Alan Chin Archives

October 5, 2011 3 min read

In 1967, Captain Harding is working his way up the promotion ladder within the U.S. Air Force. He’s a go-getter...

‘Moffie’ by Andre Carl van der Merwe

Alan Chin

Fiction Reviews

August 30, 2011 3 min read

Like every gay boy in 1970s South Africa, Nicholas van der Swart must hide that part of himself that is...

‘The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq’ by Bronson Lemer

Alan Chin

Bio/Memoir Reviews

July 4, 2011 2 min read

Bronson Lemer joined the National Guard during his senior year of high school as a way to help pay for...

‘Match Maker’ by Alan Chin

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

November 17, 2010 3 min read

Sports writing is perhaps one of the most challenging forms of writing and, as Alan Chin deftly demonstrates in his...

‘The Golden Age of Gay Fiction’ Edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn

Alan Chin

Nonfiction

June 14, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist The first gay novel I read, The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren, was published in 1975....

‘Native’ by William Haywood Henderson

Alan Chin

Fiction

June 3, 2010 2 min read

Blue Parker, the twenty-three-year-old foreman of a Wyoming ranch, has a secret crush on his ranch hand, Sam. The two...

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

‘Captain Harding’s Six-Day War’ by Elliott Mackle

‘Moffie’ by Andre Carl van der Merwe

‘The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq’ by Bronson Lemer

‘Match Maker’ by Alan Chin

‘The Golden Age of Gay Fiction’ Edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn

‘Native’ by William Haywood Henderson

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