Reviews Archives

June 2, 2010 1 min read

With summer just around the corner, we need beach reading. Since I was a child, beach reading has meant mysteries....

‘Green-Eyed Monster’ by Gill McKnight

May 26, 2010 2 min read

When an unlikely cast of characters sets out for a lesbian romance in Gill McKnight’s, Green-Eyed Monster, anything can happen,...

‘Chroma’ by Derek Jarman

Jason Schneiderman

Nonfiction

May 26, 2010 5 min read

Upon its initial publication, The Economist called Chroma, “an appropriate legacy for a colourful man who was just as proud...

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

Rachel Wexelbaum

Fiction

May 26, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Finalist If a “canon” existed for lesbian writers, the works of Elana Dykewomon would surely have a place...

‘Once you Go Back’ by Douglas Martin

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Fiction

May 26, 2010 1 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Remember that time in your life when you didn’t know if you would ever learn how to...

‘In the Closet, Under the Bed’ by Lee Thomas

Paul G. Bens Jr.

Reviews Speculative Fiction

May 21, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Having grown up on a steady diet of Hitchcock (films and TV show), the Twilight Zone, Outer...

‘She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother’ by Bryan Batt

Gena Hymowech

Bio/Memoir Reviews

May 21, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist When last we saw Mad Men’s Sal Romano (played by out actor Bryan Batt), the semi-closeted...

Theater Review: ‘Next Fall’ and ‘Pen Knife’

Tom Eubanks

Drama

May 20, 2010 3 min read

As Gay Fate would have it, on two consecutive nights last week, I attended plays about men who have sex...

‘If Jesus Were Gay’ by Emanuel Xavier

Chuck Forester

Poetry

May 19, 2010 3 min read

When I received this book my first question when I opened it was, “why am I getting this?” Isn’t there...

‘Silver Lake’ by Peter Gadol

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Fiction

May 18, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Award Finalist There is much that is dark in this book: both psychic darkness within the characters and actual...

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

‘Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform’ edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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

Lesbian Mystery Roundup: May 2010

‘Green-Eyed Monster’ by Gill McKnight

‘Chroma’ by Derek Jarman

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

‘Once you Go Back’ by Douglas Martin

‘In the Closet, Under the Bed’ by Lee Thomas

‘She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother’ by Bryan Batt

Theater Review: ‘Next Fall’ and ‘Pen Knife’

‘If Jesus Were Gay’ by Emanuel Xavier

‘Silver Lake’ by Peter Gadol

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