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Surviving a Kito Experience By Osadolor Edokpayi “Can you please come around? I’m preparing noodles. My folks went to church.” It seemed harmless. My mind, innocent and uns […]

Disco: A Radical Melody By Asa Williams Prior to the emergence of Disco, due to the homophobic laws that prohibited same-sex dancing, most gay bars were underground dance bars; […]

Queer Rain: Reflections on James Baldwin’s Untitled By Stacy Nathaniel Jackson What of a different world Baldwin steadfastly conjured in his novels, essays, plays, and poems interrogating race, politics, and […]

Soundscapes of Freedom: Queer Expression Through Dance Music in Lagos, Nigeria By Demilade Phillips In the last few years, many raves have been quietly popping up through Lagos, Nigeria’s unofficial capital, and the epicenter of A […]

Those Who Are Saved By Iryn Tushabe I didn’t have a boyfriend, so pregnancy checks didn’t bother me. Indeed, they were an opportunity to do the lord’s work; I was omulo […]

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 […]