Interviews Archives

March 9, 2017 3 min read

"[...] the issue isn’t really about understanding transgender and gender nonconforming people, so much as it’s about respecting us and trusting us as experts on ourselves." Read More

Gabby Rivera on Writing a Queer Superhero

Edit Team

Interviews

March 4, 2017 5 min read

"Comic writing is a way for me to channel that daydreamy weirdo side and create art." Read More

Katie Freeman, Riverhead Executive Publicist, Talks ‘Boy Erased’ and Conversion Therapy

Monica Carter

Interviews

February 27, 2017 4 min read

This is our first interview in a series that shines a spotlight on the publishers donating to the program. Riverhead...

Melissa Febos: On Writing with Curiosity and Empathy

Rachel M. Simon

Interviews

February 26, 2017 8 min read

"I think in broad strokes, reductively, romantically, generally, and only through writing do I begin to exfoliate my ideas and experiences to get at some more honest, more nuanced meaning." Read More

Tim Jones-Yelvington: On the Joys of Melodrama

M./Maybe Henry Milks

Interviews

February 15, 2017 10 min read

"Outsized emotions and shocking, arbitrary plot twists remind what it feels like to be a rageful, shameful, obsessive and infatuated queer boy." Read More

Kay Ulanday Barrett: On Dancing it Out, Revising Masculinity, and Poetry as Testimony

H. Melt

Interviews

January 10, 2017 12 min read

"I want for people to have some sort of archive of their dance, night, poetry, and art spaces. I want us to remember what keeps/kept us alive when the rainbow flags and assimilation try to steamroll over the complexity of our lives." Read More

Philip Dean Walker: On 1980s Nostalgia, Listening to Sylvester, and Writing a Themed Collection

Craig Gidney

Interviews

January 2, 2017 6 min read

"It's interesting to me how much of an '80s revivalism is going on right now so it definitely is not only me who's intrigued and inspired [by the era]." Read More

Cartoonist Ed Luce on Creating Comics and Promoting Body Positivity

Cathy Camper

Interviews

December 20, 2016 8 min read

"I'm still dedicated to writing and drawing stories that I haven't really seen in comics, especially queer comics, that I think need to exist." Read More

Wrestling with Gods and Monsters: In Conversation with Michael Thomas Ford

Vince Liaguno

Interviews

December 6, 2016 15 min read

"The best horror stories, in my opinion, takes characters and somehow makes their secure worlds suddenly insecure, even deadly. Unfortunately, this is something many queer people can relate to from personal experience." Read More

Editor and Author in Conversation: Don Weise and Michael Ward on the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic

Donald Weise

Interviews

November 30, 2016 5 min read

Retired psychotherapist Michael Ward has written a memoir, The Sea Is Quiet Tonight [published on Don Weise’s imprint Querelle Press-Ed.], about 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

The Queerness of Robots

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 Gino on Writing Trans Middle-Grade Fiction

Gabby Rivera on Writing a Queer Superhero

Katie Freeman, Riverhead Executive Publicist, Talks ‘Boy Erased’ and Conversion Therapy

Melissa Febos: On Writing with Curiosity and Empathy

Tim Jones-Yelvington: On the Joys of Melodrama

Kay Ulanday Barrett: On Dancing it Out, Revising Masculinity, and Poetry as Testimony

Philip Dean Walker: On 1980s Nostalgia, Listening to Sylvester, and Writing a Themed Collection

Cartoonist Ed Luce on Creating Comics and Promoting Body Positivity

Wrestling with Gods and Monsters: In Conversation with Michael Thomas Ford

Editor and Author in Conversation: Don Weise and Michael Ward on the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic

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