GLR July-August 2022

The Gay & Lesbian Review July–August 2022 • VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 4 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

The Lure of the Sea

F EATURES

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

A New England Romance 12 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Harvard prof F.O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney in love

Sex and Gender in Native America 15 V ERNON R OSARIO

The term “Two-Spirit” belies a plethora of variations on a theme

Paul Cadmus’ Art of Cruising 18 I GNACIO D ARNAUDE

The Fleet’s In! set the stage for those raucus free-for-alls

The Sea and Sexual Freedom 22 R OLANDO J ORIF

From Typee to Billy Budd , Melville longed for something lost at sea

“A Dab of Tar on a Sailor’s Posteriors” 25 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

— From an 1842 trial that delved into the secret lives of sailors

The Fastest Woman of Her Day 28 M ARTIN D UBERMAN

Joe Carstairs raced speedboats in the 1920s—and often won

R EVIEWS

James R. Gaines — The Fifties: An Underground History 32 H ILARY H OLLADAY Michal Witkowski — Eleven-Inch 34 P HILIP G AMBONE Susan McCabe — H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism 35 C ASSANDRA L ANGER

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

Morgan Thomas — Manywhere: Stories 36 R OSEMARY B OOTH Charles J. Shields — Lorraine Hansberry 37 C HARLES G REEN

James Kirchick – Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington 38 M ARK M ORAN Ulrich Baer, ed. – My Own Dear Darling Boy: The Letters of Oscar Wilde ... 40 J EAN R OBERTA B RIEFS 41 Putsata Reang — Ma and Me: A Memoir 42 M ARTHA E. S TONE Toni Mirosevich — Spell Heaven and Other Stories 42 R UTH J OFFRE José Carregal – Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices in Irish Fiction 43 D ALE B OYER Shola von Reinhold — Lote 44 R EGINALD H ARRIS

Terence Davies, director — Benediction 48 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG Peeter Rebane, director — Firebird 50 B RIAN B ROMBERGER

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS

G UEST O PINION — “Don’t Say Gay” Comes from a Tired Playbook 5 C ASSANDRA L ANGER C ORRESPONDENCE 6 I N M EMORIAM — Steve Neil Johnson, A Weaver of Mysteries 9 J OHN C OOK BTW 10 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . P OEM — “Sonnet for This Queer Body” 17 M ARINA C ARREIRA A RT M EMO — Hemingway and Hart Crane: Blood Brothers? 31 M ARK S HULGASSER P OEM — “Sheilah Graham and Me (Age 14)” 44 J OHN H ARRIS A RT M EMO —Welcome to the ’70s! 45 R AYMOND -J EAN F RONTAIN C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — José Villalobos, Installation & Performance Artist 47 N EIL E LLIS O RTS P OEM — “Moses Parts the Red Sea” 49 R EMI R ECCHIA

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

R OBERT H ARDMAN J AMES H ARRISON 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 ) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

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