GLR November-December 2022

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FEATURES	10
The Kerouac Century	10
The Curious Case of Gordon Merrick	13
Thom Gunn, a Poet on the Move	16
Rise and Fall of the Medical Model	20
The Vote That “Cured” Millions	24
Inside the APA’s Decision to Delist	27
How Psychiatrists Came Around	29
REVIEWS	33
Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs	33
Édouard Louis — A Woman’s Battles and Transformations	34
Patricia Grayhall — Making the Rounds	35
Randall Kenan — Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings	36
Peter Jordaan — A Secret BetweenGentlemen	38
Alexander Monea — The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight	39
Meredith J. Batt & Dusty Green — Len & Cub: A Queer History	40
Marpheen Chann — Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story	42
Joshua Whitehead —Making Love with the Land: Essays	42
Jim Grimsley — The Dove in the Belly	43
BRIEFS	44
Gallery exhibition and catalog — Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light	47
Stephen Dunn, creator — Queer as Folk	50
POEMS & DEPARTMENTS	4
FROM THE EDITOR — Holiday Issue: 'The Empty Couch'	4
GUEST OPINION — How Dobbs v. Jackson Imperils LGBT Rights	5
CORRESPONDENCE	6
BTW	8
POEM — “My Life As Elizabeth Taylor”	12
POEM — “Calendar Girl”	41
POEM — “First Nations Man in a Montreal Sauna”	43
ART MEMO — Confronting the Erasure of LGBT Art	45
CULTURAL CALENDAR	46
ART MEMO — Julius Eastman, Iconoclastic Composer	48