With Death As My Witness by Timothy J. Kelleher
The Resurrection of Corpus Christi by Steve Susoyev
On The Angels of Light by James “Jet” Tressler
Speech And Debate  by Bill Siksay
Building Community Through The Arts  by Bob Barzan
A Community of 2 Malcolm Boyd
Welcome Home  Brian Gleason

Culture Reviews

Steven LaVigne on  Mark Matousek’s When You're Falling, Dive
Jay Michaelson on  Eliezer Sobel’s The 99th Monkey
Steven LaVigne on by L. B. White’s Tales of a Zany Mystic
Steven LaVigne on  John Simpson’s Murder Most Gay
Chris Freeman on Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Link’s What Becomes You
Bo Young on Theo Bleckmann’s Las Vegas Rhapsody and
Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile

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WC77 - Table of Contents

White Crane Issue #77
Summer 2008

RACE & IDENTITY

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Columns
Opening Words "What a Difference a Dash Makes" The Editors
re:Sources  The Editors
Updrafts by Dan Vera
Owner’s Manual “Just Say Hello” by Jeff Huyett
PRAXIS “Racing to the Finish Line”  by Andrew Ramer

Departments

Opening Words “What a Difference a Dash Makes” The Editors
Call for Submissions
Letters to the Editors
Subscriber Information
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Taking Issue

Drifting Toward Love:
A White Crane Conversation with Kai Wright  by Bo Young
An excerpt from Kai Wright’s Drifting Toward Love
Here, or the White Boy on the Bus  Poetry by Ed Madden
Notes From A Tree Pruner  by Debra East
One More Quote from Alan Keyes
and I Am Shaving My Head by Jay Torrence
Journeys of a Brown Immigrant Fag  by Debanuj DasGupta
I Am My Own Wife: A White Crane Conversation with Doug Wright  by Christopher Murray
Soldiers of Fortune  by Fenton Johnson
A Personal Paradox  by Michael Carosone
My Father Wore a Suit of Fire - Poetry by Jim Nawrocki
Learning To Love The White People by David Gilmore
Confessions of a Kosher Rice Queen  by Anonymous
The Gay Jewish-Asian Thing  by Anonymous
Taking Up Space  Heron Saline

Culture Reviews

Bo Young on Cynthia Burack’s Sin, Sex and Democracy:
Antigay Rhetoric & the Christian Right
Steven LaVigne on Steve Berman’s So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction
Toby Johnson on Kittridge Cherry’s Jesus in Love: At the Cross
Toby Johnson on Sven Davisson’s The Starry Dynamo
Dan Vera on Edward Field’s After The Fall: Poems Old and New
Bo Young on Jay Floyd’s Forgiving the Franklins
Toby Johnson on Lucien Gregoire’s Murder in the Vatican: Two Books in One Volume
Dan Vera on Susan Jacoby’s Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Steven LaVigne on Michael T. Luongo’s The Voyeur
Toby Johnson on Gene Robinson’s  In The Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God

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WC76 - Table of Contents

White Crane Issue #76

ANCESTORS

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Columns

Updrafts by Dan Vera
re:Sources by Eric “Fritter” Riley
Frank Talk “Families, Holy and…there is no other kind” by Frank Jackson
PRAXIS “Ancestors ‘R Us” by Andrew Ramer

Departments

Opening Words “Forebears” The Editors
Call for Submissions
Letters to the Editors
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Taking Issue

Holding the Center: A White Crane Conversation with Steven Solberg by Bo Young & Dan Vera
Digging Up Old Bones Malcolm Boyd
Walking In Mystery: Ancestor, Elderhood, & Relationship By L.R. Heartsong
Brave New Faggot: A White Crane Conversation with David Mixner By Christopher Murray
Edward II’s Second Act By Michael G. Cornelius
About Marlowe’s Edward II By Mario DiGangi
Edward II: An Excerpt By Jeffrey Michels
The Sea Rises By James Baldwin

Culture Reviews

Steven LaVigne on Armistead Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives
Toby Johnson on David Ranan’s Double Cross
Toby Johnson on Daniel A. Helminiak’s The Transcended Christian: Spiritual Lessons for the 21st Century
Jeff Huyett on the Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
Victor Marsh on Michael Bernard Kelly’s Seduced by Grace

WC75 - Table of Contents

White Crane Issue #75

THE BEARABLE
RIGHTNESS OF BEING

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Columns

Frank Talk
“Strangelove: Or How I Finally Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Bears”  by Frank Jackson
Owner’s Manual
“Hitting thePause Button”  by Jeff Huyett

PRAXIS  “Bear Essentials” by Andrew Ramer

Departments

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Taking Issue

Dracaena  Art by Joe Pop
Bear Spirit  Les Wright
Getting To Know My Beast  Ed Ehrgott
Beards, Body Hair & Brawn:
Reflections of a Muscle Bear  Jeff Mann
Self Portrait  Art by Steven Miller
Self Portrait  Art by Pi
Wuvable Oaf Comics by Ed Luce
Embracing The Bear  Jeffrey Michels
Mid-Morning  Art by Frank Muzzy
When The Bears Go Over The Mountain Ron Suresha

Poetry

"Sexual History, with action figures" by Ed Madden
"Before Spring But After New Years" by Keith Jenkins

Culture Reviews

Toby Johnson on Steve Berman’s Vintage: A Ghost Story
Kim Roberts on Walt Whitman’s Franklin Evans
Toby Johnson on Kitt Cherry’s
Art That Dares:  Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More
Jason Mayernick on Sandor Katz’s
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved!
Toby Johnson on Mark Tedesco’s
That Undeniable Longing: My Road To and From the Priesthood

WC74 - Lovers - Table of Contents

White Crane #74 - The Lovers Issue

Specials

White Crane Institute 2007 Annual Report (pdf)
Bo Young & Dan Vera
Profiler In Courage
The White Crane Interview with Paul D. Cain
Fred Vassie
Uncovering our Past
The White Crane Interview with Greg Reeder
Dan Vera

Departments

Call for Submissions
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Taking Issue: Lovers

A Likeness To Loving
Linda Chapman and Lola Pashalinski
Moments Between Lovers
Malcolm Boyd
Activist Love: The Loving Companions Harryn’John
Stuart Timmons
Walt Whitman’s Manly Love Of Comrades
Arnie Kantrowitz
The Weight of Ashes
Jonathan G. Silin

Poetry

I Dream of Allen Ginsberg
Steven Solberg
Achilles & Patroclus
Jeff Mann
Heaven’s Hearth
Jeff Mann

Columns

Owner’s Manual
"Health Dogma or Smorgasbord?”
Jeff Huyett
PRAXIS
“Love Is A Gateway. We are Gatekeepers”
Andrew Ramer

Culture Reviews

Joe Kort on
Jack Drescher & Joseph P. Merlino‘s American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History
Toby Johnson on
Larry Chang‘s Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Toby Johnson on
Joe Perez’s Soulfully Gay
Steven LaVigne on
Max Pierce‘s The Master of Seacliff

On Our Cover:
Our cover is a photograph from the Egyptian temple
of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep.
The photo is courtesy of Greg Reeder who we interviewed
in this issue about his groundbreaking work.

Copyright 2007 Greg Reeder.

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WC73 Table of Contents

White Crane #73 - The Friends Issue

Departments

Opening Words  “Friends”
The Editors
Call for Submissions
Contribution Information
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Specials

Gay Men’s Friendships: An Academic Look
The White Crane Interview with Peter Nardi
Bo Young & Dan Vera

Taking Issue

Friend, Feminist, Faerie Godmother: Ann Roy 
Robert Croonquist
No Gate But Friendship
Isa Kocher
Visions Of Christ: Gender & Justice
Shawna Bethel
Separating Ourselves By Age Group
Frank Pizzoli
David, Just As He Was
K.G. Schneider

Poetry

Go Rouse James
Hiram Larew
7
Thomas Colby
The Beginning of A Wonderful Friendship
Mark Thompson
Ode To A Friend
James Broughton

Images

Bare Traces: Photographs of a Past

Columns

Updrafts
Dan Vera
re:Sources
Eric Riley
Owner’s Manual “Who’s In Charge?”
Jeff Huyett
Frank Talk "Drugs are (Sometimes) Good For You"
Frank Jackson
PRAXIS “The Consummate Friend”
Andrew Ramer

Culture Reviews

Kim Roberts on Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium
Steven LaVigne on Jorge Luis Seco’s The Only Sun I Need
Steven LaVigne on Toby Johnson & Steve Berman’s
Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling
Steven LaVigne on Michael McColly’s The After Death Room
Dan Vera on Jeff Mann’s On The Tongue

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WC72 Cinema Paradiso Contents

Table of Contents
CINEMA PARADISO

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A Fellow Traveler...and Friends
The White Crane Interview with Mark Thompson by Bo Young & Dan Vera
Four Portraits from “Fellow Travelers” by Mark Thompson
Harry Hay - Clyde Hall - Robert Mapplethorpe - Essex Hemphill

Taking Issue

Seeing the Light: James Broughton on Cinema by James Broughton
At the Movies by Don Clark
Gays In/At The Movies: An Appreciation of Vito Russo by Arnie Kantrowitz
Wish Upon A Star  by James Van Buskirk
Night Movies: Pay Attention to Your Dreams  by Don Kilhefner
Gay Celluloid Markings by Donald L. Boisvert
Goddess by Malcolm Boyd
My Life with Movies: A Memoir/Montage  by Eric Riley
Seen Anything Good Lately?  Readers Write In

Poetry

And I Did  by Brady Earnhart
Crickets & Yellow Dogs  by Dan Vera

Culture Reviews

Perry Brass on
Jay Michaelson’s God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice

Steven LaVigne on
David LaRochelle’s Absolutely, Positively Not

Steven LaVigne on
Augusten Burroughs’ Possible Side Effects

Steven LaVigne on
Tennessee Williams’ Memoirs

Peter Savastano on
David Montalvo’s boy with an ‘i’

Toby Johnson on
Souldancer’s Pay Me What I’m Worth: A Guide to Help You Say It, Mean It, Get It

Toby Johnson on
Christopher Lee Nutter’s The Way Out:  The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom No Matter If You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out or Been Around the Block

Vilius Rudra Dundzila on Drew Harriot’s The Secret
"Homophobia from Religious Liberals"

Columns

Everyday Sacred
“Abundance & Wealth”  by Donald Engstrom/Reece

Updrafts by Dan Vera

Our Bodies
“HPV: Yes, I’m talking to You.”  by Jeff Huyett

PRAXIS
“Cinema Paradoxo”  by Andrew Ramer

Departments

Opening Words “Making Light of It” Bo Young & Dan Vera

Call for Submissions

Letters

Contribution Information

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In Memoriam: Barbara Gittings by David Carter
Ralph Walker  by Sunfire

WC71 - Contents

White Crane #71
Winter 2006-2007

Bohemian
Splendor

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Departments
Opening Words The Editors Dan Vera & Bo Young
Call for Submissions
Subscriber Information
Letters
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Interviews

Midnight at The Palace:
The Cockettes & The New Bohemia
The White Crane Interview with Sweet Pam
By Robert Croonquist & Bo Young

Portrait of an Artist as Zen Monk
The White Crane Interview with Don Bachardy
By Victor Marsh

Four Nude Portraits by Don Bachardy


Columns
Updrafts by Dan Vera
re:Sources by Eric Riley
Frank Talk “Does the Religious Right Just Need to Get Laid?” by Frank Jackson
PRAXIS “Bohemian Splendor” by Andrew Ramer


Taking Issue
Poetics & Consciousness: Why Howl Still Matters After Fifty Years By David Carter
Spanbauer on Spender by Tom Spanbauer
Isherwood And Auden by David Garrett Izzo
Long-Haired Men & Short-Haired Women:
Hidden Bohemia in Los Angeles by Stuart Timmons
Angels On A Pinhead: The Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence by Sr. Soami
Death of the Wild Nun: Assunta Femia Remembered by Arthur Evans

Poetry
Silence of the Lamb Cakes by Gregg Shapiro
Flaneur by Ed Madden
Bally’s Bocher by Jacob J. Staub


Culture & Books
Toby Johnson on Howard E. Cook’s Be Done On Earth
Toby Johnson on Joe Perez’s Rising Up: Reflections on Gay Culture, Politics, and Spirit
Bo Young on Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons’ Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
Jay Michaelson on John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus

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