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Thus there began to form, or to show itself within me that heart so proud and yet so tender, that effeminate and yet indomitable character which, constantly vacillating between weakness and courage,…
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Maurice Sachs
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1939
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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1932
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Man has separated lust and sorrow.
But God holds them together like day and night.
I know lust. I know intense suffering.
I praise God’s one name.
Translated by David Soeterndorp.
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Jacob Israël de Haan
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1924
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The same. Three days later.
Maxis moving rocks.horstis putting the rock pile into neat order.
Horst:The air is fresh today. Clean.
[maxhandshorsta needle and a thread as he passes the…
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Martin Sherman
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New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1979
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Twoam.Roy’s hospital room. Roy’s body is on the bed. Ethel is sitting in a chair. Belize enters, then calls off in a whisper.
Belize:Hurry.
(Louis enters wearing an overcoat and dark sunglasses.)
Lou…
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Tony Kushner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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lemoshl: for example
di kurve the whore
a woman who acknowledges her passions
di yidene the Jewess the Jewish woman
ignorant overbearing
let’s face it: every woman is one
di yente the gossip…
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Irena Klepfisz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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I am an Orthodox rabbi and I am gay. For a long while I denied, rejected, railed against this truth. The life story that I had wanted—wife, kids, and a family that modeled Torah and hesed—turned out…
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Steven Greenberg
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1993
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When God’s holy law is read out
Do you think I forget one bold lust?
And enjoying each lust with fearing,
Do you think I know not God’s law?
Translated by David Soeterndorp.
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Jacob Israël de Haan
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1924
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In a long poem written in 1960, when I was thirty-one years old, I described myself as “Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew, / Yankee nor Rebel.” I was still trying to have it both ways: to be…
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Adrienne Rich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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ned’s apartment. It is stark, modern, all black and white.felixcomes walking in from another room with a beer, andnedfollows, carrying one, too.
Felix:That’s quite a library in there…
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Larry Kramer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1985