GLR November-December 2025

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS 5
GUEST OPINION — Reclaiming Nepal’s Six-Gender Heritage 5
CORRESPONDENCE 7
POEM — “Resurrection Sequence” 20
POEM — “A Suggestion for Gays” 23
ARTIST’S PROFILE—Bruce Vilanch, Comedy Writer to the Stars 26
POEM — “Spring” 30
CULTURAL CALENDAR 48
ART MEMO—The Subversive World of After Dark Magazine 49
FEATURES 10
Kamehameha III and His Joint King 10
'Coming In' as a Two-Spirit Journey 13
Native Identities Live On in Africa 16
South Africa’s Clash of Cultures 18
Caste and Gender Identity in India 21
A Pansy by Any Other Name... 24
Remembering Elena, and Ed White 28
REVIEWS 31
Alice T. Friedman —Queer Moderns: Max Ewing’s Jazz Age New York 31
Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys—Constantine Cavafy 33
Jake Poller —Christopher Isherwood 34
Sarah Schulman —The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity 35
BRIEFS 36
Constance Debré —Playboy, Love Me Tender, and Name 38
Magdalena J. Zaborowska —James Baldwin: The Life Album 39
Peter Dubé —Desire as Praxis: Towards a Queer Surrealism 40
Pan Wendt, editor —Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Work 42
Paul Lisicky —Song So Wild and Blue 43
Christopher Tradowsky —Midnight at the Cinema Palace 44
Gaar Adams—Guest Privileges 45
Jeffrey Seller —Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir 45
Oksana Vasyakina —Steppe: A Novel 46
John Loughery —Where the Pulse Lives 47
Queer Lens: A History of Photography (art exhibition) 50

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