GLR March-April 2023

The Gay & Lesbian Review March–April 2023 • VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 2 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 Age of Innocence

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

Jean Lorrain, Ambassador from Sodom 10 L AURENCE S ENELICK

Meet the bawdiest fin-de-siècle poet and performer of them all

The Inscrutable John Singer Sargent 13 A NDREW H OLLERAN

All those paintings of male nudes—but who were these models?

Joining the Rosa Bonheur Revival 17 E MILY L. Q UINT F REEMAN

The cross-dressing 19th-century painter is having a moment

Gustave Courtois in the Paris Salon 20 E DUARDO A. F EBLES

His painting of wrestler Maurice Deriaz, shirtless, caused a stir

The Sublime Sewer Club 23 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

Buildings for bachelors were a hot trend in late 19th-c. New York

Straightwashing Gustave Caillebotte 26 J IM V AN B USKIRK

The Impressionist’s homoerotic imagery is still being disregarded

R EVIEWS

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS C ORRESPONDENCE 5 I N M EMORIAM — Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay 6 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . BTW 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . A RT M EMO — The Warren Cup and Me 16 D AVID G AULD P OEM — “in the eaton centre men’s room” 24 G WEN A UBE P OEM — “At the End of Christopher Street” 30 E MANUEL X AVIER A RT M EMO — The Darkness of Narrow Rooms 33 M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ P OEM — “If I Knew How To Do It” 43 J ONATHAN B RACKER C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 45 A RT M EMO — Kenneth Williams Never Stopped Carrying On 47 E LLEN W ALKER Tom Crewe — The New Life 29 E DMUND W HITE Seán Hewitt — All Down Darkness Wide 31 P HILIP G AMBONE Mairead Sullivan — Lesbian Death 32 M ARTHA K. D AVIS Taylor Brorby — Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land 34 D ALE B OYER Rachel Federman, editor — Writing a Chrysanthemum 35 M ICHAEL Q UINN Lars Horn — Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay 36 T HOMAS K EITH Simon Doonan — Transformer 37 H ANK T ROUT Michael Alenyikov — Sorrow’s Drive: A Quartet 38 L AURA A RGIRI Margaret K. Nelson — Keeping Family Secrets 39 J EAN R OBERTA Ernesto Mestre-Reed — Sacrificio 40 R EGINALD H ARRIS Edafe Okporo — Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto 41 A NNE C HARLES Raquel Gutiérrez — Brown Neon: Essays 42 R UTH J OFFRE Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan — Mad Honey 42 T ERRI S CHLICHENMEYER Gerard Cabrera — Homo Novus 43 W ILLIAM B URTON B RIEFS 44 Phelim McDermott, director — The Hours (opera) 46 A NDREW L EAR The First Homosexuals (art exhibition) 48 I GNACIO D ARNAUDE My Policeman and Spoiler Alert (two films) 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

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 A LLISON A RMIJO ____________________________________ Board of Directors A RT C OHEN ( CHAIR ) E DUARDO F EBLES R OBERT H ARDMAN D AVID L A F ONTAINE J IM J ACOBS A NDREW L EAR R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) M ARTHA E. S TONE T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER ) S TEWART C LIFFORD (C HAIR EMER .) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

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