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Another Hayride
Self-help guru Louise Hay’s “Hayrides” drew in thousands during the hopelessness and government neglect of the AIDS crisis.
“Love is the most powerful healing force there is, and the pathway to love is through forgiveness. Forgive yourself first, so that you can forgive others. Free yourself. You deserve to be well. You deserve to heal. You deserve love.” “Six by a foot. Anyway, call me back. Bye.” “I was 24 years old, and I went to Los Angeles to audition for pilot season. I didn’t know a soul. I was walking down Melrose Avenue, and I physically ran into this friend that I had gone to school with. He smiled at me, and he said, Hey, what are you doing Wednesday night? And I thought he was inviting me to church. Truth be told, I had an enormous crush on him. I got to this thing called the Hayride started by Louise Hay. I was raised in a very fundamentalist Christian background. I associated the word church with shame. There, there was literal
Javicia Leslie on Becoming TVâs First Black Batwoman
âIâm coming in with my elbows out and making way,â the 33-year-old actor said about her starring role in Season 2 of the CW superhero series âBatwoman.â
Javicia Leslie’s role in the CW’s “Batwoman” is her first lead in a major TV series, and she performed many of her own stunts. “I love being up, like, 50 feet in the air,” she said.Credit.CW
Javicia Leslie was all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Stuck under strict quarantine, she had spent a week without talking in person to anyone outside her Airbnb in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was there to finish shooting Season 2 of the CW series âBatwoman,â just back from a trip to Los Angeles to see her family for holidays. Now not even her hair and makeup people were allowed in.
The Lusty Creativity of Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
The Lusty Creativity of Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
A lesser-known Dutch master with a penchant for male backsides created some of the greatest homoerotic paintings of all time.
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem’s “The Massacre of the Innocents” (1590) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Credit.Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum
By Arthur Lubow
Jan. 13, 2021
I was walking through the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam a few years ago when I bumped up against an enormous painting that stopped me in my tracks. Eight feet high and almost twelve feet long, “The Massacre of the Innocents,” a depiction of the slaying of male babies ordered by King Herod in Bethlehem, placed me cheek by jowl with the most provocatively positioned, beefy male posterior I had ever seen in Western art. The naked butt jutted out, forcing the viewer of the painting to gaze up at the massive glutes and thighs, much like the mother of the unfortunate infant under t
L.G.B.T.Q. TV Representation Falls for First Time in 5 Years, Glaad Finds
An annual report found that 9.1 percent of characters scheduled to appear on prime-time broadcast series identified as L.G.B.T.Q. in the 2020-21 season, down from 10.2 percent.
Michael Cimino in the Hulu series “Love, Victor,” which features a queer lead title character.Credit.Gilles Mingasson/Hulu, via Associated Press
Published Jan. 14, 2021Updated Feb. 25, 2021
For the first time in five years, L.G.B.T.Q. representation on television decreased, an annual report by the L.G.B.T. advocacy organization Glaad has found.