GLR May-June 2024

The Gay & Lesbian Review May–June 2024 • VOLUME XXXI, 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 ONTENTS

The Celluloid Fishbowl

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 NNE C HARLES 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

F EATURES

John Waters Went There 10 P ETER M UISE

... and the rest of us looked on in horror and hilarity

Queer Ghosts on Oscar Night 13 A NDREW W HITE

The Academy still clings to the narrative of homosexual doom

The Making of Longtime Companion 16 F RANK R IZZO

How a gay-made film about AIDS broke through all the ceilings

Spoiler Alert (Not Really) 20 A NDREW H OLLERAN

All of Us Strangers ’ meaning is never less clear than when it ends

On the Road to Hobohemia 24 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

Hobos riding the rails formed a variety of intimate bonds

The Silence of The Bell Jar 28 D ENISE N OE

Sylvia Plath’s anti-lesbian asides belie a deep attraction to women

R EVIEWS

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS G UEST O PINION — The Anti-LGBT Tide Is Turning in Florida 5 E RIN R EED C ORRESPONDENCE 6 BTW A RT M EMO — The Curious Arc of Dirk Bogarde’s Star 19 E RIK L EWIS A RT M EMO — Why Lord Byron Still Matters 22 W ILLIAM K UHN P OEM — “Canned Goods” 27 N EAL K ENT A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — Gavin Geoffrey Dillard’s Beat Goes On 32 T REBOR H EALEY A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — Horrigan Leaves Matthiessen Behind 38 C HARLES G REEN P OEM — “Lagos Lagoon” 43 A MEEN A NIMASHAUN C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 P OEM — “Cereal Dating” 48 M ICHAEL A PPELL A RT M EMO — Monaca Majoli’s Homage to Blueboy 49 N ICK S NIDER Brad Gooch — Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring 31 J OHN R. K ILLACKY Raymond-Jean Frontain, ed. — Conversations with Terrence McNally 34 T HOMAS K EITH Patrick Nathan — The Future Was Color: A Novel 35 D ANIEL A. B URR Anne Eekhout — Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein: A Novel 36 R OBERT A LLEN P APINCHAK Edward Cahill — Disorderly Men 37 H ANK T ROUT Judith Butler — Who’s Afraid of Gender? 40 R EGINALD H ARRIS Soula Emmanuel — WildGeese 41 A NNE C HARLES Stephen McCauley — You Only Call When You’re in Trouble: A Novel 42 B RIAN B ROMBERGER Debanuj Dasgupta, et al., eds. — Queer Then and Now 42 A NNE C HARLES B RIEFS 44 Three Films: Fellow Travelers ; LiewithMe ; Nyad 47 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG Emerald Fennell, director — Saltburn 50 J ONATHAN A LEXANDER 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R .

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