Read Jewelle Gomez’s New Foreword for ‘The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition’
“There were those who didn’t think a black lesbian vampire story—benevolent or not—was such a good idea politically.”
Blacklight: Crime Fiction Makes Hidden LGBTQ Histories Visible
The LGBTQ historical crime novel has a dual function: first, to uncover the particular past, true actions and motivations of a set of characters; and second, to re-insert queer characters back into a time period that has excluded them
Writers on Mississippi’s Anti-Gay Legislation, Jewelle Gomez on Vampires, and Other LGBT News
Childhood literary crushes, ACLU takes on prison censorship, and more LGBT news
‘The Cosmopolitans’ by Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman has given us a finely tuned, clever, and remarkably contemporary historical novel
‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ by Kaitlyn Greenidge
That the novel is able to combine ASL culture, race, ambition, family, love, politics, and history is a marvel not to be missed
A Poem by Kamden Hilliard
This week, a poem by Kamden Hilliard.
‘The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality’ by Tom Waidzunas
The Straight Line is a socio-cultural exploration of the rise and fall of the ex-gay and reorientation therapy movement
New in January: Garth Greenwell, Rashod Ollison, Tracey Richardson, and Paul Lisicky
New month, new books
‘Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy’ Edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács & Sabina Ibarrola’
The essays and performance pieces in this anthology add to a collective tale while remaining essentially singular
