José Esteban Muñoz, an author and academic in the fields of queer theory and cultural studies, has passed away. Read More
"The work of women, and how women live, is still diminished and demeaned, most especially if those women don’t play nice, which Lessing, famously curmudgeonly, did not." Read More
Doug Ireland, an award-winning political journalist and media critic, has died. Ireland died in his New York City apartment on...
Having read so many of his novels, I was well-versed with the world of the closet that he wrote about. But I soon discovered that being his reader and being his editor were two different experiences. Read More
While many of Mead’s contemporaries from the Warhol days either died young or moved on to different things, Mead continued to live his eccentric and artistic life in lower Manhattan, painting, and writing poetry... Read More
It was compelling for the young lesbian-feminist reporter that I was, being in a country run by a woman. As a feminist, I wanted to experience that difference–having a woman in charge. That constancy of presence of Thatcher’s was part of the difference, the intensity with which she seized power was another. Read More
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago, Gerda Lerner said, "When I started working on women’s history about 30 years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think women had a history worth knowing." Read More
Poet, writer, and activist William Brandon Lacy Campos, author of the poetry collection It Ain’t Truth If It Doesn’t Hurt and contributor...
Bill Brent published six editions of a landmark national resource guide for alternative sexualities, called the Black Book. From there, he launched a sassy, sexy little zine called Black Sheets. That, in turn, spawned Black Books, a tiny independent publishing house. Black Books and Black Sheets were pansexual. The company’s tag line, for a time, was “Kinky. Queer. Intelligent. Irreverent.” Truth in advertising. Read More
I got to know Helen when I was her publicist—at St. Martin’s Press—for her penultimate book I’m Wild Again: Snippets From My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts. She was an infinitely read-out-loud-on-the-beach-quotable original in the vein of fashion legend Diana Vreeland and movie star Joan Crawford. A hero for women? Sure. Gay icon? Absolutely. Read More
