Fernando Rios Archives

‘Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice’ by Clayton Delery

March 14, 2018 4 min read

Fernando Rios was a twenty-six-year-old Mexican tour guide lured to his death by a group of Tulane students, who beat and robbed him in a shadowy French Quarter alleyway in 195 Read More

Writer Clayton Delery on Reconstructing a Hate Crime

Nahshon Dion

Interviews

February 15, 2018 7 min read

In 1958, Fernando Rios was led into an alley outside a New Orleans gay bar, where he was beaten to death by there college students. Clayton Delery's new book examines this hate crime and its connections to anti-immigrant prejudices and homophobia in 1950s America Read More

Reviews

Where are the Ancestors: Stephen Patrick Bell in Conversation with Justin Torres on Blackouts

Call for In Remembrance for LGBTQIAP+ Authors

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

Random

‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’ by John Lahr

Features

Call for In Remembrance for LGBTQIAP+ Authors

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

A Faun in the Forest

Interviews

Where are the Ancestors: Stephen Patrick Bell in Conversation with Justin Torres on Blackouts

A Conversation with Poet, Essayist, and Critic Matt Mitchell

With a Love Letter to Queer Black Folx, Dior Stephens Draws a Velvet Rope Around the Table They Set for Their Community

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

In Bed with Joan Nestle

‘Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice’ by Clayton Delery

Writer Clayton Delery on Reconstructing a Hate Crime

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

A Faun in the Forest

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Writing to Herself: A Review of Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark