The Gay & Lesbian Re view September–October 2016 •VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 5 WORLDWIDE The Gay&Lesbian Review® WORLDWIDE PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118 CONTENTS Editor-in-Chief and Founder RICHARD SCHNEIDER JR. ____________________________________ Literary Editor MARTHA E. STONE FEATURES Poetry Editor DAVID BERGMAN All 3 Branches at Stake in November 10 B ARNEY FRANK Associate Editors Clinton and Trump offer starkly different futures for GLBT rights JIM FARLEY, LEWIS GANNETT, CHRISTO- PHER HENNESSY, MICHAEL SCHWARTZ HIV Survivors and the ’16 Election 12 B RIAN BROMBERGER Contributing Writers The stakes are especially high for one slice of the gay community ROSEMARY BOOTH , DANIEL BURR , RICHARD CANNING, COLIN CARMAN , ALFRED CORN , Can the GLB Vote Swing an Election? 15 W ENDY FENWICK ALLEN ELLENZWEIG , CHRIS FREEMAN , MAT- THEW HAYS , ANDREW HOLLERAN , CASSANDRA Exit polls back to 1992 chart the making of a voting bloc LANGER,ANDREW LEAR, DAVID MASELLO , JIM NAWROCKI , JAMES POLCHIN , VERNON Straight Abe: Back Like a Bad Penny 17 L EWIS GANNETT ROSARIO, HEATHER SEGGEL , YOAV SIVAN A new book cooks up a novel defense of Lincoln’s heterosexuality Contributing Artist Prin CHARLES HEFLING ce’s Legacy: “Set your mind free” 20 J. K EN STUCKEY Advertising Manager The late singer never stopped messing with gender boundaries STEPHEN HEMRICK The Lure of the Muscular Male 24 D ON GORTON Webmaster WWW.STRATEGYBEACH.COM Evolutionary psychology helps explain why we work out ____________________________________ Board of Directors All the Lonely Artists 27 A NDREW HOLLERAN STEWART CLIFFORD (CHAIRMAN) From Warhol to Wojnarowicz, Olivia Laing finds alienation ART COHEN WARREN GOLDFARB (SENIOR ADVISOR ) DONALD GORTON (CLERK) DIANE HAMER REVIEWS TED HIGGINSON ROBERT HARDMAN Wendy Doniger — Redeeming the Kamasutra 30 VERNON ROSARIO ROBERT NICOSON Dagon James, editor — Billy Name: The Silver Age 32 MATTHEW HAYS RICHARD SCHNEIDER,JR.(PRESIDENT) MARTHA E. S TONE Felix Bernstein — Burn Book 33 DAVID BERGMAN THOMAS YOUNGREN (TREASURER) Theodore Winthrop — Cecil Dreeme: A Novel 35 RICHARD CANNING Friends of The Review Maureen Honey — Aphrodite’s Daughters 36 DALE BOYER LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Michael Reynolds, ed. — Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles 38 JIM NAWROCKI Robert Hardman James Hess BENEFACTORS Melinda McKeon — Tender: A Novel 39 ROSEMARY BOOTH Eric Anderson & Roger Beck Seth Grosshandler Abdella Taïa — Infidels 40 ALLEN ELLENZWEIG Stewart Clifford & Tim Wainwright Edward Godbersen Louis Wiley, Jr. Bei Tong — Beijing Comrades 40 MARTHA MILLER SPONSORS Darryl Pinckney — Black Deutschland 41 CHARLES GREEN Richard Alther Robert Florand Robert Nicoson Michael Barrett John Gearrity Larry Palmer Martin Pousson — Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories 42 JEFF MCMAHON Daniel Campbell Thomas Gerber Daniel A. Pavsek, PhD Michael Carson Robert Giron John Pence Mary L. Gray, et al. — Queering the Countryside 43 JEAN ROBERTA Robert Cloud James Hendrick Jan Schoenhaus Art Cohen Ted Higginson Ron Seidle Jane Eaton Hamilton — Weekend 43 HEATHER SEGGEL Samuel D. Brown Michael Jarvis & Fred Vega Gary Domann Gary W. Jung Richard C Snider Jazz Jennings — Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen 44 TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Stephen Driscoll Dr. John R. Kirk Robert Tinkler Martin Duberman David LaFontaine Kenneth R. Trapp BRIEFS 44 Clinton Elliott Dick Land Ray Warman Irv Englander Bill McCarter Roy Wood Neil Armfield, director — Holding the Man (movie) 46 JOHN BURBIDGE David Fertik Mark Mullin George York Michelle Boyaner, director — Packed in a Trunk (movie) 47 MARTHA E. STONE SUPPORTERS Randall Arndt Sterling Giles Richard Meiss Anohni — Hopelessness (album) 50 COLIN CARMAN Michael Averdick Dennis Gilligan Erik Moore Robert Ball III Martin Glynn James Moore Gene Berry Thomas J. Gormly Darryl Moore Donald Blackford James Gother Michael O’Connell POEMS & DEPARTMENTS Bob & Gordon Paul Grzella Dean Papademetriou Jim Brogan Dennis Hall Michael Peterson David Lloyd Brown Alfonso Hernandez Ted Pietras GUEST OPINION — It’s Time to Retire the Word “Homophobia” 5 DON KILHEFNER Victor Carlson TK Herrin Charles Popper James Carnelia Robert Heylmun John Prybot CORRESPONDENCE 6 Robert Christie James-Henry Holland Jon Rupp Gregory Cooper Richard T. Johnson Stephen Russell BTW 8RICHARD SCHNEIDER JR. Frederick Cowan John Johnson Howard Schmuck ARTIST’S PROFILE — Sarah Schulman on Her Latest Provocations 34 CHRIS FREEMAN Michael Cunningham Kent Johnson, PhD Thomas Scott Steven F. Dansky Leonard Keyes Laurence Senelick ART MEMO — The Beatniks Smoldered in 1960 48 DENISE NOE Ford Denise Chris Kilbourne John Shaffner John Desmarteau MD Clay King Donald Milton Smith CULTURAL CALENDAR 49 Suzanne Dreyfus John Knepper Dennis Sondker G. Dryvynsyde Gary Krivy Ron Suleski & J. Lee Alfred D. Duhamel Stewart Landers Jerl Surratt The Gay & Lesbian Review/WORLDWIDE® (formerly The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, 1994-99) is published bimonthly by The Gay & Bradley Edin Charles Marlow John Tederstrom Edward E. Eliot Clayton Marsh Robert Teller Lesbian Review, Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational corporation located in Boston, Mass. Subscription Rates, U.S.: $35.70 per year (6 issues). Thomas Ethington Michael Matthews George Van Pelt Canada and Mexico: $45.70(US). All other countries: $55.70(US). All non-U.S. sent via air mail. Call 844-752-7829. Back issues available Douglas Evans Peter Maxson & Anthony Volponi for $12 each. All correspondence sent in a plain envelope marked “GLR.” © 2016 by The Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. All rights reserved. Frederick Fox John Taylor Thomas Von Foerster Michael Fuller Russell McCurdy Nan Williamson WEBSITE: www.GLReview.org • SUBSCRIPTIONS: 844-752-7829 •ADVERTISING: 617-421-0082 • E-MAIL: [email protected] September–October 2016 3.