‘Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS’ by Deborah B. Gould Eric Colleary NonfictionReviews September 22, 2010 6 min readLambda Award Finalist I must begin this review with something of a confession: I was terribly reluctant to read Deborah...
‘Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation’ ed by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman G. Stein-Bodenheimer NonfictionReviews September 20, 2010 3 min readLambda Literary Award Finalist Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Seal) is a result of its editors’ sense that in the...
‘Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews’ by Matthew Hofer and Gary Scharnhorst JoSelle Vanderhooft Nonfiction September 16, 2010 2 min readFrom the publication of Frank Harris’ Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions in 1916, the literary world has taken a...
I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall Kimberly Dark Nonfiction September 1, 2010 3 min readLambda Award Finalist “I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am...
‘The Screwball Asses’ by Guy Hocquenghem Nathan Tipton Nonfiction August 26, 2010 3 min readAs a self-professed queer theorist and pop culture aficionado, I will be the first to admit that I see queerness...
Queer Rites: Religion & Spirituality Books Thom Nickels Bio/MemoirNonfiction August 10, 2010 6 min readAt the end of the day, when the big parties are over and when youth has long since vacated our...
‘The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America’ by Margot Canaday Nathan Tipton NonfictionReviews August 9, 2010 3 min readLambda Award Winner For the vast majority of Americans, citizenship is something ultimately taken for granted, an inevitable “gimme” that—along...
‘Keep Your Wives Away From Them’ ed. by Miryam Kabakov Rachel Wexelbaum NonfictionReviews August 5, 2010 4 min readOrthodox Women and Unorthodox Desires The ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community closes itself off to outsiders and will only accept...
‘Role Models’ by John Waters Tom Eubanks NonfictionReviews August 4, 2010 4 min readWhile drafting an introductory letter to Johnny Mathis in his new collection of writing, Role Models, John Waters thinks: “Explain...
‘The Lavender Locker Room’ by Patricia Nell Warren Alan Chin Nonfiction July 28, 2010 1 min readThis wonderful book is a collection of nineteen essays highlighting gay pioneers in athletics. Originally written for Outsports.com, this book...