GLR September-October 2023

The Gay & Lesbian Review September – October 2023 • VOLUME XXX, 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 O ONTENTS

Cracking the Closet

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 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

Emerson ’ s Manifesto, Thoreau ’ sNature 10 M ITCHELL S ANTINE G OULD

Waldo ’ s plea for sexual honesty could have been meant for Henry

Painted Angels and Tainted Fruit 14 W ILLIAM B ENEMANN

Stephen Crane ’ s walks on the wild side crept into his writings

1928: Out Came Hall and Woolf 17 M EGHAN T IBBITS -L AMIRANDE

The Well of Loneliness and Orlando were published just months apart

Leyendecker the Sly 20 I GNACIO D ARNAUDE

The men of Arrow and Ivory Soap seem to be hiding something

Robert Patrick at the Caffe Cino 25 R AYMOND -J EAN F RONTAIN

The late playwright wrote the shows that launched Off-off-Broadway

Splendor on the Patio 27 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Awriter ’ s visit to every lesbian bar in the U.S. reveals a storied past

The Quest for Sex in the Middle Ages 30 V ERNON R OSARIO

Medieval imagery animates today ’ s underground sexual subcultures

R E V I E W S

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 WebEditor A LLISON A RMIJO ______________________________ Board of Directors A RT C OHEN ( CHAIR ) E DUARDO F EBLES R OBERT H ARDMAN D AVID L A F ONTAINE J IM J ACOBS 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 HAIREMER .) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .)

David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb, eds. — The Taylor Mac Book Rebecca Batley — AnnWalker ; Jill Liddington — As Good As a Marriage

33 T HOMAS K EITH 34 A NNE L AUGHLIN 35 H ANK T ROUT

Joseph Plaster — Kids on the Street

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B RIEFS

Thomas Mallon — Up with the Sun: A Novel

39 B RIAN B ROMBERGER

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P OETRY B RIEFS

Richard D. Mohr — The Splendid Disarray of Beauty Catherine Lacey — Biography of X: A Novel Ari Shapiro — The Best Strangers in the World Dennis Altman — Death in the Sauna

41 M ICHAEL Q UINN 42 M ONICA C ARTER 43 D ANIEL A. B URR 44 W ILLIAM B URTON

Jon Towlson — Midnight Cowboy 45 J AMES G ILBERT Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle (art exhibit) 48 M IKE D RESSEL Stephen Kijak, director — Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (film) 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS

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A RT M EMO — How Allen Ginsberg Humanized Madness 24 S TEVAN W EINE P OEM — “ Physical Education ” 28 A LLEN S MITH P OEM — “ The faggot trusted no-one ” 32 S IMON M ADDRELL A RT M EMO — A 1953 Novel about “ Inverts ” and Social Class 38 M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ P OEM — “ Strange Meeting, Thanksgiving, 1983 ” 44 J OSH B ARTON A RT M EMO — Mary Oliver, a Poet of Beauty and Grief 46 D AVID M ASELLO C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 47

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