Opinion Archives

August 28, 2018 9 min read

David Wojnarowicz wanted us to see beneath the American dream—all of the grotesque hypocrisy and all of the promise—and begin to rebuild something better Read More

Remembering the Life and Work of Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Julie R. Enszer

Opinion

August 22, 2018 19 min read

Kaye/Kantrowitz’s ideas and contributions were made both on the page and in the world of political activism Read More

Navigating Sleepless Nights in LA: A Week in the Life of North Morgan

Edit Team

Opinion

August 5, 2018 11 min read

"[...] I’m currently in the process of writing a new book, so where am I going to get the inspiration if I don’t throw myself into absurd, ridiculous, and borderline dangerous circumstances?" Read More

The Queerness of Robots

Margaret Rhee

Opinion

July 25, 2018 6 min read

"If we can think of queerness as the embracing of, and celebration of non-normativity, science fiction can also offer new queer ways of thinking" Read More

Lying With Women: Meditations on Barrie Jean Borich’s Writing, Lesbians, and Liberation

Julie R. Enszer

Features

July 22, 2018 26 min read

"Sexuality, both the sexuality of the body and the sexuality of the mind, inform the geography about which Borich writes." Read More

A Look at the Film Adaptation of ‘We the Animals’

Sarah Fonseca

Film

July 12, 2018 4 min read

"It’s a pleasure to see Justin Torres’ quiet wisdom brought to visual life." Read More

A Note From Sue Landers, Lambda Literary’s New Executive Director

Sue Landers

Opinion

July 10, 2018 1 min read

"I'm honored to serve the LGBTQ community in this critical moment" Read More

A New Way of Living

Jericho Brown

Opinion

April 3, 2018 4 min read

"[...] our love of the immortality of poems can be dangerous if it narrows our aspirations as poets and if it narrows our ideas about what a poem can do." Read More

“Whatever Doesn’t Stick to Your Body is a Word”

Rachel Levitsky

Opinion

March 14, 2018 5 min read

"Trauma (+post-traumatic trauma) is a physical fact of one no longer being as they were before. You can’t do what you used to do and you no longer derive happiness from that which was pleasurable before." Read More

Queering The MFA: Author Sassafras Lowrey Discusses How to Pick a Program

Sassafras Lowrey

Opinion

March 8, 2018 5 min read

"Are you thinking about applying to an MFA program? Concerned about queer writing being taken seriously? My biggest advice is to figure out what is most important to you in your graduate studies." 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

Deafen the Satellites: David Wojnarowicz at the Whitney

Remembering the Life and Work of Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Navigating Sleepless Nights in LA: A Week in the Life of North Morgan

The Queerness of Robots

Lying With Women: Meditations on Barrie Jean Borich’s Writing, Lesbians, and Liberation

A Look at the Film Adaptation of ‘We the Animals’

A Note From Sue Landers, Lambda Literary’s New Executive Director

A New Way of Living

“Whatever Doesn’t Stick to Your Body is a Word”

Queering The MFA: Author Sassafras Lowrey Discusses How to Pick a Program

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