GLR January-February 2025

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS4
FROM THE EDITOR — Now Is the Winter...: ‘Strange Fruit’4
GUEST OPINION — Election Aftermath: Silver Linings5
CORRESPONDENCE6
IN MEMORIAM — Three Who Made a Difference Remembered8
BTW10
POEM — “Closet Space”18
HISTORY MEMO — Alice Morgan Wright: Suffragist, Sculptor26
POEM — “I Watch the Porn Stars”43
CULTURAL CALENDAR44
POEM — “Mary Jo and Sappho”47
ART MEMO — Why Did a Classic Novel Disappear?49
FEATURES12
Sodomy at the Court of Louis XIV12
Bottom-Shamed by Mark Twain15
Rise and Fall of the “Pansy Craze”19
A Novel froma Darkening Time22
Momentos of Desire24
Consider the Common Cockchafer28
REVIEWS31
R. Tripp Evans — The Importance of Being Furnished31
Mickalene Thomas — Mickalene Thomas: All About Love32
David Evans Frantz, et al. — Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects33
BRIEFS34
Cait McKinney — I Know You Are, But What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman35
Will Tosh — Straight Acting36
Colm Tóibín — On James Baldwin37
Allen Bratton — Henry Henry38
Alan Contreras — The Gay Imagination38
Mikkya Hargrove — Mama39
Joy Ladin — Family: Poems and Once Out of Nature40
Oliver Radclyffe — Frighten the Horses41
Thomas Grattan — In Tongues42
Milo Todd — The Lilac People42
James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance (exhibition)45
Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody; To My Friends at Horn (exhibitions)46
Andrea Arnold, writer-director —Bird48
Brian Jordan Alvarez, creator — English Teacher50

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