GLR November-December 2025

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The Gay & Lesbian Review November–December 2025 • VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 6 WORLDWIDE

C ONTENTS

Ethnographic Journeys

F EATURES

J EREMY C. F OX Literary Editor M ARTHA E. S TONE Poetry Editor D AVID B ERGMAN Associate Editors S AM D APANAS P AUL F ALLON 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

Kamehameha III and His Joint King 10 D EAN H AMER

Kaomi, the young monarch’s aik ā ne , acted as co-ruler for a time

“Coming In” as a Two-Spirit Journey 13 C HASE B RYER

In Native American cultures, finding your true gender is a quest

Native Identities Live On in Africa 16 J OHN M OTAROKI

A third gender was recognized in Nigerian and Angolan cultures

South Africa’s Clash of Cultures 18 K ELLEY N ELE

Traditional gender roles, banned by the British, are being revived

Caste and Gender Identity in India 21 P OORVI G UPTA

The low-ranking Dalits have borne the brunt of gender persecution

A Pansy by Any Other Name... 24 H UGH H AGIUS

900 years of LGBT history told in 12 labels for the same-sex deed

Remembering Elena , and Ed White 28 A LFRED C ORN

An early friend was there for the making of Edmund’s first novels

R E V I E W S

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS G UEST O PINION — Reclaiming Nepal’s Six-Gender Heritage 5 S UNIL B ABU P ANT C ORRESPONDENCE 7 P OEM — “Resurrection Sequence” 20 S HANLEY S MITH -P OOLE P OEM — “A Suggestion for Gays” 22 J ONATHAN B RACKER A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — Bruce Vilanch, Comedy Writer to the Stars 26 M ATTHEW H AYS P OEM — “Spring” 30 P ATRICK K INDIG C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 48 A RT M EMO — The Subversive World of AfterDark Magazine 49 F RANK R IZZO Alice T. Friedman — Queer Moderns: Max Ewing’s Jazz Age New York 31 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys — Constantine Cavafy 33 A LAN C ONTRERAS Jake Poller — Christopher Isherwood 34 H ANK T ROUT Sarah Schulman — The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity 35 B RIAN A LESSANDRO B RIEFS 36 Constance Debré — Playboy, Love Me Tender, and Name 38 L ORI O’D EA Magdalena J. Zaborowska — James Baldwin: The Life Album 39 E LAINE M ARGOLIN Peter Dubé — Desire as Praxis: Towards a Queer Surrealism 40 P ETER M UISE Pan Wendt, editor — Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works 42 C ASPER B YRNE Paul Lisicky — Song So Wild and Blue 43 J EAN R OBERTA Christopher Tradowsky — Midnight at the Cinema Palace 44 M ICHAEL Q UINN Gaar Adams — Guest Privileges 45 A NNE C HARLES Jeffrey Seller — Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir 45 C HARLES G REEN Oksana Vasyakina — Steppe: A Novel 46 A NDREW H OLLERAN John Loughery — Where the Pulse Lives 47 B RUCE S PANG Queer Lens: A History of Photography (art exhibition) 50 I GNACIO D ARNAUDE

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