Welcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. Our first feature...
When Chris Stedman started writing IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives, he probably didn’t expect that...
With The New Gay For Pay, Julia Himberg takes a critical eye to the operations behind and beyond the camera which take place in the various offices of media professionals: showrunners, producers, market researchers, public relations experts and political campaigners. Read More
Law and the Gay Rights Story provides an illuminating overview of the often-contentious intersection between American jurisprudence and the gay rights movement. Read More
Pleading in the Blood is the first full-length book on performance artist Ron Athey and its editor, Dominic Johnson, quickly locates Athey not as a member of the punk and queer cultures of the 1980s and 90s (though these, of course, are crucial), but as the narrator of his own life. Read More
Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press) may very well be the most revolutionary queer text to hit bookstores since Eve Sedgwick’s...
In addition to revealing some of his thought processes, the content of his final journals, A Heaven of Words as edited by Jerry Rosco, cements Wescott’s significant role in gay cultural history. Read More
The popular narrative of gay liberation seems inseparable from the urban landscape. From the drag balls of 1920s Harlem to...
In Red-Inked Retablos, author Rigoberto González recalls speaking to a literature class where a young man approached him with a question. The student asked González, if growing up gay in the Latino community was so difficult, why he continues to go back to it. González quickly responded, “Because I love my people.” Read More