“It’s a blessing and a curse, this business of writing about everything that challenges, confounds, or embarrasses me.  Contrary to how it must seem, it actually springs from an aversion to self-reflection. If I didn’t write about my life, I would never understand what the hell was happening.” “The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT … Continue reading The Banal and The Profane: Melissa Febos