GLR July-August 2022
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FEATURES
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A New England Romance Harvard prof F.O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney in love
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Sex and Gender in Native America The term “Two-Spirit” belies a plethora of variations on a theme
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Paul Cadmus’ Art of Cruising The Fleet’s In! set the stage for those raucus free-for-alls
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The Sea and Sexual Freedom From Typee to Billy Budd, Melville longed for something lost at sea
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“A Dab of Tar on a Sailor’s Posteriors” — From an 1842 trial that delved into the secret lives of sailors
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The Fastest Woman of Her Day Joe Carstairs raced speedboats in the 1920s—and often won
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REVIEWS
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James R. Gaines — The Fifties: An Underground History
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Michal Witkowski — Eleven-Inch
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Susan McCabe — H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism
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Morgan Thomas —Manywhere: Stories
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Charles J. Shields — Lorraine Hansberry
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James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
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Ulrich Baer, ed. — My Own Dear Darling Boy: The Letters of Oscar Wilde...
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BRIEFS
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Putsata Reang — Ma and Me: A Memoir
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Toni Mirosevich — Spell Heaven and Other Stories
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José Carregal — Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices in Irish Fiction
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Shola von Reinhold — Lote
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Terence Davies, director —Benediction
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Peeter Rebane, director —Firebird
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POEMS & DEPARTMENTS
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FROM THE EDITOR
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GUEST OPINION — “Don’t Say Gay” Comes from a Tired Playbook
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CORRESPONDENCE
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IN MEMORIAM — Steve Neil Johnson, A Weaver of Mysteries
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BTW
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POEM — “Sonnet for This Queer Body”
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ART MEMO — Hemingway and Hart Crane: Blood Brothers?
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POEM — “Sheilah Graham and Me (Age 14)”
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ART MEMO — Welcome to the ’70s!
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CULTURAL CALENDAR
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ARTIST’S PROFILE — José Villalobos, Installation & Performance Artist
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POEM — “Moses Parts the Red Sea”
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