GLR May-June 2026

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS4
FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR4
CORRESPONDENCE5
INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM — Keeping Queer Culture Alive inWartime Kyiv8
IN MEMORIAM — DonWeise, LGBT Publishing Dynamo10
BTW11
ART MEMO — Finnish Poets in Love22
HISTORY MEMO — In theAge of Christopher Street32
POEM — “72nd St.”36
POEM — “Happiness”38
HISTORY MEMO — Also Born in 1776: Public Universal Friend42
ART MEMO — TheAuthor Reflects on Blackbird at Forty50
ARTIST’S PROFILE — RachelMason and the Cinematic Culturespace53
ART MEMO — Boys in Love onAsian TV54
POEM — “Two Steady Stars”55
CULTURAL CALENDAR56
FEATURES12
E. F. Benson’s Lost Romance12
Baldwin in Turkey, Directing a Play16
On the “Gays Who Kill” Subgenre19
Fantasy Island, 17th-Century Style24
Christopher Street Hits Fifty28
Trans Oppression Updated34
REVIEWS37
Anthony Delaney — Queer Enlightenments37
Peter Ormerod — David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God38
Nayland Blake — My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio40
Michael Lowenthal — Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation41
Steve Turtell — Portraits and Places44
Rob Franklin — Great Black Hope: A Novel45
BRIEFS46
Rabih Alameddine — The True, True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)48
Thomas R. Dunn — The Pink Scar48
Richie Hofmann — The Bronze Arms49
Owen Keehnen — Gay Chicago Memories: 1300 N. Wells52
Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages (Art)57
Ira Sachs, director — Peter Hujar’s Day (Film)58

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