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Revisiting the Lavender Scare By Ronald Valdiserri In a speech given … in Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy asserted that the U.S. State Department […]

Bruce and James By Héctor Vizoso On Halloween night in 1991, the doorbell rang, and it was Bruce. He was excited and hurried in to tell me to get ready because he had […]

To Boldly Go Homo: An Exhibit Review By Mark Hayward In what other city could a pioneering rocket scientist lead occult rituals, a satanic Hollywood studio secretary publish a communist […]

Selamlik and a Bouquet of Wildflowers on Jean Genet’s Grave By Khaled Alesmael “Genet wrote about Syria and Palestine!” says Naima, the cemetery caretaker, as she turns the key in the gate’s lock, leading me t […]

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men By Jim Van Buskirk Three decades after its 1995 exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, the Musée d’Orsay has co-organized another Gustave […]

On Vanity By Nastya Dzutstsati The tragedy of a state-imposed closet is that the performance never ends—unless you find a way to escape, or the government finds you first. The post On Vanity appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

The Enduring Legacy of One of Dakan By Francis Buseko While Dakan made waves as the first openly West African queer love story, its significance extends far beyond its historic debut. The […]

My Impact Statement: Rod Stewart’s “The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)” By Gregory Walters Here was Rod Stewart, unabashedly telling anyone who would listen he was friends with a gay man. It’s important that he describes G […]

The Battle for Intro. 2: The New York City Gay Rights Bill, 1971 – 1986 By Maggie Schreiner The exhibition is organized around ten central themes, exploring topics such as the activist organizations who advocated for the […]

The Good War By Elizabeth Costello My heart, my gut, my cunt assumed positions of power. If that moment was a tarot card it was absolutely The Tower — the first time I s […]

Queering Loneliness: A Review of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer By Brian Alessandro Like then novel by William S. Burroughs on which it is based, Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Queer is less about homosexuality t […]

The Closet is My Country By Damisola Sulaiman 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 y […]

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 […]

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 […]