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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 Today, a growing interest in Cuadros’ writing has led to the discovery of previously unpublished prose and poems that touch on those same themes.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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12/27/2024

In an early scene in Warner Brothers’ hit musical 42nd Street (1933), Peggy Sawyer, a naïve aspiring actress, accidentally walks into the dressing room of Billy Lawler, a young, good-looking actor who’s getting ready for a Broadway show rehearsal. Billy (played by Dick Powell), caught wearing only his underwear, jumps up in surprise and yells at Peggy (Ruby Keeler), who had mistaken him for the show’s stage manager. “Weren’t you expecting me?” asks the startled and confused Peggy. “Well, not exactly,” answers Billy. “But I’m afraid you’ll do.”

Read Joseph Ortiz's review: https://glreview.org/article/putting-broadway-on-the-silver-screen/

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12/26/2024

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12/24/2024

The Gay and Le***an Review referenced in this article published on Collider: https://collider.com/best-movie-about-jesus-rotten-tomatoes/

12/23/2024

Alan Contreras reviews Coming Out Republican by Neil J. Young. Read here: https://glreview.org/article/whos-left-on-the-right/

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12/20/2024

"But when I met that bright young thing, I experienced a profound reversal in the order of my being. My heart, my gut, my c**t assumed positions of power."

Read the latest 'Here's My Story' written by Elizabeth Costello: https://glreview.org/the-good-war/

12/19/2024

An exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine may finally set Russell Cheney on the road to finding his rightful place in American art history. While there have been smaller shows of his paintings since his death in 1945, his work has not received the attention it deserves.

Read Scott Bane's article about the exhibition Domestic Modernism: Russell Cheney and Mid-Century American Painting, which appears in the Nov-Dec 2024 issue of The G&LR. Read here: https://glreview.org/article/domestic-scenes-as-seen-by-an-outsider/

12/19/2024

We are proud to share a new book, Playing in the Dirt, a collection of art and writing by q***r farmers sharing their unique experiences navigating agricultural networks, resources, and communities as LGBTQ+ folks.

This publication was made possible by the G&LR's Charles S. Longcope Jr. Writers and Artists Grant. You can learn more about the scholars behind Playing in the Dirt, and past and current projects funding by the grant, on our website. Applications for 2025 are now open!

Playing in the Dirt gathers writing, interviews, and art from q***r farmers, growers, and land stewards in the midwest region of the United States. Building on the experiences of more than one hundred q***r midwestern farmers, this volume invites readers to explore q***r joy, more-than-human relatio...

12/17/2024

The latest issue of The G&LR explores "Strange Fruit," delving into intriguing historical narratives that highlight LGBTQ+ experiences through the ages. From the secret society of "highborn sodomites" in Louis XIV's court to the cultural phenomenon of the "Pansy Craze" in the Roaring Twenties, this edition offers a comprehensive look at q***r history and its societal impacts. Don't miss our special offer: gift two subscriptions for the price of one with promo code 2for1. ***rCulture

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12/16/2024

The challenge of writing historical fiction—creating an interesting story with lifelike characters within the constraints of historical facticity—becomes even more difficult when the historical figures and events are widely known or readily googled for a quick refresher. The more famous the people and events depicted, the higher the expectation of accuracy, or at least verisimilitude, with respect to the characters’ actions, manners of speech and dress, modes of transportation and communication, and so on.

Read Hank Trout's review of The Wildes by Louis Bayard: https://glreview.org/article/the-fall-of-the-house-of-wilde/

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12/15/2024

Read Jean Roberta's review of Unsuitable by Eleanor Medhurst here: https://glreview.org/article/shes-got-the-look/

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12/14/2024

"With wetter weather and cooler temperatures comes more opportunities to amuse ourselves indoors. This selection of q***r books in a few different genres will tempt your soul into the world of Alan Hollinghurst's aging actor; the faded, sunken universe of Lewis DeSimone's Castro District; the passionate dalliances of Edmund White's love life, and, well, everything Cher. What's not to love? Read your way into 2025 with some amazing books."

Read Bay Area Reporter's list of fall/winter books and check out our review of Exit Wounds by Lewis DeSimone. Find everything through the link in our bio.

12/13/2024

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.

Read Brian Alessandro's review of Q***r, the film by Luca Guadagnino starring Daniel Craig, right here: https://glreview.org/q***ring-loneliness-a-review-of-luca-guadagninos-q***r/ ***r ***rmovie

12/12/2024

In December 1947, Chilean-American actress Felicia Montealegre broke off her much-publicized engagement to Leonard Bernstein, which had been announced in Hollywood a year earlier. Biographers pin the blame on events at that summer’s Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Read Val Holley's article here: https://glreview.org/article/1947-tales-of-tanglewood/

This article was adapted from the forthcoming book Slouching Towards Gotham: A Gay Mormon Example. This article also appears in the Nov-Dec 2024 issue of The G&LR.

12/10/2024

“‘FETCH A TOWEL,’ he called, ‘and come on!’” So begins Cyril and George’s steamy swim in D. H. Lawrence’s first all-male erotic scene, which is found in his debut novel, The White Peacock.

Read Andrew White's article here: https://glreview.org/article/d-h-lawrences-white-peacock/

This article also appears in the Nov-Dec 2024 Issue of The G&LR.

12/05/2024

How do you accept that your closet is a country, that the place that made you into the person you are, is where you can’t be yourself?

Read the latest 'Here's My Story', written by Damisola Sulaiman, right here: https://glreview.org/the-closet-is-my-country/