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A New Open Access Edition of Acclaimed AIDS History
By John Manuel-Andriote
Aging without the friends and lovers we expected to know all our lives, deep sorrow lurks, always, just beyond our laughter. How has it impacted our lives in the twenty-first century?
Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
By Wendy Rouse
When I began researching the book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people warned me that I wouldn’t find much. They weren’t wrong.
The Porousness of Queerness
Julian Carter in conversation with Jonathan David Katz about Carter’s new book, Dances of Time and Tenderness, published June 2024.
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Young and Gay in Montana
By Scott Terry
I was still rodeoing, but had given up bull riding. During hunting seasons, a hunting rifle was hanging in the gun rack in the back window of my truck. Being murdered didn’t seem likely, if I could successfully conceal that I was gay.
The Sum of My Parts
By Oliver Radclyffe
But even if I had still been closeted, I knew it would be almost impossible to form a cohesive narrative from the confusing evidence laid out in front of me. It had taken me over forty years to figure it out myself, and I was the main suspect.
When You’re An Outlier
By Michael Varga
I want to complain about being an outlier, but the minute I begin to form the words, I catch myself. You see, I have been an outlier before. And then, I had no complaints.
Book Reviews
The Discipline of Drag
This memoir is the fourth book from the world’s most famous drag queen, who cemented his celebrity status in the 1990s with his hit single “Supermodel” and now inhabits popular culture with his long-running reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, with its many international spin-offs.
On Her Way to Warhol
Cynthia Carr’s new, rigorously researched biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar traces the short, difficult, and remarkable life of Candy Darling from her early school years through her painful death from leukemia and lymphoma in 1974 at age 29.
Three ‘Song Languages’
HERE ARE three recent titles from among an abundance of new poetry from independent publishers. The variety and mastery of these poets’ distinctly different voices are exhilarating: Our tribe of LGBT poets contains many song languages, and we need their full range.
Seven Wonders of Our World
THE ORIGIN STORY for Diarmuid Hester’s Nothing Ever Just Disappears begins in Cambridge, England, when the author had a realization that the queer history of that place was disappearing.
Daring to Speak Its Name
CAMEROONIAN WRITER Musih Tedji Xaviere’s debut novel, These Letters End in Tears, focuses on the illicit love affair between two women who are willing to risk their lives to be together.
The Downside of Upward Mobility
CHANGE by Édouard Louis Translated by John Lambert Farrar, Straus & Giroux 256 pages, $27. EDOUARD LOUIS’ memoir Changer: Méthode, published in France in 2021, has recently been translated into English by John Lambert under the title Change. The work functions as a sequel to The End of Eddy, Louis’ inaugural autobiographical novel, whichMore