The Gay & Lesbian Review November–December 2025 • VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 6 The Gay & Lesbian Review/WORLDWIDE®(formerlyThe 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. Subscription rates: U.S.: $41.70 per year (6 issues). Canada and Mexico: $51.70(US). All other countries: $61.70(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.” ISSN: 1077: 6591 © 2025 by Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. All rights reserved. WEBSITE: www.GLReview.org • SUBSCRIPTIONS: 847-504-8893 • ADVERTISING: 617-421-0082 • SUBMISSIONS: Editor@GLReview.org Editor-in-Chief and Founder RICHARDSCHNEIDER JR. Managing Editor JEREMYC. FOX Literary Editor MARTHAE. STONE Poetry Editor DAVIDBERGMAN Associate Editors SAMDAPANAS PAULFALLON MICHAELSCHWARTZ Contributing Writers ROSEMARYBOOTH DANIELA. BURR COLINCARMAN ANNE CHARLES ALFREDCORN ALLENELLENZWEIG CHRIS FREEMAN PHILIP GAMBONE MATTHEWHAYS HILARYHOLLADAY ANDREWHOLLERAN IRENE JAVORS JOHNR. KILLACKY CASSANDRALANGER ANDREWLEAR JAMES POLCHIN JEANROBERTA VERNONROSARIO Contributing Artist CHARLES HEFLING Publisher STEPHENHEMRICK Webmaster BOSTONWEBGROUP WebEditor ALLISONARMIJO ______________________________ Board of Directors ART COHEN(CHAIR) ROBERT HARDMAN STEPHENHEMRICK HILARYHOLLADAY DAVIDLAFONTAINE JIMJACOBS ANDREWLEAR RICHARDSCHNEIDER, JR. (PRESIDENT) THOMAS YOUNGREN(TREASURER) STEWARTCLIFFORD(CHAIR EMER.) WARRENGOLDFARB(SR. ADVISOR EMER.) WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118 WORLDWIDE POEMS &DEPARTMENTS CONTENTS FEATURES REVIEWS GUEST OPINION—Reclaiming Nepal’s Six-Gender Heritage 5 SUNILBABUPANT CORRESPONDENCE 7 POEM— “Resurrection Sequence” 20 SHANLEYSMITH-POOLE POEM— “A Suggestion for Gays” 22 JONATHANBRACKER ARTIST’S PROFILE — Bruce Vilanch, Comedy Writer to the Stars 26 MATTHEWHAYS POEM— “Spring” 30 PATRICKKINDIG CULTURAL CALENDAR 48 ART MEMO— The Subversive World of AfterDark Magazine 49 FRANKRIZZO Alice T. Friedman —Queer Moderns: Max Ewing’s Jazz Age New York 31 ALLENELLENZWEIG Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys —Constantine Cavafy 33 ALANCONTRERAS Jake Poller —Christopher Isherwood 34 HANKTROUT Sarah Schulman —The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity 35 BRIANALESSANDRO BRIEFS 36 Constance Debré —Playboy, Love Me Tender, andName 38 LORI O’DEA Magdalena J. Zaborowska —James Baldwin: The Life Album 39 ELAINE MARGOLIN Peter Dubé —Desire as Praxis: Towards a Queer Surrealism 40 PETERMUISE Pan Wendt, editor —Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works 42 CASPER BYRNE Paul Lisicky —Song So Wild and Blue 43 JEANROBERTA Christopher Tradowsky —Midnight at the Cinema Palace 44 MICHAELQUINN Gaar Adams —Guest Privileges 45 ANNE CHARLES Jeffrey Seller —Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir 45 CHARLES GREEN Oksana Vasyakina —Steppe: A Novel 46 ANDREWHOLLERAN John Loughery —Where the Pulse Lives 47 BRUCE SPANG Queer Lens: A History of Photography (art exhibition) 50 IGNACIODARNAUDE Ethnographic Journeys Kamehameha III and His Joint King 10 DEANHAMER Kaomi, the young monarch’s aikāne, acted as co-ruler for a time “Coming In” as a Two-Spirit Journey 13 CHASE BRYER In Native American cultures, finding your true gender is a quest Native Identities Live On in Africa 16 JOHNMOTAROKI A third gender was recognized in Nigerian and Angolan cultures South Africa’s Clash of Cultures 18 KELLEYNELE Traditional gender roles, banned by the British, are being revived Caste and Gender Identity in India 21 POORVI GUPTA The low-ranking Dalits have borne the brunt of gender persecution A Pansy by Any Other Name... 24 HUGHHAGIUS 900 years of LGBT history told in 12 labels for the same-sex deed RememberingElena, and Ed White 28 ALFREDCORN An early friend was there for the making of Edmund’s first novels GLRk November–December 2025 3
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