LGBTQ
‘Hippie Faggot Freak’: Memoir of a pathetic youth and emerging gay liberation
January 22, 2024Dale Mitchell’s lengthy account of his first 21 years is intermittently rewarding, but it is a slog demanding much patience.
Read moreRemembering and reviewing pioneering gay literary editor Michael Denneny
January 18, 2024Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir.
Read more‘Women’s rights’ language a cover for anti-trans and anti-woman attacks in Canada
December 4, 2023It might sound progressive at first glance, but this new Conservative offensive is aimed at denying trans existence and reversing women’s social gains.
Read moreAnti-gay crackdown looms after Russian Supreme Court bans ‘LGBT movement’
December 1, 2023Putin’s judges on Thursday declared the entire queer movement to be extremist and made it illegal.
Read more‘The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen’ in review
September 15, 2023Ever hear of William Dorsey Swann? Me neither. Another of those many buried figures in the history of Black and queer liberation.
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