Ted Kerr Archives

January 4, 2018 6 min read

The AIDS Crisis Revisitation begins in 2008 with a noticeable increase in the creation, dissemination, and discussion of culture concerned with the early responses to HIV/AIDS Read More

‘The Show House’ by Dan Lopez

Theodore Kerr

Fiction Mystery

December 18, 2016 3 min read

The Show House is a mystery that brings together murder, passion, family, and ideas of what it means to be gay in the face of normative pressures Read More

Tim Murphy: On His New Book, HIV/AIDS, and How Scruff is a Kinder Place Than AOL Profiles

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

August 6, 2016 17 min read

"AIDS is like a prism through which all these social pathologies like poverty, homophobia, sexism and racism are refracted." Read More

Mike Albo: On Sperm and Its Uses, Spirituality, and Learning to Feel

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

April 23, 2016 16 min read

"I am a religious person. I did not grow up that way. I found it on my own, and often I do not feel worthy of saying it." Read More

‘The Rise and Fall of The Yellow House’ by John Whittier Treat

Theodore Kerr

Fiction Reviews

November 15, 2015 4 min read

Set in Seattle in the early 1980s, Treat’s debut novel is an exploration of desire, drugs, family, murder, and the gay experience in the face of mass death Read More

‘Johnny Would You Love Me…(If My Dick Were Bigger)’ by Brontez Purnell

Theodore Kerr

Bio/Memoir Fiction

September 27, 2015 6 min read

By asking, “Would you love me if….?” Purnell is not inquiring about the limits of love, he announcing his awareness that limits exist and snubbing his nose accordingly Read More

Cory Silverberg : On His New Book ‘Sex is a Funny Word’ and Sex Education for Kids

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

August 19, 2015 14 min read

"I get to present sexuality and gender in a way that I hope gives kids more options than I felt I ever had." Read More

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

Theodore Kerr

Bio/Memoir Reviews

April 4, 2015 5 min read

It is easy to assume that My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir is Bernard Cooper’s autobiography through art. He is after all a critic, artist and educator. While not untrue, it is not the whole story. Read More

Writers Vivek Shraya and Elisha Lim Talk Craft, Race, Identity, and Getting Compensated for Your Work

Theodore Kerr

Interviews

March 21, 2015 12 min read

Lambda Literary Award finalists Vivek Shraya and Elisha Lim talk craft, identity, race, and getting compensated for your work Read More

Roxane Gay: On Messiness, Not Belonging, and What Being Queer Taught Her About Being a (Bad) Feminist

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

September 17, 2014 15 min read

"I think you can take pleasure in something and critique it at the same time. A lot of my writing is doing that. It is taking a critical examination of this thing we are all talking about and all enjoying while asking, but at what price?" 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

The Queerness of Robots

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 AIDS Crisis Revisitation

‘The Show House’ by Dan Lopez

Tim Murphy: On His New Book, HIV/AIDS, and How Scruff is a Kinder Place Than AOL Profiles

Mike Albo: On Sperm and Its Uses, Spirituality, and Learning to Feel

‘The Rise and Fall of The Yellow House’ by John Whittier Treat

‘Johnny Would You Love Me…(If My Dick Were Bigger)’ by Brontez Purnell

Cory Silverberg : On His New Book ‘Sex is a Funny Word’ and Sex Education for Kids

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

Writers Vivek Shraya and Elisha Lim Talk Craft, Race, Identity, and Getting Compensated for Your Work

Roxane Gay: On Messiness, Not Belonging, and What Being Queer Taught Her About Being a (Bad) Feminist

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