Stephen Hemrick – Gay & Lesbian Review

By PK
Erikkson

I’m not mad at God. I don’t hate him. I think white evangelicals have a very wrong idea of the God that I knew, and I hope they go away forever.

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By David Pollak

Colored paper sheets were circulated, in the slightly blurred print of a Gestetner copier, bearing our chants, such as: “2, 4, 6, 8, is that copper really straight?”

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By Richard Schneider

On Friday, February 18th, there will be a concert at Symphony Hall in Boston that has special significance for The G&LR. The concert will be performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project […]

By Richard Bagarozky

I only imagined that all boys felt as I did when I experienced the intense and almost unsettling vision of male beauty when I fell in love with my classmate.

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By Ken Harvey

I used to think that romance meant a moment when time stops and all you understand is the emotion of the here and now. But what happens when you have 25 years of shared experience? How do you forget […]

By Michael Cuglietta

I once fancied myself the leader of our little crew of misfits. But, looking back, I believe Jamie to be the real leader.

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By Adam Kocurek

We Are Kind Of More is in many ways a genuine reflection of New York City, capturing the essence of the CUNY’s working class, intrepid LGBTQ+ youth, and is a wonderful case study of how e […]

By Mary Foulk

Stephen and I shared a secret language—of siblings and queer survival.

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By Eleni Stephanides
[Celiac disease is] similar to the way in which some people don’t take LGBT people’s sexual orientations seriously (with comments like “It’s just a phase”).

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By Patricia Grayhall

I blurted out. “We want to move to Canada…to live together.”

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By Stacey Chomiak

I loved my church community, but they were not able to love me back. It almost broke me. And it has broken too many other people.

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By Robin Gow

Keith would have been sixty this year. He passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1990. If I could see him, I would tell him that I look for him everywhere I go.

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By Aubrey Baden III

Brown, through her performance of Nola, reflected the struggles of members of the LGBTQ community to live fully authentic lives.

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By Sebastian Stuart

I’m happy for today’s queens, but something has been lost. The grittiest corners of gay culture have been sandpapered smooth.

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By Bruce Skeiff

Let’s not leave out our ability to reach out to the authors. It can broaden and build our personal community in a time of social isolation – even without a pandemic.

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By Bruce Skeiff

Let’s not leave out our ability to reach out to the authors. It can broaden and build our personal community in a time of social isolation – even without a pandemic.

The post Turn the Tables app […]

By Bruce Skeiff

Let’s not leave out our ability to reach out to the authors. It can broaden and build our personal community in a time of social isolation – even without a pandemic.

The post Turn the Tables app […]

By Lev Raphael

Every statue from the ancient world that I’ve encountered since that day reminds me of the discovery of such unparalleled beauty and the nascent discoveries of self that waited for me in my […]

By Les Wright

Today, I continue to live with the deeply ingrained need for gay male friendships. These are the people who truly understand me. These are the people, for the most part, that I have relied on in […]

By John Newmeyer

I sensed that night that I was more hopeful than he was about being gay. That difference widened in the months to come, with tragic consequences.

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