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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 […]

Indies in P’town Movie Review By Richard Schneider Sebastian is a film of dualities. The title refers to the assumed identity of Max, a successful short story writer who’s t […]

Indies in P’town Movie Review By Richard Schneider Filmed in Provincetown, High Tide evoked cries of recognition from the PIFF audience, which was primed to love this […]

Where Families Live By David Masello In Stephen McCauley’s eighth novel, You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, the main figure, Tom, is a suddenly-single gay architect liv […]

Coming Out On (and Off) the Field By Jonah Newman I craved my teammates’ acceptance and respect, and it couldn’t have been clearer that these would never be extended to anyone other than a c […]

Anti-Memoir, Anti-Me By Kawika Guillermo Punk poetics is a form of musically-infused writing shaped by queer and trans authors like Patti Smith, Kathy Acker, Kai Cheng Thom. […]