GLR November-December 2022

The Gay & Lesbian Review November–December 2022 • VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 6 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 Empty Couch

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 EATURES

The Kerouac Century 10 H ILARY H OLLADAY

The ambiguously straight novelist loved to write about men

The Curious Case of Gordon Merrick 13 A NDREW H OLLERAN

The Lord Won’t Mind made him famous but blew his literary cred

Thom Gunn, a Poet on the Move 16 A LFRED C ORN

Encounters with a renegade writer who resisted close ties

Rise and Fall of the Medical Model 20 V ERNON R OSARIO

The history of an error from before Freud to the APA’s 1973 vote

The Vote That “Cured” Millions 24 B ARBARA G ITTINGS

Direct action is what spurred the APA to delist homosexuality

Inside the APA’s Decision to Delist 27 L AWRENCE H ARTMANN

Organizing behind the scenes made the critical difference

How Psychiatrists Came Around 29 J ACK D RESCHER

The G&LR talks with an eminent LGBT psychiatrist

R EVIEWS

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 Web Editor K ELSEY M YERS ____________________________________ Board of Directors

Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs 33 C HARLES G REEN Édouard Louis — A Woman’s Battles and Transformations 34 P HILIP G AMBONE Patricia Grayhall — Making the Rounds 35 R OSEMARY B OOTH Randall Kenan — Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings 36 A NNE C HARLES Peter Jordaan — A Secret Between Gentlemen 38 W ILLIAM B URTON Alexander Monea – The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight 39 R EGINALD H ARRIS Meredith J. Batt & Dusty Green — Len & Cub: A Queer History 40 S TEPHEN H EMRICK Marpheen Chann — Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story 42 M ARTHA E. S TONE Joshua Whitehead — Making Love with the Land: Essays 42 J EAN R OBERTA Jim Grimsley — The Dove in the Belly 43 D ALE B OYER B RIEFS 44 Gallery exhibition and catalog — Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light 47 C ASSANDRA L ANGER Stephen Dunn, creator — Queer as Folk 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS

A RT C OHEN ( CHAIR ) E DUARDO F EBLES D ONALD G ORTON ( CLERK )

G UEST O PINION — How Dobbs v. Jackson Imperils LGBT Rights

5 T IMOTHY F. M URPHY

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C ORRESPONDENCE

R OBERT H ARDMAN D AVID L A F ONTAINE 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 HAIR EMER .) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

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BTW

P OEM — “My Life As Elizabeth Taylor” 12 J OHN H ARRIS P OEM — “Calendar Girl” 41 B ONNIE J. M ORRIS

P OEM — “First Nations Man in a Montreal Sauna” 43 R OBERT H AMBERGER A RT M EMO — Confronting the Erasure of LGBT Art 45 I GNACIO D ARNAUDE C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 A RT M EMO — Julius Eastman, Iconoclastic Composer 48 J OHN R. K ILLACKY

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