Leather Archives

January 20, 2016 3 min read

In the 1970s, editor Jack Fritscher offered solace to masculine identified gay men around the country within the pages of the San Francisco based magazine, Drummer Read More

Out of the Dungeons and onto the Bookshelf: Leather Writers in a Post-‘Fifty Shades’ Literary World

Sassafras Lowrey

Interviews

July 16, 2015 9 min read

Authors Sassafras Lowrey, Laura Antoniou, and Cecilia Tan discuss BDSM writing in a post-Fifty Shades literary world Read More

A Leather Conversation with Sassafras Lowrey and Sinclair Sexsmith

Edit Team

Features Opinion

April 24, 2012 12 min read

Sinclair Sexsmith runs the award-winning personal online writing project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer...

‘Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970’s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco’ by Jim Stewart

Sassafras Lowrey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 27, 2012 1 min read

Jim Stewart brings together stories, poems and photographs that gives readers of today a glimpse into the early days of the leather community and the beginnings of a post-stonewall gay community in San Francisco. Read More

‘Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness’ by Steve Lenius

Sassafras Lowrey

Bio/Memoir Nonfiction Reviews

April 4, 2011 2 min read

If you’re looking to expand your leather library, Steve Lenius’ Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness (CreateSpace) is 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

The Queerness of Robots

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

Jack Fritscher: On Editing ‘Drummer’ Magazine in the 1970s

Out of the Dungeons and onto the Bookshelf: Leather Writers in a Post-‘Fifty Shades’ Literary World

Read More Than Each Other: Books Every Black Gay Man Should Read

A Leather Conversation with Sassafras Lowrey and Sinclair Sexsmith

‘Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970’s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco’ by Jim Stewart

‘Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness’ by Steve Lenius

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