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On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

Rae Nudson Considers the History of the Stonewall Raids and the Protests That Followed

By Rae Nudson | July 14, 2021

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

His Life and Writing">John Paul Brammer on LGBTQ+ Stories That Guided
His Life and Writing

By John Paul Brammer | June 8, 2021

Stonewall's Black Leaders and the Loneliness of Searching for Ancestors

Stonewall's Black Leaders and the Loneliness of Searching for Ancestors

Alexis De Veaux on the Creation of the Stonewall Story

By Alexis De Veaux | June 19, 2019

The Impossibility of Knowing Everything about Stonewall

The Impossibility of Knowing Everything about Stonewall

Max Wolf Valerio on a Constantly Shifting Mythology

By Max Wolf Valerio | June 19, 2019

The Rutgers Student Who Opened Up a World of Gay Liberation

The Rutgers Student Who Opened Up a World of Gay Liberation

"I should have thanked him for making me a dyke."

By Cheryl Clarke | June 19, 2019

Rita Mae Brown: Stonewall Created a Market for Stories of Struggle

Rita Mae Brown: Stonewall Created a Market for Stories of Struggle

Maybe We Shouldn't Be So Quick to Buy Them

By Rita Mae Brown | June 19, 2019

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Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

By Edmund White | April 30, 2019

My Fair Lady">Digging in to the Queer Subtext of My Fair Lady

By Rebecca Renner | March 8, 2019

Reading Across America: Have Your Poetry and Eat It, Too

By Laura Winnick | January 16, 2019

"We Have A Gay Bar Here." You Don't Need A Coast to Be Cosmopolitan

On "Small Blue Bubbles in a Sea of Red."

By Greggor Mattson and Tory Sparks | July 19, 2018

A Reader's Journey Through Transition

A Reader's Journey Through Transition

Joseph Schreiber's Search for Self in a Lifetime of Books

By Joseph Schreiber | October 25, 2016

What I Learned Growing Up Gay in a South Texas Dance Hall

What I Learned Growing Up Gay in a South Texas Dance Hall

I am my Father's Eldest Son, Born to Love Another Man

By David Meischen | July 29, 2016

Nicole Dennis-Benn and Chinelo Okparanta Tell Their Own Stories

Nicole Dennis-Benn and Chinelo Okparanta Tell Their Own Stories

In Conversation on Language, Character, and the Perils of Code-Switching

By Literary Hub | July 6, 2016

10 Books to Read for Pride Month

10 Books to Read for Pride Month

From the Original Cult Classic Lesbian Vampire Story to LGBT Athletes

By Cassidy Foust | June 8, 2016

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

Garrard Conley: "I wrote and rewrote again. I wrote in doubt and fear."

By Garrard Conley | May 11, 2016

Garth Greenwell on Sex, Passion, and the Queer Body

Garth Greenwell on Sex, Passion, and the Queer Body

What Belongs to You">In Conversation with the Author of What Belongs to You

By Adam Vitcavage | January 28, 2016