Opinion Archives

June 11, 2015 8 min read

"To put yourself out there constantly, in newspapers, film and social media, requires nerves of steel. It also requires a stubborn set of values and a strong sense of self." Read More

Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Poet Danez Smith

William Johnson

Features Opinion

May 20, 2015 6 min read

"My best friend (who is a liberal like myself) just started dating a Republican." Read More

On Plague and the Queer Art of Absurdist History: Larry Kramer’s ‘The American People’

Dan Lopez

Fiction

May 19, 2015 6 min read

As much as The American People purports to historical authenticity, Kramer’s tome is primarily a masterpiece of the queer art of legend making, a natural byproduct of our occluded historical visibility Read More

Doug Ireland: Remembering a Radical Voice

Donald Weise

Features Opinion

May 18, 2015 9 min read

Doug wrote extensively and compassionately on sexual and racial equality, the rights of the poor, immigrants and AIDS, though admittedly, his writing was more often used as a sledgehammer against injustice than it was as a valentine to friends Read More

The Banal and the Profane: Michael Broder

William Johnson

Opinion The Banal & the Profane

May 13, 2015 9 min read

"The Black Party was pretty great—a big space with machine-generated fog and deep house music, filled with all sorts of men, including many beautiful ones, wearing very little clothing, dancing, having sex, taking drugs (of which we did not partake), etc." Read More

Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford: An Incomplete Biography

Evelyn White

Features Opinion

April 21, 2015 10 min read

The Houston and Crawford story speaks to the power of black female love (intimate or platonic) and the heights such unions can scale Read More

The Banal and the Profane: Nick Sumida

William Johnson

Features Opinion

April 10, 2015 10 min read

"I have to give myself permission to turn my brain off and relax when I can, which usually translates to me eating gummy bears and re-watching Buffy episodes while live-tweeting about the outfits." Read More

Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Author Ayana Mathis

William Johnson

Features Opinion

March 28, 2015 4 min read

"What is the best way to handle being a new slightly lonely lesbian in the big city?" Read More

The Banal and the Profane: Frederick Smith

William Johnson

Features Opinion The Banal & the Profane

February 24, 2015 13 min read

"Writing a book takes time and money. I’d like consumers—whether they’re friends, family or otherwise—to treat writers with the same respect as other workers and artists who produce a product." Read More

Dancing with Audre Lorde: A Lesbian Memory

Victoria Brownworth

Opinion

February 22, 2015 17 min read

Audre Lorde described herself as “Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother,” but repeatedly said that description was not enough to capture and hold her complete identity. Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Pauline: Poet Jee Leong Koh on Writer and Activist Pauline Park

Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Poet Danez Smith

On Plague and the Queer Art of Absurdist History: Larry Kramer’s ‘The American People’

Doug Ireland: Remembering a Radical Voice

The Banal and the Profane: Michael Broder

Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford: An Incomplete Biography

The Banal and the Profane: Nick Sumida

Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Author Ayana Mathis

The Banal and the Profane: Frederick Smith

Dancing with Audre Lorde: A Lesbian Memory

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta