Bio/Memoir Archives

August 23, 2017 3 min read

In the graphic novel Spinning, Tillie Walden recounts the years she spent in competitive figure skating, joining other adolescent accounts that counter the myth that there’s only value in winning Read More

‘The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris’ by Anne-christine d’Adesky

Ben Miller

Bio/Memoir

July 9, 2017 3 min read

The Pox Lover is essential for anyone trying to seriously understand the recent queer past Read More

‘Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home’ by Nicole Georges

Cathy Camper

Bio/Memoir

July 1, 2017 3 min read

Georges' passion for drawing animals merges with her insightful recollections to make this a touching, memorable dog tale Read More

‘My Mourning Year: A Memoir of Bereavement, Discovery and Hope’ by Andrew Marshall

Zane DeZeeuw

Reviews

June 22, 2017 2 min read

This memoir is a matter-of-fact account of how a man learns how to live after losing the love of his life Read More

‘Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray’ by Rosalind Rosenberg

Morgan M. Page

Reviews

June 8, 2017 2 min read

Rosenberg’s Jane Crow makes not only an important contribution to the fields of Black, feminist, and trans history, but also offers us the timely reminder that, as Murray herself once wrote, “one person and a typewriter make a movement.” Read More

‘One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin’ by Michael Schreiber

Harlan Greene

Reviews

June 1, 2017 2 min read

This book endows most of its recalled events with a shimmer of life’s beauty, silliness, tragedy, and evanescence. Read More

‘Not One Day’ by Anne Garréta

Liz von Klemperer

Bio/Memoir

May 23, 2017 3 min read

Not One Day is a heady exploration and interrogation of Garréta's past romantic encounters Read More

‘Eyes Too Dry’ by Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli

Cathy Camper

Bio/Memoir

May 10, 2017 2 min read

As much as this comic chronicles depression, it also records the struggles of a caretaker dedicated to helping her friend. Read More

‘The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir’ by Peter Gajdics

Steve Susoyev

Nonfiction

April 25, 2017 9 min read

The term “homosexual reparative therapy” conjures, for many of us, images of wrathful, bible-thumping parents dragging a 16-year-old into a...

‘Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts’ by Robert Hofler

Steve Susoyev

Reviews

April 16, 2017 13 min read

Hofler has spent a good deal of time exploring Dominick’s personal journals and letters, and has produced, amidst the juicy dish, a distinguished biography of a brilliant and complex man 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

How The Dead Teach the Living: A Dying Reader’s Guide

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

‘Spinning’ by Tillie Walden

‘The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris’ by Anne-christine d’Adesky

‘Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home’ by Nicole Georges

‘My Mourning Year: A Memoir of Bereavement, Discovery and Hope’ by Andrew Marshall

‘Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray’ by Rosalind Rosenberg

‘One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin’ by Michael Schreiber

‘Not One Day’ by Anne Garréta

‘Eyes Too Dry’ by Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli

‘The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir’ by Peter Gajdics

‘Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts’ by Robert Hofler

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