Features Archives

July 26, 2010 11 min read

In less than two weeks, 33 of our most talented emerging writers representing every region in the U.S. (15 states!)...

Keith Boykin Remembers E. Lynn Harris

Keith Boykin

Remembrances

July 26, 2010 1 min read

I first met E. Lynn Harris around 1994 when he was a slightly insecure young new writer with a dream....

James Earl Hardy Remembers E. Lynn Harris

James Earl Hardy

Remembrances

July 21, 2010 1 min read

Too many people believed we were rivals; that had more to do with their buying into the very racist and...

What I’m Reading

Gabriel Bloomfield

Features

July 21, 2010 1 min read

I’m finally getting to a book that’s been on my list for a while, The First Verse by Barry McCrea. It was...

Just As He Was: E. Lynn Harris

Saeed Jones

Remembrances

July 19, 2010 2 min read

Only just now, I’ve begun to realize that my life as a reader and writer was already laid out for...

L. Lamar Wilson Remembers E. Lynn Harris

L. Lamar Wilson

Remembrances

July 19, 2010 1 min read

James Baldwin was the first writer I encountered who showed me the timeless power that fearlessness on the page has....

Nathaniel Frank Testifies in DADT Trial

Edit Team

News

July 16, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award finalist, Nathaniel Frank, was designated as the first expert witness for a historic Constitutional challenge to the military’s...

What I’m Reading? ‘Delta of Venus’

Jameson Fitzpatrick

Features

July 16, 2010 1 min read

Right now I’m working my way through Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus—the pièce de résistance of all erotic literature. It’s...

Five Poets Who Changed My Life

Sinclair Sexsmith

5 Poets

July 15, 2010 4 min read

MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you will do/with your one wild and precious life? —”The Summer Day” So...

Matt Smith in ‘Christopher & His Kind’

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

News

July 14, 2010 1 min read

27-year-old Matt Smith, best known to spec fans as Dr. Who, will play Christopher Isherwood in a new BBC biopic...

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

‘Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform’ edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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

Introducing The Class of 2010: Emerging LGBT Voices

Keith Boykin Remembers E. Lynn Harris

James Earl Hardy Remembers E. Lynn Harris

What I’m Reading

Just As He Was: E. Lynn Harris

L. Lamar Wilson Remembers E. Lynn Harris

Nathaniel Frank Testifies in DADT Trial

What I’m Reading? ‘Delta of Venus’

Five Poets Who Changed My Life

Matt Smith in ‘Christopher & His Kind’

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