GLR March-April 2024

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS	5
GUEST OPINION — How Russian Media Demonize LGBT Peop	4
CORRESPONDENCE	6
IN MEMORIAM — Three People Who Made a Difference	7
IN MEMORIAM — Amber Hollibaugh, Human Rights Activist	8
BTW	10
HISTORY MEMO—November 1978: The Agony and the Irony	18
POEM — “Pleasure"	22
POEM — “While I Slept”	26
POEM — “Miriam Searches Me Clean with Mediterranean Vowels”	32
CULTURAL CALENDAR	47
ART MEMO—Ciao! Magazine: The Gay Dolce Vita of the ’70s	49
FEATURES	12
Figures of the Bay Area	12
Butterflies Caught in a Web	15
“Outcasts and artists flocked to the city.” Hilary Holladay queries a San Francisco photographer	20
One Hundred Years of Togetherness	23
Lesbians Against Incarceration	26
Carson McCullers’ “Imaginary Friends”	30
REVIEWS	33
Kaz Rowe — Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun	33
Lois W. Banner — Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo	34
Assotto Saint — Sacred Spells: Collected Works	36
Elyssa Maxx Goodman — Glitter and Concrete	37
BRIEFS	38
Nick Mauss and Angela Miller — Body Language	40
Andrew Sutherland — Queer Opera	41
Stephen M. Silverman — Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy	43
Richard Blanco — Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems	44
Hannah Levene — Greasepaint	45
Darius Stewart — Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir	45
Lucas Hilderbrand — The Bars Are Ours	46
Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore (art exhibition)	48
Bradley Cooper, director — Maestro (film)	50

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