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October 5, 2010 1 min read

Kicking off this month’s Poetry Spotlight, a timely poem from Alex Dimitrov....

Don Weise Wishes Alyson the Best

October 4, 2010 1 min read

Publisher Exits Gracefully On October 1st, 2010, Alyson Books publisher Don Weise said that he had terminated discussions with Here...

Book Buzz: October 2010

John Morgan Wilson

Book Buzz

October 3, 2010 6 min read

The unrelated September suicides in the U.S. of at least three boys—aged 13 to 15, which are all linked to...

Vanessa Libertad Garcia, “The B Job”

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

September 30, 2010 1 min read

This week we’re featuring work by two poets in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Today’s poem is by Vanessa Libertad...

Remembering Ralph Vicinanza

Edit Team

Remembrances

September 29, 2010 1 min read

His agency has provided a formal obituary, which reads in part: “Ralph M. Vicinanza, literary agent, died suddenly at his...

Remembering A Lesbian Legend

Victoria Brownworth

Remembrances

September 29, 2010 5 min read

Jill Johnston died from complications of a stroke on September 18, 2010. Her death was announced September 19 by her...

Charlie Vázquez, “Bronx Dharma”

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

September 28, 2010 2 min read

This week we’re featuring work by two poets in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. To begin, a poem by Charlie...

Remembering Jill Johnston

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

Remembrances

September 24, 2010 1 min read

Village Voice columnist and pioneering author, Jill Johnston (Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution) died last week at age 81 of...

Marilyn Hacker, “Days of 1994: Alexandrians”

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

September 23, 2010 2 min read

This week’s poem comes to us from Marilyn Hacker’s 2000 collection Squares and Courtyards (W.W. Norton & Co.), winner of the...

GunnShots: Fall 2010

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Features

September 21, 2010 5 min read

As of mid-September, I have read 68 gay and M/M crime novels that appeared in print in 2010. Given the...

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

Real Lesbian Sex, ‘American Psycho: The Musical,’ the Miley Cyrus Apocalypse, and other LGBT News

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

Alex Dimitrov, “James Franco”

Don Weise Wishes Alyson the Best

Book Buzz: October 2010

Vanessa Libertad Garcia, “The B Job”

Remembering Ralph Vicinanza

Remembering A Lesbian Legend

Charlie Vázquez, “Bronx Dharma”

Remembering Jill Johnston

Marilyn Hacker, “Days of 1994: Alexandrians”

GunnShots: Fall 2010

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