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For Valentine’s Day, a special blog post on The G&LR’s website from Randal C. Smith, who writes: “What matters isn’t whether love lasts forever. What matters is whether, when confronted with truth, you still say yes.”
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“Watching 'West Side Story' on television one night in color, movement, music, and lyrics, I discovered that true love could be at once gloriously stirring and ultimately doomed,” Scott Holleran writes in a personal essay for The G&LR's website.
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Director Kevin Newbury reflects on a decade of the opera Fellow Travelers, based on Thomas Mallon’s novel; the state of LGBT rights; and the new Lavender Names Project in a new Here’s My Story essay for The G&LR.
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An image from circa 500 BCE depicting Achilles dressing Patroklos' wounds.

“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,” Asa Williams writes in our latest blog essay.
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50 years ago, Minneapolis redefined LGBTQ+ rights On December 30, 1975, just before the New Year, the city council passed trans-inclusive protections unlike anything the U.S. has been able to achieve.

Did you know that 50 years ago Minneapolis was the first US city to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that included trans people? Read Kate Sosin’s article at The 19th, and check out Jamie Valentino’s dispatch from Minneapolis at The G&LR
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The Sydney Morning Herald has reviewed the latest book by longtime G&LR contributor Dennis Altman. Read the review and check out some of Altman’s contributions to The G&LR below.
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to mark the occasion here are two recent articles from The G&LR about this historical tragedy and the resilience of LGBT and Jewish people amid the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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Love #HeatedRivalry? check out the Ivory Tower Boiler Room convo between host Andrew Rimby, G&LR Managing Editor @jeremycfox.bsky.social, G&LR contributor @colincarman.bsky.social , and Joseph Federico.
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Passing the Torch at The Gay & Lesbian Review The year was 1993. Nearly a million people had just marched on Washington demanding LGBTQ+ rights. Don't Ask, Don't Tell would be signed into law by year's

Want to learn more about the history and the future of The G&LR? @pridesource.com Managing Editor Sarah Bricker Hunt has done a deep-dive into the magazine and produced a highly informative new article.
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Winter books roundup 2025, part 2: Bryan Washington, Daphne Gottlieb, Max Delsohn & more In Part two of our winter books roundup, we present fantastic fiction from Bryan Washington, short stories from trans author Max Delsohn, a memorable memoir from San Francisco’s own Sheena Rose, lush ...

The Bay Area Reporter has released a list of new books to read this winter, and it includes Bryan Washington’s Palaver, which Charles Green reviewed in the latest issue of The G&LR. Check out The BAR’s full list and our review below.
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Best LGBTQ Films of 2025, part 2 – ‘Blue Moon,’ ‘A Nice Indian Boy,’ and ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ are among our top picks 2025 was a dismal year for queer films in several ways. While there were a few high-profile gay films, even in film festivals there were far less lesbian and trans movies, especially the latter. Yet s...

In The Bay Area Reporter, Brian Bromberger lists the five best LGBTQ films of 2025. Read his picks and then check out his review of A Nice Indian Boy for The G&LR.
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Business Briefing: LGBTQ literary magazine adapts to digital age For 32 years bimonthly magazine The Gay & Lesbian Review has provided its readers erudite editions filled with thought-provoking essays on myriad issues impacting the lives of LGBTQ people.

The G&LR is in the newspaper! Check out the Bay Area Reporter’s interview with editor-in-chief Richard Schneider Jr. and managing editor @jeremycfox.bsky.social about the ongoing leadership transition.
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The G&LR’s Jan-Feb issue is now available. The “kink issue” cracks open the bedroom door to explore practices and paraphilias that excite some of us. To subscribe, use the promo code Choice, which will allow new subscribers to request a printed copy of the new issue.
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YouTube video by The Ivory Tower Boiler Room Queer Ethnographic Journeys and Reclaiming Indigenous Sexuality with the Gay and Lesbian Review

Check out this new interview on Ivory Tower Boiler Room with our managing editor, @jeremycfox.bsky.social, and contributors Chase Bryer and Dean Hamer.
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The cover of The G&LR's Jan.-Feb. 2026 "Kink Issue."

Check out a preview of The G&LR's new “Kink Issue,” January-February 2026. Foot fetishes, BDSM, online fanfic, and more. myemail.constantcontact.com/The-G-LR-Pre...

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Hudson Williams (as Shane) and Connor Storrie (as Ilya) in a promotional photo for "Heated Rivalry."

Everyone's talking about "Heated Rivalry," including our managing editor, @jeremycfox.bsky.social, who writes: "The show depicts men who are conventionally attractive beyond all reason having deeply idealized and surprisingly explicit sex in ... gentle amber lighting."
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YouTube video by BREAKING THE GAY CODE IN ART "ART IN THE RAW" PODCAST INTERVIEW ABOUT QUEER ART HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

G&LR contributor Ignacio Darnaude was interviewed about LGBT art on “Art in the Raw.” Watch that conversation and check out some of Ignacio’s essays for The G&LR at the links below.
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Hidden Voices & Queer Legacies — Gay Men Authors You Need to Know - QUEERGURU As 2025 draws to a close, Queerguru is taking a moment to shine a light on a constellation of gay male writers whose work pulses with history, identity, and memory. We’re not just talking bestsellers,...

On QueerGuru, Michele Karlsberg highlights gay authors, including G&LR contributors and even a book published by The G&LR: Martin Duberman’s “The Line of Dissent.” Check it out below.
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Long-term AIDS survivors share their stories in ‘Children of Lazarus’ There are moments when history tilts, not gradually but all at once, and the change is so abrupt, so without precedent, that those who survive it spend the rest of their lives trying to explain what i...

For World AIDS Day, read this BAR article about “Children of Lazarus: The Forgotten Generation of Long-Term AIDS Survivors” and pieces written by editor Les K. Wright and contributor Hank Trout for The G&LR.
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YouTube video by ORCA Media All Things LGBTQ Interview Show: Jeremy C. Fox

The G&LR’s managing editor, Jeremy C. Fox, was interviewed by contributor Anne Charles on an episode of Orca Media’s “All Things LGBTQ” that aired Saturday. Their wide-ranging conversation included a lot of nuts-and-bolts details about how the magazine comes together.
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The November-December issue of The G&LR is available now. Check it out online at glreview.org/current-issue/.

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A photo of author Jennifer Finney Boylan.

For Transgender Day of Remembrance we’re sharing articles on trans experiences: “Transgender Journeys as a Way to Sainthood,” “The Birth of Transgender Science,” and our interview with Jennifer Finney Boylan.
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This week marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Mattachine Society. Learn more about the Mattachine in an article by past G&LR contributor Don Kilhefner and one by Will Roscoe from The G&LR’s “Origins” issue this year.
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Read Denny Nivens’ article about the Los Guilucos riot here: glreview.org/article/firs...

Why should young people care about books bans?

That's a question we posed to some of the special guests at our "Who's Afraid of Fiction?" event, hosted by PEN America Young Patrons during #BannedBooksWeek.

Learn more about PEN America Young Patrons at: pen.org/youngpatrons/

Join Jyotsna Vaid and @ahoffmanwrites.bsky.social at the @bpl.boston.gov for a discussion of their book, The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid, hosted by @queerhistoryboston.bsky.social , and read The G&LR’s review of the book here. glreview.org/article/beyo...

With Fairyland in theaters now, it's a great time to revisit our review of Alysia Abbott's memoir that's the basis for the film.

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Check out the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast featuring Frank Pizzoli discussing LGBT literature, then read Hank Trout's review of Frank's book in The G&LR.

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