GLR May-June 2023

The Gay & Lesbian Review May–June 2023 • VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 3 WORLDWIDE

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

C O N T E N T S

The Impresarios

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

F E A T U R E S

How Diaghilev Reimagined Ballet 12 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG

The Russian impresario forged the dance as an integrated art form

The Way Things Were 15 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Arthur Laurents based The Way We Were on his own (gay) amour

Lincoln Kirstein’s Greatest Get 18 M ARTIN D UBERMAN

He brought George Balanchine to America, and the rest is history

Léonor Fini, Impresario of the Self 22 E MILY L.Q UINT F REEMAN

The pansexual painter was a major force in the Paris art world

The Skeleton in the Old Left’s Closet 25 V ERNON R OSARIO

The U.S. Communist Party has a history of LGBT exclusion

Absconding to Arcadia 30 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

How two ’49-ers in search of California gold found true love

R E V I E W S

Michael Anesko — Henry James Framed 33 D ANIEL A. B URR Voyage to Destruction: The Moroccan Letters of Alfred Chester 34 D AVID B ERGMAN LauraLee— Wilde Nights & Robber Barons: The Story of Maurice Schwabe 36 N ILS C LAUSSON Ann Wadsworth — Libretto: A Novel 37 R OSEMARY B OOTH Hervé Guibert — My Manservant and Me 38 P HILIP G AMBONE Elias Jahshan, editor — This Arab Is Queer 40 A NNE C HARLES Scott Herring — Aging Moderns 42 F ELICE P ICANO Selby Wynn Schwartz — After Sappho: A Novel 43 C ASSANDRA L ANGER Prince Shakur — When They Tell You to Be Good: A Memoir 43 C ARY A LAN J OHNSON B RIEFS 44 David Jenkens, creator — Our Flag Means Death (HBO series) 47 V IDAL D’C OSTA Coyote Park: I Love You Like Mirrors Do (art exhibit) 49 T ANNON R ECKLING Under Cover: J.C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity (art exhibit) 50 D AVID M ASELLO

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 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 HAIREMER .) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

P O E M S & D E P A R T M E N T S

G UEST O PINION — Inside Ukraine: An LGBTQ Leader Speaks Out

5 F INBARR T OESLAND

C ORRESPONDENCE

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I N M EMORIAM — Doris Grumbach, Storyteller 8 M ARGARET C RUIKSHANK BTW 10 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . A RT M EMO — George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie 28 R EBECCA B ATLEY P OEM — “At 50” 38 B ILLY C LEM P OEM — “Heaven” 42 J AMES D UFFICY C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 A RT M EMO — Algernon Swinburne’s “Sapphics” 48 E MILY R. Z AREVICH

C o v e r A r t : Léonor Fini’s Figures on a Terrace , 1938.

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