‘The Uncollected David Rakoff’ by David Rakoff
David Rakoff was here. He made us laugh, he made us weep, he made us think. The Uncollected Works are some of his best and some of his not-so-best, but they are all him and as such, to be cherished
A Queer Look at Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’
The eighty-nine-year-old Lee has long been a lesbian literary icon, and her protagonist, Scout Finch, a.k.a. Jean Louise, has been—along with Carson McCullers’ Frankie Addams in The Member of the Wedding—a girl that every young American lesbian grew up reading
Remembering Assotto Saint: A Fierce and Fatal Vision
“[Saint] knew he had to chronicle the black gay voices of AIDS or they would be lost. He had to collect the bits and pieces that would create a different kind of names quilt–the angry verses, the embittered stanzas, the breathy last couplets of the dying.”
A.M. Homes Wins The Women’s Prize Amid Controversy
There’s been a great deal of snarkiness about this literary prize. “Why only women?” “Isn’t this sexism in reverse?”
Obituary as History: The Lost Lives of the Queer Dead
The impact of obituaries for those relegated to the margins of mainstream society cannot be overstated…
Remembering Taylor Mead: Queer, Beat Poet, and Warhol Superstar
While many of Mead’s contemporaries from the Warhol days either died young or moved on to different things, Mead continued to live his eccentric and artistic life in lower Manhattan, painting, and writing poetry…
In Remembrance: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ruth
‘The Bone Bed’ by Patricia Cornwell
A new Kate Scarpetta novel
Bits & Pieces: Spring Lesbian Mystery Roundup
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