GLR January-February 2023

The Gay & Lesbian Review January–February 2023 • VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 1 WORLDWIDE

Editor-in-Chief and Founder R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118

C ONTENTS

Larger Than Life

Literary Editor M ARTHA E. S TONE Poetry Editor D AVID B ERGMAN Associate Editors S AM D APANAS P AUL F ALLON J EREMY F OX M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ Contributing Writers R OSEMARY B OOTH D ANIEL A. B URR C OLIN C ARMAN A LFRED C ORN A LLEN E LLENZWEIG C HRIS F REEMAN P HILIP G AMBONE M ATTHEW H AYS A NDREW H OLLERAN I RENE J AVORS J OHN R. K ILLACKY C ASSANDRA L ANGER A NDREW L EAR D AVID M ASELLO

F EATURES

Bright Lights That Dimmed Last Year 10 M ARTHA E. S TONE

Our annual tribute to some LGBT people who made a difference

Urvashi Vaid, Creator of Change 15 R ICHARD B URNS

Farewell to a firebrand with a genius for organizing (and cooking)

Richard Howard’s Threatening Poetry 17 D AVID B ERGMAN

It can be difficult, it can be disorienting, but it’s always insatiable

The Capriccios of Jimmy Wright 20 W ES H ARTLEY

His paintings of the ’70s cruising scene now hang at the Whitney

Dora & Lytton & Ralph & Frances 25 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Bloomsbury 2.0 surpassed the sexual adventurism of the original

Men Dress for Each Other 28 S TEVEN F. D ANSKY

Homoerotic undercurrents in men’s fashion on display in London

R EVIEWS

Michael Rosenfeld, editor — The Italian Invert 33 P HILIP G AMBONE Leonard Barkan — Reading Shakespeare Reading Me 34 J OHN S. G ARRISON Michael Snyder — James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Wirter 36 L OOI VAN K ESSEL Anthony Christian Ocampo — Brown and Gay in LA 37 V ERNON R OSARIO Noël Valis — Lorca After Life 39 A LAN C ONTRERAS Jack Fritscher — Profiles in Gay Courage: Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas 40 H ANK T ROUT Lonneke Geerlings — I Lay This Body Down 41 A NNE C HARLES B RIEFS 42 Caio Fernando Abreu — Moldy Strawberries 44 G IANCARLO L ATTA Granand — Berlin Garden of Erotic Delights 45 M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ Adam McOmber — Hound of the Baskervilles: An Erotic Tale 45 P ETER M UISE Taymour Soomro — Other Names for Love 46 D ALE B OYER

F ELICE P ICANO J AMES P OLCHIN J EAN R OBERTA V ERNON R OSARIO Contributing Artist C HARLES H EFLING Publisher S TEPHEN H EMRICK Webmaster B OSTON W EB G ROUP Web Editor K ELSEY M YERS ____________________________________ Board of Directors

Marcel Proust; translated by Lucy Raitz — Swann in Love 47 R ICHARD M. B ERRONG Terry Guest, playwright — The Magnolia Ballet, Part I 49 B RIDGETTE M. R EDMAN Nicholas Stoller, director; Billy Eichner, writer — Bros 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS

A RT C OHEN ( CHAIR ) E DUARDO F EBLES D ONALD G ORTON ( CLERK )

G UEST O PINION — Coming to Terms with the “Gay Holocaust” 5 W. J AKE N EWSOME H ISTORY M EMO — Taking Stock as The G&LR Turns 30 6 J OHN R. K ILLACKY BTW 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . P OEM — “Fixer Upper” 18 M ICHAEL M ONTLACK A UTHOR ’ S P ROFILE – Marshall Moore, Expat Writer with Southern Roots 24 T REBOR H EALEY H ISTORY M EMO — How Italy’s Anti-Mask Law Was Weaponized 32 A MANDA M ADIGAN P OEM — “His Eyes” 38 M ARK E VAN C HIMSKY P OEM — “Something Sweet” 41 A MY S PADE C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 48

R OBERT H ARDMAN D AVID L A F ONTAINE A NDREW L EAR R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) M ARTHA E. S TONE T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER ) S TEWART C LIFFORD (C HAIR EMER .) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

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