The Gay & Lesbian Review https://glreview.org/ A Bimonthly Magazine of History, Culture, and Politics Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:16:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Writing Our Own Happy Endings https://glreview.org/writing-our-own-happy-endings/ https://glreview.org/writing-our-own-happy-endings/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:16:22 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67422 The cover of Ash Perez's audiobook Speak NowBy Ash Perez
My name is Ash Perez, 36, male, a TV writer living in LA. If you have no idea who that is, you may remember me from the mid-2010s, when I was Ashly Perez, the “awkward Asian girl” on BuzzFeed.

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]]> https://glreview.org/writing-our-own-happy-endings/feed/ 0 Keeping Queer Culture Alive in Wartime Kyiv https://glreview.org/keeping-queer-culture-alive-in-wartime-kyiv/ https://glreview.org/keeping-queer-culture-alive-in-wartime-kyiv/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:10:34 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67376 A snowy street in Kyiv, Ukraine, photographed on Feb. 19.By Finbarr Toesland
Members of Kyiv’s queer community are working to keep creativity alive as their city undergoes seismic changes. Queer nightlife and connection are still possible.

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]]> https://glreview.org/keeping-queer-culture-alive-in-wartime-kyiv/feed/ 0 A Higher Calling for Felipe https://glreview.org/a-higher-calling-for-felipe/ https://glreview.org/a-higher-calling-for-felipe/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:48:48 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67254 Montmartre streets at dusk. (John Towner/Unsplash)By Michael Varga
I met him at a Paris disco in 1986 when I was on leave from my assignment in Dubai. Over the next seven years we didn’t see each other often, but we got together whenever we could.

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]]> https://glreview.org/a-higher-calling-for-felipe/feed/ 0 Let’s Choose Each Other Again https://glreview.org/lets-choose-each-other-again/ https://glreview.org/lets-choose-each-other-again/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:03:45 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67245 Larenz Tate as Darius and Nia Long as Nina in Love Jones.By Randal C. Smith
No relationship is perfect. No love is untouched by disappointment. No bond survives without negotiation, humility, and repair. What matters isn’t whether love lasts forever.

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]]> https://glreview.org/lets-choose-each-other-again/feed/ 0 A Decade of Fellow Travelers https://glreview.org/a-decade-of-fellow-travelers/ https://glreview.org/a-decade-of-fellow-travelers/#respond Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:34:58 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67241 Timothy Laughlin (Aaron Blake) and Hawkins Fuller (Joseph Lattanzi) in a scene from Cincinnati Opera’s world premiere production of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers. Photo by Philip Groshong.By Kevin Newbury
The Fellow Travelers opera is based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel, a powerful gay love story set against the backdrop of the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare.

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]]> https://glreview.org/a-decade-of-fellow-travelers/feed/ 0 Was Achilles Gay? Wrong Question. https://glreview.org/was-achilles-gay-wrong-question/ https://glreview.org/was-achilles-gay-wrong-question/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:19:31 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67160 Achilles tending Patroklos wounded by an arrow, ca. 500 BCE.By Asa Williams
Before we call Achilles and Patroklos “gay lovers,” we must examine both the Greek language of love and the dangers of retroactively imposing modern categories.

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]]> https://glreview.org/was-achilles-gay-wrong-question/feed/ 0 Finding Hope in Minneapolis https://glreview.org/finding-hope-in-minneapolis/ https://glreview.org/finding-hope-in-minneapolis/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:39:25 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67141 Renée Good and Alex Pretti, two Minnesotans killed by federal agents.By Jamie Valentino
Perhaps I was naïve to think the risk of a natural disaster could make the federal government pretend it still held any regard for human life.

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]]> https://glreview.org/finding-hope-in-minneapolis/feed/ 1 Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Race https://glreview.org/patriarchy-sexuality-and-race/ https://glreview.org/patriarchy-sexuality-and-race/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:55:40 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67135 Lead actor Miles Heizer (center) in the Netlflix series Boots.By Kelley Nele
In most communities across the globe, queer identities aren’t widely accepted, but in a world where it’s wrong to be gay, it isn’t always considered wrong to do gay.

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]]> https://glreview.org/patriarchy-sexuality-and-race/feed/ 0 An Iconoclast in the Gay Community https://glreview.org/an-iconoclast-in-the-gay-community/ https://glreview.org/an-iconoclast-in-the-gay-community/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:34:11 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67123 By Scott Holleran
As I came out and years went by, I learned that romantic realism as an approach to life is marginalized in gay culture by cavalier bitterness, sarcasm, scorn, and regret.

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]]> https://glreview.org/an-iconoclast-in-the-gay-community/feed/ 6 From Pan’s Flute to TikTok: Review of MIX FEST https://glreview.org/from-pans-flute-to-tiktok-review-of-mix-fest/ https://glreview.org/from-pans-flute-to-tiktok-review-of-mix-fest/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:26:44 +0000 https://glreview.org/?p=67114 The logo of MIX FEST, an underground short film festival held in New York City.By Trinity Noone
MIX FEST, New York’s forum for queer experimental film, returned to Manhattan’s Quad Cinema in November.

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