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The Power of the Foot Feature Essay By Sergio Interdonato: Nowhere is this sense of the foot as a visual synecdoche for the power of the body clearer than in the Barberini Faun (ca. 220 BCE), perhaps the most explicitly sensual of all classical statues.
Tumblr Was a Gateway to Kink Feature Essay By Casper Byrne: The fandom surrounding the TV show Supernatural is often held to be the north star for Tumblr perverts, a sentiment reflected in its fan works. Of the 261,025 works listed under the Supernatural tab in fanfiction’s Archive of Our Own (AO3), nearly 57,000 are marked as Explicit—the site’s most extreme content rating.
Reclaiming the Sacred Dungeon Feature Essay By Umar Ibrahim Agaie: Beginning with the rise of institutional Christianity, later intensified under colonial modernity, Western regimes have used every conceivable means to create a separation between sexuality and spirituality, labeling queer desire both sinful and scandalous. This forced belief system has generated profound shame, reducing true erotic expression to the margins of accepted life. Yet in spaces like this dungeon, a thriving movement is trying to change that.
Farmers Are Us, Too Feature Essay By Patricia Ann Mathu and Taylor Hartson: The following is by a pair of grant recipients in a program launched in 2022 by The G&LR, the Charles S. Longcope Jr. Writers and Artists Grant, which was awarded to two recipients last year. Awardees are expected to produce an article for the magazine as part of their project, of which this is the first of two.
May Swenson’s ‘Devastating Passion’ Book Review By Phillio Gambone: Swenson’s lesbianism is at the heart of Margaret A. Brucia’s new biography. Making use of the poet’s extensive diaries, correspondence, autobiographical pieces, and interviews, Brucia has written what is, according to two Swenson scholars who contributed a foreword to the book, “the most intimate study of the poet’s life to date.”
Boy Loses Boy Book Review By Monica Carter: NOTHING CONVEYS the brutality and loss of war more than a child’s perspective. Sam Wachman’s The Sunflower Boys captures the enduring nature of love and forgiveness in the face of abysmal grief, along with the confusion and fear of war. The book is a present-day novel of coming-of-age for two Ukrainian boys in love who survive trauma and never give up searching for each other.

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January 9, 2026

From Pan’s Flute to TikTok: Review of MIX FEST

MIX FEST, New York’s forum for queer experimental film, returned to Manhattan’s Quad Cinema in November. Since 1987, MIX has been a petri dish for cinematic talent that’s beyond the heterosexual pale.

December 16, 2025

Finding Queer Community in Church

Review of When We All Get to Heaven
By Jim Van Buskirk
…the newly released ten-episode podcast shares the story of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of San Francisco.

December 12, 2025

Overheated Fantasy: Review of Heated Rivalry

By Jeremy C. Fox
Lately the girls ’n’ gays on social media have been feverish with excitement for the Canadian TV show Heated Rivalry, a titillating tale of forbidden love between two professional hockey stars.

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December 29, 2025

The Village That Sustained Us

By Geoffrey Newman
My closest friend, partner, husband—someone I care for deeply—has struggled with heart disease for many years. We’ve been together for more than five decades..

December 3, 2025

My Three Weddings

By Charles Davis
We’d been following the groundbreaking story, but I was still surprised when Mike called me at work one afternoon, saying breathlessly, “We’ve got to get down to the County Building …

November 20, 2025

Throwaway Human

By Zhana Liner
Mine is not a singular case. It’s not a one-in-a-million freak accident, easily dismissed with a simple, “Tough luck, my friend; you should play the lottery sometime.”

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Book Reviews

Art as Activism in the Plague Years

Curated and published by the private Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is a tribute to and compilation of the works of Gran Fury, the artistic collective that was formed in the 1980s adjacent to the activist group ACT UP.

China’s Living Dead

Unlocking the Red Closet is, like other books on this subject, a mix of sociological analysis and transcripts of the subjects’ interviews. There is mercifully little jargon, and the monologs are highly theatrical. And they are what make the book.

‘Mother’ and ‘Son’

BRYAN WASHINGTON’S latest novel, Palaver, is a quietly powerful story about the complexities of relating to family and friends.

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Short Reviews

Brief Reviews of the books It’s Not the End of the World, Bangkok after Dark: Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, A Most Infamous Young Swindler: The Short Tragic Life of Thomas Langrel Harris, Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color, Twist, and television series ,Monster: The Ed Gein Story,

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Rough Trade

Wilke is quick to point out that in 19th-century America there was no sense of a “gay identity.” None of the men and women he writes about would have recognized the labels that would come later.

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Cops in the Comfort Station

In The Long Beach Gay Trials, author Gerrie Schipske presents a narrative peppered with newspaper clippings, court records, archival material, and photographs.

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