GLR November-December 2020

The Gay & Lesbian Review November–December 2020 • VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 6 The Gay & Lesbian Review/ WORLDWIDE ® (formerly The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, 1994-1999) is published bimonthly (six times per year) by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational corporation located in Boston, Mass. Subscriptions: Call 844-752-7829. Rates : U.S.: $35.70 per year (6 issues). Canada and Mexico: $45.70(US). All other countries: $55.70(US). All non-U.S. copies are sent via air mail. Back issues available for $12 each. All correspondence is sent in a plain envelope marked “G&LR.” © 2020 by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. All rights reserved. P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS Baron von Steuben’s Secret Heroism 10 N ICHOLAS S HEPPARD The general who saved the Revolution always had a favorite son Interpreting Trans, 19th-century Style 13 V ERNON R OSARIO Without labels, three transmen carved out spaces all their own Drs. Eliot and Dunham to the Rescue 17 R EBECCA B ATLEY The original lesbian power couple revolutionized public health “Sex Variants” Were Everywhere 20 B RIAN F EHLER Their ubiquity was reported in a groundbreaking book in 1941 Hervé Guibert’s “Dreadful Books” 23 R AYMOND -J EAN F RONTAIN His romans faux of the AIDS era told everything about everyone Why “Gay” Still Matters 25 B RIAN G LEASON A recurring archetype inhabits world mythology and literature The Pleasures of Sadness 28 A NDREW H OLLERAN Two novels point to a gay literature of the marginal and the abused C ONTENTS F EATURES R EVIEWS G UEST O PINION — PBS Suffragist Series Left One Thing Out 5 S TED M AYS C ORRESPONDENCE 6 BTW 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . A RT M EMO — The Love Song of Pierre et Gerard 26 D AN C ALLAHAN P OEM — “We Were Always There” 30 T OBIAS M AXWELL P OEM — “When I Told My Mama I Wanted to Be an Organ Donor” 32 S HANE A LLISON P OEM — “Galicia” 36 K Y L I I NTERNATIONAL S PECTRUM – Chile Wakes Up to the Real Gabriela Mistral 47 J. B. P OLK C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 48 A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE – Mark Nadler: The Show Must Go On (YouTube)! 50 M ATTHEW H AYS Rosanna Warren — Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters 31 P HILIP G AMBONE Eric Cervini — The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the U.S. 33 J AMES P OLCHIN Anbara Salam — Belladonna 34 R OSEMARY B OOTH Eddie Glaude, Jr. — Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America ... 35 J. K EN S TUCKEY Jeffrey H. Jackson — Paper Bullets 37 R ICHARD M. B ERRONG Gillian Gill — Virginia Woolf and the Women Who Shaped Her World 38 F ELICE P ICANO W. Jason Miller — Langston Hughes 40 M ARTHA E. S TONE Shani Mootoo — Polar Vortex 41 J EAN R OBERTA Lea Singer — The Piano Student 41 W ILLIAM B URTON Meredith Talusan — Fairest: A Memoir 42 C OURT S TROUD Bryan Washington — Memorial 43 C LAUDE P ECK Marc David Baer — German, Jew, Muslim, Gay 44 C HARLES G REEN Rupert Thomson — Never Anyone But You 44 M ATTHEW S NIDER Mary Ann Cherry — Morris Kight 45 I RENE J AVORS B RIEFS 46 W EBSITE : www.GLReview.org • S UBSCRIPTIONS : 844-752-7829 • A DVERTISING : 617-421-0082 • S UBMISSIONS : Editor@GLReview.org Editor-in-Chief and Founder R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . ____________________________________ Literary Editor M ARTHA E. S TONE Poetry Editor D AVID B ERGMAN Associate Editors P AUL F ALLON J EREMY F OX C HRISTOPHER H ENNESSY M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ Contributing Writers R OSEMARY B OOTH D ANIEL A. B URR C OLIN C ARMAN A LFRED C ORN A LLEN E LLENZWEIG C HRIS F REEMAN P HILIP G AMBONE M ATTHEW H AYS A NDREW H OLLERAN I RENE J AVORS J OHN R. K ILLACKY C ASSANDRA L ANGER A NDREW L EAR D AVID M ASELLO F ELICE P ICANO J AMES P OLCHIN J EAN R OBERTA V ERNON R OSARIO H EATHER S EGGEL Contributing Artist C HARLES H EFLING Advertising Manager S TEPHEN H EMRICK Webmaster B OSTON W EB G ROUP Web Editor S AM D APANAS ____________________________________ Board of Directors S TEWART C LIFFORD A RT C OHEN ( CHAIR ) E DUARDO F EBLES D ONALD G ORTON ( CLERK ) R OBERT H ARDMAN D AVID L A F ONTAINE R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) M ARTHA E. S TONE T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER ) W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SR . ADVISOR EMER .) WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118 Mythologies WORLDWIDE November–December 2020 3