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The Factory itself was a sort of graveyard of delusional dreams whose denizens rarely managed to achieve much outside of its precincts. WE TEND TO FORGET that Andy Warhol was [...]

On Tuckernuck, Bigelow created a retreat that was a cross between a Buddhist monastery, the Plaza Hotel, and Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard. WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE SEA off the [...]

The FIRST ATOMIC BOMB used in warfare was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The explosion, which had the force of more than 15,000 tons [...]

BYRON A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer Cambridge University Press 401 pages, $29.95 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON was not only a brilliant correspondent but something that seems no [...]

BRUCE LABRUCE'S CINEMA occupies a liminal space between haute couture pornography and experimental narrative film. The prolific artist-provocateur is releasing his new book, The Revolution Is My Boyfriend, to coincide [...]

THE FIRST TIME a stranger placed his hand on Jack Worby's thigh, Jack was not entirely sure what to do. He was seventeen, an orphan who had been shuttled among [...]

ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE A Memoir by Carvell Wallace Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 272 pages, $28. LIKE THE TOUGH, unruly childhood of its queer Black author, Another Word for Love [...]

Guy Trebay captures the essential things about the sexual playground that was Manhattan during the transition from Doom to Glitter. The HISTORY of New York City in the 1970s is [...]

Editor's Note: The following is by a grant recipient in a program launched in 2022 by The G&LR, our Writers and Artists Grant, which was awarded to three recipients in [...]

COCKTAILS with George and Martha is a cultural history that captures the moment when Broadway drama received a jolt from the Theater of the Absurd. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of [...]

ROSE NORMAN'S The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea is the most recent book in the Sapphic Classics Series, published by the journal Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary [...]

SET IN 1953 and published ten years later, Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel The Bell Jar is widely regarded as a masterpiece, a female com ing-of-age story like J. D. Salinger's [...]

JOHN WATERS Pope of Trash Edited by Jenny He and Dara Jaffe DelMonico Books. 255 pages, $59.95 IN THE SUMMER OF 1981, my father took me and my brother to [...]

RADIANT The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch Harper. 512 pages, $42. BRAD GOOCH is an accomplished memoirist, novelist, and biographer of such literary figures as Rumi, [...]

HOW HAVE LGBT people been represented in Oscar-honored films to date, and might it have been otherwise? The first actor to win an Academy Award for playing a character who [...]

IN THE LATE 1980s, getting a motion picture made about LGBT people that didn't cast them as villains, psychos, or freaks was a momentous challenge. A mainstream feature film about [...]

ALL OF US STRANGERS Directed by Andrew Haigh Searchlight Pictures A SCREENWRITER SITS in a dark apartment in a high-rise in London, trying to write about his childhood. Desperate for [...]

ON BETTE MIDLER An Opinionated Guide by Kevin Winkler Oxford Univ. Press. 224 pages, $29.99 It's immediately obvious that former archivist Kevin Winkler adores Bette Midler. His 'opinionated guide' is [...]

NOTHING EVER JUST DISAPPEARS: Seven Hidden Queer Histories by Diarmuid Hester Pegasus Books. 358 pages, $29.95 THE ORIGIN STORY for Diarmuid Hester's Nothing Ever Just Disappears begins in Cambridge, England, [...]

AFTER A BRIEF HIATUS, here resumes my annual roundup of some of the films I saw at the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) in June. While not an LGBT festival, [...]

THE DOCUMENTARY Conversion opens on a black screen with white lettering informing the viewer that 689,000 LGBT adults have gone through 'conversion therapy'--indoctrination programs for young people struggling with their [...]

CHANGE by Edouard Louis Translated by John Lambert Farrar, Straus & Giroux 256 pages, $27. EDOUARD LOUIS' memoir Changer: Methode, published in France in 2021, has recently been translated into [...]

BLESSINGS by Chukwuebuka Ibeh Doubleday. 288 pages, $28. BOOKSTORES AND LIBRARIES are full of coming of-age books by gay men, but Blessings isn't your usual novel in that genre--an aspect [...]

THE EARLY MINUTES OF WITHOUT New & Selected Poems by Michael Klein The Word Works. 115 pages, $21. TEMPTING GOD: Poems by Christopher Soden Luchador Press. 93 pages, $13. FOG [...]

BEYOND RIDICULOUS Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York by Kenneth Elliott Univ. of Iowa Press. 194 pages, $35. CHARLES BUSCH'S landmark plays for the Theatre-in-Limbo (1984-1991) [...]

CANDY DARLING Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr Farrar, Straus and Giroux 364 pages, $30. LITTLE JIMMY SLATTERY was too pretty to be a boy. Born James Lawrence Slattery in [...]

CONVERSATIONS WITH SARAH SCHULMAN Edited by Will Brantley Univ. of Mississippi. 175 pages, $22. WHEN INTERVIEWED in these pages in 2016 (September-October issue), Sarah Schulman declared: 'I never write about [...]

THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS A Memoir by RuPaul Dey Street Books. 244 pages, $29.99 IN THE 1990s, Dolly Parton helped me bond with my first serious boyfriend. We were [...]

WONDROUS TRANSFORMATIONS A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution by Alison Li University of North Carolina Press 258 pages, $30. 'TO DEAR HARRY, [...]

Trey's Fifteen Minutes Meet Trey Samuel Fetzer, a twenty year-old Ohio State University student who's seen here urinating on a rainbow flag that apparently he spotted on someone's front porch [...]

To the Editor: Thanks for the article about San Antonio in the 1970s [July-August 2024 issue]. Lucas Belury recounted the story of bar owner Hap Veltman's legal actions to stop [...]

IN 1965, Guild Press published Georges Eekhoud's queer novel Escal-Vigor under the title A Strange Love, with a picture of a handsome, bare-chested young man on the front cover (Figure [...]

RED CLOSET The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander Manchester Univ. Press 265 pages, $26.95 IN 1932, a 25-year-old Russian-speaking journalist from Scotland named Henry [...]

HE STARES dreamily at someone over your shoulder, his mouth open and poised to sing. In his hands he strums the lute that gives him his name. Flowers decorate the [...]

THE SELECTED SHEPHERD: Poems by Reginald Shepherd Edited by Jericho Brown Univ. of Pittsburgh. 168 pages, $30. A NEW COLLECTION titled The Selected Shepherd is a very welcome arrival that [...]

A PLACE OF OUR OWN Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas Seal Press. 247 pages, $30. OR LESBIANS of a certain age, reading June Thomas' A [...]

ABOUT FACE Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art by Jonathan D. Katz The Monacelli Press. 272 pages, $65. JONATHAN D. KATZ is a pioneering historian and curator working in queer [...]

THE CITY AROUSED: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco by Damon Scott University of Texas Press. 336 pages, $45. A testament to the law of unintended consequences, [...]

QUEER NEWARK Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community Edited by Whitney Strub Rutgers Univ. Press. 320 pages, $27.95 IF SOMEONE had asked me a month ago what I knew about [...]

DECADENT WOMEN Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams Reaktion Books. 388 ages, $30. SET IN THE OFFICES of a Victorian magazine that he edited, many of Anthony Trollope's later short [...]

IN A RICHLY VARIED literary arc, Brad Gooch went from writing novels (Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity) to publishing authoritative biographies of three fascinating, complicated figures of 20th-century [...]