AIDS/HIV Archives

January 4, 2018 6 min read

The AIDS Crisis Revisitation begins in 2008 with a noticeable increase in the creation, dissemination, and discussion of culture concerned with the early responses to HIV/AIDS Read More

Anne-christine d’Adesky on ACT UP and Lesbian Romping

Frank Pizzoli

Interviews

July 4, 2017 5 min read

"Nothing wrong with assimilation, but it leaves behind the rest of us who maybe don’t want to be like everyone else. The fight isn’t over." Read More

‘The War on Sex’ Edited by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe

Ben Miller

Reviews

March 26, 2017 3 min read

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex Read More

Editor and Author in Conversation: Don Weise and Michael Ward on the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic

Donald Weise

Interviews

November 30, 2016 5 min read

Retired psychotherapist Michael Ward has written a memoir, The Sea Is Quiet Tonight [published on Don Weise’s imprint Querelle Press-Ed.], about the...

‘The Rise and Fall of The Yellow House’ by John Whittier Treat

Theodore Kerr

Fiction Reviews

November 15, 2015 4 min read

Set in Seattle in the early 1980s, Treat’s debut novel is an exploration of desire, drugs, family, murder, and the gay experience in the face of mass death Read More

‘After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality & American Religion’ by Anthony M. Petro

Theodore Kerr

Nonfiction Reviews

August 26, 2015 5 min read

So while After the Wrath of God is a book about HIV/AIDS, it is also very much a cultural history of Christianity in the US through the lens of the beginning of the AIDS crisis Read More

‘Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS’ by Dale Peck

Jim Mitulski

Nonfiction Reviews

April 28, 2015 6 min read

Peck compiles and re-edits material principally presented as stand-alone essays in their original publication, weaving a sort of non-linear portrait of the period during which HIV/AIDS was typically a terminal illness Read More

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

Theodore Kerr

Bio/Memoir Reviews

April 4, 2015 5 min read

It is easy to assume that My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir is Bernard Cooper’s autobiography through art. He is after all a critic, artist and educator. While not untrue, it is not the whole story. Read More

‘Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague’ by Joyce Brabner and Illustrated by Mark Zingarelli

Cathy Camper

Comics Illustrated

December 30, 2014 2 min read

"In her new graphic novel, Joyce Brabner continues writing in the vein of the American Splendor comics she co-wrote with her husband Harvey Pekar, discovering stories, heroes and suspense in the daily activities of herself and her friends." Read More

Tommaso Speretta on His New Book ‘REBELS REBEL: AIDS, Art, and Activism in New York 1979-1989’

Theodore Kerr

Art Interviews

November 25, 2014 13 min read

"I think that we’re currently witnessing a reborn interest in the work done by activist artists and artists in protest, especially in relation to AIDS." 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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

The AIDS Crisis Revisitation

Anne-christine d’Adesky on ACT UP and Lesbian Romping

Editor and Author in Conversation: Don Weise and Michael Ward on the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic

‘The Rise and Fall of The Yellow House’ by John Whittier Treat

‘After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality & American Religion’ by Anthony M. Petro

‘Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS’ by Dale Peck

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

‘Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague’ by Joyce Brabner and Illustrated by Mark Zingarelli

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