Wendell Ricketts
Publications & Addresses
[NB: Many of these pieces are online, or soon will be, at the Wendell Ricketts | Portfolio.]
Fiction,
Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
“‘Au’a ‘
“A guilt augmentation program
for the overly carefree.” Bay Area Reporter, January 30, 1992, pp.
26+.
“Against All Reason, I Have High Hopes: Letter
from
“Believe You Me.” Blood Brothers, Issue 1.1, Summer 1996,
pp. 16-19
“Blood Brothers.” Blue
“Class Analysis.” Blood Brothers,
Issue 1.1, Summer 1996, p. 8
“Elegy for Matthew
Shepard.” New Millennium Writings, 4(2) (Winter
1999-2000), p. 87.
Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by
Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life.
“Heaven Only Knows: A Scene in One Act.” EGSA Express, October 1997, p. 4.
“Jubilant Agnes.” In Rudy Kikel, Ed., This New Breed: Gents, Bad
Boys, and Barbarians 2. Port Orchard, WA: Windstorm Creative, 2003, pp.
285-296.
“Mani di Velluto (
“The
Mysterious Decampment of Rydel Wents.” The Long Story, No.
19, 2001, pp. 70-83.
“O tempora! O mores!” [Humor] Bay Area Reporter,
January 2, 1992, pp. 29, 32.
“Present Company Excepted.”
The Harrington Gay
Men’s Fiction Quarterly 3:1, 2001, pp. 105-125.
“Raspberry Pie.” The SandMutopia
Guardian, 15, February 1994, pp. 24-26.
“Roma Termini.” modern
words, 2004, No. 8, pp. 111-129.
“Scout.” In Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera, Eds., Bum
Rush the Page: A Def Poetry
“That Old Dog That Maysie Had.” Blithe House
Quarterly, Fall 1998.
“Units of Measurement: A Pornographic Morality
Tale.” Velvet Mafia, Issue #6, January 2003.
[http://velvetmafia.com/06/ricketts.php]
“Wasps.” James White
Review, Fall 1989, 7(1), pp. 14-15.
“The Way it Happens.” The
“Whose Little Boy are
You?” In Pat Califia, Ed., Doing it for Daddy.
“Yard Ball.” Salt Hill
9, Fall 2000, pp. 54-56. Reprinted in The Egg Box
(
Translations
Amadei, Gherardo and Boffito, Sara. “Attention as a Psychotherapeutic
Factor.” In press, 2008.
Bertuzzi, Fernando. The Seasons in Color: Photographs by Fernando Bertuzzi.
Bianchi, Matteo B. Cher,
Upon a Midnight Clear: A Christmas Fable for Grownups / Tu Cher, dalle Stelle:
Una fiaba natalizia per adulti. (Awaiting publication)
Bianchi, Matteo B. Generations
of Love. (Awaiting publication) (novel)
Corbino, Sergio. The
Naples Chef Cooks: Pasta & First Courses—51 Italian Recipes.
Fabbri, Fabriano. “Introduction: From Cubism to
The Doors” / “Introduzione: Dal Cubismo ai Doors” from Sesso Arte Rock’n’Roll.
Frigo, Adriana. Antipasti / Gli antipasti. Santarcangelo
di Romagna (
Ghinato, Angela.
Giacobino, Margherita “An American Girl in
Ginzburg, Natalia. The
Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg.
Longo, Andrej. Around Three O’Clock / Più o meno alle tre. (Awaiting
publication) (novel)
Musmarra, Nando. “I 
Parotodus
benedeni” (extinct fossil shark). Fossil News,
February, 2009, pp. 2-9, 12-16.
Purini, Franco; Marzot, Nicola e Sacchi, Livio, Eds. The
Rocca, Tiziana. Communicating/Success:
Public Relations with an Italian Flair.
Solito, Carlo. Olive
Oil and the Mediterranean: A Journey through the Olive Groves of
Vegni, Federico M.G. “Period” /
“Punto” (short story). The
End Magazine, No. 9, Fall/Winter 2008, p. 122.
VirtualItalia.com I’m Not Scared by Niccolò
Ammaniti – excerpt / Io non ho paura – estratto. [http://www.virtualitalia.com/books/not_scared.shtml].
Zanaboni, Paolo. Male Nude / Nudo di uomo.
Books
& Chapters in Books
The adoptive and foster gay and
lesbian parent. In
F. W. Bozett (Ed.), Gay and Lesbian
Parents.
Alive
and Well. [Student Health Handbook],
“Jewelle Gomez” and
“Jim Grimsley.” Entries in Claude J. Summers (Ed.), Gay and Lesbian Literary
Heritage: A Reader’s Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from
Antiquity to the Present.
Homosexuality in adolescence: The reification of
sexual personalities. In P. Allen-Meares & D. Shore (Eds.), Adolescent sexualities: Overview and
principles of intervention.
Intimate
Relationships: Some Social Work Perspectives on Love. Special issue of the Journal of Social Work and Human Sexuality,
5(2), Spring/Summer 1987.
(Edited with Harvey L. Gochros)
Lesbians and gay men on stage: A necessarily
incomplete history. In L. Witt, S. Thomas, & E. Marcus, Eds., Out in all Directions: The Almanac of
Lesbian and Gay America. NY: Warner Books, 1995, pp. 95-106.
Lesbians
and Gay Men as Foster Parents. National Child Welfare Resource
Center, Edwin S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs,
Maud’s last stand: Rikki Streicher closes
“the world’s oldest lesbian bar” and an era ends. In M.
Thompson Ed., Long Road to Freedom: The
Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. NY:
We’re Here, We’re Queer. Would Everyone
Please Take A Seat Now So We Can Get Started? In Silent No More: Voices of
Courage in
Women. In H. L. Gochros, J. Fischer &
J.
Practice with homosexual clients. In S. A. Yelaja
(Ed.) Ethical issues in social work.
Scholarly
Writing & Presentations / Social Science Research
A strategy for the measurement of
homophobia. Journal of Homosexuality, 1980, 5(4),
357-372. (With Walter W. Hudson)
Biological research on homosexuality: Ansell’s
Cow or Occam’s Razor. Journal of Homosexuality, 1984, 9(4),
65-93.
Biological research on
homosexuality. Paper presented at
the Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, Symposium on
“Historical and Theoretical Issues in Sexual Identity,” November
13, 1982,
The Caged Bird Ascends: A Response to Francine Prose. The Leaflet (
Ethical issues in counseling
homosexual adolescents. Paper
presented at the Conference of the National Association of Social Workers,
November 19, 1981,
Physical changing of gender. Medical
Aspects of Human Sexuality, July 1982, 16(2),
p. 97 (with John P. DeCecco).
Sex and relationships: An alternative model of
sexuality education. Paper presented at the Western Regional Conference of the
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, October 20,
1983,
So Many Comrades, So Little Time: An Outing With Walt Whitman. Paper presented at the Fourth Biennial
Conference of the Center for Working Class Studies,
Somewhere Between Rough Trade and Liberace: Male,
Queer, Working Class: The Long, Lonely Search for Working-Class Images in
Post-Stonewall Gay Literature. Paper presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference
of the Center for Working Class Studies,
Teaching high school students about
homosexuality. Invited address at
Training Gay: Queer Literature and
the Erasure of Class in Gay “Community” Assimilation. Paper presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of
the Center for Working Class Studies,
‘We Almost Killed Ourselves with Rage’:
Working-Class Lives in Recent American Writing. Western American Literature 40(4), Winter
2006, 449-461.
What’s love got to do with it? Introduction to Intimate
Relationships: Some Social Work Perspectives on Love, special issue of the Journal of Social Work and Human Sexuality,
5(2), Spring/Summer 1987.
(With Harvey L. Gochros)
News
and Investigative Reporting
Feds blocked gay march plans. Bay Area Reporter, December 31, 1987, pp. 1-2.
Food Bank opens new location Saturday. Bay Area Reporter, March 31, 1988, p.
19.
Grief is transformed in a tapestry of love: Names
Project Quilt unveiled in
Major campaign starts for 1991 Civil Rights Act. ACLU News, 55(3), April 1991, pp. 1, 3.
Mystery of the D.C. March’s
numbers. San Diego Update, January 20, 1988, pp.
A-5, A-6.
No entry for SF’s “
Press Passes: Why did Time, Newsweek ignore
national march? Bay Area Reporter,
December 3, 1987, pp. 14-15.
Problems beset local hot spot. [Zoning disputes at The
Woods] San Francisco
Sentinel, April 20, 1989, pp. 11, 13.
Law,
Politics, and Social / Family Trends
Adoption and foster parenting for lesbians and gay
men: Creating new traditions in family. In F. W. Bozett and
M. B. Sussman (Eds.), Homosexuality and
Family Relations, special issue of Marriage
and Family Review, 1990, 14(3/4),
pp. 83-118.
Contraception: All birth control methods are not
created equal. Ka Leo o
Gay men and lesbians as foster
parents. Invited
presentation for
Homosexuals can have healthy family life. [On the
Agenda: Should Homosexuals Adopt Children?]
Lesbian and gay families: Creating new traditions in
law.
Slicing
Thou shalt have no sex before its time. Ka Leo o
Triangle Project: Placing homeless gay youths with
supportive gay parents. The Advocate
(Advocate West), July 21, 1987, pp. 12-14.
Well, gee, Wally: Are promiscuity and sexual abandon
gone for good? Ka Leo o
You Are What You Learn: Education Re-Draws the Map of
Inmates’ Lives. Sheriff’s Star Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 9,
January 2002, pp. 6-7
Lesbian/Gay
Community Issues
A Bunch of White Guys Sitting Around
Typing (Agony Column). Cuir Underground, Number 2.3, December
1995/January 1996, pp. 1, 8.
“A note to our friends in the
media.” [Names Project press
guidelines, Names Quilt Inaugural Display.] October 1987.
A straitjacket of rhetoric: Reflections on the
dialogue at Out/Write ‘91. Bay Area Reporter, March 14, 1991, pp. 35, 48.
Activism meets academia: Jonathan Katz looks at Queer
culture in
Ah, youth! [Boys Party] Bay Area Reporter, October 15, 1987, pp.
26, 45. [Reprinted, Manifest
Reader, 1, Spring
1988, pp. 60-1.]
Anal
Pleasure and Health by Jack Morin. Journal of
Homosexuality, 1982, 8(2), 82-85.
[book review]
And the Winner Is ... Leather Title Contests Exposed
(Agony Column). Cuir Underground, Number 2.5, March/April 1996, p. 4.
Are ‘abusive’ tops innocent until proven
guilty? (Agony Column). Cuir Underground, Number 1.3, December 1994, pp. 1, 10.
Are Uniform Fetishists Fascist? (Agony
Column). Cuir Underground,
Number 1.1, September/October 1994, pp. 1, 3.
Axes to Grind: Anatomy
of Desire, Political Funerals. Bay Area Reporter, June 15, 1995, p. 68.
[“Political Funerals” republished at
http://www.actupny.org/diva/polfunreview.html by DIVA TV.] [Film Festival
review]
Beyond rhetoric: Erotique
raises eyebrows, consciousness. Bay Area Reporter, December 2, 1994, pp. 37, 43. [film review]
Blood
Brothers (“The Smutty Little
Lit ‘Zine for Men Who Boink Men”), Issue 1.1, Summer
1996.
Coming out, in spades [Boys Life]. Bay
Area Reporter, September 15, 1994, pp. 29, 39. [film
review]
Don’t Top With Your Mouth Full. (Agony Column). Cuir
Underground, Number 1.5, March 1995, pp. 1, 2.
The End of the World As We Know It
.... And We Feel Fine. Blood
Brothers (“The Smutty Little Lit ‘Zine for Men Who Boink
Men”), Issue 1.1, Summer 1996, p. 3.
Flotsam and Jetsam: Fresh Kill: Style Over Content. Bay
Area Reporter, April 11, 1996, p. 36. [film
review]
Full Court Press: Disobedience at the Supreme Court. (March on Washington, 1987, unpublished manuscript.)
Gallery owners with a mission bring art to the Castro
(Siebold and da Rosa of ArtLick Gallery). Bay Area Reporter, December 21, 1989,
pp. 28, 55.
Gay male pornography and
anti-pornography. Paper presented
at the Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, September 21,
1985,
Gratuitous Grief (book review, The Medicine Burns, Adam Klein). Bay Area
Reporter, December 14, 1995, p. 38.
High (Queer) Romance: Parallel Sons. Bay Area
Reporter, June 8, 1995, p. 35. [Film Festival review]
How can I deal with our friends’ blood-phobia? (Agony Column). Cuir
Underground, Number 1.2, November 1994, pp. 1, 7.
I Don’t Want a Safeword, Because
I’ll Use it. (Agony Column). Cuir Underground, Number 1.4,
January/February 1995, pp. 1, 9.
I’m Knocking ... Is
Anybody Home? (Agony Column). Cuir Underground, Number 1.8, June 1995, pp. 3, 5.
Isn’t it Cuir? Frontiers Newsmagazine (LA edition),
September 23, 1994, pp. 30, 32.
Journey into sociology (New books
from Harrington Park Press). Bay Area Reporter, November 28, 1985, p.
27. [book review]
The Leather Community & its Discontents: An
Analysis of Class (Agony Column). Cuir
Underground, Number 1.10, October/November 1995, p. 3.
Mixed Messages: Midnight Dancers. Bay Area Reporter, June 15, 1995, p. 69.
[Film Festival review]
Quietly making history: Lesbian Rights Project creates
new sense of family for gays. The
Advocate, May 24, 1988, pp. 46-48. [Reprinted in The Gay Book, 7, Summer/Fall
1988, pp. 11-13]
The push and pull of same-sex
relationships. Workshop
for the
Safe Sex Sucks: The Oral Sex Controversy. Drummer 179, December 1994, pp. 23-25.
[Reprinted as: Safe Sex Sucks: Commentary, San
Francisco Frontiers, April 13, 1995, pp. 12-15; also distributed via Sci.Med.Aids (Internet newsgroup) June
1, 1995; and the Web http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/Specific/Sexual_Orientation/Reading/Essays/unsafe-sex]
Sixteen years ago: The APA and the depathologizing of
homosexuality. Rev. Michael Ross’s Homosexuality and Psychotherapy, Michael Ross, Ed. Bay Area Reporter, February 23, 1989, p.
30.
Straight as the
There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute. (Agony Column). Cuir
Underground, Number 1.6, April 1995, pp. 1, 3.
Why queer
people shouldn’t become parents. Invited address for Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
Awareness Week,
Features
and Interviews
A new challenge: Kenneth Dixon takes over reins at
Rhino, hopes to provide new angles for Theatre. Bay Area Reporter, October 8, 1987, pp.
26, 38.
Boys will be boys: Felice Picano talks about gay
adolescence and being grown up in the 80s. Bay
Area Reporter, November 6, 1986, p. 26.
Budget Gringostroika: Hanging with the Homies in a
Controlling the black image: Mapplethorpe model Joe
Simmons perfects a sexual iconography all his own. Bay Area Reporter, February 14, 1991,
pp. 33, 45.
Conversations with Anthony Bruno. Soul Survivor
Program Note, Theatre Rhinoceros, May 20-July 15, 1989.
Escape from
Gay to queer: Emergence of a political comedy. 10 Percent, Winter
1992, pp. 44-47, 72-73.
Gay Spirit: An expansion of our world or another test of the
one, true faith [Mark Thompson]. Bay Area
Reporter, August 27, 1987, pp. 26+.
Harvey Fierstein on Spookhouse. Bay Area
Reporter, March 5, 1987, pp. 26+.
The History of
I’m Not Scared: The Film—A Stunning Interpretation of the Book by the Same
Name. VirtualItalia.com, May 2004.
[http://www.virtualitalia.com/videos/salvatores_paura.shtml;
http://www.virtualitalia.com/books/not_scared.shtml]
Is the theatre ready for Holly Hughes? The creator of
“dyke noir” is having a fabulous time being herself. The Advocate, February 14, 1989, pp.
44-45.
Keegan and Lloyd: Fashioning private lives into
performance art. The Advocate
(Advocate West), September 15, 1987, pp. 18-19.
Lighting fires for the next revolution: Playwright
Leland Moss reflects on the evolution of a new gay culture. The Advocate, August 16, 1988, pp.
60-62.
Making virtue of his necessities: “Mother of Gay
Comedy” Tom Ammiano finds applause from sea to shining sea. Bay Area Reporter, March 22, 1990, p.
31.
Mark Spicak: Bodybuilder. [Gay Games III Profile] The Advocate, August 14, 1990, p. 42.
Master of the Zeitgeist: Patricia Morrisroe’s Mapplethorpe: A
Biography. Bay Area
Reporter, July 20, 1995, pp. 29, 35.
Not-So-Funny Pages. [Out of the
Inkwell/L&G comic strip artists] Theatre
Rhinoceros Sixteenth Anniversary Program, September 1993-June 1994, pp.
12-16.
Of myths and men: Performance artist Keith Hennessy
explores the mysteries of the male. The
Advocate, September 11, 1990, pp. 64-66.
Still looking for John Preston:
Laura Antoniou’s Looking for Mr.
Preston. Bay Area Reporter, May 4, 1995, p. 44.
Taking black moms off the pedestal
(gently): Djola Bernard Branner’s Sweet
Sadie. Bay Area Reporter, October 20, 1994, p. 40.
Talking Truth: Boys in the Band author Mart Crowley on his “Gorgeous Little
Monster.” Bay Area Reporter, February 8, 1990, p.
35.
Theatre Rhinoceros: 1986-87 Season Shines. The Advocate (Advocate West), November
11, 1986, pp. 8-9.
What do we want from Edward Albee? Bay Area Reporter, February 28, 1991,
pp. 29-32.
AIDS:
Activism & Community Issues / AIDS & the Performing Arts
A hands-on education: Buzz Bense makes safe sex a
serious business. The
Advocate (Advocate
AIDS Onstage. Dance Ink, Fall 1993, pp. 12-17.
Artists against AIDS. [Review] Metroline,
October 4, 1991, p. 38.
Bill T. Jones is “Still/Here”: Get Used To It! Bay Area Reporter, February 23, 1995,
pp. 33, 40.
Condoms and kids and all. [New Conservatory’s
Creating in Crisis: Making Art in the Age of AIDS
(catalog interview with Micheal Milligan/essay). Spaces Gallery,
Dancing with the Enemy: Local
Dancemakers, Joffrey Bio Address Impact of AIDS on the Dance. Bay Area
Reporter, October 17, 1996, pp. 48-50.
Fool’s Gold: HIV is a multimillion dollar
industry, and drug companies, government scientists, and treatment activists
all want a piece. QW, November 1,
1992, pp. 45-49, 68-69.
Healing metaphors: The theatre of AIDS. West Coast Theatre News,
Summer/Autumn 1987, pp. 8-9, 17.
In Praise of Brats [OpEd on
Disruption of Project Inform’s 10th Anniversary Dinner]. Bay Area
Reporter, June 8, 1995, p. 6.
Inside the AIDS mafia: Are “professional
activists” selling out the AIDS-activist movement? QW, October 25, 1992, pp. 45-49, 70-71.
Intimate Intimacies. [Review:
Michael Kearns] Metroline, October
18, 1991, p. 41.
Journey of a lifelong seeker. [Leland Moss obituary] Bay Area Reporter, February 1, 1990, pp. 25-6.
Leland Moss builds on The AIDS Show to bring catharsis to Theatre Rhino. Bay Area Reporter,
January 14, 1988, pp. 25, 53.
Living on the edge: Long-term
“survivors” of AIDS. Out, April 1994, pp. 100-102, 128-129.
Michael Callen: Let History Judge—A Belated
Appreciation. Bay Area
Reporter, April 4, 1996, pp. 69, 80.
Ojos Que No
Ven: Brilliant new AIDS video from
Latino AIDS Project. Bay Area Reporter,
September 17, 1987, pp. 26+.
“Party” boys confront life in the 80s. [Life of the Party at
Passing continues Rhino’s commitment to AIDS plays. Bay Area Reporter,
January 12, 1989, pp. 26, 30.
Politician, heal thyself. (With the AIDS Cure Act in
Trouble, Who Will Cure the Curers?) AIDS Info BBS, April 1998.
[http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/articles/morestuff/029]
Quisbies at the
Something magical about this play: Least of my Children. Bay Area Reporter, May 25, 1989, p. 30.
Sometimes They Come Back: Peter Litten’s Heaven’s a Drag. Bay Area Reporter, June 15, 1995, pp.
65-66. [Film Festival review]
Talking Dance/Talking AIDS: Members of the national
dance community speak up. Dance/USA
Journal, Spring 1992, pp. 6-14.
Teen AIDS play: New Conservatory Children’s
Theatre airs the issue with The Inner
Circle. Bay Area Reporter, April
23, 1987, pp. 26+.
Tumbling down a different rabbit
hole. [Quisbies]
Walking a tightrope: Group produces
AIDS plays for kids. [Get Real!] Bay Area Reporter, January 25, 1990, p. 27.
Warning: Everything you know about AIDS may be wrong.
Moderator and Panelist at
What gays need back in their lives: Soul Survivor. Bay Area Reporter, May 18, 1989, p. 30.
When a star dies: Michael
Bennett’s great deception. Bay Area Reporter, August 6, 1987, pp.
26+. (Reprinted, San
Diego Update, August 19, 1987, p. A-17).
Theatre
and Performing Arts
A conflict of good intentions: Spookhouse Program Note, Theatre Rhinoceros, March 7-April 11,
1987.
A decade on the boards: Theatre Rhinoceros looks to
the future. The
Advocate (Advocate
A short, happy dream: Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman comes to the
Eureka Theatre. Bay
Area Reporter, April 21, 1988, pp. 26, 36.
Active interference: Keith Hennessy at Josie’s
[review]. Bay Area Reporter, December
9, 1993, pp. 42-43.
Al and Gertrude and Frank and Christopher: Theatre
Rhinoceros offers musical double bill. [In
Circles and Talking to the Sun] Bay Area Reporter, February 18, 1988,
pp. 27-37.
As it is in
Bad girl. [Holly Hughes’ Dress Suits to Hire] Bay Area
Reporter, October 6, 1988, p. 26.
Belabored reckonings: Diviana Ingravallo’s Through Our Blood. Bay Area Reporter, September 1, 1994, p. 33.
Can’t Keep A Straight Face:
Gaiety marks
Completing a Circle. West Coast
Theatre News, Spring 1987, p. 3. [On the Boards:
Fierstein’s Spookhouse]
Does your mother know? Gay comedy is alive and well in
1987. Bay Area Reporter,
June 25, 1987, pp. 51, 72.
Duo covers the rocky landscape of relationships: On
the road with Keegan and Lloyd. Bay Area
Reporter, September 9, 1988, pp. 25, 40-41.
Gay Oscars: AGLA Awards Chart Progress for Gay,
Lesbian Entertainers. Bay
Area Reporter, April 2, 1987, 14, 22.
Gender Agenda: Learning to count
higher than two. [Hidden: A Gender] Bay
Area Reporter, December 7, 1989, pp.
28, 52.
Getting rid of psycho-baggage. [
Good Golly Miss Holly: Holly Hughes in World Without End.
Bay Area Reporter,
June 29, 1989, pp. 26, 30.
Heavy stories: The Medea Project [review]. Bay Area Reporter, February 24, 1994, p.
37.
Hot and Sticky: Holsclaw’s “first”
play makes it onstage. Bay
Area Reporter, May 12, 1988, pp. 26, 37.
Identity and illusion: Theatre Rhinoceros brings
Genet’s The Balcony back to Bay
Area. Bay Area Reporter, April
6, 1989, pp. 28, 32.
Inquisitive spirit: Kate Bornstein’s Virtually Yours. Bay Area Reporter, March 3, 1994, pp.
33, 37.
It’s a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad
World: Holly Hughes in Solo Work ‘Clit Notes.” Bay Area Reporter, February 2, 1995, pp.
33, 42.
Lamentations for the fallen mighty: Rock fable as
American tragedy. [I Think It’s
Gonna Work Out Fine]. Bay Area Reporter, January 10, 1991, pp.
29, 38.
Life of the Party finds a new life at the Potrero Hill
Neighborhood House. Bay
Area Reporter, November 20, 1986, pp. 26, 37.
New theatrical visions in
Political Theatre: Amerika
vs. Ladies Against Women. Bay Area Reporter, February 26, 1987, p. 26.
Pulp and
Circumstance: Lesbian pulp novels of
the ‘50s set to song and dance. Bay
Area Reporter, June 11, 1987, p. 26.
Pushing the limits in a “Brave
New Whirl.” [
Respect and homage: The Sanctified Church honors Zora Neale Hurston. Bay Area Reporter, March 31, 1988, p.
26.
Scully goes Gray [Patrick Scully review]. Bay Area Reporter, January 27, 1994, p.
35.
Self-hatred or proud history: The Boys in the Band come back. Out/Look,
Summer 1990, pp. 62-67.
So what is sexuality, anyway?—Theatre X’s
“History of Sexuality” turns sexual categories upside down. Bay Area Reporter, June
2, 1988, pp. 26, 31.
Solo Pomo: Djola Bernard Branner’s The Sadie Series. Bay Area Reporter, March 10, 1994, p. 33.
Terrific¾and gay as pink ink. [Review: March
of the Falsettos/Falsettoland] Metroline,
October 18, 1991, pp. 42-43.
The boys are back in town: Theatre Rhino revives Boys in the Band. Bay Area Reporter, January 11, 1990, pp.
25, 30.
The human condition: Timothy Mason’s Bearclaw has a lesson for us all. Bay Area Reporter, November 13, 1986,
pp. 24+.
The Vampire L’Esbian: Bones and Ash at Center
for the Arts. Bay Area Reporter,
April 11, 1996, p. 39.
Theatre Rhino debut: From Prussia with
Love—Baron von Steuben and the dear love of comrades-at-arms. Bay Area Reporter,
September 7, 1989, pp. 27, 48.
They’re Young, They’re Queer,
They’ve Got a Script: SF’s Drama Divas. Bay Area Reporter, June 27, 1996, pp. 68, 70.
Too much of a good thing: The Dresher Ensemble’s
Pioneer. Bay Area Reporter, May 9,
1991, pp. 35.
Meaning Well is the Best
Revenge. [Joan Baez Christmas Concert] Bay Area
Reporter, December 24, 1987, p. 26.
Why critics love to bash Cats. Bay Area Reporter, June 9, 1988, p. 32.
You might as well laugh. [Life of the Party] Bay Area Reporter,
September 25, 1986, pp. 26, 38.
Dance
The Art of the Matter: Deborah Slater’s A Hole
in the World. Bay Area Reporter,
October 19, 1995, p. 43.
Better off Dead? David Rousseve’s Whispers of Angels. Bay Area Reporter, February 29, 1996, pp. 33, 39.
Black Choreographers Moving: Fair to Middling. Bay Area Reporter,
February 9, 1995, pp. 33, 39.
Counting on Problems: No Pain, No
Gain for Choreographer Stephen Petronio.
Bay Area Reporter,
March 16, 1995, pp. 33, 38.
Creole dreamer: David Rousseve [review]. Bay Area Reporter, March
31, 1994, pp. 37, 41.
Eclectic Moves: ODC/San Francisco “Dancing
Downtown.” Bay Area Reporter,
June 2, 1994, p. 35.
Esoteric ensemble: Margaret Jenkins Dance Company [review].
Bay Area Reporter,
February 10, 1994, pp. 33, 38.
Footloose: Halprin Retrospective Kicks Off 10th Edge
Festival. Bay Area Reporter, March 7,
1996, p. 43.
Footworks: Men Dancing XIV [review]. Bay Area Reporter,
September 21, 1995, pp. 33, 43.
Getting it together: Choreographer
Robert Henry Johnson. Bay Area Reporter, August
11, 1994, pp. 33, 43.
Going Through the Motions: Tharp! is Less than the Sum of its Parts. Bay Area Reporter, September 26, 1996,
p. 43.
Goode redux: Joe Goode Performance Group [review]. Bay Area Reporter, May 19, 1994, p. 30.
Joint Motion/Improvisation. Contact
Quarterly 24.1 (Winter/Spring 1999): 62-66.
Leeward dance concert: “Dark visions.”
Luminous Threads: A Collaboration
Dances Halfway Around the World (Anita Ratnam/Joy Harjo). Dance Alloy Interchange, Fall 1997, Vol.
3, No. 1, pp. 18-20.
Movers and Shakers: EdgeFest Program Features Work by
Jenkins, Mann, and Jones. Bay Area
Reporter, March 14, 1996, p. 49.
On the Move: Bill T. Jones and Company Still Around,
Looking Good. Bay Area Reporter,
March 14, 1996, p. 48.
Step Lively: Robert Henry Johnson Company in Cowell
Fourth-Season Opener. Bay Area Reporter, July 18, 1996.]
Susanne Linke: Rühr-Ort, Bay Area Reporter, February 3, 1994.
Urban Renewal: High Risk Group, Pearl Ubungen Dancers.
Bay Area Reporter, October 5, 1995,
pp. 38,41.
Virtual Dance: Dance Resources on the World Wide Web. DCA
News (Newsletter of the Dance Critics’ Association), Summer 1996, pp. 6, 15
Vital movement [Bay Area Dance
Series review]. Bay Area Reporter, February 17, 1994, p.
36.
The Whole
Words from the Front: The death of Rudolf Nureyev has
refocused attention on AIDS in the dance profession. But why are so many
industry leaders tap dancing around the issue? Spin, May 1993, pp. 71-73.
Press,
Reviews, Awards
Farrell, Joseph, Times
Literary Supplement, review of The
Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg,
September 26, 2008.
“Preserved in Translation:
Translator Wendell Ricketts Brings to Life the Language of Italian Author
Natalia Ginzburg.” Primo, Aug-Sept., 2008, pp. 42-45.
Best Books of 2005, Books to Watch Out For list (included Everything I Have Is Blue).
Molinero, Miguel. Instinct, May 2005, p. 34 (review of Everything I Have Is Blue).
Lambda Literary Foundation 18th Annual Lambda Literary
Awards: Everything I Have Is Blue
named as finalist in Anthology category.
Lanzòl, Marco. Il
Paradiso degli Orchi, April 2006, (review of Everything I Have Is Blue in Italian, plus interview).
Lawrence, Christopher, Stonewall News, September 2005, p. 12 (review of Everything I Have Is Blue).
Working-Class
Notes, Spring
2005, p. 10 (review of Everything I Have
Is Blue).
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
Award,
Renato Poggioli Translation Award,
Best Short Story award, Graduate Student Fiction
Contest, Blue Mesa Review,
Clay, Jim. Lambda
Book Report, review of Lesbians and
Gay Men as Foster Parents, September, 1992, 3(6), p. 35.
“Bette Pulitzer” Prize for Theatre
Journalism, Theatre Rhinoceros,
Associated Alumni Award,