GLR January-February 2023

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS 4
FROM THE EDITOR —If Winter Comes... ‘Larger Than Life’ 4
GUEST OPINION —Coming to Terms with the “Gay Holocaust” 5
HISTORY MEMO —Taking Stock as The G&LR Turns 30 6
BTW 8
POEM —“FixerUpper” 18
AUTHOR’S PROFILE —Marshall Moore, Expat Writer with Southern Roots 24
HISTORY MEMO —How Italy’s Anti-Mask Law Was Weaponized 32
POEM — “His Eyes” 38
POEM — “Something Sweet” 41
CULTURAL CALENDAR 48
FEATURES 10
Bright Lights That Dimmed Last Year 10
Urvashi Vaid, Creator of Change 15
Richard Howard’s Threatening Poetry 17
The Capriccios of Jimmy Wright 20
Dora & Lytton & Ralph & Frances 25
Men Dress for Each Other 28
REVIEWS 33
Michael Rosenfeld, editor —The Italian Invert 33
Leonard Barkan —Reading Shakespeare Reading Me 34
Michael Snyder —James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Wirter 36
Anthony Christian Ocampo —Brown and Gay in LA 37
Noël Valis —Lorca After Life 39
Jack Fritscher —Profiles in Gay Courage: Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas 40
Lonneke Geerlings —I Lay This Body Down 41
BRIEFS 42
Caio Fernando Abreu —Moldy Strawberries 44
Granand —Berlin Garden of Erotic Delights 45
Adam McOmber —Hound of the Baskervilles: An Erotic Tale 45
Taymour Soomro —Other Names for Love 46
Marcel Proust; translated by Lucy Raitz—Swann in Love 47
Terry Guest, playwright —The Magnolia Ballet, Part I 49
Nicholas Stoller, director; Billy Eichner, writer —Bros 50

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