Julie R. Enszer was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1970, where she became an avid reader of poetry at a...
Patricia Nell Warren is as captivating in person as her answers to my questions suggests Read More
"I write to keep from going completely insane. First and foremost, I wanted The Drama of AIDS to be a testament to Robert Chesley and James Carroll Pickett. For whatever reason, I've stayed alive and they died tragically young. It felt like my responsibility to chart the amazing endurance of these two significant pieces of theatre (I refuse to call them "gay plays")." Read More
I've never really thought about lesbianism having a special role in my fiction. Lesbians are people; my books are about people; therefore, there are likely to be lesbians in my books. (Sometimes these people are nonhuman, which is a different complex of problems, but that’s not germane to the point of the question.) I’m deeply suspicious of identity politics, having grown up in a radically separatist household and experienced it as a toxic paradigm. Read More
One night, I spotted a story list on the day city editor's overnight spike about a series on gay life in Ottawa – the orgiastic baths, the salacious parks, the feverish sex, the nightmare of exposure... nothing positive. So I proposed a first-person piece about how good gay life could be, and had been for me, as a balance. ...For a long time after teens and young adults were "coming out" to me on the streets and in letters sent to me at the paper. Read More
Gay liberation changed Martin Duberman’s life. In the 1960s, Duberman taught history at Princeton, hardly a bastion of radical thought....
The Transgender Child is a compassionate and caring guide that presents a wealth of much needed information and advice for parents of transgender and gender-variant youngsters and teens alike—to help families become more sensitive and supportive of their children, and be better prepared for the unique challenges and situations that are ahead. Read More
William Burleson chats with Brent Hartinger about his new YA novel Split Screen, why teen books are better than “adult...
Poet, writer, and social theorist, Judy Grahn has been working in liberatory movements and communities her entire life. It may...
“Write what you know,” writers tell those who ask. With more than 20 books behind her, mystery writer Ellen Hart...
