Diane Anderson-Minshall and Jacob Anderson-Minshall are award-winning writers, social change activists and media personalities, currently living Portland, Oregon. Co-conspirators in...
Several writers/activists or writing-related nonprofits are among the recipients of the 2010 Monette-Horwitz Trust Award for work in support of...
Julie R. Enszer was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1970, where she became an avid reader of poetry at a...
Book Buzz is a monthly column of news and noteworthy tidbits from the LGBT writing and publishing community. The awards...
"I write to keep from going completely insane. First and foremost, I wanted The Drama of AIDS to be a testament to Robert Chesley and James Carroll Pickett. For whatever reason, I've stayed alive and they died tragically young. It felt like my responsibility to chart the amazing endurance of these two significant pieces of theatre (I refuse to call them "gay plays")." Read More
Book Buzz is a monthly column of news and noteworthy tidbits from the LGBT writing and publishing community. Read More
I've never really thought about lesbianism having a special role in my fiction. Lesbians are people; my books are about people; therefore, there are likely to be lesbians in my books. (Sometimes these people are nonhuman, which is a different complex of problems, but that’s not germane to the point of the question.) I’m deeply suspicious of identity politics, having grown up in a radically separatist household and experienced it as a toxic paradigm. Read More
The American Library Association has announced its 2010 Stonewall Book Awards, given annually to English-language LGBT books of exceptional merit:...
One night, I spotted a story list on the day city editor's overnight spike about a series on gay life in Ottawa – the orgiastic baths, the salacious parks, the feverish sex, the nightmare of exposure... nothing positive. So I proposed a first-person piece about how good gay life could be, and had been for me, as a balance. ...For a long time after teens and young adults were "coming out" to me on the streets and in letters sent to me at the paper. Read More
News and noteworthy tidbits from the LGBT writing and publishing community. Read More
