Happy #NationalComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈 Observed every October 11, it celebrates #LGBTQ+ people who live openly & supports those #comingout. Founded in 1988, it began in 18 states & spread to all 50 by 1990. Head over to glreview.org to know more #queerhistory.

Spring 1947: #TennesseeWilliams meets a young #MarlonBrando. The rest is #theaterhistory. Read our review of the #Chicago production of #Kowalski, a play imagining the rapid-fire flirtations and barbed zingers of this legendary encounter: glreview.org/the-unkindness-of-strangers

#Broadway legend #MichaelBennett is a 2026 #LGBTHistoryIcon!

Explore his legacy and Philip Dean Walker’s “Better Davis and Other Stories,” which reconstructs the dawn of the #AIDS crisis through fictionalized vignettes, including Bennett’s perspective: glreview.org/53692-2

It’s #BannedBooksWeek, so we returned to Gianna Holiday’s July/August 2025 essay on modern censorship. She breaks down the history of book bans and details the political motives behind targets on historically marginalized stories: glreview.org/article/banning-books-is-back-in-fashion

Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth! We’re thrilled that EqualityForum.com has named photographer #AlvinBaltrop a 2026 #LGBTHistoryIcon. In the 70s, Baltrop captured a long-vanished #queer subculture along #LowerManhattan’s derelict piers: glreview.org/article/scenes-from-the-golden-age-of-promiscuity

How did a volcanic temper and no fashion sense yield the genius of #StephenSondheim? #AndrewHolleran explores the life, lovers, and lyrics of the #Americanstage revolutionary in our latest issue: glreview.org/article/sondheims-way-with-words

In the ‘90s, #PalmSprings’ #WarmSands neighborhood was a thriving #gaycruising hub. Then came the 2009 police stings. Matthew Bamberg details the aggressive crackdowns and the anti-gay scandal that forced the police chief to resign: glreview.org/policing-public-sex-in-palm-springs

From runway to wrestling ring! Season 17 #DragRace alum @arriettytheelf.bsky.social spills the tea on life after the show. For #HispanicHeritageMonth, the #MexicanAmerican #dragwrestler talks #bicultural roots & why she’s ready for #AllStars: glreview.org/drag-race-contestant-arrietty-spills-the-tea

October is #LGBTQHistoryMonth! 🏳️‍🌈 Missouri teacher Rodney Wilson started the tradition in 1994 to elevate #queerhistory and align with #NationalComingOutDay. EqualityForum.com just announced its 31 #LGBTIcons for 2026. Watch this space, or visit www.glreview.org to read our archives!

#TrumanCapote was #BOTD 102 years ago. He shook up the literary world with razor-sharp prose and became a gay icon long before the modern #LGBTQ+ movement. Regular contributor Daniel Burr explores this complicated legacy in our #archives: glreview.org/article/capotes-legacy-on-the-line

The Gay & Lesbian Review @glreview.bsky.social is open for submissions. Send your personal essays to the Here’s My Story column, or submit poetry that reflects queer life and experience. buff.ly/a5uY0Yl

#lgbtqwriters #queerstories #poetrycommunity

Tired of the “U-Haul vs. f**kboi” binary? Us too. Julia Colborn explores the myth of #lesbian #cruising and the nuanced, emotionally driven ways #queer #women actually connect. Casual intimacy isn’t just a #hookup; it’s often how they bond: glreview.org/article/what-some-women-want

Campus #sexualassault seminars rarely include #LGBTQ+ students. Prevention educator Dimitrios Aletras Jr. breaks down how this blind spot leaves #trans & #nonbinary survivors to face the aftermath alone: glreview.org/the-lgbtq-students-no-one-warns

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Longtime G&LR contributor Irene Javors has co-written a new play, “Dreamers at the Precipice,” premiering in New York City! Catch this 75-minute show at the ADA-accessible Chain Theatre (312 W 36th St).

Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/dreamers-at-the-precipice-tickets-2000664852430

In 1938, a #Pasadena police sting targeted 29 men. Courts offered them a choice: hard labor or experimental hormone treatments meant to “cure” them. Contributor Denny Nivens uncovers this chilling history in our latest issue: glreview.org/article/a-cure-for-public-sex-in-pasadena

A fierce advocate, a #marriageequality trailblazer, & a dear friend. Today on The G&LR Blog, Matthew Hays honors the life of #MichaelHendricks, the ACT UP Montréal co-founder whose activism & loud, raucous laugh changed #LGBTQ+ history: glreview.org/remembering-a-pioneer-in-lgbtq-activism

To cap off #BiWeek & #CelebrateBisexualityDay, we’re revisiting our 2024 review of “Bitter Crop.” @reggieh.bsky.social tackles compelling archival evidence of Billie Holiday’s relationships with women & her lifelong unwillingness to hide who she was: glreview.org/article/lady-day-of-the-night

Happy #DearDiaryDay! Our archive at www.glreview.org is packed with essays & reviews on #LGBTQ+ #diarists, from #VirginiaWoolf & #YukioMishima to #AudreLorde & #ChristopherIsherwood. Who’s your favorite #queer #diarist & what’s your favorite journal of theirs? 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Happy #BiWeek! 💖💜💙 Why is it so hard for our culture to wrap its head around bisexuality? In our July–August 2005 issue, journalist @fairyington.bsky.social confronted how the persistent “hetero-homo dichotomy” marginalizes bi identities: glreview.org/article/article-1129

During the pandemic, Oleg Olizev noticed a shift in #cruising: men forming silent circles in the park. The erotic charge came from seeing and being seen, not touch. Read it on our blog today: glreview.org/theater-of-desire-cruising-beyond-contact