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In the 1970s, disco became inseparable
from the emergence of
the »gay macho«, a rising
black middle class, and
a growing, if equivocal,
openness about female
sexuality. The disco
scene carved out a haven
for gay men who reclaimed
their sexuality on
dance floors where they
had once been surveilled
and harassed: and gay discos needed music -
the genre that a handful of producers developed
was a hodgepodge of black styles.
Biografies
Katherine Bucknell (ed.):
Christopher Isherwood -
The Sixties. Diaries, Vol. 2
1960-1969. USA 2010, 756 pp.,
hardbound, € 31.95
The 2nd volume of Christopher
Isherwood‘s diaries
opens on his 56th
birthday, as the 50s give
way to the decade of
social and sexual revolution.
Isherwood takes
the reader from the
bohemian sunshine of
Southern California to a
London finally swinging
free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism
of New York and to the raw Australian outback.
He charts his quest for spiritual certainty,
and reveals in detail the emotional drama of
his love for the American painter Don Bachardy,
30 years his junior and struggling to establish
his own artistic identity. Soon after they have
become lovers in 1953, their relationship is
conflictual. Don has been a typical Hollywood
kid when they meet. But soon he is sick of
being ignored by Isherwood‘s older famous friends.
Joseph Lelyveld: Great Soul.
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with
India. USA 2011, 428 pp. illustrated, hardbound,
€ 22.99
When this biography on the »Father of the
Indian Nation«, Mahatma Gandhi, was released
a big storm of protest in the Indian media
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broke loose. What was it all about? The biographer
claimed that Gandhi has never been
very much interested in
women because the real
love of his life was a
German-Jewish architect
and bodybuilder, Hermann
Kallenbach, for
whom Gandhi left his
wife in 1908. He draws
on the correspondence
between the two to come
to this conclusion. He is
able to detail a passionate love affair between
Gandhi and his lover. The knowledge of this
gay affair in public was buried under an overall
ideal of an ascetic asexuality. Now that the new
sight on this central figure of Indian history was
out several states of the Indian Union advanced
in forbidding the sales of this biography on
their territory.
Sjeng Scheijen: Diaghilev.
A Life. UK 2010, 552 pp. illustrated,
brochure, € 20.99
Diaghilev turns up everywhere
ballet and modern
art are discussed, wrapped
in a broad ribbon declaring
him »Impresario extraordinaire«.
This man from Russia
founded and directed the
revolutionary dance company
Ballet Russes and
brought Nijinksky and Stravinsky
to the stages of Europe to riotous effect.
With unique access to Russian archives and
a passion for researching the lives of the
artists, composers, dancers, choreographers,
and prominent patrons drawn to the flame
of Diaghilev‘s audacious artistic pursuits, not
to mention the lifting of the censorious ban
on truth-telling about homosexual relationships,
Scheijen is the first to portray the charming,
tyrannical, turbulent, and brilliant artistic
ringleader in full. He covers Diaghilev‘s first
love affair with a cousin, and offers sensitive
accounts of Diaghilev‘s complex relationships
with dancers Nijinsky and Massine.
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