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THEATRE REVIEW – I Still Believe in The Book of Mormon Since 2011 The Book of Mormon has shown tremendous staying power. The musical, created by South Park’s Trey P […]

Gay Korean Culture in Love in the Big City LOVE IN THE BIG CITY Directed by Eon-hie Lee     Sang Young Park is a peculiar figure in Korea’s literary scene. In a country where homosexuality is sti […]

A Day in Hyderabad’s Flower Market By Patruni Sastry I had watched enough Bollywood movies to know that a good pair of sunglasses could shield both my identity and my makeup from prying eyes. […]

We the Parasites: Book Review By Dale Corvino We the Parasites is a deeply personal and ekphrastic poem-as-essay. It pursues its end to contaminate criticism with the queerest of […]

Queen Tut: A Review By Steve Warren The title, Queen Tut, is essentially a spoiler. Our young hero, Nabil (Ryan Ali), doesn’t choose it as his drag name until near the end of t […]

A Neon Rainbow in a Vietnamese Alleyway By Akram Herrak I don’t know what I expected from a gay bar—the closest I’ve ever gotten to being in one was when I went to a drag show in Beirut, Leban […]

REVIEW – Evanescence’s Broken Pieces Shine at Saddledome Nearly 18 years after their last Calgary concert, Evanescence finally returned to a packed Saddledome on […]

REVIEW – Nick Carter Shows Who He Is at Palace Show For over 30 years Nick Carter has been entertaining fans. Whether with the Backstreet Boys or solo, his […]

Back to Love: The Poetry of Sjohnna McCray By Leslie Absher McCray’s writing focuses on his complex identities in an expansive and non-reductive way. Each a worthy subject, McCray unpacks all f […]

Young and Gay in Montana By Scott Terry I was still rodeoing, but had given up bull riding. During hunting seasons, a hunting rifle was hanging in the gun rack in the back window of […]

A New Open Access Edition of Acclaimed AIDS History By John Manuel-Andriote Aging without the friends and lovers we expected to know all our lives, deep sorrow lurks, always, just beyond our laughter. How has […]

REVIEW – Everything Is Right About “The Play That Goes Wrong” The Play That Goes Wrong,playing at Theatre Calgary until September 29th, is one of the greatest comedic plays […]

REVIEW – “Come From Away” Still Flies High When the newest Broadway Across Canada run was announced to include Come From Away and Novembers Book of […]

REVIEW – Darkly Humorous “Deathtrap” a Fun Twisted Tale Stage West kicks off their new season with the 1978 Ira Levine murder mystery Deathtrap. The longest running […]

Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement By Wendy Rouse When I began researching the book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people warned me that I w […]

The Sum of My Parts By Oliver Radclyffe But even if I had still been closeted, I knew it would be almost impossible to form a cohesive narrative from the confusing evidence […]

When You’re An Outlier By Michael Varga I want to complain about being an outlier, but the minute I begin to form the words, I catch myself. You see, I have been an outlier […]

The Porousness of Queerness Julian Carter in conversation with Jonathan David Katz about Carter’s new book, Dances of Time and Tenderness, published June 2024. The post The Porousness of Queerness appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

REVIEW – Marilyn Manson Shines in The Darkness at Calgary Concert The Antichrist Superstar. The Pale Emperor. The man who was so feared that his Calgary concert in 1997 was […]

An Ode to My In-laws By Cory Allen Three years ago, if you told me that my husband and I would wed in front of our parents, nervously awaiting the birth of our […]