Butch Queens Up in Pumps is about more than just Detroit Ballroom culture; it provides a thorough theorizing and portrayal of how people marginalized by "otherness" build alternative communities and self-sustaining cultures in the margins. Read More
Oh, sweetheart. How can I explain this to you, when you have so little experience of meanness? When your whole...
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin retells the unbelievable story of a boy who grew to adulthood in the very heart of Hitler’s Germany. Read More
Evoking Leo Bersani’s notorious 1987 polemic, “Is the Rectum a Grave?,” Lynne Huffer strives to not only negotiate the divide...
On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on the outskirts of Laramie,...
Morrisroe didn’t have the longevity, dying from AIDS at age 30, but he had the fame and notoriety to justify the release of his ephemera: letters, song lyrics, hospital records, art school reviews, exhibition advertisements, and excerpts from his collaborative Boston punk-scene ‘zine, Dirt. Read More
Als took some time to talk with Lambda about his new book’s double-take title, his literary influences, and the wisdom of Richard Pryor. Read More
Reading White Girls one comes smack up against the most unpleasant of truths: America is neither post-racial, post-queer, nor post-feminist. Read More
"The complexity and diversity of gay society is so vividly represented that it forces the reader to question the limited ways in which we are often portrayed." Read More
Choire Sicha’s new book, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large...
