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Gay & Lesbian Review-Worldwide A bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics for an LGBTQ+ readership. https://glreview.org

The Gay & Le***an Review / Worldwide provides a forum for enlightened discussion of issues and ideas of importance to le****ns and gay men; to advance LGBTQ+ culture by providing a quality vehicle for its best writers and thinkers, and more.

Every fall, colleges host mandatory s*xual assault prevention seminars for incoming freshmen. But as the statistics are ...
09/28/2026

Every fall, colleges host mandatory s*xual assault prevention seminars for incoming freshmen. But as the statistics are read and the consent scenarios play out, LGBTQ+ students often realize that none of this programming is actually built for them.

In our latest blog post, survivor advocate and prevention educator Dimitrios Aletras Jr. breaks down the real cost of this silence. Even though trans and nonbinary students experience some of the highest rates of s*xual violence on campus, prevention models still largely picture survivors as straight women. The result? Q***r students are forced to navigate the aftermath on their own.

Read Dimitrios’s full piece here: glreview.org/the-lgbtq-students-no-one-warns

(If you or someone you know has been affected by s*xual violence, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24/7 at 800-656-HOPE or rainn.org.)

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Longtime G&LR contributor Irene Javors has co-written a play titled “Dreamers at the Precipice” that will premiere in Ne...
09/27/2026

Longtime G&LR contributor Irene Javors has co-written a play titled “Dreamers at the Precipice” that will premiere in New York City, and we’re excited to support her latest work.

If you’re in the New York area, we recommend checking it out. The show runs for 75 minutes with no intermission and is playing at the Chain Theatre, located on the 4th floor of 312 West 36th Street. The venue is also fully ADA accessible.

You can book your tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/dreamers-at-the-precipice-tickets-2000664852430

In the fall of 1938, a police sting in Pasadena’s Central Park led to the arrest of 29 men. The operation established th...
09/26/2026

In the fall of 1938, a police sting in Pasadena’s Central Park led to the arrest of 29 men. The operation established the blueprint for the modern gay witch hunt.

In our September–October 2026 issue, contributor Denny Nivens uncovers a chilling chapter of Southern California’s LGBTQ+ history. After public shaming in local newspapers and sentences of hard labor, the arrested men received a choice: submit to experimental hormone treatments meant to “cure” their s*xuality, or remain in jail. Nivens details the fallout of this “morals purge,” from the su***de of a prominent local physician to the corrupt police extortion scheme that followed in 1941.

Available in print and digital today: glreview.org/article/a-cure-for-public-s*x-in-pasadena
(Subscribe to access our digital archives back to 2003!)

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We’re deeply saddened by the loss of Montréal q***r activist Michael Hendricks this past summer, but his legacy will liv...
09/24/2026

We’re deeply saddened by the loss of Montréal q***r activist Michael Hendricks this past summer, but his legacy will live on.

Today on The G&LR Blog, regular contributor Matthew Hays shares a touching tribute to his friend. From co-founding ACT UP Montréal to waging a six-year legal battle to become part of Québec’s first legally married same-s*x couple, Michael never backed down from a fight against injustice.

Read Matthew’s tribute to a trailblazer here: glreview.org/remembering-a-pioneer-in-lgbtq-activism

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September 23 closes out Bis*xual Awareness Week (and Celebrate Bis*xuality Day)! To cap off the week, we’re pulling from...
09/23/2026

September 23 closes out Bis*xual Awareness Week (and Celebrate Bis*xuality Day)! To cap off the week, we’re pulling from the archives to pay tribute to one of music history’s most iconic, and routinely glossed-over, bis*xual figures: Billie Holiday (1915–1959).

In this 2024 review for The G&LR, poet and writer Reginald Harris tackles Paul Alexander’s biography “Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year” (Alfred A. Knopf). The book surfaces compelling archival evidence of Holiday’s relationships with women, from poet Elizabeth Bishop’s inner circle to actress Tallulah Bankhead, and her lifelong unwillingness to hide who she was.

Revisit Reginald’s review on our site today: glreview.org/article/lady-day-of-the-night

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Happy Dear Diary Day! Our archive at www.glreview.org is packed with essays and reviews spotlighting the lives and works...
09/22/2026

Happy Dear Diary Day! Our archive at www.glreview.org is packed with essays and reviews spotlighting the lives and works of LGBTQ+ diarists, from Virginia Woolf and Yukio Mishima to Audre Lorde and Christopher Isherwood, and many more.

Who’s your favorite q***r diarist, and what’s your favorite journal of theirs to read? Let us know in the comments! 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Happy Bis*xual Awareness Week! 💖💜💙Why is it so hard for our culture to wrap its head around bis*xuality?Back in our July...
09/21/2026

Happy Bis*xual Awareness Week! 💖💜💙

Why is it so hard for our culture to wrap its head around bis*xuality?

Back in our July–August 2005 issue, journalist Stephanie Fairyington confronted this exact question in a thought-provoking essay. Revisiting the history of s*x research, from Freud to the Kinsey Scale, she exposed how the persistent “hetero-homo dichotomy” continues to marginalize bis*xual identities.

Read Stephanie’s full piece on print and online today: glreview.org/article/article-1129

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“What the law calls deviance, the body insists is nature.”At the height of the pandemic, Oleg Olizev noticed a shift in ...
09/21/2026

“What the law calls deviance, the body insists is nature.”

At the height of the pandemic, Oleg Olizev noticed a shift in outdoor cruising. Instead of seeking out physical hookups, men were forming silent circles in the park after dark. The erotic charge didn’t come from touch, but from simply seeing and being seen.

Up on the blog today, Oleg explores how a new kind of voyeurism and exhibitionism has taken shape. Check out our latest bonus piece here: glreview.org/theater-of-desire-cruising-beyond-contact

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Back in 1964, dropping a nickel into a subway restroom door unlocked a secret side of New York City. For our latest Here...
09/18/2026

Back in 1964, dropping a nickel into a subway restroom door unlocked a secret side of New York City. For our latest Here’s My Story column, art curator and adult filmmaker Phil Tarley looks back on decades of underground q***r life. From marking up a subway map as a curious teen to chasing illicit encounters during a Queens Plaza thunderstorm, he proves that sometimes, “learning from the subways of Manhattan is the best class in the world.”

Read his story here: glreview.org/underground-s*x-in-the-new-york-subway

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What really happened in Brooklyn on August 22, 1972?“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975) may be a Hollywood classic, but the true ...
09/17/2026

What really happened in Brooklyn on August 22, 1972?

“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975) may be a Hollywood classic, but the true story of John Wojtowicz, his transgender wife Liz Eden, and the 14-hour bank robbery that captivated the nation is much more complex than what we saw on screen.

In our latest issue, Max Phillips reviews two new books, “Dog’s Day” by Matthew J. Prigge (Counterpoint Press) and “Born to Lose” by Rachel Walther (Headpress Publishing), that dig into the real facts behind the film.

Read it in print or online today: glreview.org/article/a-dog-day-in-the-making

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