GLR March-April 2023

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS4
FROM THE EDITOR4
CORRESPONDENCE5
IN MEMORIAM — Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay6
ART MEMO — The Warren Cup and Me16
POEM — “in the eaton centre men’s room”24
POEM — “At the End of Christopher Street”30
ART MEMO — The Darkness of Narrow Rooms33
POEM — “If I Knew How To Do It”43
CULTURAL CALENDAR45
ART MEMO — Kenneth Williams Never Stopped Carrying On47
FEATURES10
Jean Lorrain, Ambassador from Sodom10
The Inscrutable John Singer Sargent13
Joining the Rosa Bonheur Revival17
Gustave Courtois in the Paris Salon20
The Sublime Sewer Club23
Straightwashing Gustave Caillebotte26
REVIEWS29
Tom Crewe — The New Life29
Seán Hewitt — All Down DarknessWide31
Mairead Sullivan — Lesbian Death32
Taylor Brorby — Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land34
Rachel Federman, editor — Writing a Chrysanthemum35
Lars Horn — Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay36
Simon Doonan — Transformer37
Michael Alenyikov — Sorrow’s Drive: A Quartet38
Margaret K. Nelson — Keeping Family Secrets39
Ernesto Mestre-Reed — Sacrificio40
Edafe Okporo — Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto41
Raquel Gutiérrez — Brown Neon: Essays42
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan — Mad Honey42
Gerard Cabrera — Homo Novus43
BRIEFS44
Phelim McDermott, director — The Hours (opera)46
The First Homosexuals (art exhibition)48
My Policeman and Spoiler Alert (two films)50

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