Opinion Archives

September 7, 2016 3 min read

Addonizio’s work is important to many LGBTQ readers because her writing persona works as an amalgamation of identities queer readers understand: the outsider, the rebel, the provocateur, the lover, and the survivor Read More

Fieldwork in Being a Brown Man

Joe Jimenez

Opinion

August 28, 2016 9 min read

"If you don’t have a father in your life, or if the only male figures in your life are [screw-ups], to whom do you turn to learn things you want to know?" Read More

Snapshots from an Editor: Working with Edmund White

Donald Weise

Opinion

August 24, 2016 12 min read

"[...] I marveled at how one book—and, more importantly, one man—had changed the course of my life." Read More

Navigating Sex Parties and Pride: A Week in the Life of Cartoonist Jeremy Sorese

Parrish Turner

Opinion The Banal & the Profane

August 14, 2016 24 min read

"[...] I wish Pride could be something closer to Publishers Clearing House, where someone shows up at the door of a closeted teen living in some oppressive Middle American state with an oversized check and whisks them away." Read More

Navigating the Wilderness and Workloads: A Week in the Life of Author Jeanne Thornton

William Johnson

Opinion The Banal & the Profane

July 6, 2016 21 min read

"I feel like my life is totally constructed by jobs: the freelance ones that pay the bills, the 'literary' ones that don’t really pay but that I feel hold me together." Read More

Cutting: On Poetry and Navigating Pain

Rajiv Mohabir

Features Opinion

June 2, 2016 4 min read

"Cutting was not about externalizing the pain of being a misfit. It was about winding disparate threads of the ways I didn’t fit into one visible chord." Read More

Appreciations: Christina Hutchins’ “Vigil”

Thomas March

Opinion Poetry

May 24, 2016 5 min read

Every month, “Appreciations” looks closely at a poem or poems from recently-published books by LGBTQ poets Read More

Delany’s Times Square

Mike Miksche

Opinion

May 16, 2016 3 min read

“Show World Center is one of the places that may escape the move—so there’ll still be a little color left,...

Navigating Porn Shoots and Therapy: A Week in the Life of Writer Amy Gall

William Johnson

Features Opinion

April 5, 2016 14 min read

"My therapist reminds me, 'If it can’t be fixed, death can heal it.' Meaning, endings are not inherently or only traumatic. Some things are just a letting go, or a putting down of a burden that isn’t working..." Read More

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

Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

Opinion

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

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

Queer Readers and Kim Addonizio’s ‘Bukowski in a Sundress’

Fieldwork in Being a Brown Man

Snapshots from an Editor: Working with Edmund White

Navigating Sex Parties and Pride: A Week in the Life of Cartoonist Jeremy Sorese

Navigating the Wilderness and Workloads: A Week in the Life of Author Jeanne Thornton

Cutting: On Poetry and Navigating Pain

Appreciations: Christina Hutchins’ “Vigil”

Delany’s Times Square

Navigating Porn Shoots and Therapy: A Week in the Life of Writer Amy Gall

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

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