GLR May-June 2025

assembled for the real rally.” LAPD raids, like the Black Cat event, were happening all over L.A. and through out the country wherever gay people pub licly congregated. The Black Cat was important because it was part of the awak ening of LGBT resistance. Don Kilhefner, PhD, Los Angeles Explaining Sexuality—and Dexterity To the Editor: As usual I learned much again from the information in a recent issue [Jan.-Feb. 2025]—thank you. I want to comment on Andrew Holleran’s review of Josh L. Davis’ book A Little Queer Natural History . The book details homosexual behavior in the an imal kingdom. Holleran ends his review by stating: “One finishes this book no nearer to

an ‘explanation’ for homosexuality.” A number of years ago I wrote a paper that addresses this question titled “Dexterity and Sexuality: Is There a Relationship?” ( Journal of Homosexuality , v. 28, 1995). As far as I know, all the information I present is still correct and relevant. I used the word “dexterity” to mean which hand is domi nant, the left or the right. It turns out this difference has much in common with sexual orientation. As I point out in the article, both left-handedness and homosexual ten dencies seem to hover around ten percent of the population, and of course there are both ambidextrous and bisexual people. Handed ness and sexuality are traits that may not be obvious to observers and may be deliber ately concealed (as left-handedness once was), as both have historically been subject

to negative social perceptions. And there are other curious parallels: for instance, women statistically seem to be both more bisexual and more ambidextrous than men. And yet, to this day there is still no real explanation for the origin of either dexterity or sexuality. While there is no obvious con nection between them—though there is evi dence that gay people are more likely to be lefthanded—as a social and scientific anal ogy it does give one pause. John Hamill, San Francisco Correc ti on In the March-April 2025 issue, in a review of Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill , the two co-edi tors should have been listed as John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr.

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