Interviews Archives

December 28, 2014 4 min read

"So many twenty-somethings I know view themselves as broken or busted beyond repair. The truth is we all have something, or things, that are not quite right inside of us." Read More

Biographer James Gavin on Peggy Lee: Diva and Gay Icon

Jamie Brickhouse

Features Interviews

December 14, 2014 14 min read

"Even though she mythologized herself to an extravagant degree and made up a lot of stuff, I don’t think she ever sang an untrue word or feeling. I don’t know a more honest singer than Peggy Lee." Read More

Daisy Hernández on Writing a Memoir, Bisexuality, and “The Kiss of Death”

Julie R. Enszer

Interviews

December 7, 2014 8 min read

"I was in my mid-twenties, dating women, realizing I was bisexual and feeling like I didn’t have a road map. Writing about my own life was my attempt to answer the questions I had." Read More

Christopher Hennessy: On Interviewing Acclaimed Gay Poets and the Tradition of Queer Poetry

Blake Campbell

Interviews

December 3, 2014 18 min read

Poet Christopher Hennessy discusses his latest book and the shaping of his own personal poetics. Read More

Tommaso Speretta on His New Book ‘REBELS REBEL: AIDS, Art, and Activism in New York 1979-1989’

Theodore Kerr

Art Interviews

November 25, 2014 13 min read

"I think that we’re currently witnessing a reborn interest in the work done by activist artists and artists in protest, especially in relation to AIDS." Read More

MB Caschetta: On Her New Novel ‘Miracle Girls,’ Being an Early Member of ACT UP, and Writing as Redemption

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

November 16, 2014 8 min read

"[...] it does always take me aback for a second when someone points out the darkness of my writing. To me, this novel has so much light and redemption in it." Read More

Lypsinka on Performing a New Set of Shows and the Legacy of the East Village Performance Art Scene

Frank Pizzoli

Interviews

November 9, 2014 8 min read

"I soon realized that this scene was the 80s equivalent of the Continental Baths phenomena..." Read More

Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Tom Cardamone

Features

November 6, 2014 11 min read

"I joined Open Road to among other things help build out the catalog of LGBT books." Read More

Christopher Rice: On His New Novel ‘The Vines,’ the Gay Appeal of the Horror Genre, and Writing Supernatural Thrillers

Vince Liaguno

Interviews

October 30, 2014 11 min read

"Ultimately, a book's structure is going to determine the writing process, not its genre." Read More

In Conversation: Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek

Edit Team

Features Interviews

October 28, 2014 10 min read

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the release of each of their first books of poetry, Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek have a discussion about their collections, focusing on the themes and styles in their work. 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

A Poem by Octavio R. González

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

Author Justin Luke Zirilli on Surviving Your Gay Twenties

Biographer James Gavin on Peggy Lee: Diva and Gay Icon

Daisy Hernández on Writing a Memoir, Bisexuality, and “The Kiss of Death”

Christopher Hennessy: On Interviewing Acclaimed Gay Poets and the Tradition of Queer Poetry

MB Caschetta: On Her New Novel ‘Miracle Girls,’ Being an Early Member of ACT UP, and Writing as Redemption

Lypsinka on Performing a New Set of Shows and the Legacy of the East Village Performance Art Scene

Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Christopher Rice: On His New Novel ‘The Vines,’ the Gay Appeal of the Horror Genre, and Writing Supernatural Thrillers

In Conversation: Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek

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