Gay & Lesbian Review

The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide (The G&LR) is a magazine published every two months that caters to an informed audience of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals. With the tagline, “a bimonthly journal of history, culture, and politics,” The G&LR features essays across various fields, along with reviews of books, films, and theater performances.

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Queer Rain: Reflections on James Baldwin’s Untitled

2 weeks ago | glreview.org | Stacy Jackson

The book flap of Notas de um filho da terra begins: “James Baldwin nasceu em Nova Iorque, em 1924, no bairro do Harlem, onde cresceu e estudou.” I purchased the European Portuguese translation of Notes of a Native Son on an impulse the day after New Year’s 2025, on my way out of Fnac, a store in Madeira. Shops had just reopened. Madeira is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, an autonomous region of Portugal, closer to the coast of North Africa than mainland Portugal.
Soundscapes of Freedom: Queer Expression Through Dance Music in Lagos, Nigeria

1 month ago | glreview.org | Demi Phillips

In Nigeria, if you’re not straight, you’re not safe. It’s a no-brainer. And while, yes, the rich can afford the luxury of trips to Europe and its many LGBTQ-affirming cities, the reality remains that many queer Nigerians are stuck in a perpetual state of heterosexual cosplay. But their resilience and resistance continues to take many different forms.
Daggers and Pansies in the Jazz AgeThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

1 month ago | glreview.org | Hank Trout

Published in: March-April 2025 issue. CRAZEby Margaret VandenburgJaded Ibis Press. 248 pages, $17.99THE PREFACE to Margaret Vandenburg’s latest novel, Craze, is the opening paragraphs of a 1933 article in the weekly tabloid Broadway Brevities under the headline: “6,000 Crowd Huge Hall as Queer Men and Women Dance at 64th Annual Masquerade.” The article goes on: “Queer people … are increasing. Dances are their big social events. … Most of the ‘women’ in attendance at the orgies are men in disguise.
The Sex Was Out of This WorldThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

1 month ago | glreview.org | Mark Hayward

Published in: March-April 2025 issue. SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.Sexual Science and the Imagi-NationUSC Fisher Museum of ArtJan. 14–March 15, 2025ONE Archives at the USC LibrariesAug. 22–Nov. 23, 2025LOS ANGELES has always been a destination for eccentrics seeking personal transformation. In what other city could a pioneering rocket scientist lead occult rituals, a satanic Hollywood studio secretary publish one of the first lesbian zines, or a communist musicologist forever transform queer identity?
To Boldly Go Homo: An Exhibit Review

1 month ago | glreview.org | Mark Hayward

Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagini-nationAt One Archives at the USC LibrariesAugust 22 – November 23, 2025USC Fisher Museum of ArtJanuary 14, – March 15, 2025Irrefutably, Los Angeles has always been a destination for eccentrics seeking personal transformation. In what other city could a pioneering rocket scientist lead occult rituals, a satanic Hollywood studio secretary publish one of the first lesbian zines, or a communist musicologist forever transform queer identity?
Rise and Fall of the ‘Pansy Craze’

Jan 2, 2025 | glreview.org | Margaret Vandenburg

Published in: January-February 2025 issue. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, New York City was one of several U.S. cities that was in the midst of what has come to be known as the “Pansy Craze”—George Chauncey’s coinage in Gay New York—or what I prefer to call the “Queer Craze.” To be sure, as a cultural phenomenon, the Craze was short-lived. After the Roaring Twenties there followed a backlash not unlike the one that MAGA and alt-right conservatives are mounting against today’s LGBT communities.
Queering Loneliness: A Review of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer

Dec 12, 2024 | glreview.org | Brian Alessandro

QUEERDirected by Luca GuadagninoReleased November 27, 2024Like then novel by William S. Burroughs on which it is based, Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Queer is less about homosexuality than about the agonies and ecstasies of being a soul trapped in an aging, alienated body. Written in the mid-1950s but not released until 1985, Queer is Burroughs’ partial sequel to 1953’s Junkie.
The Closet is My Country

Dec 3, 2024 | glreview.org | Damisola Sulaiman
A Day in Hyderabad’s Flower Market

Nov 14, 2024 | glreview.org | Patruni Sastry

It was 5 AM on a Sunday and I was up early, preparing myself for what would be one of the most unconventional days of my life. I started my day by sipping a cup of tea while applying makeup, multitasking between the warmth of the tea and the cool touch of primer and moisturizer. My partner and child were still deep in sleep, their rhythmic breathing calming my nerves as I painted my face. Normally, drag makeup is a process done later in the day or evening, when the world is awake and bustling.
Who’s Left on the Right?This article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

Nov 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Alan Contreras

Published in: November-December 2024 issue. COMING OUT REPUBLICANA History of the Gay Rightby Neil J. YoungUniv. of Chicago. 441 pages, $30. I WAS A REPUBLICAN, but I never inhaled. I first voted in 1974, a time when many states had significant numbers of conservative Democrats, especially in the South, and also liberal Republicans, anchored in the Northeast but scattered around the country, notably in the libertarian West.