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A bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics.

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September-October 2025

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WHEN YOUNG Jimmy Schuyler told his mother that he was gay, she responded: “Just because you like Oscar Wilde, it doesn’t mean you have to do all those things.” He began doing “all those things” as soon as he could, starting at about age seventeen. While serving on a destroyer in World War II, he went AWOL and was then medically disqualified owing to his acknowledged homosexuality. With A Day Like Any Other, Nathan Kernan has produced a splendid biography of James Schuyler (1923–1991), a Pulitzer-prize-winning poet who occupied a prominent place in the New York School in the postwar era.

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DAVID MEDINA’S Shakespeare’s Greatest Love is a brief but forceful book arguing that William Shakespeare and Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, were lovers, and that Southampton inspired some of Shakespeare’s works.

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            In our current political climate, workshops on diversity training and gay issues in the workplace are a relic of the past. Still, the later chapters of A Prince of a Boy are rewarding for the story they tell of the author’s spiritual evolution. Eventually, McNaught “walked backward out of the Church of Rome” and ceased to waste his time on religious conservatives. He considers himself a friend of Buddha and can imagine Jesus as a homosexual.

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THE WHIMSICAL PRELUDE of Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s engaging novel Mutual Interest introduces readers to the historical sweep of the fictional action to come. Citing an actual event, the eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies, as the cause of the “Year Without a Summer” in 1816, Wolfgang-Smith’s narrator directs us to the literary device of pins on a historical and geographical map.

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Brieft reviews of PATRICIA NELL WARREN: A Front Runner’s Life and Works, WHAT IS QUEER FOOD? How We Served a Revolution, RACHEL CARSON AND THE POWER OF QUEER LOVE, TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen, and DAYS RUNNING: A Novel.

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Author Don Romesburg’s Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School traces the fight to have LGBT materials taught in history and social science classes across several decades. Romesburg was a major actor in this effort in California, where significant inclusion first occurred.

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Passionate Outlier is one of those rare books that is both great fun to read and historically significant. It will be an invaluable resource for anyone researching the LGBT authors who gave birth to and nurtured queer literature in the 20th century.

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A  GENDERQUEER PERSON living with cerebral palsy, Eli Clare uses writing as a bully pulpit against trans and disability oppression. His newest book, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming, is a balm amid the Trumpian obliteration of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and trans identities. His writing is infused with a passion for social justice.

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LUCKY WERE THE STUDENTS enrolled in the course on queerness in American cinema taught by Michael Koresky, film critic and editorial director of the Museum of the Moving Image at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness is the resultant comprehensive study of the period from the 1930s to the 1960s, covering the broad scope of censorship by the Motion Picture Production Code, commonly known as the “Hays Code” after the man who adopted and enforced it.

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It’s high time we had a CD devoted entirely to piano music by gay and lesbian composers—and not played by just any pianist, but by the internationally renowned David Kadouch. Born in Nice in 1985, Kadouch has been praised for his elegance, insight, emotional power, and eloquence as a performer—all of which are on display here.

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