Opinion Archives

Navigating Dating and Apartment Hunting in New York City: A Week in the Life of De’Shawn Charles Winslow

November 13, 2018 11 min read

"I don’t have a conventional, full-time job. In NYC, that’s like saying to a landlord: 'I light fires in buildings.' Makes them just a lil nervous." Read More

Queer Eye for the Chainsaw Guy: A Five-Part Love Letter to Horror

Carson Beker

Opinion

October 30, 2018 8 min read

"This is a bleeding nonmonogamous conditional love letter to the queer art that is horror in film, art, and literature..." Read More

Blacklight: First Installment in a New Gay Cozy Series has Serious Cat-titude

John Copenhaver

Mystery

October 30, 2018 2 min read

FlabberGassed: A Mister Puss Mystery features the clever and dashing gay architect Brody Norris, as an amateur detective Read More

Countdown to LGBTQ Horror: Eleven Scary Reads for Halloween

Steve Berman

Opinion

October 24, 2018 7 min read

With Halloween around the corner, here are eleven suggestions in order of escalating frights Read More

We Will Not Be Erased! Support Trans Storytellers!

Edit Team

Opinion

October 23, 2018 1 min read

Our stories are a weapon against erasure. They offer road maps to living and surviving. Read More

Five Unconventional Queer Horror Films to Fright and Delight this Halloween

Vince Liaguno

Features

October 21, 2018 7 min read

Check out this list of five queer book-to-film adaptations Read More

Personal Advice from Missouri Vaun: Help! Should I Come Out to My Conservative Parents?

Edit Team

Opinion

October 10, 2018 5 min read

"Do you think it is important to come out to your parents?" Read More

Navigating Monsters and Our Challenging Times: A Week in the Life of Thomas Page McBee

Edit Team

Opinion

October 2, 2018 12 min read

"I have been thinking a lot about suspense lately, and monsters. It is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but mostly it is that we live in an age of monstrosity..." Read More

Reflections on Black Gay Literature

Edit Team

Interviews

September 25, 2018 6 min read

"Those of us who are black and queer still live behind two veils sometimes, and we encounter a lot of the problems W.E.B. DuBois discussed over a century ago [...]" Read More

Personal Advice from Lucy Jane Bledsoe: Help! How do You Tell Someone They are Bad in Bed?

Edit Team

Opinion

September 9, 2018 5 min read

"Sex talk is hard!" 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

Navigating Dating and Apartment Hunting in New York City: A Week in the Life of De’Shawn Charles Winslow

Queer Eye for the Chainsaw Guy: A Five-Part Love Letter to Horror

Blacklight: First Installment in a New Gay Cozy Series has Serious Cat-titude

Countdown to LGBTQ Horror: Eleven Scary Reads for Halloween

We Will Not Be Erased! Support Trans Storytellers!

Five Unconventional Queer Horror Films to Fright and Delight this Halloween

Personal Advice from Missouri Vaun: Help! Should I Come Out to My Conservative Parents?

Navigating Monsters and Our Challenging Times: A Week in the Life of Thomas Page McBee

Reflections on Black Gay Literature

Personal Advice from Lucy Jane Bledsoe: Help! How do You Tell Someone They are Bad in Bed?

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