GLR September-October 2022

The Gay & Lesbian Review September–October 2022 • VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 5 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

Queens and Kings

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 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

Genderfluid Master of the Bizarre 10 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

In 1798, Congressman John Randolph went to Washington

From Camp Performer to Camp Inmate 13 L AURENCE S ENELICK

Paul O’Montis headlined a racy cabaret act in Weimar Berlin

The House that Hirschfeld Built 17 F INN B ALLARD

His Institute of Sexual Science pioneered sex and gender research

Truman and His Swans 21 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Capote’s bond with glamorous women belongs to a bygone age

A Painter of Multitudes 24 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG

Florine Stettheimer’s busy scenes played with gender conventions

Cruising As an Institution 28 F ELICE P ICANO

A gay male pastime in theory (queer) and practice (Fire Island)

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Matthew Aucoin — The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera 31 P HILIP G AMBONE Matthew Sturgis — Oscar Wilde: A Life 32 A NDREW L EAR Nicholas Frankel — The Invention of Oscar Wilde Andrew Holleran — The Kingdom of Sand 34 D ENNIS A LTMAN Tison Pugh — On the Queerness of Early English Drama 35 N ILS C LAUSSON John D’Emilio — Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood 36 D ANIEL A. B URR Carla Guelfenbein — One in Me I Never Loved: A Novel 37 A NNE C HARLES B RIEFS 38 Neil Bartlett — Address Book 40 M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller — Bad Gays: A Homosexual History 42 M ATTHEW H AYS Casey Parks — Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery 42 T ERRI S CHLICHENMEYER Douglas Stuart — Young Mungo 43 T HOMAS K EITH Jeremy Denk — Every Good Boy Does Fine 44 C HARLES G REEN From Around the World, Four Films 47 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . Andrew Ahn, director — Fire Island 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

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

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

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS

R OBERT H ARDMAN J AMES H ARRISON 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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A RT M EMO — How Garbo Complicated Queen Christina 16 I RENE J AVORS P OEM — “That night” 32 C RAIG C OTTER P OEM — “Inventory” 44 W ES H ARTLEY C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 45 A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — Angelo Madsen Minax’ Surreal Documentaries 46 J OHN R. K ILLACKY P OEM — “Do Not Go In” 49 K ATIE H ENSON

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