Fiction Archives

July 21, 2009 3 min read

Rivi Shenhar is thirteen years old, reeling from her parent’s divorce, and in love with her literature teacher, Michaela Berg....

‘Passing for Black’ by Linda Villarosa

Cecilia Martin

Fiction Romance

July 21, 2009 1 min read

Awakening the heart and spirit can be a painful process especially when going against all that you have been taught....

Gay Mystery Roundup: Bidulka, Plakcy, Sherman, Ryan, & More

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Fiction

July 6, 2009 15 min read

SUNDOWNER UBUNTU by Anthony Bidulka Insomniac Press, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-897178-43-0, Paperback, 286 pp. One Clara Ridge appears in the office...

Lambda Libros

Lawrence Schimel

Fiction

July 6, 2009 3 min read

“Lambda Libros” is a new regular column in English about recent Spanish-language titles of interest to queer readers, librarians, booksellers,...

‘The Hakawati’ by Rabih Alameddine

Reginald Harris

Fiction

July 1, 2009 3 min read

“Uncle Jihad used to say that what happens is of little significant compared to the stories we tell ourselves about...

‘The Distance Between Us’ by Bart Yates

Jameson Currier

Fiction

June 30, 2009 3 min read

Bart Yates’ third novel, The Distance Between Us, is a melodrama surrounding Hester Parker, a five-foot four, 71 year-old concert...

Map of Ireland: Stephanie Grant

Nisa Donnelly

Fiction

June 19, 2009 2 min read

Occasionally America is forced to confront its hardwired “isms” as the mainstream culture expands to include the more marginalized groups....

‘Backslide’ by Teresa Stores

Andrea L.T. Peterson

Fiction Romance

June 11, 2009 2 min read

Backslide, predicts Kathering Forrest, “will be a classic in our literature.” And when it is, it will be because of...

The Club of Angels: Luis Fernando Verissimo, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Jameson Currier

Fiction

June 11, 2009 1 min read

The Club of Angels is a short and witty novel revolving around the Beef Stew Club, a dinner group comprised...

‘Stray Dog Winter’ by David Francis

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Fiction

June 3, 2009 2 min read

In February 1984 Darcy Bright finds himself in a train station. An Australian painter, he is on his way from...

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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

‘Dearest Anne’ by Judith Katzir

‘Passing for Black’ by Linda Villarosa

Gay Mystery Roundup: Bidulka, Plakcy, Sherman, Ryan, & More

Lambda Libros

‘The Hakawati’ by Rabih Alameddine

‘The Distance Between Us’ by Bart Yates

Map of Ireland: Stephanie Grant

‘Backslide’ by Teresa Stores

The Club of Angels: Luis Fernando Verissimo, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

‘Stray Dog Winter’ by David Francis

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