Gay Interview Archives

October 19, 2017 8 min read

"My definition of faith turned out to be less about an omnipotent, judgmental God or the threat/promise of an afterlife and more about things like music, mythology, my favorite television shows, tween rebellion, and (gay) sex [...]" Read More

Author Justin Luke Zirilli on Surviving Your Gay Twenties

Michael Graves

Interviews

December 28, 2014 4 min read

"So many twenty-somethings I know view themselves as broken or busted beyond repair. The truth is we all have something, or things, that are not quite right inside of us." Read More

Biographer James Gavin on Peggy Lee: Diva and Gay Icon

Jamie Brickhouse

Features Interviews

December 14, 2014 14 min read

"Even though she mythologized herself to an extravagant degree and made up a lot of stuff, I don’t think she ever sang an untrue word or feeling. I don’t know a more honest singer than Peggy Lee." Read More

Christopher Hennessy: On Interviewing Acclaimed Gay Poets and the Tradition of Queer Poetry

Blake Campbell

Interviews

December 3, 2014 18 min read

Poet Christopher Hennessy discusses his latest book and the shaping of his own personal poetics. 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

Lypsinka on Performing a New Set of Shows and the Legacy of the East Village Performance Art Scene

Frank Pizzoli

Interviews

November 9, 2014 8 min read

"I soon realized that this scene was the 80s equivalent of the Continental Baths phenomena..." Read More

Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Tom Cardamone

Features

November 6, 2014 11 min read

"I joined Open Road to among other things help build out the catalog of LGBT books." Read More

Christos Tsiolkas: On His New Novel ‘Barracuda,’ Australian History, and the Power of Hip-Hop

Dan Lopez

Features Interviews

September 25, 2014 20 min read

"[...] racism still disturbs the Australian consciousness. We exist together, we work together, we fall in love, we have children together, but then, there are those vicious and terrible moments when we are in conflict." Read More

James Jenkins: Publishing Lost Gay Classics

Tom Cardamone

Features Interviews

August 21, 2014 12 min read

James Jenkins, of Valancourt Books, talks with Lambda Literary about publishing lost gay classics, Victorian gay porn novels, and what's forthcoming from his small independent press. Read More

John Waters: Roles of a Lifetime

Aaron Tilford

Features

October 4, 2011 18 min read

“I am neurotic. But at the same time, I’m quite happy being neurotic. I think you must figure out a...

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

Matthew Gallaway: On His New Novel and Finding a Different Kind of Faith

Author Justin Luke Zirilli on Surviving Your Gay Twenties

Biographer James Gavin on Peggy Lee: Diva and Gay Icon

Christopher Hennessy: On Interviewing Acclaimed Gay Poets and the Tradition of Queer Poetry

Lypsinka on Performing a New Set of Shows and the Legacy of the East Village Performance Art Scene

Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Christos Tsiolkas: On His New Novel ‘Barracuda,’ Australian History, and the Power of Hip-Hop

James Jenkins: Publishing Lost Gay Classics

John Waters: Roles of a Lifetime

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