“The difference between accountability and justice is that accountability is what happens after the trauma, and justice is this idea that there shouldn’t be trauma in the first place. The goal is justice.”… read more

“Navigating journalism as a black queer man has had its challenges but I’ve always been a firm believer in letting the work speak for itself.”… read more

“I hope readers find Sodom Road Exit to be a page-turner—it is a ghost story after all, and a sexy ghost story too.”… read more

“Locke sought a roomier notion of Black identity that could allow the queer and the unfixed notions of sexual identity to lurk if not flourish.”… read more

“I Can’t Date Jesus is my journey of not just accepting myself as a gay man, but learning to actually enjoy it; by that I mean, overcoming my fear of intimacy that started with an early exposure to HIV and was magnified by being raised by a devout Catholic.”… read more

“I wanted a 16-year-old Black youth somewhere to pick up a book that offered a window into some aspects of their lives.”… read more

In 1958, Fernando Rios was led into an alley outside a New Orleans gay bar, where he was beaten to death by there college students. Clayton Delery’s new book examines this hate crime and its connections to anti-immigrant prejudices and homophobia in 1950s America… read more

Amy Heart is a queer storyteller committed to lifting the voices of transgender girls and women … read more

“My sensitivity to class distinctions doesn’t promote distrust. It makes me introspective about our tendency to deny the existence of these differences and then address the consequences of those differences.”… read more