GLR January-February 2026

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS5
FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR4
IN MEMORIAM — Remembering a Few Who Made a Difference5
CORRESPONDENCE6
BTW8
ART MEMO — Cruising with Boyd McDonald20
POEM — “Love Song Containing a Diminutive European Deer”28
HISTORY MEMO — Herschel Grynszpan, Scapegoat for Kristallnacht29
POEM — “DreamBoy”32
POEM — “Prayer”40
ARTIST’S PROFILE — Portraitist Don Bachardy Tells All44
CULTURAL CALENDAR47
ART MEMO — The Other “F Word” Takes the Stage48
FEATURES10
The Power of the Foot10
When BDSM Went Mainstream13
Tumblr Was a Gateway to Kink15
Reclaiming the Sacred Dungeon18
Farmers Are Us, Too22
Magnus Hirschfeld’s Moment25
20 Landed in the Cuckoo’s Nest30
REVIEWS33
Margaret A. Brucia — The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life33
Adriano Pedrosa & André Mesquita, eds. — Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough34
Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang — Unlocking the Red Closet35
BRIEFS36
Jim Wilke — Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car38
Gerrie Schipske — The Long Beach Gay Trials39
Bryan Washington — Palaver: A Novel39
Lana Lin — The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam40
Sam Wachman — The Sunflower Boys: A Novel41
Neil Blackmore — Objects of Desire42
Agustín Fuentes — Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary42
Adriano Pedrosa and Guilherme Giufrida, eds. — Catherine Opie43
Elain Sexton — Site Specific; Liza Flum — Hover44
Pernille Ipsen — My Seven Mothers46
Benito Skinner, creator — Overcompensating (television series)49
Oliver Hermanus, director — The History of Sound (film)50

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