On Writing Gay Characters in Thrillers Timothy Jay Smith Opinion July 22, 2020 5 min readWhen I started writing novels with gay characters, it wasn’t a revolutionary act in American literature. That revolution, brilliantly documented...
A Conversation with In the Dream House Leo Rachman Features July 17, 2020 11 min readHouse idioms and their variants, in fact, often signify the opposite of safety and security. If something is a house...
David Wojnarowicz’s Writing Offers a Call to Action Nadia Niva Features July 15, 2020 12 min read“I’m trying to lift off the weight of the preinvented world so I can see what’s underneath it all.” —David...
J.K. Rowling, Neil Gorsuch, and Biological Essentialism Olive Maurstad Features July 14, 2020 8 min readThe day the Supreme Court ruled on R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a...
My Gender is “Predestined”: Queer Tabletop Role-playing Games Sarah Donnelly Features July 13, 2020 4 min readHere is an image: three college students sit sprawled on couches in a dormitory common room. Papers cover the coffee...
How Queer Witches Helped Me Come Out Hanna Schoenbaum Features July 9, 2020 4 min readBack in the summer of 2011, an awkward 14 year old me was sitting on the Stockholm City Commuter rail...
Dead Lesbian Poets: A Meditation in Six Parts Julie R. Enszer Features July 8, 2020 25 min read“Song is a persuasive thing: let girls learn to sing…”“Sappho to Phaon,” Ovid, translated by Judith P. Hallett I. Leucadian...
Sex, Gossip, and Spirituality: Christopher Isherwood Through the Ages Christopher Bram Features June 11, 2020 10 min readThe following essay, “A Fan’s Notes” is from Isherwood in Transit edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman. I belong...
Choreographer Joshua Peugh on the Power of LGBTQ Literature Joshua Peugh Features June 9, 2020 5 min readLiterature is important. As a little boy born and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico (a small, conservative desert town)...
In Light of Recent Events in Minneapolis, Listen to this ‘Letter to White America’ Edit Team Features May 29, 2020 1 min readIn light of recent events in Minneapolis, this poem from Lambda Literary Award winning poet Danez Smith is particularly relevant....
