Butler begins Who’s Afraid of Gender? with an overview of global “anti-gender” efforts by conservative religious figures and groups from Evangelical pastor Scott Lively’s work in Africa and Spain’s CitizenGo to authoritarian-minded politicians like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has called “gender ideology” a threat to the nation itself. The post How ‘Gender’ Became a Scare Word (Book Review) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

The Hollywood star, the museum exhibit, and the book are huge honors for John Waters. It’s been a long, strange trip to mainstream acceptance for Waters, an auteur who specializes in what he calls “art-exploitation” films and who was dubbed the “Pope of Trash” by William S. Burroughs in 1986. The post John Waters Went There (Essays) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

     The Future Was Color opens in 1956, the year of the failed Hungarian uprising. George Curtis, as Gyorgy is now known, is in Los Angeles writing screenplays for science fiction movies. One of his screenplays, about giant spiders that shoot flames from their eyes, is a box office success, terrifying audiences with scenes of apocalyptic destruction. Although he has tried to remain inconspicuous, suddenly George is popular. Living in the Hollywood of McCarthy-era witch hunts, he never reveals anything about his background except to say that he’s from Europe. He finds it mo ..read more

DURING HIS LIFETIME, Terrence McNally saw seventeen of his plays and musicals premiere on Broadway, and along the way he developed a tenacity and maintained a relevance that has eluded most American playwrights in their later years. Conversations with Terrence McNally, edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain, helps to   illuminate a writer whose work has not always shown up on the literary radar of critics and tastemakers. The post In Dialog with a Playwright (Book Review) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

Brief reviews of TEN BRIDGES I’VE BURNT: A Memoir in Verse; DEAD IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA; MATERIAL WEALTH: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg; BOUND: Poems; and IN THE SPIDER’S ROOM: A Novel. The post Briefs (Book Review) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

Interview with poet, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard. The post <em>Gavin Geoffrey Dillard’s Beat Goes On</em> (Artist's Profile) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

Takes on news of the day. The post BTW (BTW) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

Interview with writer Patrick E. Horrigan. The post <em>Horrigan Leaves Matthiessen Behind</em> (Artist's Profile) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more

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By Thomasin Lockwood I frequently thought of women, but could barely admit it to myself, let alone go out and explore it. A drunk make out with a female colleague was as far as I went. The post An Unconventional Coming Out (Here's My Story) appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review ..read more