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Sexual Freedom and the Classical Ideal
Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer HistoryCurated by Jonathan David KatzLeslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art THIS AMBITIOUS EXHIBITION, Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History, sets out…More
Revealed! Secrets of the Met, Hanging in Plain Sight
The following comes from Andrew Lear, an art historian and founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, which will be offering gay tours of New York, including the Met, starting this spring,…More
“Person of the Year” Invokes 1938 Cover
It was in 1938 that Time magazine shocked the world by naming Adolph Hitler as its “Man of the Year,” explaining that their intent was not to single out the “best”…More
My Ferguson Moment
“IS IT TIME to do a James Baldwin?” is an inside joke of mine, and a cerebral one at that. It’s one I like to break out every so often…More
The Audacity of Hall (Radclyffe, that is)
WHAT WAS “THE FIRST GAY NOVEL”? This is the theme of the latest issue of the GLR—which many of you are, I trust, happily reading. But before it came out,…More
Putting the X in Ex-Gay
We can’t report on every run-of-the-mill sex scandal involving a fundamentalist preacher or anti-gay politician, but every so often one comes along that seems to harbor a deeper meaning. Take…More
What Was the First Gay Novel? A Readers’ Survey
THE RESULTS ARE IN! We asked you to cast your vote for “the first gay novel” – which is the theme of the new issue of The GLR. We offered the…More
Pride (the movie) Marries the Personal and the Political
EARLY ON IN PRIDE, after the leader of a ragtag group of London gay activists has proposed that they raise money for the striking coal miners—the year is 1984—one member…More
Keep the Well in Greenwell
There was once a country singer named Josey Greenwell who had a following and was openly gay (as reported by queerty.com). But then he sort of dropped out of sight…More