![The Sexual Economy of Revolution In 1951, [Bob Mizer] started Physique Pictorial (PP), a quarterly magazine that continued sporadically all the way to 1991. … PP was unlike anything that came before. There were photos of bodybuilders, but also of more natural, boyish types. Mizer added copious comments on the evils of censorship, the risks of pen-pal correspondence, the selection of photographic equipment, and the personalities of the models …](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/pp09-96-504x540.jpg)
![The Sociology of Soft-Core Among the many classic gay films that [Ryan]Powell analyzes [in Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945–1979] are Pink Narcissus, The Boys in the Band, Boys in the Sand, and Joe Gage’s epic hardcore porno Kansas City Trucking. But Powell also examines many other, less well-known films …](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Pink-Narcissus-540x540.jpg)
![‘The Bishop’ Outside of [Elizabeth Bishop’s] relationships, there was also turbulence in her life caused by asthma, depression, and drinking, among other things. [Thomas] Travisano is empathetic, praising her discipline in seeking medical help and accepting unpleasant treatments, like steroid injections or anti-addiction drugs. He notes that the patient also cultivated her own cures, finding relief in writing, travel, painting, and baking.](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Love-Unknown.jpg)
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Stop Straightwashing Susan B. Anthony
By Sted Mays
THE LEGENDARY FEMINIST Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is too often the silenced queer elephant in the room of U.S. history. As we observe the 200th anniversary of her birth, which is on February 15th, it’s important to ask ourselves whether we as a society are finally willing to see her not only as a heroic fighter for women’s suffrage but also as a lesbian.
Falling, a Review
By David Tacium
FALLING is a collection of ten stories by American writer Trebor Healey, whose permanent address is in Los Angeles but who’s gone into a kind of voluntary exile in Mexico.
A Crucible Moment
Getting expelled from high school for wearing a rainbow flag sounds harsh enough, but what if the rainbow isn’t even a rainbow? Consider the case of fifteen-year old Kayla Kenney, who celebrated her birthday with her family …
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Sympathy for the “Monster”
By Leith Angel Johnson
Pretty much everything DJ knows about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was learned by watching the iconic, flat-headed monster grunting and lurching about in the classic horror movies by Universal Studios. But these types of films, with bandaged cadavers waiting to be brought back to life by bolts of lightning, are more indicative of a Frankenstein-ish genre that is altogether distinct from any imagery presented in Shelley’s novel.
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Age Thirteen: A Different Rite of Passage
By Phil Tarley
In 1964, I turned thirteen. I was a wild child, filled with a bursting curiosity about the world out there I wanted to explore. Craving adventure like the feral, ferocious horn dog, I would soon become, I was on fire for something more in my life.
The Fight for LGBT Equality Never Ends
By Michael Manganiello
“I spent my early career in the theater and eventually went on to own a restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen. A career advocating for the rights of patients had not occurred to me until two defining moments occurred in my life.”
Book Reviews
Our First Gay President?
IN THE YEARS before the Civil War, Washington, D.C., was “very much a work in progress”: most of its roads were muddy mires, neighborhoods were far apart by horseback, and much of the city sat in a genuine swamp to which most Congressmen had to travel from far away. In Bosom Friends, Balcerski conveys the roughness of the city in you-are-there detail …
Bishop 2: The Lost Weeks
PARIS, 7 A.M. is a quietly striking novel that imagines poet Elizabeth Bishop’s first trip to Europe in 1937.
Patsy’s Choice
WHEN we first encounter the title character of Nicole Dennis-Benn’s intergenerational family saga, Patsy, she’s standing in line outside the U.S. embassy in Jamaica, dreaming of America. The year is 1998.
A Filmmaker’s Final Words
CHANTAL AKERMAN’S memoir My Mother Laughs is similar to her films: layered, defying time and space, concerned with the quotidian. Her work is woman-centered, often lesbian-centered, and focused on describing the position of women in society, including how the oppressive forces of patriarchy inflict both physical and emotional trauma on women.
‘The Bishop’
Reading Love Unknown is like touring Bishop’s word-ridden, complex, and stirring worlds. With an atlas and a book of her poems close by, it delivers a highly satisfying ride.
Short Reviews
Short reviews of History’s Queer Stories, A Wild and Precious Life, and The Householders.