Yarrott Benz: On Revisiting a Harrowing Adolescence and Writing His New Memoir ‘The Bone Bridge’
“Whether I like it or not, the story of The Bone Bridge is the defining story of my life.”
Anne Balay and Daisy Hernández named Lambda Literary’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Winners
Lambda Literary, the nation’s leading national nonprofit arts organization promoting LGBTQ literature and writers, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.
Maggie Nelson: On Writing ‘The Argonauts’ and Doing Justice to Queer Happiness
“On one level, I tried to do something I hadn’t done before, which was use the book as a holding container for sentiments of love and happiness […]”
Rita Mae Brown & John Waters to be Honored at the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Lambda Literary is pleased to announce that John Waters will receive Lambda’s Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature an Rita Mae Brown will receive the Pioneer Award at the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (“Lammys”).
Writer, Actor, and LGBT Advocate Nathan ‘Seven’ Scott, 44, Has Died
Nathan ‘Seven’ Scott, a beloved LGBT advocate, writer, and multimedia artist has died
Renowned Feminist Activist and Author Sidney Abbott, 77, Has Died
Sidney Abbott was a former member of the activist group the Lavender Menace and co-author of the pioneering book Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism.
Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford: An Incomplete Biography
The Houston and Crawford story speaks to the power of black female love (intimate or platonic) and the heights such unions can scale
Read an Excerpt from Larry Kramer’s ‘American People: Volume I’
This month, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is releasing the long-awaited new novel from author Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel.
New in April: Larry Kramer, Mark Doty, Roz Kaveney, Sassafras Lowrey, and Dale Peck
New month, new books
Introducing Lambda’s 2015 Emerging Writers Retreat Fellows
The 2015 class of the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices will spend a week in Los Angeles, June 22-29, 2015 working on their manuscripts in workshops led by some of our community’s leading LGBT authors/mentors.
