GLR Review March-April 2019

The Gay & Lesbian Review March-April 2019 • VOLUME XXVI, NUMBER 2 WORLDWIDE 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.” © 2019 by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. All rights reserved. P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS Honoring Those Who Left Us in 2018 12 M ARTHA E. S TONE The G&LR ’s annual tribute to people who made a difference The Enigma of Pierre Loti 16 A NDREW H OLLERAN The French novelist could never escape his 19th-century fetters Merrily He Strolled Along 19 D AVID L A F ONTAINE How Stephen Sondheim got America to lighten up about sex Before Boystown 23 V ERNON R OSARIO Chicago was always a Mecca for sexual outlaws of all kinds “AIDS activism kept me alive.” 26 M ALCOM G REGORY S COTT Amber Miller talks with a survivor who fought back Can the LGBTQ + Coalition Survive? 29 D AVID T HORSTAD The pileup of letters belies a set of widely divergent interests The “L” and the “T” 31 W ENDY F ENWICK Of lesbian separatism, MTF exclusion, and transgender pushback C ONTENTS F EATURES R EVIEWS G UEST O PINION —We Need an LGBT History Museum 5 J USTIN E STOQUE C ORRESPONDENCE 6 I N M EMORIUM — Larry Phillips, the Sine Qua Non of The G&LR 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . BTW 10 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . P OEM — “Tucson Olives” 14 S HERYL L. N ELMS A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — Thom Bierdz on Life after the Soaps 25 M ATTHEW H AYS P OEM — “One Is Not Born a Virtual Assistant” 33 S AMANTHA P IOUS P OEM — “Man Is Not a Peninsula Either” 37 D OUGLAS R AY A RT M EMO — The Play That Broke the Barriers 45 P HILIP M OORE C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 A RTIST ’ S P ROFILE — David Dean Bottrell: Working Actor 48 C HRIS F REEMAN Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz 34 J AMES C ASSELL Adrienne Rich – Essential Essays: Culture, Politics and the Art of Poetry 35 A LAN C ONTRERAS Jose Antonio Vargas – Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen 36 P HILIP G AMBONE Lucy Jane Bledsoe — Lava Falls: Stories 38 R OSEMARY B OOTH B RIEFS 39 Allen Ginsberg — Iron Curtain Journals: January–May 1965 40 I RENE J AVORS Michael Arceneaux — I Can’t Date Jesus 40 D ANIEL A. B URR Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore — Sketchtasy 41 P ETER M UISE Ersi Sotiropoulos — What’s Left of the Night 42 C HARLES G REEN Niviaq Korneliussen — Last Night in Nuuk 43 P ETER M ARINO Mesha Maren — Sugar Run 43 T ERRI S CHLICHENMEYER Esther Newton — My Butch Career: A Memoir 44 C ASSANDRA L ANGER Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born (films) 47 C OLIN C ARMAN The Favourite (film) 50 J. K EN S TUCKEY W EBSITE : www.GLReview.org • S UBSCRIPTIONS : 844-752-7829 • A DVERTISING : 617-421-0082 • S UBMISSIONS : Editor@GLReview.org The A MPERSAND Issue 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 ____________________________________ Board of Directors S TEWART C LIFFORD ( CHAIRMAN ) A RT C OHEN E DUARDO F EBLES D ONALD G ORTON ( CLERK ) D IANE H AMER T ED H IGGINSON R OBERT H ARDMAN D AVID L A F ONTAINE R OBERT N ICOSON R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) M ARTHA E. S TONE T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER ) W ARREN G OLDFARB (S R . ADVISOR EMER .) WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118   