As far as the news media and most of the American people are concerned, the sexual relationship between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky has come, seen, conquered, overstayed its welcome, overstayed its welcome some more, and finally sunk into a well-deserved oblivion, deep below the surface of public consciousness. What we once seemed unable […]

Badlands: Charles Gatewood Photographs, Goliath Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999, 446 pages, $37.95. Distributed in the U.S. by Last Gasp Books. Also available from Flash Productions (P.O. Box 410052, San Francisco, CA 94141, $39.95 postpaid.

“Step right up for the greatest show on earth. The biologic show. Any being you ever imagined in your wildest and […]

At face value, Kimberly Peirce’s brilliant film, Boys Don’t Cry, is the true story of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, who created a male identity for himself and was accepted and appreciated as male by the people around him in a small Nebraska town, only to be horribly raped and murdered when […]