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Ms. Dorfman, photographed at her Cambridge home on Feb. 4, 2020.JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
Elsa Dorfman, whose large-format Polaroid color portraits made her famous in the world of photography, and whose ebullient personality made her famous in the world of Cambridge, died Saturday at her Cambridge home.
“Faggots” [his first novel] drew a line between Mr. Kramer and a significant number of gay men, who saw him as an old-fashioned moralist or even a hysteric. In various forums well into the 1990s, he found himself called on to defend his point of view, which was essentially that gay men and lesbians had a diminished chance of living fulfilling lives or producing great art so long as they defined themselves primarily in terms of their sexual orientation.
He preached not only protected sex but also the virtues of affection, commitment and stability — arguments that anticipated the values of the movement for same-sex marriage.
r i p, nonviolent militant, practitioner of satyagraha, ACT UP! founder, beloved angry gay activist, playwright, writer, and ultimate humanist. – word pond
Annapurna Devi an undated photo. She played the surbahar, often described as a bass sitar, and the relatively few people who heard her before she stopped performing early in her career were amazed by her mastery of it.CreditCreditvia Annapurna Devi Archive
Annapurna Devi | The New York Times
Jack Gilbert (Robert Toby photo)
Jack Gilbert, a Poet Off the Literary Grid, Dies at 87 / NY Times
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