Autumn Comes: ‘Queens and Kings’ (Editorial)
From the Editor.
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Short Reviews (Book Review)
Brief reviews of Abuela in Shadow, Abel in Light; Places of Tenderness and Heat; House Fire; Queer Nature; Verdant; Dot & Ralfie; and Immoral, Indecent & Scurrilous.
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Truman and His Swans (Essays)
Capote was sui generis, way ahead of his time as far as being openly gay, and the women he called his swans were right out of an Edith Wharton novel.
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Cruising As an Institution (Book Review)
When this writer traveled to Boulder, Portland, Dallas, and St. Louis in the 1970s, gay men in those towns recognized that what I was doing before meeting them was “cruising,” even though few in their space and time knew how to do so.
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A Novelist of Moods (Book Review)
The Kingdom of Sand—a smarter reader than I might be able to explain the title—is a book without a traditional plot, and only a writer with Holleran’s skills could manage to hold his readers without the conventional twists and surprises of most novels.
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Gay Pride (and Prejudice) (Film)
Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island is not only a light-hearted love letter to its eponymous locale but a randy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice. In the role of Noah (a corollary of Jane Austen’s feisty heroine, Elizabeth Bennet), Booster speaks directly to the audience and helps to translate terms that an “outsider” may not understand.
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A New England Romance (Essays)
While still in college, F. O. Matthiessen met Russell Cheney on a ship coming back from Europe. It was love at first sight—on Matthiessen’s part at least.
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The Golden Age of British Masculinity (Essays)
As the Empire swelled and the enthusiasm for sports and bodybuilding spread, military and athletic prowess gained ground.
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Readers’ thoughts.
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