Writing on Prop 8: Arthur Leonard is the best, The Nation disappoints and Justice Moreno has the last word.
When the sad, but expected California Supreme Court Proposition 8 ruling came in yesterday, I automatically turned to one of my favorite writers, Arthur Leonard, to help me make sense of it. Sure enough, Mr. Leonard quickly turned in a high quality report on the court’s decision. As I have mentioned before, Arthur Leonard is, [...]
One of Our Best: Arthur Leonard
Queer readers in New York City haven’t always had it so good. In the early nineteen-eighties, when local gay newspapers across the United States were thriving, New York City had no gay newspapers at all. And then it had The Native–Charles Ortlieb’s enigmatic, erratic weekly publication. While many fine writers wrote for it, reading The [...]