LGBT nonfiction Archives

July 16, 2016 3 min read

British poet and scholar Gregory Woods has gathered the often overlooked or underappreciated stories of over a century of gay men and women from around the world and woven a remarkably cohesive narrative Read More

‘Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature in Fin-De-Siecle France’ by Nicole G. Albert

Rachel Wexelbaum

Nonfiction Reviews

June 30, 2016 3 min read

Albert’s book is a treat for American LGBT Studies researchers. She provides us with a treasure trove of paintings, drawings, and cartoons that depict the French lesbian at the turn of the century Read More

‘Communal Nude: Collected Essays’ by Robert Gluck

Sarah Schulman

Nonfiction Reviews

June 23, 2016 4 min read

This is a cumulative accounting of Gluck’s interests: socialism, moral language, AIDS, movie stars, art stars, his house in San Francisco, and men. Dead and dying, living and yearning. It is part of the secret history of gay literature, the one not yet taught in school Read More

‘The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art’ by Dominic Johnson

Richard Maguire

Nonfiction

May 1, 2016 3 min read

From the punk scene in LA to the squats & studios London in the 1970s, performance art has been underground and ephemeral, until now Read More

‘True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell’ by William E. Jones

Walter Holland

Bio/Memoir Nonfiction

April 27, 2016 3 min read

McDonald was one of the literate stars of the 1970s underground. Known for his homoerotic series of chapbooks, Straight to Hell, beginning in 1973, he published the true stories of men who had sex with other men Read More

‘Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement’ Edited by Jennifer Patterson

Dave White

Anthology Nonfiction

April 25, 2016 3 min read

Queering Sexual Violence is something of a collectively written open letter to what Patterson refers to as “the non-profit industrial complex,” which has consistently overlooked and undervalued the experiences and insights of queer survivors of sexual violence Read More

‘The American Isherwood’ edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman

Frank Pizzoli

Nonfiction

April 11, 2016 5 min read

The basic tenet of the artfully edited The American Isherwood by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman (University of Minnesota...

‘The Making of the American Essay’ Edited by John D’Agata

Heather Seggel

Nonfiction Reviews

April 6, 2016 2 min read

The total package of this collection is overwhelming, far-reaching, and feels very much like our collective home Read More

‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism’ by Adrian Brooks

John Erickson

Nonfiction

March 30, 2016 1 min read

The battle cries, blood, sweat, and tears of those who have both come before and will certainly exist after today’s LGBT activists are long gone, are carefully protected and cherished. Read More

‘Queer: A Reader for Writers’ Edited by Jason Schneiderman

Alex Tunney

Nonfiction Reviews

March 21, 2016 4 min read

Queer: A Reader for Writers gathers a wide swath of ideas and then uses them to facilitate education 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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

‘Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World’ by Gregory Woods

‘Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature in Fin-De-Siecle France’ by Nicole G. Albert

‘Communal Nude: Collected Essays’ by Robert Gluck

‘The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art’ by Dominic Johnson

‘True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell’ by William E. Jones

‘Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement’ Edited by Jennifer Patterson

‘The American Isherwood’ edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman

‘The Making of the American Essay’ Edited by John D’Agata

‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism’ by Adrian Brooks

‘Queer: A Reader for Writers’ Edited by Jason Schneiderman

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