Stephen Hemrick – Gay & Lesbian Review

By Bridgette M. Redman

Who knows a person best: A spouse,  a parent, a lover? How can people who all claim to have the greatest closeness to someone have totally different perceptions of who that person is?

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By Jessi Harris

I didn’t choose the road to transition because I wanted to be a man. I did so to survive life as I knew it in the 1970’s.

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By Ginelle Testa

Nuzzling into her shoulder, I wanted to stay there forever. The fruity smell of either her hair or her perfume came over me. It made me want to cuddle into her further. (My boyfriend definitely […]

By Ginelle Testa

Nuzzling into her shoulder, I wanted to stay there forever. The fruity smell of either her hair or her perfume came over me. It made me want to cuddle into her further. (My boyfriend definitely […]

By Cinzi Lavin

It was heartbreaking to know that some people didn’t feel safe or comfortable to walk with their hands joined when that was a privilege I had never even questioned having.

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By Evanthia George

The light sparkled in Luna’s hair as she stomped in puddles with her tattered pink Converse sneakers. Her eyes were so bright, so happy as I suddenly cupped her cheek and kissed her in the m […]

By Jennifer Steil

After a tumultuous year, he decided he couldn’t stay with me because I might leave him for a woman. “But I might leave you for a man,” I pointed out. “Or just because you’re narrow-mi […]

By Jennifer Steil

After a tumultuous year, he decided he couldn’t stay with me because I might leave him for a woman. “But I might leave you for a man,” I pointed out. “Or just because you’re narrow-mi […]

By Shawn Jackson

I’m a bisexual black man with African and American heritage. I am free to be part of anything that raises my spirit as it raises the spirits of others.

The post Black and Bi: From Struggle to S […]

By David Osmundsen

All that time, we held hands. Sometimes, we shared a tiny kiss.

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AIDS nostalgia fuels Better Davis and Other Stories. This is not to mean a sentimental longing for the return of a time when the epidemic cusped in the early 80s, but rather a writer’s skillful reconstruction of t […]

By Mitchell Anderson

Back then, if you were gay in show business, you were pretty much told to shut up about it. “Live your life,” they would say. “Just don’t make a big deal out of it.”

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By Wynward Oliver

When Jesús announced he’d invited Christopher Isherwood’s longtime lover, Don Bachardy, over for dinner, he acted as if he was daring me not to know my gay history.

The post Jesús and I and I […]

By Dale Boyer

Even as I admired the portraits of tortured people pursuing unattainable objects, I also found myself on a different plain of understanding about the foolishness of such pursuits.

The post On Again […]

By Richard Schneider

From The G&LR’s BTW column in its Holiday Issue (Nov-Dec).

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By Lynn Sally

But there is something significant about this moment, something that deserves telling. For here was a young person looking for inspiration not in unattainable beautify ideals, not in mainstream […]

By Stephen Fox

When I came out in the mid-1960s, gay people were closeted, and drag was an underground art.

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By Meredith Indermaur

I listened to and learned from LGBTQ people, starting with my own kid. I got connected to other Christian moms of LGBT children. And I prayed – oh, how I prayed. This was a true labor of l […]

By David Masello
I have long wanted to live with a split pomegranate or raw oyster on the half shell, even a partially peeled lemon, whose rind corkscrews about the stem of a goblet of wine. I now live instead […]

By Tom Williams
During those nine months, I honestly never thought of HIV. Was I kidding myself? I obviously was. It didn’t occur to the doctors either. They didn’t know I was gay.

The post A Life Behind the HIV […]