OPENERS

Assorted Short Takes


MEDIA MANIPULATION

Floyd Brown's Dirty Tricks and the Bush Campaign - Ed Cafasso

Media Pandering to Black Revolutionaries - Mark Di Ionno

Maybe It's Time, After All These Years - Clark DeLeon

The Eclipse True Crime Trading Cards Controversy - Mike Baker

Another View: Shame On Serial Killer Trading Cards - John Sutherland

Fun With Numbers - Russ Miller

A Right To Know Or An Invasion Of Privacy - Deborah Wilker

Rodney King: No Isolated Incident - Richard G. Carter

The Art of Media Manipulation - Ed Cafasso

Tabloid Journalism and Manipulation of the Press - Mark DiIonno

Censorship and the Community Press - Caitlin Barry

How Not to Begin a Career In Radio - Duane Swierczynski

Tale in 'Twin Cities' - Kate Worley and Read Waller

Candidates With No Balls - Greg Hotchkiss


THE MEDIA AND THE GAY COMMUNITY

Hate and the Art of Queer Media Spins - Andy Mangels

No Message Here - Andy Mangels and Carl Vaughn Frick

Still Lurking In the Shadows, After All These Years - Michael C. Botkin

Unhealthy Morality - David Gilden

Basic Instinct: The Myth of the Level Playing Field - Angela Bocage

World Games - Roberta Gregory


ARTISTS UNDER FIRE

Black Plastic And White Sheets: Censorship of Dayton Claudio - Mike Baker

Born To Raise Hell: The Lowbrow Labors of Robert Williams - S.C. Ringgenerg

Abortion Wars: The Canning of Popeye Comic Strip Writer Bobby London - Steve Ringgenberg


ANYTHING GOES

Tyson Didn't Get A Fair Shake - Pete Hamill

Nemesio - Michael Taylor

Death of A Mad-Man - Steve Ringgenberg

P.C. Kills - Angela Bocage

Cherry, Me & Censorship; Or No Flies On Me - Larry Welz

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Revisited - Trisha Sherrick

Another View: Tempest in a Teapot - John Rosenman

From Seasrs and J.C. Penney...With Lust - John Rosenman


FICTION

Enoch - Robert Bloch

How To Get Ahead in New York - Poppy Z. Brite

The Cause - S.K. Epperson


REVIEWS

Behind the Mask - Matthew J. Costello

House of Fiction - Tom McDonald

OPENERS

Assorted Short Takes


NEWS AND VIEWS

Spike Lee: Bourgeois Boor - Mark Di Ionno

Madonna Exposed - David Aaron Clark


PORN in the USA

What's Smut - Roberta Gregory

What's Porn to You is... - Bill Paige

'S' is for 'Stoopid' - John Skipp and Craig Spector

SIDEBAR: Art, Porn & NC-17N.O.E.U. 2008 - Michael Taylor

Above the Law - ACLU Arts Censorship Project

The Arguments Against Pornography - Jim Bramlett

Reflections of a Feminist Porn Star - Nina Hartley

Let Me Tell Ya 'bout Suffering - Rhonda Nettles

Tip of the Iceberg ('Omaha the Cat Dancer') - Kate Worley & Reed Waller

Pornography's Victims - Phyllis Schlafly

Porn: The Patient Prostitute - Bob Fahey, Jr.

I Fought the Law...and the Law Lost - TL Wahl

The Wit and Wisdom of Al Goldstein - Don Vaughan

Pornography: A Poisonous Tentacle - J. Marshall Newton

An Interview with Candida Royalle - Don Vaughan

The Crotchless Panters of Utah - Ken Rand

Billy Bear's Take on the Bundy Affair - Joseph P. Cunningham

SIDEBAR: F.O.X.E. on the F.E.B.A.

Sex, Smears and Feminists - Bobby Lilly

Interview with Annie Sprinkle - David Aaron Clark

Adult Cinema 101: XXX's Top 10 - Randy Lee Payton

Madt Max - Russ Miller

The Master Race - Mark Kramer

AVN to the Media - Shove It! - Mark Kernes

Fetish - Andrew Wahl and Scott Stine


THE COMIC SCENE

The Chilling Effects of Corporate Extortion on the Arts - Ed Cafasso

Gary Groth on The Complete Crumb: Where's a Good Censor When You Need One - Steve Ringgenberg


ANYTHING GOES

Do You Believe in Magic...Johnson That Is? - Mark Di Ionno

Those Who Devour Children: A Visit with H.R. Giger - Steven Johnson

The History of the World and 'My Stinking Ass' - Adam Alexander


FICTION

Lie Down With Us - Thomas Tessier

Making Love (Novel Excerpt) - Melanie Tem and Nancy Holder


REVIEWS

Behind the Mask - Matthew J. Costello

BLACK RACISM


Selective Outrage - Joseph Perkins

The Rodney King Trial: A Postlogue - Steven Barnes

The Many Shades of Blackness - Richard G. Carter

The Myths of 'Black Racism' and the Shockleytizing of America - George F. Sanders

Hang Ten - Andrew Wahl and Scott Stine

The Necessary Racist - Craig Thompson

Reverse Racism of Self Defense - Seaton B. Hancock

Black Racism: What Goes Around Comes Around - Richard G. Carter


POLITICS AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT


Voters Ferreting Out the Right Stuff - Connie Langland

Challenging Stealth Candidates - Skipp Porteous

Christian Coalition Gears Up In Pennsylvania - Steve Goldstein


MORE PORN


Cherry in A Night To Remember - Larry Welz and Larry Todd

The Sting of Pornography - Cecil E. Greek

Nude, Fucked and Freezing - Wally Anne Wharton

The Erotic Eleven - Bobby Lilly


EROTIC ART


Ideas and Thoughts/Censored - Eban Lehrer

Breaking the Chains of Self-Censorship - John Rousso

The 'Velopes - Davo

Through the Back Door - James Healy


ANYTHING GOES


On Our Backs Gets Kicked in the Ass

Drawing Upon the Imagination: The Art of Clive Barker - Lisa Petrucci

Those Happy Days - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The Missing Demand in the Gay Agenda - Michael Medved

True Perversion (Another View) - Stan Leventhal

The Potshot Heard 'Round the World - Wayne Jebian

SIDEBAR: Skirmishes of the Pot War

Our Eroding Privacy - Tony Lesce

The Most Personal Public Secret of All - Jill McIntosh

Down For The Count - Mark Shaw

No Sympathy For Mike Tyson (Another View) - Richard G. Carter

Sticks and Stones Do Break My Bones...Words Do Not Offend Me - Barbara Beebe


COMIC CENSORSHIP


Tax This, Pal! - John Longhi

'Boiled' Diana - Scott Cunningham

Nightmare on 34th St. - Paul Wardle


FICTION


Magnificat - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro


REVIEWS


Non-Fiction - Russ Kick

Blood, Sex and Comics - Linda Marotta

Street Smarts: Fiction Reviews - Anthony Alcaraz