July - August 2010, Volume 17, Issue 4
This web site archives the Table of Contents for recent printed copies of the Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine and has samplings of interesting articles from past and recent issues. You can subscribe online to receive the G&LR magazine bimonthly in the mail and view premium articles online. Each issue includes about a dozen essays and a larger number of book and other reviews, plus a smattering of poetry.
The People I Met, Mostly in Cities
By Philip Gambone
BETWEEN THE SUMMERS of 2007 and 2009, I traveled the country
interviewing a diverse group of prominent, interesting, and accomplished
gay Americans. Out of those interviews—102 in all—came a book, Travels
in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ American...
Finding Myself in Antarctica
By Lucy Jane Bledsoe
I’M ON A SHIP, a small one built for the rigors of icy seas, not for
transporting people comfortably, and so as it rocks and rolls, dips and
surges, so does my stomach. ...
Eventually we get to our destination, where I’m unloaded with the rest
of the cargo and a few other people. Here I am, at a station in
Antarctica where I’ll be living for a couple of months with a group of
scientists and their support staffs. ...
Can the Gays Save Travel Writing?
Features
The People I Met, Mostly in Cities
by Philip Gambone
Talks with gay and lesbian writers and artists across the USA
Finding Myself in Antarctica
by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Isolated with strangers, learning to come out all over again
Proust’s Way Home
by Jeffrey Round
Visiting his Paris homes and haunts brings the writer back to life
In Bogotá, Freedom Is in the Ghetto
by Jairo Ordóñez
Gay life in Colombia is paradoxically exuberant and insular
Booking Through the Gay Mideast
by Michael Luongo
Testing the limits of tolerance while on tour with a gay book
Can the Gays Save Travel Writing?
by Raphael Kadushin
The genre has fallen on hard times; novel perspectives needed!
What Makes It “Lesbian”?
by Gillian Kendall
An editor confronts the ambiguities of sex and gender identity
The Unqueering of As You Like It
by Ryan Tracy
A recent production by Sam Mendes suppresses the gay subtexts
Recent Popular Articles on GLReview.com
Brief History of a Recurring Nightmare
Josephine Baker's Hungry Heart
Et tu, Brute?
Reviews
Nicholas Haslam — Redeeming Features: A Memoir
by Andrew Holleran
Susan Sellers — Vanessa and Virginia
by Lillian Faderman
David McConnell — The Silver Hearted
by Gaelan Lee Benway
Elisa Glick — Materializing Queer Desire
by Richard Canning
Leo Bersani — Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
by Daniel A. Burr
Drewey Wayne Gunn, editor — The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
by Jim Nawrocki
Richard Schickel and George Perry — Bette Davis: Larger than Life
by Cassandra Langer
Michael E. Hattersley — Socrates and Jesus
by Charles Green
Robin Antalek — The Summer We Fell Apart: A Novel
by Terri Schlichenmeyer
Michael P. Bibler — Cotton’s Queer Relations
by Richard M. Berrong
David A. B. Murray — Homophobias
by Brian Stachowiak
Tony Scherman and David Dalton — Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
by Martha E. Stone
Briefs
Alexi Kaye Campbell – The Pride; Jon Marans – The Temperamentals
by Allen Ellenzweig
Lady Gaga — The Fame and The Fame Monster
by Colin Carman
Poems & Departments
Guest Opinion — On the Origins and Meaning of “Gay Pride”
by Don Gorton
Guest Opinion — Following the Letter of God’s Law
by Anonymous
Correspondence
BTW
Poem — “Something Else You Will Never Know About Me”
by Joy Ladin
Poem — “How Many Sexual Partners Have You Had?”
by Reginald Harris
Poem — “Passing”
by Donnie Gatto
Poem — “Ein Schönes War”
by Dante Micheaux
Art Memo — How Whitman Seduced Us with a Photograph
by Jeff Solomon
Artist’s Profile — Jon Marans Launches The Temperamentals
by Robin Goldfin
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