Music Issue

Music Issue

Songs in Isolation: 17 LGBTQ Writers on What They are Listening to Right Now

Marrion Johnson

April 19, 2020 20 min read

The world is officially on pause and yet many of us still need to find ways to move through this...

LeShaun’s ‘Wide Open’ May Be One of the Queerest “Straight” Songs Ever

Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

February 10, 2016 4 min read

In 1993, Tommy Boy records released an album by a young female rapper from Brooklyn named LeShaun. It’s called 'Wide Open' Read More

Cause I Am Here To Remind You

February 9, 2016 7 min read

Long before the photo of us began circulating, people told others the story of how I met Alanis Morissette as a way of connecting to fame Read More

LGBTQ Musicians on Their Favorite Books

Features Opinion

February 9, 2016 5 min read

Lambda Literary asked several musicians about their favorite books Read More

Boy Interrupted At His Music

Jameson Fitzpatrick

February 8, 2016 8 min read

After my voice changed, I changed. Instead of a boy who sounded like a girl, I became a boy who sounded like he liked boys... Read More

I Love Bey

February 8, 2016 1 min read

I love Bey...

I Have Punk, Langston Had Blues, Lorca Had Ballads

Christopher Soto

February 7, 2016 3 min read

Punk has helped me understand poetic word choice, the speed and punctuation of a poem, and it has given me a political and community-oriented understanding of the world Read More

LGBTQ Writers on Their Favorite Music

February 7, 2016 9 min read

This week, Lambda Literary explores the relationship between music and literature Read More