"Phallos (Wesleyan University Press) is a long treatment of sexual adventure..." Read More
It’s impossible to see a Morrisroe photograph clearly. Try it. Something is always in shadow, painted-over, scratched, composed so that it is just off-screen, taunting you. Read More
My 1980s and Other Essays is an incredibly timely hodge-podge of prose that expertly blends nostalgia-free self-reflections, reluctant bits of advice, and breathless love letters to idols literary, artistic, and musical[...] Read More
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
Most writers understand that narratives are constructions that can never truly or objectively capture the totality of an event. Using...
Is there still a place for LGBT community newspapers in the world of social media? Tracy Baim’s edited volume Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Papers in America provides a history of the LGBT press, but no easy answers as to its future. Read More
"[...]with Facebook, Pinterest, with other online modes, blogging....We are catching things [in the news and on the web] and passing them along. What I'm showing is how the past comments on, and is related to, what we're doing now."
Scholar and writer Ellen Gruber Garvey talks with Lambda Literary about her new book, Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, being a lesbian academic, and bringing hidden histories to light. Read More
The Missing Ink, is very much concerned with the loss of individuality and character—a sad phenomenon that has been brought about by, among other things, the dominance of the keyboard. Read More
The editors have collected essays from a diverse group of gay writers on the people who have inspired them, from literary heroes to those closer to home—including, in more than one case, an actual daddy. Read More
