GLR November-December 2024

The Gay & Lesbian Review November–December 2024 • VOLUME XXXI, 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 Gossip Issue

F EATURES

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

“The men were always Murmuring.” 10 A NDREW H OLLERAN

The trial of Robert Newburgh roiled the Redcoats as rebellion brewed

D. H. Lawrence’s White Peacock 13 A NDREW W HITE

Male nudity and same-sex situations were present from the start

The Love Song of Lorca and Dalí 15 I GNACIO D ARNAUDE

Nod if you knew that the great Spanish poet and painter had a fling

1947: Tales of Tanglewood 20 V AL H OLLEY

How Richard Romney derailed Leonard Bernstein’s marriage plans

Celebrities, and How to Mobilize Them 23 S ALAH B ACHIR

Matthew Hays chats with a superstar philanthropist

A Power Couple Leaves a Legacy 25 F RANK R IZZO

They ran with the stars and funded the Windham-Campbell Prize

R EVIEWS

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS G UEST O PINION — News Flash: Lesbians Are a Trending Category 5 A NN M C C ANN C ORRESPONDENCE 6 BTW 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . A RT M EMO — What Lorca and Dalí Almost Had 18 E MILY L. Q UINT F REEMAN P OEM — “La Cosa con Plumas” 26 M ATEO A CUÑA E XCERPT — A Letter to “Donnie,” from Tennessee 28 A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — Judy Grahn: Poetry Taking On the Patriarchy 30 A NNE C HARLES P OEM — “At Twenty-Six” 41 M EGHAN S ULLIVAN P OEM — “In a Real Winter” 46 G ARY Z EBRUN C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 47 Paul Alexander — Bitter Crop 31 R EGINALD H ARRIS Katherine Bucknell — Christopher Isherwood Inside Out 32 D ANIEL A. B URR Louis Bayard — The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts 34 H ANK T ROUT Neil J. Young — Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right 35 A LAN C ONTRERAS Chris Dupuis — Winter Kept Us Warm 36 N ILS C LAUSSON Eleanor Medhurst — Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion 38 J EAN R OBERTA Books of poetry by Carl Phillips, Julian Carter, and Alan Felsenthal 42 D ALE B OYER Suzanne M. Scanlan — Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman’s Painter 43 M ARTHA E. S TONE Gil Cuadros — My Body Is Paper: Stories and Poems 43 M ICHAEL Q UINN Jason Schneiderman — Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire 44 B RUCE S PANG Greg Kearney — An Evening with Birdy O’Day 45 T HOMAS K EITH Jacob Israël de Haan — Pathologies 46 B RIAN A LESSANDRO B RIEFS 48 Domestic Modernism: Russell Cheney and Mid-Century American Painting 50 S COTT B ANE Three books from the Syrian Diaspora 39 C HARLES G REEN Maya Cantu — Greasepaint Puritan 40 J OSEPH M. O RTIZ

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