Nonfiction Archives

February 16, 2015 4 min read

This is an important book, and an impressive feat of scholarship drawing on nearly five hundred sources, with twenty-two pages of notes and sixteen pages of photographs. Read More

‘Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide’ by Ryan R. Thoreson

Jia-Hui Lee

Nonfiction Reviews

February 8, 2015 3 min read

Thoreson tells us that he wants to critically look at how a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in the West functions and how, ultimately, its articulation of LGBT human rights gains legitimacy and global significance. Read More

‘Women′s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms’ By Patricia White

Sarah Schulman

Film Nonfiction Reviews

January 26, 2015 3 min read

Women′s Cinema, World Cinema is a book that succeeds in expanding the reader’s consciousness with wit and bold intellectual drive Read More

A Look at Cult Art World Stars Cookie Mueller and George Kuchar

Bradford Nordeen

Nonfiction Reviews

January 25, 2015 6 min read

"Icons aren’t built up on their own words but through the din of a room [...]" Read More

‘You’re Not Edith’ by Allison Gruber

Theodosia Henney

Nonfiction Reviews

January 12, 2015 1 min read

If the autobiographical essays in You’re Not Edith are any indication, Allison Gruber has a surprisingly functional (not to mention intimate) relationship with all things strange and eccentric. Read More

‘There Goes the Gayborhood?’ by Amin Ghaziani

John Erickson

Nonfiction Reviews

January 8, 2015 4 min read

Proper punctuation is critical to understanding an author’s main point. While exclamatory sentences and hyperbole can often sell more books...

‘Bad Feminist: Essays’ by Roxane Gay

Heather Seggel

Nonfiction Reviews

December 19, 2014 3 min read

Bad Feminist feels in some ways like a book of the summer. The essays are academic—author Roxane Gay has a...

‘Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein’ Edited by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch

Marcie Bianco

Nonfiction

December 17, 2014 2 min read

With this collection of essays Boyd and Kirsch remind us about the scope and sophistication — as well as the playfulness and sensuality — of Stein’s writing. Read More

‘Icon’ Edited by Amy Scholder

Reginald Harris

Anthology Nonfiction

December 16, 2014 3 min read

"[...] it is striking how many of the authors in Icon were imprinted by their subjects in their teens or other formative moments in their lives, while working out who they were, and who they were not." Read More

‘A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C.’ by Genny Beemyn

Philip Clark

Nonfiction Reviews

December 1, 2014 5 min read

Beemyn shows an impressive ability to synthesize multi-faceted stories into readable narratives. 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

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

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

‘Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity’ by Robert Beachy

‘Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide’ by Ryan R. Thoreson

‘Women′s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms’ By Patricia White

‘You’re Not Edith’ by Allison Gruber

‘There Goes the Gayborhood?’ by Amin Ghaziani

‘Bad Feminist: Essays’ by Roxane Gay

‘Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein’ Edited by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch

‘Icon’ Edited by Amy Scholder

‘A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C.’ by Genny Beemyn

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