*Gay Archives

August 24, 2011 3 min read

Young adult fiction has come a ways since the blonde-haired, blue-eyed yesterdays of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High and the...

‘Horror Hospital Unplugged’ by Dennis Cooper and Keith Mayerson

Colin Fitzpatrick

Features Comics Reviews

August 22, 2011 3 min read

I come up against the same problem every time I try to discuss Dennis Cooper’s work. Transgressive work creates a...

In the News: Patti Smith, Lesbian Pulp Fiction and E. Patrick Johnson

Erika N. Turner

Features News

August 17, 2011 1 min read

Godmother of Punk Patti Smith released her memoir Just Kids to critical acclaim in 2009, winning her a National Book...

‘They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks’ by Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace and Mary Miller

Terri Solomon

Anthology Fiction Reviews

August 13, 2011 2 min read

Flash fiction. Like lightning, it’s a brief illumination, the sky of your mind brightened with an image that, at its...

Dirk Vanden: Pioneer Of Gay Literature

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Features

August 10, 2011 22 min read

“There are those who believe that Gay Liberation started at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969....

‘True Stories: Portraits from My Past’ by Felice Picano

Thom Nickels

Bio/Memoir Reviews

August 9, 2011 5 min read

It’s easy to forget that there once was a time when there was no gay literature, and when the act...

‘Quarantine’ by Rahul Mehta

Troy Rutman

Fiction Reviews

August 8, 2011 3 min read

You’ve heard the story before, right? Second generation immigrant from [insert country] works twice as hard to fulfill his parents’...

‘Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy’ by Bil Wright

Diana Denza

Reviews Young Adult

August 7, 2011 3 min read

Makeup obsessed Carlos Duarte knows he has major talent when it comes to making faces look fresh and fabulous. The...

In the News: Jacqueline Woodson, Allen Ginsberg, and Great Couples in LGBT Literature

Erika N. Turner

Features News

August 6, 2011 1 min read

When I was in elementary school, I was very picky about the kinds of books I wanted to read. Nerdy...

The Banal and the Profane: Gee Henry

Edit Team

Features The Banal & the Profane

August 3, 2011 12 min read

“…I try to limit my interaction with the media, actually… my logic is that if editors and reporters don’t hear...

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

‘From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth’ edited by Victoria A. Brownworth

‘Horror Hospital Unplugged’ by Dennis Cooper and Keith Mayerson

In the News: Patti Smith, Lesbian Pulp Fiction and E. Patrick Johnson

‘They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks’ by Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace and Mary Miller

Dirk Vanden: Pioneer Of Gay Literature

‘True Stories: Portraits from My Past’ by Felice Picano

‘Quarantine’ by Rahul Mehta

‘Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy’ by Bil Wright

In the News: Jacqueline Woodson, Allen Ginsberg, and Great Couples in LGBT Literature

The Banal and the Profane: Gee Henry

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