The Gay & Lesbian Review

Man Trouble

Leo Racicot — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:20:27 +0000

By Leo Racicot
I was hopeless with men. I got so desperate that I’d target anyone—the mailman, the college students next door, the bag boy at the corner market, the guy who’d just made my burrito at Anna’s Taqueria.

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Queer Film & Queer Community at BFI Flare

Sean Cook — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:24:42 +0000

By Sean Cook
BFI Flare isn’t just a place to watch films; it’s a place to watch queer audiences watch films, to see what lands, what provokes, what consoles, what feels newly urgent, and what perhaps no longer does.

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AIDS: The Early Years, Part 2

Mary Adair — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:33:18 +0000

By Mary L. Adair
We refused to let our friends die in neglected hospital rooms littered with uneaten food and the isolation of fear. That transition from heartbreak to advocacy would lead us to the front lines.

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AIDS: The Early Years, Part 1

Mary Adair — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:01:11 +0000

By Mary L. Adair
Every day the hospital admitted more gay men with this new cancer, each of them dying within hours or days, never lasting more than a week. I worried this was only the beginning.

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If Rex Reed Wasn’t Gay, Is Anyone?

MATTHEW HAYS — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:30:52 +0000

By Matthew Hays
I had to read the obituary over a few times to make sure I hadn’t missed something. But there it was, or rather, wasn’t: The New York Times made no mention of film critic Rex Reed being gay.

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Surviving a Plague

Vinny Cusenza — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:25:51 +0000

By Vinny Cusenza
It must be hard for young queer people today to imagine what it was like to be LGBT from 1981 to 2000. It’s hard enough for me to recall how I survived the daily assaults on our community.

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Trans Student Named Prom King in Georgia

Kara Zajac — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:52:13 +0000

By Kara Zajac
Last month White County High School held its junior-senior prom, where a transgender senior was voted prom king. She was photographed with the prom queen, both wearing gorgeous gowns.

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David Dominé in Glitterball City

Colin Carman — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:28:15 +0000

By Colin Carman
In the summer of 2010, the body of James “Jamie” Caroll—a beautician and drag queen from Appalachia—was found interred in the dirt floor of a gay couple’s basement in Louisville.

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Building a Jellicle Community

James Vining — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:22:31 +0000

By James Vining
The cat costumes are gone, as is most of the ballet and that fluffy MacGuffin, the Heavyside Layer. Instead audiences observe a fully embodied ballroom competition with relatable human beings.

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Coming Out in Siberia

Oleg Olizev — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:52:58 +0000

By Oleg Olizev
The first place I visited after arriving in the United States from Soviet Siberia in 1992 was a porn store on 42nd Street in New York City. I went there because I needed proof that gay people existed.

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