"[...] gay activist-leaders of the old school can be tough and enduring (Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny among them), and Harry was no exception." Read More
The end of a chapter in LGBT literary history. Read More
I’ll cut to the chase: This opinion piece is primarily a plea with everyone to stop the snotty, highbrow judgments...
"There is something melodic and meditative about Gertrude Stein’s writing, in both its lexical simplicity and repetition..." Read More
Katherine Forrest is one of our iconic lesbian mystery novelists and Kate Delafield was our first out lesbian detective. Read More
Aside from the lgbt books that crossed my path recently, one book, The Lives of Angels by Emanuel Swedenborg, caused...
"A parking ticket in the morning always feels portentous. Is this going to be a 'bad day?' or, since it’s Monday, a bad week? As if there were such a thing. I eat good food, I hang out with friends. But a parking ticket is the flash of a hex." Read More
Acclaimed actor Ben Gazzara died two years ago this month. Magnus Books editor Don Weise recalls working with Gazzara on...
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
"Now a published biographer, I fully understand the perils of the enterprise. So much can (and usually does) go wrong. Indeed, I believe that most biographies are doomed, from jump street, by a mismatch between author and subject." Read More
