January - February 2008

This web site archives the Table of Contents for recent printed copies of the Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine and has samplings of interesting articles from past and recent issues. You can subscribe online to receive the G&LR magazine bimonthly in the mail and view premium articles online. Each issue includes about a dozen essays and a larger number of book and other reviews, plus a smattering of poetry.

Volume 15, Issue 1

The Science of Gaydar

By David France

"Nature Abhors a Category"

By Joan Roughgarden

Brief History of a Recurring Nightmare

By Timothy F. Murphy

Attractive Numbers

By Jim Nawrocki

How Stein and Toklas Waited Out the War

By Martha E. Stone

BTW

By Richard Schneider Jr.

Correspondence

By Our Readers

Features

“Nature Abhors a Category”
by Joan Roughgarden

An interview with the author of Evolution’s Rainbow

Brief History of a Recurring Nightmare
by Timothy F. Murphy

Some of the stranger “cures” for homosexuality, 1892–2004

Genes, Hormones, and Sexuality
by Neena B. Schwartz

Why the rush to explain behavior patterns in biological terms?

Harry Hay’s Essentialism
by Douglas Sadownick

His “ethnic minority” thesis offered a vision for gay liberation

Can Biology Vanquish Bigotry?
by Sean McShee

Now that we’ve hitched our wagon to a genetic model...

Activism in the Harlem Renaissance
by Michael S. Miller

... battled “art for art’s sake” among the leading gay writers

The Art of Conspiracy
by Richard Canning

The “Homintern” was a Cold War fantasy of gay intrigue

Reviews

Janet Malcolm — Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Martha E. Stone

C. J. Pascoe — Dude, You’re a Fag
by Brent Calderwood

Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte — Taking Woodstock
by Daniel A. Burr

David Leavitt — The Indian Clerk
by Jim Nawrocki

Eliot Schrefer — The New Kid
by Gary M. Kramer

Brian Bouldrey — Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica
by Tim Miller

Timothy James Beck — When You Don’t See Me
by Terri Schlichenmeyer

David M. Halperin — What Do Gay Men Want?
by Richard M. Berrong

Briefs

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson
by Cassandra Langer

Poems & Departments

Guest Opinion — Whether It’s a “Choice” or Not is Irrelevant
by Art Cohen

Correspondence

Passages 2007
by Martha E. Stone

BTW

International Spectrum — Japan’s Out-of-the-Way Gay World
by Jim Nawrocki

Poem — “The Lion’s Mane”
by Erin M. Bertram

Poem — “Compound–Complex”
by Arnold T. Schwab

Art Memo — Ode to “Joy”: A Classic Crosses a Milestone
by Brian W. Fairbanks

Poem — “In Defense of Marriage”
by Stephen S. Mills

Now Playing — Eytan Fox: Outside the Israeli “Bubble”
by John Esther

Artist’s Profile — Darren Hayes Sings of That Open Book, His Life
by Jason Roush

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