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By Allison Armijo on July 10, 2025

Allison Armijo

March-April 2026
Features From Current Issue

Essays

Dr. Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein

By Will Bashor: Based on the strange behavior of Drs. Jekyll and Frankenstein and their preoccupation with male spaces, we may question what they are hiding...

Essays

Monte Cristo’s Women in Love

Dumas’ novel not only depicted lesbians in a positive light but gave them a happy ending and an escape from society.

Essays

Once Upon a Time… in Camden

Wilde’s comments on the Greekness of Whitman’s poetry and physical appearance seemed to carry a hidden message.

Essays

The Prehistory of Gay YA

By Eric L. Tribunella: C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s 1908 short story “Evensong and Morwe Song” presents a remarkable case for its reference to an obvious sexual act in a story for and about two adolescent schoolboys.
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