The opera “Fellow Travelers” was recently featured in an essay on The G&LR website, and now the tenth anniversary tour is highlighted in a video featuring LGBT rights advocates and military veterans Margarethe Cammermeyer and Steve Marose.
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An image of Gustave Courbet's painting "The Sleepers," which depicts two nude women embracing in a bed.
For Lesbian Visibility Week (April 20-26), The G&LR is sharing articles from the archives on women-loving-women. Today we have “The Sappho Craze,” Cassandra Langer’s review of “Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-siècle France.”
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The cover of a 1951 paperback edition of Radclyffe Hall’s "The Well of Loneliness."
For Lesbian Visibility Week (April 20-26), The G&LR is sharing articles from the archives on women-loving-women. Today we have Diana Souhami’s essay on Radclyffe Hall’s influential novel “The Well of Loneliness,” which notes Virginia Woolf found the book unreadable.
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Majid Parsa, a gay man who grew up in Iran, writes about his homeland for The G&LR.
“Iran is one of the few countries where homosexuality is punishable by death...but my relationship with the country, its people, traditions, and religion, is more complicated than that.”
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A painting depicts two women in a small boat on a pond among waterfowl.
For Lesbian Visibility Week (April 20-26), The G&LR is sharing articles on influential women-loving-women. We’re starting with Tirza Latimer’s “The First Lesbian Image-Makers,” which examines “the visual codes that made lesbians of an earlier era socially legible.”
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The G&LR is back on the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast. Join Eric L. Tribunella and @jeremycfox.bsky.social for a fascinating conversation with host Andrew Rimby.
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Still thinking about “Heated Rivalry”? Have you considered how it fits into the landscape of LGBTQ storytelling? Benny Lev has given it a lot of thought, and he’s written an essay called “‘Heated Rivalry’ and the Queer Estate,” online now on The G&LR blog.
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Photos of filmmaker Barbara Hammer
Tomorrow at @wickedqueer.boston The G&LR is co-presenting “Barbara Forever,” a doc about filmmaker Barbara Hammer. See it at The Museum of Fine Arts at 2 p.m., and read Cassandra Langer’s interview with Hammer from The G&LR archives.
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Press Pass Q has published a new article on the transition at The G&LR, quoting Managing Editor @jeremycfox.bsky.social about his dedication to keeping the magazine in print. “Picking up a magazine and looking through it is a more enriching experience,” Fox said.
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A still image from the documentary "Jaripeo"
Tonight at @wickedqueer.boston The G&LR is co-presenting “Jaripeo,” a documentary on Mexican rodeos & their culture of machismo. See it at The Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m., and read Patricia Nell Warren’s article on rodeo culture from The G&LR
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A social media prompt showing a photo of a couple in 2018 and the same couple more recently.
Today The G&LR is participating in International Transgender Day of Visibility with a new personal essay from @emory-yvr.bsky.social about how it feels to grow older in trans body and to envision yourself becoming an elder in the community.
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Caricature of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Today the @bayareareporter.bsky.social has a story about honoring Revolutionary War general Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. At The G&LR this reminded us of Nicholas Sheppard’s essay on von Steuben in our pages. Read both at the links below.
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You may have read Albert Camus’ The Stranger in high school, but did you ever ask yourself, “What if Meursault were queer?” French filmmaker François Ozon did, and he spoke about his homoerotic new adaptation of the classic novel with Brandon Judell.
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Three pairs of feet poking out from the blankets on a hotel bed.
“I’d never been in a threesome. I suppose it’s been a fantasy. Still I wasn’t actively seeking a ménage à trois. Saying it in French makes it sound so cultured; a little something to sandwich between brushing up on Degas and reading Voltaire,” Gregory Walters writes.
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“I grew up learning from an early age that I was not like the others. I didn’t have the words for it then, but I felt it everywhere: in classrooms, on the streets, inside my own home.” The latest post on The G&LR blog explores the experience of a trans woman in Kashmir.
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The cover of the book "Provincetown Stories" by Russ López.
The @bayareareporter.bsky.social has an interview with past G&LR contributor @russlopez.bsky.social about his new book, Provincetown Stories. Check out the interview and look for a review of the book in our forthcoming May-June issue.
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In the latest Here’s My Story essay on The G&LR’s website, writer Ash Perez discusses the importance of making art in times when a personal creative vision can feel unappreciated.
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Want to know more about The G&LR’s Kink Issue? Our managing editor, @jeremycfox.bsky.social, and contributors Casper Byrne and Sergio Interdonato talked with host Andrew David Rimby on the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast. Listen:
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If you’re in the Boston area, pick up the March-April issue of Boston Spirit magazine and turn to page 46 for their article on the ongoing transition at The G&LR. Our thanks go to editor-in-chief Rob Phelps and the magazine for their coverage.
On the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, journalist Finbarr Toesland files a dispatch from Kyiv for The G&LR’s blog, writing that “Members of Kyiv’s queer community are working to keep creativity alive as their city undergoes seismic changes.”
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The cover of The G&LR's March-April issue on "Victorian Times."
The G&LR’s March-April issue, "Victorian Times," delves into early expressions of queer identity through 19th-century literature, with articles exploring classics like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Count of Monte Cristo. conta.cc/4kHvqJm
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The recent RI shooter was a transgender neo-Nazi, so I'm resharing the preview of my forthcoming @uchicagopress.bsky.social book on this surprisingly common topic. The @glreview.bsky.social piece explores Buck Angel’s transition from progressive darling to MAGA acolyte glreview.org/article/maki...
A view of the Montmartre section of Paris.
"I felt a little sad knowing something that had sustained us for years was finished, but I sensed that he was being prepared for something more significant." Michael Varga recalls a lover whose life took a dramatic turn in a "Here's My Story" essay on The G&LR's website.
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For Valentine’s Day, a special blog post on The G&LR’s website from Randal C. Smith, who writes: “What matters isn’t whether love lasts forever. What matters is whether, when confronted with truth, you still say yes.”
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“Watching 'West Side Story' on television one night in color, movement, music, and lyrics, I discovered that true love could be at once gloriously stirring and ultimately doomed,” Scott Holleran writes in a personal essay for The G&LR's website.
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Director Kevin Newbury reflects on a decade of the opera Fellow Travelers, based on Thomas Mallon’s novel; the state of LGBT rights; and the new Lavender Names Project in a new Here’s My Story essay for The G&LR.
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An image from circa 500 BCE depicting Achilles dressing Patroklos' wounds.
“Before we call Achilles and Patroklos ‘gay lovers,’ we must examine both the Greek language of love and the dangers of retroactively imposing modern categories,” Asa Williams writes in our latest blog essay.
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Did you know that 50 years ago Minneapolis was the first US city to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that included trans people? Read Kate Sosin’s article at The 19th, and check out Jamie Valentino’s dispatch from Minneapolis at The G&LR
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The Sydney Morning Herald has reviewed the latest book by longtime G&LR contributor Dennis Altman. Read the review and check out some of Altman’s contributions to The G&LR below.
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to mark the occasion here are two recent articles from The G&LR about this historical tragedy and the resilience of LGBT and Jewish people amid the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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