Having read so many of his novels, I was well-versed with the world of the closet that he wrote about. But I soon discovered that being his reader and being his editor were two different experiences. Read More
“A strange den or music room childhood” –Frank O’Hara Mother works at the Aurora Family Care Center, a low...
The Rowling affair has raised the specter of women’s literary past in which the pseudonym was no mere whimsy, but essential to being taken seriously as a writer or even being published at all. Read More
"The Uncanny X-Men offered me a path forward before I even knew I needed one; each of them had to come to terms with the fact that their supposed curse was a blessing." Read More
“I can get caught up in details and miss the big picture. A face without a body, a body without...
"Despite our sincerest yearnings we remain simple mortals with more mundane abilities. My power turned out to be queerness, an inherent difference that allowed me to question that which often goes unquestioned in society." Read More
"Comics aren’t text and visuals mushed together any more than my sexuality simply combines homo- and heterosexual tendencies." Read More
This week the Lambda Literary Review honors the impact comic books and graphic novels have had on our lives.
To start off Lambda Literary Comic Book week, here's what some of today's most prominent LGBTQ graphic novelists and artists (Howard Cruse, Ellen Forney, Phil Jimenez, Rachel Pollack, and more) had to say about the comic books that have inspired them... Read More
“…good writing—good fiction—begins with an idea. And this idea has to have a soul, a pulse, a heartbeat; it has...
Kate Bornstein’s memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, hereafter QPD, featured as the capstone of my “American Literature” course last...
