Stephen Hemrick – Gay & Lesbian Review

Through an Empty Mirror By David R. Slayton Genre fiction, and adult fantasy especially, has long been the territory of straight, white cisgender men. There are cracks in that wall […]

Minnie Bruce Pratt Changed My Life By Risa Denenberg Minnie Bruce Pratt—cherished poet, teacher, and activist in the LGBTQ+ community—died on July 2. I learned about it on Facebook, and fou […]

Coming Out Queer & the Daughter of a Spy By Leslie Absher I knew intuitively not to talk about the fact that I preferred girls to boys. But when I was called a “lezzie” by a boy on the school bus […]

An Eye for an Anus By Richard Schneider Some citizens of Palm Springs, CA, are fighting a proposed sculpture that’s part of an AIDS memorial and that may or may not look l […]

The First Kiss That Counted By Ben Haynes Nick and I were on friendly terms, but we never took the time to get to know each other. I dated an ex-girlfriend of his immediately after the […]

Find the Fit By Richard Schneider Let’s say you’re a conservative activist whose idée fixe it is to fight “transgenderism” in public schools, and you want to do somethin […]

Gay By Design By Karen Raines I was watching TV the other day someone in the show I was watching asked, “If you met your eighteen-year-old self and could only say three w […]

Last Dance: Reflections on Fire Island After Fifty Years By Geoff Holter After the first tea dance, and probably too many cocktails, I wandered down the boardwalk to the famous—or infamous, if you like—hook-up spa […]

Mars & Me By Gabe Montesanti There was something familiar about him: his charisma and smile. I learned that he also did drag, and he handed me his phone to scroll […]

Queers in Class By Lori Horvitz A handful of students claimed homosexuality was not natural; others said they’d think about killing themselves if they had the virus. At t […]

Gay Pride: Body, Mind, and Spirit By Anne Ierardi A year later, psychologist and grandmother Buffy Dunker spoke at Gay Pride from the same stage, exhorting us to leave the moth balls behind […]

Pride and Acceptance in San Francisco By Matthew Bamberg San Francisco’s epidemic tidal wave began just a few short years before Dianne Feinstein heard gunshots in San Francisco’s City Hall, and […]

Teaching History and Being Part of It By Chay Lemoine He asked, “what’s Stonewall?” and I realized that was a teaching moment. The post Teaching History and Being Part of It appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

Mama’s Boy: A Brief Review By Stephen Warren As inspiring as it is informative, Mama’s Boy, streaming now on Max, made me cry more tears—happy and sad—than any film in years […]

Coming Out as a Cop By Cory Allen Working in such a hyper-masculine career field, for an agency where the Sheriff could fire you for any reason, added to the anxiety and fear […]

Framing Agnes: A Brief Review By Stephen Warren The six characters and the actors who play them are humanized to some extent, but there’s too little time to get to know them. Still, if F […]

About Time: Coming Out As A Journalist on National TV By Garrett Glaser I never brought up the subject of an on-air disclosure to NBC, so station executives had nothing to prohibit. I always figured it was […]

On Making “Women’s Music” as a Non-Binary Lesbian By Olive Klug I love being non-binary and I love my community, but there are times when the explicit exclusion of non-binary and trans people from […]

Dykes to Watch Out For, 40 Years Later By Martha K. Davis This year, the 40th anniversary of the appearance of DTWOF, another incarnation of Bechdel’s work is available on Audible: a t […]

Am I Gay? By Melissa Giberson But my journey to figuring out who I was, looking back from the other side of the threshold I unintentionally breached, officially began […]