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How Poet Frank O’Hara Taught Us to Be Gay
Recently G(&)LIT (the new gay literary tumblr for The GLR) was excited to get a review copy of Poems Retrieved: Frank O’Hara. So, this article, which nominates O’Hara as one of the foundational…More
From Salomé to Kinky Sex
In this video, frequent GLR contributor Richard M. Berrong discusses the catalog of a recent art exhibit centered around a single painting, Gustave Moreau’s Salomé Dancing Before Herod. Joris-Karl Huysmans…More
Windsor Decision Sets Precedent on Anti-Gay Animus
U.S. v. Windsor recognized a proposition with potentially far-reaching effects: the idea that bans on same-sex marriage, which exist in most states, embody constitutionally impermissible prejudice against gays and lesbians.…More
Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead!
No pulling of punches on this one: Exodus International has just announced that the group is closing its doors forever, and we rejoice. For years E.I.’s mission has been to…More
The Confession of Francis I
It’s official: the “gay lobby” in the Vatican that we’ve always heard about, speculated about, suspected to exist, really does exist! The newly seated pope, Francis I, actually used this…More
Bradley Manning, Pride Parade Grand Marshal—Not!
The new issue of the GLR, which should reach subscribers soon, includes a “Guest Opinion” piece by James Patterson concerning the ongoing debate in San Francisco about the status of…More
Those Annual Superlatives
It all started as a quirky story coming out of sleepy-hollow upstate New York, but before we knew it, Dylan Meehan and Brad Taylor—who had been voted the “cutest couple”…More
Ecce Hommen
A headline in GayStarNews read: “France: Is this the most homoerotic anti-gay protest ever?” and sure enough, there were the photos of muscular, shirtless dudes in the street protesting France’s same-sex…More
Hungarian PM Fails to Address GLBT Equality
This was the scene in Budapest this month: The World Jewish Congress took the extraordinary step of holding its quadrennial conference in support of the local Jewish community after recent…More
Fire Island: Two New Books Celebrate the Fragile Gay Mecca
The New York Times published today an article about Fire Island that coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Pines, and mentions two newly published books about its history.…More