Reviews Archives

March 19, 2010 6 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Identifying as gay or lesbian, or just having same-sex sex, forces negotiation of a common set of...

‘Long Distance’ by Steven Cordova

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Poetry

March 18, 2010 3 min read

In Steven Cordova’s poem “13 Things to Do Once I’m Dead,” “Stop thinking about death” tops the list. This starting...

‘Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr’ by Robert Hofler

Gena Hymowech

Bio/Memoir

March 17, 2010 2 min read

Party Animals focuses on the glamorous social life and dramatic career of late gay producer, screenwriter, promoter, and manager Allan...

‘Finlater’ by Shawn Stewart Ruff

Reginald Harris

Young Adult

March 16, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Literary Award Winner A coming-of-age story and tale of first love set in early 1970s Cincinnati, Shawn Stewart Ruff’s...

‘Sweet Core Orchard’ by Benjamin Grossberg

Jason Schneiderman

Poetry

March 11, 2010 3 min read

Benjamin Grossberg’s second collection of poems is a book about writing—about writing’s processes and demands and possibilities. The volume tends...

‘Hammer!’ by Barbara Hammer

Julie R. Enszer

Bio/Memoir

March 10, 2010 2 min read

“A film rests in a can until it’s screened but a book can be opened at any time by anyone...

‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

Cheri Crystal

Fiction

March 9, 2010 4 min read

In the late 70s, I studied Women in Literature in a college-level course. I feel cheated that Lee Lynch’s short...

‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

Susan Stinson

Fiction

March 9, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Anyone who has been worrying about the current state of fiction or who has any questions about...

‘The Queer Child’ by Kathryn Bond Stockton

Michael Amico

Nonfiction

March 5, 2010 6 min read

Lawsuits to ban GSAs from schools continue to prove what Anita Bryant most famously did in her 1977 “Save Our...

‘Sex as God Intended’ by John McNeill

Thom Nickels

Nonfiction

March 5, 2010 3 min read

When I read Sex as God Intended by Fr. John McNeill, an ordained Jesuit priest, I thought of another Jesuit,...

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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

‘Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities’ by Julie Abraham

‘Long Distance’ by Steven Cordova

‘Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr’ by Robert Hofler

‘Finlater’ by Shawn Stewart Ruff

‘Sweet Core Orchard’ by Benjamin Grossberg

‘Hammer!’ by Barbara Hammer

‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

‘The Queer Child’ by Kathryn Bond Stockton

‘Sex as God Intended’ by John McNeill

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