In addition to revealing some of his thought processes, the content of his final journals, A Heaven of Words as edited by Jerry Rosco, cements Wescott’s significant role in gay cultural history. Read More
It’s impossible to see a Morrisroe photograph clearly. Try it. Something is always in shadow, painted-over, scratched, composed so that it is just off-screen, taunting you. Read More
There’s something you’ll get from Kelli Dunham’s book of essays that other comedians’ books don’t always include: heart. In Freak...
Encounters with Authors is often elegiac in tone, tinged with the melancholy of lives well-lived but cut off, whether by disease, the distaste of “urban officialdom,” or sheer orneriness. Read More
The popular narrative of gay liberation seems inseparable from the urban landscape. From the drag balls of 1920s Harlem to...
My 1980s and Other Essays is an incredibly timely hodge-podge of prose that expertly blends nostalgia-free self-reflections, reluctant bits of advice, and breathless love letters to idols literary, artistic, and musical[...] Read More
As public opinion has grown increasingly favorable of same-sex marriage, why has the issue become more contentious for the communities it aims to “serve”? Read More
Broken into chapters that seem disparate at first, Bloodpeople soon connects by focusing our attention on the body politic—the black, queer, Caribbean body; the black body on the periphery fighting for acceptance of its humanity and for its intense desire to survive and tell its story. Read More
In exploring how sex was imagined in the nineteenth century, author Peter Coviello examines the writings of figures as diverse as the founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith and black abolitionist Frederick Douglas. Read More
In Red-Inked Retablos, author Rigoberto González recalls speaking to a literature class where a young man approached him with a question. The student asked González, if growing up gay in the Latino community was so difficult, why he continues to go back to it. González quickly responded, “Because I love my people.” Read More
