Bio/Memoir Archives

April 4, 2011 2 min read

If you’re looking to expand your leather library, Steve Lenius’ Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness (CreateSpace) is a...

‘A Single Year’ by Dawn Mueller

Courtney Gillette

Bio/Memoir Reviews

March 31, 2011 3 min read

As the joke goes, when a lesbian goes on a second date, she brings a U-haul. We all know the...

‘Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures’ by Julie Marie Wade

Sassafras Lowrey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

March 17, 2011 1 min read

Like the Ocean which literally and metaphorically flows through the text, Julie Marie Wade’s Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures is...

‘Kay Thompson’ by Sam Irvin

Sassafras Lowrey

Features Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 28, 2011 1 min read

As a fan of Kay Thompson’s precocious storybook character Eloise, it was with great excitement that I began reading Kay...

Metaphysical Journals & Radical Faeries

Thom Nickels

Bio/Memoir Nonfiction Reviews

February 17, 2011 10 min read

Explorations in Queer Spirituality My interest in religion, spirituality and books along those lines does not exclude a preference for...

‘Diaghilev: A Life’ by Sjeng Scheijen

James Polchin

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 7, 2011 4 min read

In 1919, the painter Henri Matisse travelled to London to work on Sergey Diaghilev’s newest ballet. Matisse was reluctant and...

‘It’s Not Really About the Hair’ by Tabatha Coffey

Nels P. Highberg

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 7, 2011 3 min read

When I told friends I was reviewing It’s Not Really About the Hair (It Books) for LLF, most responded in...

‘Unbearable Lightness’ by Portia de Rossi

Courtney Gillette

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 31, 2011 4 min read

I’ll approach any famous person’s memoir with the same level of skepticism: are you writing this because you’re a writer...

‘My Sweet Wild Dance’ by Mikaya Heart

Chris Sitka

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 17, 2011 3 min read

My Sweet Wild Dance (Dog Ear) is a lucid account of the sexual revolution, coming out as a lesbian, discovering...

‘A Passionate Engagement’ by Ken Harvey

David Pratt

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 10, 2011 4 min read

Those watching the marriage equality debate from afar imagine that, in a given state, couples either can or can’t get...

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

‘Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness’ by Steve Lenius

‘A Single Year’ by Dawn Mueller

‘Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures’ by Julie Marie Wade

‘Kay Thompson’ by Sam Irvin

Metaphysical Journals & Radical Faeries

‘Diaghilev: A Life’ by Sjeng Scheijen

‘It’s Not Really About the Hair’ by Tabatha Coffey

‘Unbearable Lightness’ by Portia de Rossi

‘My Sweet Wild Dance’ by Mikaya Heart

‘A Passionate Engagement’ by Ken Harvey

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