“It’s that gay kid in Minnesota, surrounded by people who practice intolerance, who needs to know that there are adults out there rooting for him or her. That was a big motivator for me in writing a gay coming of age story, feeling like there are kids out there who need help..." Read More
'I basically wanted to do a zine that reflected what I was feeling at the time. With Fag School, I hadn’t really seen a zine or at least a personal gay zine that dealt with the difficult subject of gay sex with both humor and frank talk. It covered some real issues. Race, the condom code..." Read More
Gay and lesbians have long had a complex and often conflicted relationship with organized religion, sometimes facing exclusion—or worse. But at the same time there is a long history of gay people trying to understand queerness as a divine gift or turning to spirituality to celebrate their love for each other. Read More
"I must insist on the reality of Jake Yoder's existence. I have no great interest in deceiving anyone--at the same time, I've discovered that you can say anything with a straight face, and somebody will believe it." Read More
"I want readers to find themselves in this novel, to see their own potential for greatness, authenticity, to understand that they are not their mistakes and that others do not have the power to define them unless we give them that power, and to see that there is great power in time and perseverance." Read More
"I’m trying to find my own map to some zone that offers the potential to reclaim simple awareness and curiosity and connection, as well as a devotional kind of re-enchantment of the ordinary in a country where utter disenchantment of the world is the norm." Read More
Fifteen-year-old lesbian activist Amelia Roskin-Frazee who organized her middle school’s first GSA has gone on to found the Make It Safe Project which provides packages of LGBTQ focused books to schools and homeless shelters across the country.
Lambda caught up with Amelia to talk with her about the Make it Safe project, her involvement in LGBTQ activism, and the role books play in the coming out process. Read More
"I’m really afraid of repeating myself or writing a book that just doesn’t need to exist for me. I don’t want to get to the point where I’m just writing stuff, where everybody’s like, 'here’s another one of these stupid books...' Read More
"We should all use time machines to go back and tell ourselves how cute we are in our twenties because everyone is, but we won't realize it until we're middle-aged."
With his new novel, Remembrance of Things I Forgot (University of Wisconsin Press), author Bob Smith becomes the ultimate genre mixer. The book is a time-traveling yarn, a political farce, a comedic examination of our recent past, and a heartrending tale of familial and romantic love.
Smith took some time to talk with Lambda Literary about his new novel, comedy writing and his own 80s past. Read More
"I tend to write about people, who like myself to some degree, are loners by temperament, or live in their own sort of imaginative world. I think I tended to do that a fair bit actually. That has more interest to me than writing a happy love story..."
Lambda talks with Alan Hollinghurst about poetry, publishing, love, money and, of course, beauty. Read More
