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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 […]

Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement By Wendy Rouse When I began researching the book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people warned me that I w […]

The Sum of My Parts By Oliver Radclyffe But even if I had still been closeted, I knew it would be almost impossible to form a cohesive narrative from the confusing evidence […]

When You’re An Outlier By Michael Varga I want to complain about being an outlier, but the minute I begin to form the words, I catch myself. You see, I have been an outlier […]

The Porousness of Queerness Julian Carter in conversation with Jonathan David Katz about Carter’s new book, Dances of Time and Tenderness, published June 2024. The post The Porousness of Queerness appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

An Ode to My In-laws By Cory Allen Three years ago, if you told me that my husband and I would wed in front of our parents, nervously awaiting the birth of our […]

Trey’s Fifteen Minutes   Meet Trey Samuel Fetzer, a twenty-year-old Ohio State University student who’s seen here urinating on a rainbow flag that apparently he spotted on so […]

In Our Mailbox   There could be any number of reasons for us to display this cover of The New York Review of Books from May 9, 2024, one of which is slightly […]

Queering the Ballet: A Review By Irene Javors The exhibit specifically focuses on five of Robert Owen Lehman’s musical manuscripts that are at the very heart of the story of the B […]

Consorting with the Enemy By Mike Coleman In the 1980s, when I came out and bought a home with my then-partner and now-husband, my sister mailed a Jehovah’s Witnesses pamphlet to m […]

Indies in P’town Movie Review By Richard Schneider Merchant Ivory turned it into a film starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby in 1987. Soucy stresses the boldness of this […]

Indies in P’town Movie Review By Richard Schneider As the presence of Alan Cumming might suggest, Mad About the Boy doesn’t hold back on Coward’s gayness and treats his dou […]