D. Gilson Archives

August 19, 2019 3 min read

Altman takes on a classic queer mythology—that never-ending tie between parent and child—and turns the mythology into a lived, complicated work of lyrically-wrought prose with a quiet surprise on every page. Read More

‘The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out’ by William Dameron

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July 17, 2019 3 min read

William Dameron's new memoir isn’t your typical coming out story. Read More

‘Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States’ by Samantha Allen

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March 12, 2019 4 min read

What does it mean to stay put? Or, as a progressive LGBTQ person like Allen, to willingly return to a red state? Read More

‘I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, And Other Reasons I’ve Put my Faith in Beyoncé’ by Michael Arceneaux

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June 27, 2018 4 min read

Arceneaux’s is a refreshing voice of honest worry mixed with irreverent humor Read More

‘The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988’ by Martin Duberman

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February 25, 2018 4 min read

At a time of such cultural and personal darkness, this is a book full of queer optimism Read More

‘Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays’ by Fenton Johnson

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July 17, 2017 3 min read

Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays chronicles both the peculiarities and mundanities of queer life over the last thirty years Read More

A Poem by D. Gilson

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Poetry Spotlight

February 2, 2017 1 min read

This week, a poem by D. Gilson Read More

Reflections on D. Gilson’s ‘I Will Say This Exactly One Time’

Joseph Osmundson

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December 2, 2015 8 min read

I Will Say This Exactly One Time considers sites of great pleasure (the body, bars, stages and screens, families of different kinds) and sites of great pain and loss (the body, bars, stages and screens, families of different kinds) in ways that feel new and fresh Read More

Learning to Poem: The Lifespan of a Literary Crush

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July 30, 2013 7 min read

“A strange den or music room childhood” –Frank O’Hara Mother works at the Aurora Family Care Center, a low...

D. Gilson, “Soon We’ll Bury All Our Dead”

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

August 1, 2012 2 min read

Today, two new poems by D. Gilson. Gilson holds an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Chatham University, and is currently a PhD student in American Literature and Culture at George Washington University. His work has appeared in Assaracus, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Rumpus, and his chapbook, Catch & Release, won the 2011 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. 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

The Queerness of Robots

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

‘Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing’ by Elissa Altman

‘The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out’ by William Dameron

‘Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States’ by Samantha Allen

‘I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, And Other Reasons I’ve Put my Faith in Beyoncé’ by Michael Arceneaux

‘The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988’ by Martin Duberman

‘Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays’ by Fenton Johnson

A Poem by D. Gilson

Reflections on D. Gilson’s ‘I Will Say This Exactly One Time’

Learning to Poem: The Lifespan of a Literary Crush

D. Gilson, “Soon We’ll Bury All Our Dead”

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