Queer Rites Archives

December 20, 2014 7 min read

I’ve noticed that many people—mainly, those who say they are “spiritual” but don’t subscribe to a specific belief—tend to call...

The Lives of Angels

Thom Nickels

Opinion Religion

March 9, 2014 5 min read

Aside from the lgbt books that crossed my path recently, one book, The Lives of Angels by Emanuel Swedenborg, caused...

Queer Rites: ‘Faitheist’

Thom Nickels

Features Opinion

March 14, 2013 5 min read

An atheist might be said to believe in everything that can be seen. Perhaps one could add a belief in...

Queer Rites: November 2012

Thom Nickels

Features Opinion

November 20, 2012 8 min read

While reading Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton, the story of Rushdie’s life in hiding after he was “sentenced to death” by the...

Queer Rites: Where Are All the Old Philadelphia LGBT Heroes?

Thom Nickels

Features Opinion

June 11, 2012 7 min read

What happens to the legacy of lgbt leaders when they are no longer in the spotlight? I ask this question...

Queer Rites: Faith Politics and Sexual Diversity

Thom Nickels

Features Opinion

January 16, 2012 10 min read

In August of last year, I boarded a Greyhound bus for Scranton, Pennsylvania for a week’s stay in an Orthodox...

Queer Rites: God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality

Thom Nickels

Features Religion Reviews

September 27, 2011 5 min read

Like most people, I weathered the media panic surrounding the coming of Hurricane Irene. Although the rational part of me...

Queer Rites: June 2011

Thom Nickels

Features Reviews

June 8, 2011 9 min read

Many of the books that have come across my desk in the last couple of months have emphasized religious conversion,...

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

‘Kiss Me Again, Paris,’ or: How Many Drafts Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

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

In Bed with Joan Nestle

‘The Thousand-Petaled Lotus: Growing up Gay in the Southern Baptist Church’ & ‘Queer Clergy’

The Lives of Angels

Queer Rites: ‘Faitheist’

Queer Rites: November 2012

Queer Rites: Where Are All the Old Philadelphia LGBT Heroes?

Queer Rites: Faith Politics and Sexual Diversity

Queer Rites: God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality

Queer Rites: June 2011

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

An Artist’s Journey from the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Interview with Ashley Robin Franklin

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