Fiction Archives

January 28, 2018 4 min read

Reintegration is many things at once—beautiful, brilliant, thrilling, and terrifying.It’s also beautifully and unabashedly queer, delivering characters who fight to be themselves in a world where they aren’t welcome Read More

Blacklight: Series Debut ‘The Last Place You Look’ Promises a Complex, No-Nonsense Bisexual Heroine

John Copenhaver

Reviews

January 25, 2018 2 min read

Kristen Lepionka's new mystery launches a series featuring Roxane Weary, a bisexual private investigator whose complexities are engaging, realistic, and deeply human Read More

‘Atlantic Island’ by Tony Duvert

Steven Cordova

Reviews

January 16, 2018 4 min read

Novels by radical gay writers written in the 1970s continue to be translated from French to English, and Atlantic Island is another example of why that’s an edifying and, in this case, even an entertaining trend Read More

‘Let’s Talk About Love’ by Claire Kann

Michele Kirichanskaya

Fiction

January 14, 2018 2 min read

Claire Kann's debut novel is a swoon-worthy romance depicting the life of a biromantic woman Read More

‘The Immortalists’ by Chloe Benjamin

Allison Punch

Reviews

January 14, 2018 2 min read

The Immortalists asks a provocative question concerning destiny and mortality: how would you live if you knew when you were going to die? Read More

‘A Line in the Dark’ by Malinda Lo

Christina Tesoro

Young Adult

January 10, 2018 1 min read

Lo brings her characteristic and unique voice to the cast of A Line in the Dark. Lo instantly invites readers along, enticing them to stay up just a little bit later for the next big reveal, and supplies readers with one final twist that will take their breath away. Read More

‘A Very, Very Bad Thing’ by Jeffery Self

Michael Graves

Young Adult

January 8, 2018 2 min read

With frank writing, Jeffery Self creates a winning and timely young adult read Read More

‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’ by John Boyne

Walter Holland

Reviews

December 27, 2017 3 min read

John Boyne's new novel is an ambitious epic, with broad historical scope, that follows the life of gay Irishman Cyril Avery Read More

‘The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves’ by James Han Mattson

John Francis Leonard

Reviews

December 16, 2017 2 min read

James Han Mattson's inventive first novel is a suspenseful and remarkably authentic look at a very contemporary issue: a multiple-victim shooting Read More

‘Swearing Off Stars’ by Danielle M. Wong

Allison Punch

Romance

December 13, 2017 1 min read

Swearing Off Stars is a romance novel set against the backdrop of the fight for women’s rights at Oxford in the 1920s 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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

‘Reintegration’ by Eden S. French

Blacklight: Series Debut ‘The Last Place You Look’ Promises a Complex, No-Nonsense Bisexual Heroine

‘Atlantic Island’ by Tony Duvert

‘Let’s Talk About Love’ by Claire Kann

‘The Immortalists’ by Chloe Benjamin

‘A Line in the Dark’ by Malinda Lo

‘A Very, Very Bad Thing’ by Jeffery Self

‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’ by John Boyne

‘The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves’ by James Han Mattson

‘Swearing Off Stars’ by Danielle M. Wong

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