*Gay Archives

A man stands in a boat with the city behind him.

November 28, 2022 4 min read

Germany’s greatest 20th century writer, Thomas Mann, is the subject of a new novel from Colm Tóibín. Tóibín is the author of the widely...

Linguistic Lineage: No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled

Daniel T. O'Brien

Reviews

November 12, 2022 3 min read

Linguistic Lineage in No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa famously wrote about an abundance of borders—linguistic, cultural, “physical”—that cause rifts and...

Edgar Gomez’s Intricate and Emotive Memoir, High-Risk Homosexual

Matthew Caprioli

Reviews

March 28, 2022 4 min read

Publishers tend to market gay memoirs as campy, joyful, and frivolous or serious, profound, and brooding. High-Risk Homosexual, the debut...

Cover of If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich

Seven Shimmering LGBTQ YA Novels to Illuminate Winter Nights

Todd Wellman

Features

December 6, 2021 4 min read

Seven new LGBT YA novels debuting this winter from December 2021 to February 2022 featuring fantasy fiction, contemporary novels, and more. Read More

Blue book cover with sunrise over a tent in the woods. Title says Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World. By Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: “I am the luckiest.” On Writing Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

Molly Catherine Turner

author interviews

November 15, 2021 11 min read

An Interview with Bejamin Alire Sáenz on his Ari and Dante sequel, Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World. Read More

Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille Charts the Misadventures of an Eclectic Bunch of Social Outcasts

Michael Kaler

Fiction

March 15, 2020 3 min read

Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille charts the misadventures of an eclectic bunch of social outcasts. Read More

Audre Lorde Taught Us: Dante Micheaux, Audre Lorde, and Erotic Power

Mahogany L. Browne

Interviews

February 24, 2020 3 min read

"Lorde’s thinking [has] shaped the way I create relationships with others." Read More

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Curt Weber

Fiction

February 2, 2020 2 min read

Greenwell takes wayward longing and makes it a unifying force Read More

The Importance of Novels in Preserving Queer History

Alan Lessik

Opinion

January 29, 2020 4 min read

May all of our queer stories fill in the missing gaps of our history Read More

Walt Odets on Sex, Pleasure, and Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

Theodore Kerr

Interviews

January 22, 2020 9 min read

"I'd like to minimize the hurt and harm that gay men experience." 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 Marbled Swarm’ by Dennis Cooper

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

The Magician, Colm Tóibín’s Sweeping Fictionalized Biography of Thomas Mann

Linguistic Lineage: No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled

Edgar Gomez’s Intricate and Emotive Memoir, High-Risk Homosexual

Seven Shimmering LGBTQ YA Novels to Illuminate Winter Nights

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: “I am the luckiest.” On Writing Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille Charts the Misadventures of an Eclectic Bunch of Social Outcasts

Audre Lorde Taught Us: Dante Micheaux, Audre Lorde, and Erotic Power

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

The Importance of Novels in Preserving Queer History

Walt Odets on Sex, Pleasure, and Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

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