GLR September-October 2024

In Our Mailbox There could be any number of reasons for us to display this cover of The New York Review of Books from May 9, 2024, one of which is slightly sentimental. The NYRB has been a role model for this magazine from the start, some thing to aspire to: a relentlessly intelligent biweekly that reaches a readership of the literate and the curious, reassuring us all that such a readership exists. And yet, it could also be said that this love affair with the NYRB has been somewhat un requited: For all its coverage of every topic known to humans, matters of particular interest to LGBT readers have not always been front-and-center. That’s why this cover came as such a shock (and the illustration inside was way more explicit, though no frontal nudity). One strains to recall a past cover that even hinted at male hotness in this way, and by an icon of gay male sexuality, Tom of Finland, whose works are recogniza ble to virtually every gay man in America above a certain age (fifty?). One suspects this is not the case for the bulk of the NYRB ’s readers, for whom the article provided a helpful tuto rial on Tom’s men and the things they do, in language that al lowed for references to “beautiful buttocks” and “the sailor’s dick”—not to mention a brilliant analysis of Finland’s art, with observations like “it’s so hypermasculine that it bends toward BTW Two Gift Subscriptions For the Price of One!

high femme” and “the scenario ... incorporates our position as voyeurs mirroring” those in the picture itself. AgingOut Celebrity gossip isn’t our usual stock-in-trade, but if it were, surely the name Matt Bomer would have popped up more than once. The dreamy actor is openly gay and isn’t afraid to take roles in gay movies (such as the remake of The Boys in the Band ) in addition to his “mainstream” roles (think Justice League ). Well, Matt is reported to have signed on for a role in the forthcoming parody of The Golden Girls ! (Need less to say, it won’t be the first! There have been numerous par odies over the years, including many high Camp versions with the four female roles played by guys in drag.) Anyhow, now that the news about The Girls has settled in, what’s up with that casting? Nathan Lane makes sense, but Matt Bomer is young enough to have played one of the “Kens” in the recent Barbie movie. And yet, he’s poised to step into the role of Rose (as “Jerry”). Apparently 46 in gay years (Matt’s age) is equiv alent to 63 in Betty White years (her age when she started as Rose). Nevertheless, if they’re still planning to go with the lov able dummy routine, Matt as gay Rose is probably too old for the part by now. Trey’s Fi ft een Minutes Meet Trey Samuel Fetzer, a twenty year-old Ohio State University student who’s seen here urinat

ing on a rainbow flag that apparently he spotted on someone’s front porch one night last winter in the Wein land Park neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Trey was caught in the act by a surveil lance camera and can be heard saying “Fuck the gays” repeatedly while relieving himself of one-too-many beers, we assume. The perp faces charges of criminal

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