*Gay Archives

October 25, 2011 5 min read

Sapphire’s first novel, Push, is a regular selection for my Introduction to Women’s Studies classes. Students enjoy reading the novel...

‘Three #2″ edited by Rob Kirby

Cathy Camper

Illustrated Reviews

October 24, 2011 3 min read

One of the problems with comics anthologies is that they aren’t always good. You’re forced to plod through a lot...

Michael Graves: Literary Pop Hit

Tom Cardamone

Features Interviews

October 18, 2011 6 min read

“Writing these pieces was almost like putting together an album. I wanted fifty-dollar words and I wanted to create literary...

‘The Stranger’s Child’ by Alan Hollinghurst

Ted Gidesonse

Fiction Reviews

October 17, 2011 2 min read

For me, and for many fans of literary fiction, particularly the gay ones, a new Alan Hollinghurst novel is an...

Boneyard: Who is Jake Yoder?

William Johnson

Features Videos & Trailers

October 13, 2011 1 min read

Post-Modern Meta Alert! Writer Stephen Beachy has not only injected himself as a character into his latest work of fiction,...

‘A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos’ ed. by David Trinidad

Douglas Ray

Poetry Reviews

October 12, 2011 5 min read

During my senior year of college, as I was researching for my thesis on the poetic response to AIDS, I...

‘Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans’ by Robert A. Schanke

Christopher Soden

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 12, 2011 2 min read

Something I often find annoying about biographies is their blatant attempts to shape our responses. Either the writer crafts an...

‘Is This The Real Life? The Untold Story of Queen’ by Mark Blake

Reginald Harris

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 4, 2011 3 min read

Writing the biography of a band must be a very difficult assignment. One has to give biographical information about each...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Langston

Saeed Jones

Features Opinion The Ferocity

October 3, 2011 2 min read

Two years ago, I wrote about Langston Hughes’s sexual identity and what I have come to call “closeted poetry.” Here’s...

Derrick Austin, “Cruising”

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

September 29, 2011 2 min read

This week, three new poems from Derrick Austin....

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

Philip Dean Walker: On 1980s Nostalgia, Listening to Sylvester, and Writing a Themed Collection

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 Kid’ by Sapphire

‘Three #2″ edited by Rob Kirby

Michael Graves: Literary Pop Hit

‘The Stranger’s Child’ by Alan Hollinghurst

Boneyard: Who is Jake Yoder?

‘A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos’ ed. by David Trinidad

‘Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans’ by Robert A. Schanke

‘Is This The Real Life? The Untold Story of Queen’ by Mark Blake

What We Talk About When We Talk About Langston

Derrick Austin, “Cruising”

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