Sexuality Archives

March 26, 2017 3 min read

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex Read More

‘Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles from the Edge of Sex’ by Tina Horn

Sara Rauch

Nonfiction Reviews

September 3, 2015 2 min read

Love Not Given Lightly is compelling and oh-so-readable. Whether you know of and partake of this world or not, Horn’s portraits are deeply moving in their tender look at human sexuality and connection. Read More

‘Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy’ by Walter Frank

Nathan Tipton

Nonfiction

September 29, 2014 3 min read

Law and the Gay Rights Story provides an illuminating overview of the often-contentious intersection between American jurisprudence and the gay rights movement. Read More

Notes on Smut: A Look at Lesbian Literary Erotics

Diana Cage

Features Opinion

September 14, 2013 4 min read

If everyone is used to objectifying women, like it’s just a thing used to sell toothpaste and jeans and trick us into watching rom-coms, how do you write about sex and the erotic in a way that only the intended audience is picking up what you’re putting down? Read More

Romance and Religion: Anne Brooke and Dennis Paul Stradford

Dick Smart

Interviews Romance

March 28, 2013 12 min read

Since the major religious festivals of the Spring Equinox cycle are underway I thought I’d take a look at two...

‘The Dream of Doctor Bantam’ by Jeanne Thornton

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

December 3, 2012 2 min read

Meet Julie Thatch, the teenage protagonist of Jeanne Thornton’s debut novel, The Dream of Doctor Bantam. Julie is seventeen, an...

Emma Donoghue: Going Astray

Paige Cohen

Features

December 2, 2012 5 min read

" I like the oddness of historical events; they're messier and therefore more startling than whatever I would invent." Celebrated author Emma Donoghue spoke with the Lambda Literary Review about her new collection, Astray, her personal writing process, and how her own travel experiences have affected her most recent work. Read More

‘From the Belly’ by Virginia Bell

ArielleYarwood

Poetry Reviews

October 17, 2012 2 min read

“Path-making seems / altogether necessary and impossible,” writes Virginia Bell in her new book of poetry, From the Belly, effectively...

Chronicling the Stories of LGBT Youth in America

Paige Cohen

Features News

September 7, 2012 1 min read

We Are the Youth, a “photographic journalism project,” has been spreading the stories of LGBT youth throughout the United States...

‘The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America’ by Margot Canaday

Nathan Tipton

Nonfiction Reviews

August 9, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Winner For the vast majority of Americans, citizenship is something ultimately taken for granted, an inevitable “gimme” that—along...

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

‘Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles from the Edge of Sex’ by Tina Horn

‘Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy’ by Walter Frank

Notes on Smut: A Look at Lesbian Literary Erotics

Romance and Religion: Anne Brooke and Dennis Paul Stradford

‘The Dream of Doctor Bantam’ by Jeanne Thornton

Emma Donoghue: Going Astray

‘From the Belly’ by Virginia Bell

Chronicling the Stories of LGBT Youth in America

‘The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America’ by Margot Canaday

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