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A bimonthly Gay & Lesbian LGBT journal of history, culture, and politics with contributors like Edward Albee, Christopher Bram, Susie Bright, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Martin Duberman, John D'Emilio, Melissa Etheridge, Lillian Faderman, Barney Frank, Jewelle Gomez, Hillary Goodridge, Marilyn Hacker, Andrew Holleran, Gore Vidal, Evan Wolfson, Armistead Maupin, Ruthann Robson, and many more.

March - April 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 2

Islamic War Zones I Have Visited

By Michael Luongo

The Marlowe in Edward II

By Allen Ellenzweig

Life of the "Marvellous Party"

By Alfred Corn

Here at the GCN

By Martha E. Stone

BTW

By Richard Schneider Jr.

Correspondence

By Our Readers


Features

The Marlowe in Edward II
by Allen Ellenzweig

  • The playwright’s mad existence is realized in the tragic King


The Horseman in King James I

by Patricia Nell Warren

  • How George Villiers won favor and acquired the King’s mount


The Lure of the “Sotadic Zone”

by Gordon Waitt and Kevin Markwell

  • Myths of the exotic drew European gentlemen to hotter climes


Islamic War Zones I Have Visited

by Michael Luongo

  • The search for signs of gay life in occupied Afghanistan and Iraq


“Invertidos” in Afro-Cuban Religion

by Moshe Morad

  • A shunned minority occupies a place of honor in the Santaría


The Fight and Flight of Reinaldo Arenas

by Rafael Ocasio

  • His smuggled novels exposed the war on gays in Castro’s Cuba


Desire Is Back in China

by Lisa Rofel

  • An interview with the author of Desiring China


Spain’s Prolonged Road to Freedom

by Richard Canning

  • Where even Don Juan wasn’t virile enough, rights came slowly

Reviews

Barry Day, editor — The Letters of Noël Coward
by Alfred Corn

Ian Young — Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps
by Daniel Burr

Willy — The Third Sex
by Richard M. Berrong

Pat MacEnulty — From May to December
by Martha Miller

Bob Smith — Selfish & Perverse
by Jason Roush

Kenny Fries — The History of My Shoes...
by Jim Nawrocki

Amy Hoffman — An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the GCN
by Martha E. Stone

Kevin G. Barnhurst, ed. – Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents
by Shawn Syms

Lee Thomas — The Dust of Wonderland
by Terri Schlichenmeyer

Evan Fallenberg — Light Fell
Gary M. Kramer

Briefs

David L. Chapman and Thomas Waugh, eds. — Comin’ At Ya!
by Richard Schneider Jr.

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Poems & Departments


Guest Opinion — An Open Letter to Tom Brokaw
by Franklin Kameny

Guest Opinion — Fifty Years Ago, A Supreme Court Victory
by Jim Burroway

Correspondence

BTW


In Memoriam — Jane Rule, Pioneer of Lesbian Fiction, Dies at 76
by Martha E. Stone

Art Memo — Finding Whitman: “Not What You Supposed”
by Tom Pickurel

Poem — “Chambers”
John Giles

International Spectrum — The World: Courtesy of Hanns Ebensten
by Daniel Di Stasio

Poem — “The Silence”
by Greg Baysans

Poem — “On the Longing of Early Explorers”
Elizabeth Bradfield

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