GLR July-August 2023

Exhibitions 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted a Culture (Rocky Rog gio) Docu. shows how the Revised Standard Version deliberately introduced a false, anti-gay translation that’s still with us today. OurSon (Bill Oliver) Drama stars Billy Porter as half of a gay cou ple that’s going through a nasty divorce, including a battle for cus tody of their precocious 8-year-old son. Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (Stephen Kijak) Docu. offers an intimate portrait of the Hollywood “ladies man” who shocked the world when he died of AIDS in 1985. You Can Live Forever (Mark Slutsky & Sarah Watts) Drama fol lows a lesbian teenager who’s sent to live in a Jehovah’s Witness community, where she falls in love with a devout Witness girl. Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild! The Kinsey Sicks bring their trash-talking political parodies back in an acappella musical com edy. At the NCTC in San Francisco, July 5–16. Dear Mom, I’m Gay! The Musical A young man from Michigan heads to NYC to study fashion and goes home for Thanksgiving with a whole new identity. At the Chain Theatre, NYC, July 14–23. The Fantasticks Musical The classic show is reimagined as the story of Matt and Luis (not Luisa), whose mothers (not fathers) are plotting to bring them together. At the P’town Theater in Province town, MA, July 10–Aug. 31. Gaylarious Off-Broadway LGBT comedy festival features come dians from across the USA. At the Broadway Comedy Club in Man hattan thru Dec. 31st. Theater / Dance Patric McCoy: Take My Picture Features 50 striking photographs of gay Black men on the streets of Chicago in the 1980s. At the Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago thru July 15th. I Love You Like Mirrors Do Intimate photos by Coyote Park in spired by other works in the host museum’s collection. At the Leslie Lohman in NYC thru July 30th. Under Cover: J. C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity A treasury of the fashion illustrator’s men. At the NY Historical Soci ety in Manhattan thru Aug. 13th. Reviewed in the May-June issue . Rewind: History on Repeat Spotlights the Black LGBTQ +experi ence in America with collages by Beau McCall, among other artists. At the Ross Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale thru Sept. 8th. Warhol “A Life in Pop” features 200+ original Warhol works and more than 150 of his polaroids. At the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn, IL, thru Sept. 10th. De-Coded: Surviving the Law as a Sexual Deviant The lives of LGBT people in Chicago prior to Illinois’ decriminalization of sodomy in 1961. At the Gerbert/Hart Library in Chicago. C ALL FOR S UBMISSIONS – T HE G&LR The Gay & Lesbian Review accepts unsolicited manuscripts and proposals on all LGBT-related topics. Especially sought are pro posals on the following themes for issues in development: • Bursting the Closet: Artists who tested the limits of their time • The Travel Issue: The role of travel in LGBT culture • LGBT Science: New research on gender & sexual orientation Please e-mail your proposal to: richard.schneider@GLReview.org

Cultural Calendar

Readers are invited to submit items at no charge. Must have rele vance for a North American readership. Allow six weeks’lead time for any listing. E-mail: stephen.hemrick@GLReview.org

Festivals and Events

F ILM F ESTIVALS Los Angeles, CA Outfest. July 13–24.

Providence, RI International Film Fest. Aug 7–13. Durham,NC Out South Queer Film Fest. Aug 10–13. Vancouver, BC Queer Film Fest. Aug 10–20. Birmingham, AL SHOUT Gay & Lesbian Film Fest. Aug 21–27. Austin,TX Prism Film Fest. Aug 22–27. New York, NY East Village Queer Film Fest. Aug 24–26. E VENTS GCLS Annual Conf. Golden Crown Literary Society event for au thors, editors, readers. “Pursue your passion” is the theme in Den ver, CO, June 28–July 2. goldencrownliterarysociety.org. RiseUp! A free and online conf. for queer and trans youth organ izers, July 17–22. For info and to sign up: smyal.org/rise-up. FlameCon A two-day expo on comics, arts, and entertainment celebrating LGBTQ geek fandom, with discussions, performances, screenings, and more! In NYC, Aug 12–13 More at flamecon.org. NLGJA Annual Conf. National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Assoc. Professionals in all media will convene in Philadelphia, Sept. 7–10. For more info, visit: nlgja.org/2023. Feature Films All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Directed by Laura Poitras) Documentary follows photographer Nan Goldin on her personal crusade to expose the Sackler family for getting America hooked on opioids. Reviewed in this issue. The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani) Moroccan drama (in French) about a middle-aged tailor and his wife, whose relationship is turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome apprentice. BlueJean (Georgia Oakley) Drama set in Thatcher’s England as a law banning gay teachers is poised to pass, and a lesbian gym teacher is threatened with exposure and ruin. Eileen (William Oldroyd) Drama based on a 2015 novel about a Har vard-educated prison psychologist who befriends a depressed co worker at the facility, where things take a sinister turn. Eismayer (David Wagner) Drama whose title character is the most feared trainer in the Austrian Army but is secretly gay, who falls in love with a young, out soldier. Based on real events. Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (Sam Shahid) Docu. about the photographer best known for his celebrity and fash ion photos, whose secret passion was photographing male nudes. Joyland (Saim Sadiq) Drama finds a yound man from a traditional Pakistani family taking a job as a dancer in a Bollywood-style bur lesque and falling for the transwoman who runs the show. Nelly & Nadine (Magnus Gertten) Docu. on two women who fell in love in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in late 1944, survived, and kept their relationship secret for years.

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