GLR July-August 2024

The Gay & Lesbian Review July–August 2024 • VOLUME XXXI, 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

Sanctuary

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 NNE C HARLES A LFRED C ORN A LLEN E LLENZWEIG C HRIS F REEMAN P HILIP G AMBONE M ATTHEW H AYS H ILARY H OLLADAY A NDREW H OLLERAN I RENE J AVORS J OHN R. K ILLACKY C ASSANDRA L ANGER

F EATURES

“Everybody Was Somebody There” 10 A LFRED C ORN

Was the Factory a haven or a stage for Warhol’s pop culture parody?

Tuckernuck May Call You 16 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

On an island off Nantucket in the 1870s, there arose a gay oasis

Find Your Muse Here 20 A NNE C HARLES

The Pagoda was a lesbian art colony in Florida from 1977 to ’99

Safety on Trial in San Antonio 23 L UCAS B ELURY

The SA Country was an LGBT bar that got raided once too often

The Double Life of Albee’s Woolf 26 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG

That rumor about George & Martha started with anti-gay critics

Almost Famous 29 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Guy Trebay was the Zelig of NYC’s hip art scenes in the ’70s

R E V I E W S

Whitney Strub, ed. — Queer Newark 33 J OHN D’E MILIO David Wojnarowicz — Dear Jean Pierre 34 S HANE B UTLER

A NDREW L EAR 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 WebEditor A LLISON A RMIJO ______________________________ Board of Directors

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS C ORRESPONDENCE 4 I N M EMORIAM — Christopher Durang, Satirist of Everything Holy 6 J ORDAN S CHILDCROUT BTW 9 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . P OEM — “A Passionate Connection to the Natural World” 22 M ARY M ERIAM A UTHOR ’ S P ROFILE — Poet Sjohnna McCray Left Us Rapture 32 L ESLIE A BSHER A UTHOR ’ S P ROFILE — Keith Haring in the Hands of Brad Gooch 36 C LAUDE P ECK P OEM — “White Gorilla” 45 M ICHAEL C HANG A RT M EMO — Allen Barnett Was Everywhere, But Not for Long 46 W ALTER H OLLAND C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 47 A RT M EMO — What a Queer Institution Was the Castrati 48 L EE L ANZILOTTA Carvell Wallace — Another Word for Love: A Memoir 35 R OSEMARY B OOTH JadAdams— Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives 38 F ELICE P ICANO Reginald Shepherd — The Selected Shepherd: Poems 39 R EGINALD H ARRIS B RIEFS 40 Guillaume Dustan — Nicolas Pages 42 A LLISON A RMIJO José Luis Serrano — The Worst Thing of All Is the Light 43 H ANK T ROUT Jonathan D. Katz — About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art 43 J OHN R. K ILLACKY June Thomas — A Place of Our Own 44 A NNE L AUGHLIN Madonna’s Celebration Tour . Mary Gabriel — Madonna: A Rebel Life 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

A RT C OHEN ( CHAIR ) E DUARDO F EBLES R OBERT H ARDMAN S TEPHEN H EMRICK H ILARY H OLLADAY D AVID L A F ONTAINE J IM J ACOBS A NDREW L EAR

R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER ) S TEWART C LIFFORD (C HAIR EMER .) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

P OEM — “Hot Day” 49 W ILLIE E DWARD T AYLOR C ARVER J R .

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