Bio/Memoir Archives

September 12, 2011 13 min read

“Essentially I didn’t buy into gender and no amount of lecturing or attempts at behavior modification could convince me that...

‘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...

‘If You Knew Then What I Know Now’ by Ryan Van Meter

Nels P. Highberg

Bio/Memoir Reviews

July 18, 2011 2 min read

I have written a few reviews for LLF over the last couple of years, but I have never said this...

Jackie Kay: Living Inside a Story

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Features Interviews

June 8, 2011 6 min read

“In a curious way, we are what we read, much more than we are what we eat.” Scottish author Jackie...

‘Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man’ by Chaz Bono

Sassafras Lowrey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

June 2, 2011 1 min read

In Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man (Dutton) Chaz Bono, the only child of Sonny Bono and...

‘Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures’ by Julie Marie Wade

Sassafras Lowrey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

March 17, 2011 1 min read

Like the Ocean which literally and metaphorically flows through the text, Julie Marie Wade’s Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures is...

Douglas A. Martin: Going Back

Zachary Pace

Interviews

June 30, 2010 5 min read

Douglas A. Martin opens Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press, 2009) with an unusual instruction. “Pretend you are my...

‘Where’s My Wand?’ by Eric Poole

Nels P. Highberg

Bio/Memoir Reviews

June 11, 2010 2 min read

Publishers try to entice customers to buy their books by overtly connecting them to established, popular writers. Penguin does this...

‘What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir’ by E. Lynn Harris

Adrian King

Bio/Memoir

January 1, 2004 3 min read

WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED A Memoir By E. Lynn Harris Doubleday ISBN: 9780385502648 Hardcover, $22.95, 266p He should...

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

Justin Vivian Bond: Childhood Revisited

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

‘If You Knew Then What I Know Now’ by Ryan Van Meter

Jackie Kay: Living Inside a Story

‘Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man’ by Chaz Bono

‘Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures’ by Julie Marie Wade

Douglas A. Martin: Going Back

‘Where’s My Wand?’ by Eric Poole

‘What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir’ by E. Lynn Harris

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