I sat down with Radclyffe to discuss the relationship between writing a memoir and living an authentic life, how he sees the relationship between Adult Human Male and Frighten the Horses, and his fascinating assertion that we’re thinking about gender “transition” completely wrong
Read MoreThis Sapphic Monster Novel Flips the Script on Queerness in Horror
Queer women have always been part of the horror genre. But in the capable, beckoning hands of Clements and Datta, we get to see the story from their perspective, with monsters made not from them, but for them. In “Feast While You Can,” queer desire is the cure, not the curse
Read MoreBook Review: A Modern Shakespeare Retelling Filled With Drugs, Sex and Trauma
Bratton has accurately drawn a protagonist stuck still by his pain, and the result is a story that for long stretches also feels stuck itself.
Read MoreBLACKOUTS Review: A Radical Queer Novel Challenges the Idea of History Itself
In Justin Torres’s lyrical new novel, “Blackouts,” these two forms — erasure poetry and queer history — collide to create one epic conversation between a pivotal 20th-century queer sexology text and two unreliable queer Puerto Rican narrators (or perhaps three, depending how you read the genre-bending conclusion).
Read MoreThe Unknown Librarian Who Saved Queer History
You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer history.
Read MoreA Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love
It is this war, as much as that “Great” one, that “In Memoriam” explores. Winn shows us parents, siblings, friends and enemies all trying to reckon with the unspeakable, referencing gay desires only through allusions to poetry or meaningful (yet ultimately unfathomable) silences.
Read MoreA Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time
History, as it is taught, is a straight line of dominoes falling — the relentless clack of fact hitting fact, an orderly queue of causality stretching on forever. History, as it is lived, is a reeling spiral of flight and return; the iterative reawakening of new selves in familiar places;
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History Keeps Me Awake Some Night - David Wojnarowicz
Never Not a Poet
To those who argue that Wojnarowicz wasn’t a poet, I say this: his work is saturated with poetry, and poetry seeps upward through his life, like a water table importunate with spring.
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