Angelou wrote, "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Read More
The end of a chapter in LGBT literary history. Read More
Gabriel García Márquez said of writing that "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." Read More
Katherine Forrest is one of our iconic lesbian mystery novelists and Kate Delafield was our first out lesbian detective. Read More
A Raisin in the Sun was not Lorraine Hansberry’s only work. She did write other things--many other things--including work that displayed the side of her few knew about when A Raisin in the Sun hit Broadway: Hansberry’s lesbian self. Read More
The love of poetry comes early. We learn language most readily in the sing-song meter of rhyme and scan. Poetry...
"We’re writing about new areas of our lives. We have so much more to write about. The first wave was our coming out stories and now we are writing about so many other things. Ours are the only untold stories–it was true then, it’s true now. We’ve invented our lives. It’s just exciting to me, the books yet to be written.” Read More
As world leaders converge on South Africa this week to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, the rest of us are...
“I had to write about Hild because she was so important. She changed the world. Her story demands to be told. She basically midwifed English literature. And there’s no book about this woman. The more I thought about it, the more I thought, well, why?” Read More
"The work of women, and how women live, is still diminished and demeaned, most especially if those women don’t play nice, which Lessing, famously curmudgeonly, did not." Read More