*Gay Archives

September 5, 2016 1 min read

Jazz Moon, in part, is a love story. The beautiful complicated love story of main character Ben Charles, a burgeoning poet from the south who arrives in New York in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance. Read More

Appreciations: Derrick Austin’s “Summertime”

Thomas March

Opinion Poetry

August 31, 2016 6 min read

Every month, “Appreciations” looks closely at a poem or poems from recently-published books by LGBTQ poets Read More

Fieldwork in Being a Brown Man

Joe Jimenez

Opinion

August 28, 2016 9 min read

"If you don’t have a father in your life, or if the only male figures in your life are [screw-ups], to whom do you turn to learn things you want to know?" Read More

Snapshots from an Editor: Working with Edmund White

Donald Weise

Opinion

August 24, 2016 12 min read

"[...] I marveled at how one book—and, more importantly, one man—had changed the course of my life." Read More

‘Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was’ by Sjón

Nathan Smith

Fiction Reviews

August 21, 2016 3 min read

In the new novel Moonstone, the author delivers a quiet but compelling literary intervention into Iceland’s past, offering a counter-narrative that acknowledges the country’s many unacknowledged past LGBT citizens Read More

‘Alphabet’ Edited by Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery

Cathy Camper

Comics Illustrated

August 21, 2016 2 min read

Reading Alphabet will plunge you into the welcoming rainbow of queer comics. Read More

Navigating Sex Parties and Pride: A Week in the Life of Cartoonist Jeremy Sorese

Parrish Turner

Opinion The Banal & the Profane

August 14, 2016 24 min read

"[...] I wish Pride could be something closer to Publishers Clearing House, where someone shows up at the door of a closeted teen living in some oppressive Middle American state with an oversized check and whisks them away." Read More

‘Boy Erased’ by Garrard Conley

Bryan.Borland

Bio/Memoir Reviews

August 10, 2016 5 min read

In Boy Erased, there’s just the uneasy co-existence between a cultural geography Conley has been conditioned to accept that doesn’t—and won’t—accept him back. Read More