secondary Archives

July 24, 2018 3 min read

With friends and loved ones together one moment and gone the next, Rebecca Makkai's novel is a page-turner that explores living and loving during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago. Read More

Lying With Women: Meditations on Barrie Jean Borich’s Writing, Lesbians, and Liberation

Julie R. Enszer

Features

July 22, 2018 26 min read

"Sexuality, both the sexuality of the body and the sexuality of the mind, inform the geography about which Borich writes." Read More

The Gay Trailblazer of the Harlem Renaissance: Biographer Jeffrey C. Stewart on Alain LeRoy Locke

Nahshon Dion

Interviews

July 17, 2018 13 min read

"Locke sought a roomier notion of Black identity that could allow the queer and the unfixed notions of sexual identity to lurk if not flourish." Read More

‘Terrible Praise’ by Lara Hayes

MJ Lowe

Romance

July 16, 2018 3 min read

The first in the Redamancy Series,Terrible Praise is a highly engrossing story. The characters draw the reader into the story while the pacing keeps the reader engaged. Read More

‘Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation’ by Robert W. Fieseler

Walter Holland

Reviews

July 16, 2018 5 min read

Thirty-one men and one woman lost their lives in the Up Stairs Lounge fire. It was, at that time, the largest mass murder of gays in American history Read More

‘My Life as a Goddess’ by Guy Branum

Alex Tunney

Reviews

July 15, 2018 4 min read

My Life as a Goddess is a cocktail of asides, digressions, footnotes, hyper-specific references to somewhat obscure pop culture items, and a voice that is equally self-deprecating as it is proud Read More

A Look at the Film Adaptation of ‘We the Animals’

Sarah Fonseca

Film

July 12, 2018 4 min read

"It’s a pleasure to see Justin Torres’ quiet wisdom brought to visual life." Read More

Feminist Writer and Activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, 73, has Died

Edit Team

News

July 11, 2018 1 min read

Kaye/Kantrowitz was the founding director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, an organization dedicated to addressing the racial/ethnic tensions and economic disparities in New York City Read More

‘At Night Only’ by Christopher Stoddard

John Francis Leonard

Reviews

July 11, 2018 2 min read

At Night Only is a fast-paced, sometimes frenzied look at New York's artistic and corporate worlds through a lens of drugs, dysfunction, and mental illness Read More

Watch This! The Film Trailer for ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’

Edit Team

Features

July 10, 2018 1 min read

Based on the novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center 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

‘Being Emily’ by Rachel Gold

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

‘The Great Believers’ by Rebecca Makkai

Lying With Women: Meditations on Barrie Jean Borich’s Writing, Lesbians, and Liberation

The Gay Trailblazer of the Harlem Renaissance: Biographer Jeffrey C. Stewart on Alain LeRoy Locke

‘Terrible Praise’ by Lara Hayes

‘Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation’ by Robert W. Fieseler

‘My Life as a Goddess’ by Guy Branum

A Look at the Film Adaptation of ‘We the Animals’

Feminist Writer and Activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, 73, has Died

‘At Night Only’ by Christopher Stoddard

Watch This! The Film Trailer for ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’

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