GLR July-August 2025

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FEATURES	10
“We have seen dark times before.”	10
Nine Lessons from Weimar Germany	13
Queer Life in Postwar Germany	16
The Lavender Scare and Its Echoes	19
Making Sense of the Trans Right	22
Banning Books Is Back in Fashion	26
REVIEWS	31
Larry Carver—Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure	31
Simon Goldhill —Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History	33
Mary Frances Phillips—Black Panther Woman	34
Amy J. Elias, editor —Speculative Light	36
Kevin Brown — Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance	37
Alison Bechdel —Spent: A Comic Novel	38
Bruce Vilanch —It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time	40
BRIEFS	41
Daniel Kane, editor —Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard	42
Kaila Adia Story —The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf	43
Bruce P. Spang —River Crossed	43
Prabal Gurung —Walk Like a Girl: A Memoir	44
Rebecca L. Davis—Fierce Desires	45
Five Films	48
Roshan Sethi, director —A Nice Indian Boy	50
POEMS & DEPARTMENTS	5
GUEST OPINION — On the Power of Books in Perilous Times	5
CORRESPONDENCE	6
BTW	8
POEM — “Song of Sappho”	24
TRAVEL MEMO—The View from Scandinavia	28
ART MEMO — James Le Baron Boyle: Camping It Up on Campus	30
POEM — “Underwear Nostalgia”	32
POEM — “My Husband”	39
CULTURAL CALENDAR	46
ART MEMO—March Laumer, a Gayer Oz	47
POEM — “Neither Here Nor There”	49

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