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01/30/2025

Known for her large-scale collage portraits of Black women, the critically acclaimed artist Mickalene Thomas was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1971. Introduced to art as a child by her mother, fashion model Sandra Bush, she earned her BFA from New York’s Pratt Institute and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She has accepted various artist residences and received numerous prizes.

Read Reginald Harris' review through the link in our bio.

01/28/2025

Novelistic and episodic, Oliver Radclyffe’s memoir Frighten the Horses is written with verve, humor, and specificity. His story begins in an affluent British family, where Oliver was raised to take his state of privilege for granted.

Read Brian Alessandro's review through the link in our bio.

01/26/2025

"Like the novel by William S. Burroughs on which it is based, Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Q***r is less about homosexuality than about the agonies and ecstasies of being a soul trapped in an aging, alienated body."

By Brian Alessandro Like the novel by William S. Burroughs on which it is based, Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Q***r is less about homosexuality than about the agonies and ecstasies of being…

01/22/2025

While Dakan made waves as the first openly West African q***r love story, its significance extends far beyond its historic debut. Released in 1997 and directed by Guinea-born filmmaker Mohamed Camara, Dakan is widely recognized as a trailblazer for African q***r cinema. The film not only depicts the romantic relationship between two men, Sory and Manga, but also challenges the societal norms of Guinea and defies conventional expectations of African storytelling in film.

Read Francis Buseko's article through the link in our bio.

01/20/2025

"WITH A WINK to Oscar Wilde, R. Tripp Evans’ The Importance of Being Furnished celebrates four influential Americans—Charles Leonard Pendleton (1846–1904), Ogden Codman Jr. (1863–1951), Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. (1874–1954), and Henry Davis Sleeper (1878–1934)—whose imaginative houses, now public museums, marked a pivotal shift toward personal expression in home design."

Read Michael Quinn's article through the link in our bio.

01/20/2025

01/16/2025

"Every time I played the song, my brain did somersaults, my stomach got tied in knots. Gay was okay, at least to a rocker. This was affirmation, long before “It gets better.” And, because it was so long before, it also wasn’t okay."

Read Gregory Walters' article: https://glreview.org/my-impact-statement-rod-stewarts-the-killing-of-georgie-part-i-and-ii/

01/14/2025

"While we speak, one of his friends moves around in the kitchen, preparing fried fish that we will share later that evening."

Read Gervais Marsh's article here: https://glreview.org/article/momentos-of-desire/

01/11/2025

Happy New Year from The G&LR! We're excited to announce the launch of our Writers & Artists Grant, aimed at supporting emerging LGBTQ+ voices. Don't miss our documentary on Jonathan Ned Katz and the latest episode of The Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast discussing LGBTQ representation in the arts. Join us as we uplift and celebrate LGBTQ literature and arts in 2025!

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01/11/2025

"Butterfly Man makes it clear that Levenson must have been entirely familiar with the gay demimonde that it depicts."

Read Ronald Valdiserri's essay: https://glreview.org/article/a-novel-from-a-darkening-time/
This essay also appears in the Jan-Feb 2025 issue of The G&LR.

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01/09/2025

Staging back-alley drag balls was one thing; performing for Astors and Vanderbilts was quite another. What’s more, slummers didn’t just indulge in voyeuristic pleasures; they sampled the seafood, so to speak—a metaphor on full display in periodicals like Broadway Brevities, one of several mainstream publications covering the Pansy Craze.

Read Margaret Vandenburg's essay: https://glreview.org/article/rise-and-fall-of-the-pansy-craze/

01/08/2025

"The story of his encounter with “The Burning Shame” goes back two decades before Huckleberry Finn, to a pitcher of beer that changed the course of American literature."

Read William Benemann's article: https://glreview.org/article/bottom-shamed-by-mark-twain/

This article also appears in the Jan-Feb 2025 issue of The G&LR.

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01/05/2025

"Louis XIV did indeed have a younger brother named Philippe, but the king was never at risk of being supplanted. Philippe I, Duc d’Orléans, known as Monsieur, is one of history’s most notorious effeminates, whose affections and fortune were lavished on male favorites, from courtiers to opera dancers."

Read Laurence Senelick's article: https://glreview.org/article/sodomy-at-the-court-of-louis-xiv/
This article also appears in the Jan-Feb 2025 issue of The G&LR.

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01/03/2025

"The exhibition is organized around ten central themes, exploring topics such as the activist organizations who advocated for the bill’s passage, the New York politicians who played key roles during the fifteen-year campaign…"

Read the full article here: https://glreview.org/the-battle-for-intro-2-the-new-york-city-gay-rights-bill-1971-1986/

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01/01/2025

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12/31/2024

Happy New Year, everyone! What's been your favorite issue of The Gay and Le***an Review this year?

12/29/2024

Gil Cuadros cemented his reputation as a writer shortly before his death, at 34, with 1994’s City of God. This groundbreaking collection of short stories and poems explores being gay, Chicano, and living with AIDS in Los Angeles. Today, a growing interest in Cuadros’ writing has led to the discovery of previously unpublished prose and poems that touch on those same themes.

Read Michael Quinn's review: https://glreview.org/article/the-presence-of-the-past/

12/27/2024

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