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Amy Bloom Tells of a First Lady’s Second Love “NO LOVE like old love.” So begins the critically acclaimed novel White Houses, by Amy Bloom, author of Away and Lucky Us … A work of historical fiction, White Houses is narrated from the perspective of Lorena Alice Hickok, the AP reporter whose close relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt was so intimate that the First Lady wore a sapphire ring—a gift from Lorena, or “Hick,” as she was known—at her husband’s inauguration in 1933.
Between the Greeks and Stonewall According to chroniclers of the time, Richard later left his estranged queen to seek out a renowned hermit to whom he could confess his sins. After hearing his damning confession, the hermit specifically told Richard to stay away from “the sin of sodomy,” at which point Richard ...
Paris Is People; New York, Architecture While out of work and starving in Paris, [Berenice Abbott] fortuitously met the well-known photographer Man Ray, who hired her as a darkroom assistant. It wasn’t long before she left his studio and set up her own rival studio specializing in portraiture. … She photographed lesbian journalist Janet Flanner (in picture) in what has become a signature example of lesbian photographic portraiture.
The Revolution Will Be Dramatized Near the end of her life, she wrote in her journal: “When I get my health back I think I shall have to go into the South to find out what kind of revolutionary I am.” She was immersed in a number of writing projects almost to the moment of her death in 1965 …
Drag Kings in the Music Halls Gillian Rodger’s Just One of the Boys is a welcome and fascinating addition to the history of cross-dressed performance and 19th-century Anglo-American theater more generally.
In 1966, a Slutty Roman Emperor Did It All Child of the Sun, by Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner, is a historical novel about the boy emperor who has become known as Elagabalus (203–222 CE). The authors took what is historically known about the young emperor and used it to convey the varied sexual and emotional aspects of gay life.

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January 16, 2019

Healthcare Barriers for the LGBTQ Community

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January 14, 2019

Intro to Part II: The Revolution Began on the Left Coast

This year marks The Gay & Lesbian Review’s 25th anniversary, and to commemorate this milestone we’ve published In Search of Stonewall, a collection of articles selected from our first 136 issues, since 1994. Starting…More

January 7, 2019

Intro to Part 1: Stonewall’s Challenge to Historiography

This year marks The Gay & Lesbian Review’s 25th anniversary, and to commemorate this milestone we’ve published In Search of Stonewall, a collection of articles selected from our first 136 issues, since 1994. Starting…More

December 10, 2018

The G&LR is Turning 25!

The Gay & Lesbian Review’s 25th Anniversary The Gay & Lesbian Review will reach a milestone with the publication of our next issue: the completion of our 25th year.…More

December 5, 2018

“Queer” Is a Word of Many Meanings

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October 31, 2018

Why We Need a National Museum of LGBT History and Culture

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