Thom Nickels 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...

Thom Nickels: Affliction, Morality, and Liberation

Edward Truth

Features Interviews

December 28, 2012 9 min read

“Like it or not, we live in Apocalyptic times. Most people today—if you ask them over coffee or a glass...

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: 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...

‘True Stories: Portraits from My Past’ by Felice Picano

Thom Nickels

Bio/Memoir Reviews

August 9, 2011 5 min read

It’s easy to forget that there once was a time when there was no gay literature, and when the act...

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,...

‘Spore’ by Thom Nickels

Jackie S. Atkins

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction

November 15, 2010 3 min read

The fifth novel by Philadelphia columnist, Thom Nickels, Spore (StarBooks), seems to be in a category all to itself. Part...

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

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

The Lives of Angels

Queer Rites: ‘Faitheist’

Thom Nickels: Affliction, Morality, and Liberation

Queer Rites: November 2012

Queer Rites: Faith Politics and Sexual Diversity

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

‘True Stories: Portraits from My Past’ by Felice Picano

Queer Rites: June 2011

‘Spore’ by Thom Nickels

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