The Men of Lesbos
The events culminate in the appearance of a group of men, most of them shepherds, each wearing dozens of bells in copper and iron of every size—the sort you’d normally find around the necks of sheep and goats.
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Zimbabwe after Mugabe: Few Signs of Progress
THE OUSTING of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe in November 2017 was a cause for jubilation for many people, including members of the LGBT community. The hope and expectation was that the end of Mugabe’s thirty-year dictatorship would usher in a new era with brighter futures for ordinary citizens. Some LGBT folks shared in the euphoria, as their community has long borne the brunt of so much intolerance fueled by our leaders.
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Wrestling with Greco-Roman Mores
NOW in his eighties, Charles Rowan Beye holds the title Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Beye is better known to the world as a translator of the ancient Greek classics and as a scholar …
MoreCuba: How Real Is the Thaw?
I’d been looking for Gay Havana and this was as much as I’d found, these three twenty-something boys out for a bit of afternoon fun in La Habana Vieja (Old Havana).
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Kenya Betrays Its Promise to LGBT People
Kenya’s anti-gay statutes and their enforcement clearly violate the letter and the spirit of the constitution promulgated in 2010.
MoreU.S. Sodomy Ruling Ripples to India
Ripples from the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in a Texas sodomy law case have made it all the way to India, where activists are fighting a colonial-era ban…More
A Tale of Two Eastern European Cities
RECENT gay rights activism in much of Eastern Europe has been driven by the desire to become eligible for membership in the European Union (EU), which imposes a list…More
Building a GLBT Literary Tradition in Russia
When I mentioned to a friend recently that I was writing an article for The Gay & Lesbian Review, the Moscow writer—who keeps his sexual orientation hidden from his…More
The Philippines: Make Way for the Baklas
Baklas are effeminate men who dress in women’s garb and consider themselves in every way to be female.
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When India’s Prince Gohil Came Out
In 2013, the Supreme Court of India ruled against the decriminalization of homosexual relationships as decided by the Delhi high court in July 2009. … Consequently, homosexual relationships are again punishable in India with up to ten years’ imprisonment.
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