GLR March-April 2026

Editor-in-Chief and Founder R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . Managing Editor WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118 GLR k

The Gay & Lesbian Review March–April 2026 • VOLUME XXXIII, NUMBER 2 WORLDWIDE

C ONTENTS

Victorian Times

F EATURES

J EREMY C. F OX Literary Editor M ARTHA E. S TONE Poetry Editor D AVID B ERGMAN Associate Editors

Dr. Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein 10 W ILL B ASHOR

Both protagonists created a double to embody their hidden desires

Monte Cristo’s Women in Love 13 J. B ARNES

Dumas’ classic explores forbidden love that’s hidden in plain sight

Once Upon a Time... in Camden 16 A NDREW R IMBY The Prehistory of Gay YA 21 E RIC L. T RIBUNELLA Lotte Hahm’s Germany 24 K EIRA R OBERSON The Lives They Filmed 27 H UGO L JUNGBÄCK

When Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde convened one day in 1882

S AM D APANAS P AUL F ALLON M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ Contributing Writers D ANIEL A. B URR C OLIN C ARMAN A NNE C HARLES A LAN C ONTRERAS 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

From the 1880s, “boy books” were a vehicle for adolescent love

She was a lesbian / trans organizer from Weimar to the postwar era

Amateur movies captured queer life from the 1930s to the ’60s

A Harvard Don’s Radical Roots 30 S COTT B ANE

Secretly gay, F. O. Matthiessen was a union organizer in the 1930s

R EVIEWS

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS C ORRESPONDENCE 5 I N M EMORIAM — Rosa von Praunheim’s Films Started a Revolution 8 K EVIN C LARKE BTW 9 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . P OEM — “galveston 1977” 12 C HRISTOPHER S ODEN P OEM — “To my friend, Billy” 15 R ICHARD A RNOLD H ISTORY M EMO — Geoffry Wheatly Cobb and His Youthful Crew 18 P ETER J ORDAAN A RT M EMO — The Men in Tchaikovsky’s Life 20 C HARLES T IMBRELL P OEM — “You’re in the Taco Bell Parking Lot With a Handsome Butch” 29 L YDIA V ENUS K NOWLES A RT M EMO — Jack Spicer’s Heart of a Second Baseman 41 B RIAN B OULDREY A RT M EMO — Patricia Cronin’s Army of Love 45 C ASSANDRA L ANGER C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 Phil Melanson — Florenzer 33 B RUCE S PANG Michael Schreiber — Don Bachardy: An Artist’s Life 34 P HILIP G AMBONE Eric C. Wat — Daddy Issues: Stories 35 L ORI O’D EA John Savage — The Secret Public 36 N IKOLAI E NDRES Brian T. Blackmore — To Hear and to Respond 37 D ANIEL A. B URR B RIEFS 38 Martin Padgett — The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick 40 L ARRY R EYNOLDS Gregory Hischak — E Is for Edward 42 M ICHAEL Q UINN Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein — Terry Dactyl 43 A NNE C HARLES Steven Reigns — Outliving Michael 43 C HARLES G REEN Jason Ezell — For a Spell: Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery... 44 P ETER M UISE Harry Lighton, director — Pillion 47 C ASPER B YRNE Carmen Emmi, director — Plainclothes 48 B RIAN B ROMBERGER Jacob Tierney, creator — Heated Rivalry 49 J EREMY C. F OX Andy Parker, creator — Boots 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

A NDREW L EAR 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

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