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Lambda’s Values Statement

Lambda Literary would like to open this statement with an apology for our silence during a time of terrorism and genocide. We acknowledge that as an organization, we arrived late to this moment. The lack of clarity on who we are internally resulted in an abdication of the responsibility we have to our community members whose lives, families, and art have been impacted by violence. We own this breach of trust and understand that it cannot be mended within our organization or communities without acknowledging that we have caused others to feel unheard or excluded.

We join other institutions in demanding a permanent ceasefire, the immediate release of hostages, and an end to Israeli apartheid. We demand Israel cease its obstruction of humanitarian aid into Gaza. And we demand that those who participate in these atrocities be held accountable under international laws and those of the lands in which they reside.

Since its inception, Lambda has championed underrepresented LGBTQ+ voices by nurturing and advocating for LGBTQ+ writers and their readers. Our mission is rooted in the belief that elevating these voices creates a stronger, more pluralistic world and affirms the value of our diverse stories and lives. We recognize the value and intersectionality of each LGBTQ+ person’s life, and our struggle for liberation is intertwined with broader movements for full equality. We believe that people and communities with different identities coexisting peacefully and equitably is essential to every person’s self-actualization and liberation. For this reason, we stand in solidarity against genocide, white supremacy, and systems of oppression. We also stand with the region’s oppressed LGBTQ+ communities and call for an end to homophobia and transphobia. 

After the Hamas attack on the 7th of October and the deaths of over 1,139 people in Israel, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza. These figures do not include those missing, injured, or held hostage. Approximately 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced and now face death from disease or starvation. We are witness to the attempted annihilation of a people and their cultures, as Israel’s ongoing bombardment and invasion have destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure, homes, arts institutions, schools, and hospitals. We mourn the loss of civilians, medical workers, journalists, and artists. Condemnation of the Israeli government and Hamas should not be conflated with anti-Arab racism or antisemitism, which are abhorrent. 

Over the past months, members of our staff and board met with community stakeholders, received public feedback, and came together to discuss how we can meaningfully support struggles for Palestinian freedom. We extend our deepest gratitude to those individuals who have pushed to hold us to a higher standard, and who have themselves been brave and candid in sharing with us both their pain and their vision for what Lambda should represent.

We, the Lambda board and staff have reached a shared understanding that the nature of who we are as an organization requires that when we commit ourselves to a stated belief, it must be embodied in praxis. To that end, we have begun work on a number of initiatives and features within Lambda’s existing programs that we hope to share with you soon. We welcome opportunities to hold essential conversations with community members about Lambda’s mission in action and meaningful representations of solidarity.

New York, NY, June 1, 2021 – Lambda Literary, the nation’s premier LGBTQ literary organization, announced the winners of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards (a.k.a. the “Lammys”) this evening at a live Zoom ceremony hosted by Rakesh Satyal, who won a Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel, Blue Boy.

As they have done for over three decades, this year’s Lammys again celebrate powerful, necessary writing that centers the LGBTQ experience. With last year’s award ceremony cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s virtual celebration was a welcome return for an organization dedicated to honoring the very best in LGBTQ literature. Throughout the evening, presenters and winners highlighted the impact the Lammys have had in uplifting queer voices. Novelist Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby, kicked off the festivities speaking of her joy to be presenting for “an organization for which trans writing and trans authors aren’t an afterthought.” Alex Gino, who won a Lammy in 2016 for their middle grade debut, George, highlighted the importance of the explosion of books featuring queer characters for young people while noting that across the country just one in five queer students experience course work that includes positive representations of LGBTQ people and history. John Paul Brammer, author of Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons, began his presentation by noting, “As a gay person from rural America, books were some of the only community I had growing up,” while Ryan O’Connell, creator and star of Special, joked, “I love books and I love gay, and I love it when books and gay go together.”

Representing the diversity of the LGBTQ experience, this year’s Lammy winners once again highlight Lambda Literary’s reputation for recognizing queer literature in all of its many forms, and many winners acknowledged that diversity in their speeches. In accepting the Lammy for Transgender Nonfiction for The Black Trans Prayer Book, J Mase III & Dane Figueroa Edidi said, “We hope that this work is a tool that helps to celebrate and heal our community.” Mohsin Zaidi, whose A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance won the Lammy for Gay Memoir/Biography, noted that he had been told there wouldn’t be much interest for his book in the U.S., but continued, “Stories don’t have a nationality and I think that’s even more true of our stories, of stories from the queer community.” Joshua Whitehead, winner of the LGBTQ Anthology Lammy for Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, ended his speech with a joyous, “welcome to the Two-Spirit Indigiqueer, fem glittery, fantastic, trans, Indigenous future we deserve,” while Mike Curato, winner of the LGBTQ Young Adult Lammy for Flamer claimed his award for “all the sissies, all the queers, all the Pinoy boys who feel unseen, I see you. And for anyone who has dwelt in darkness, there is light inside you even if you can’t see it.”

The evening’s celebration, which has always doubled as a fundraiser to help support Lambda Literary’s programs, concluded with a performance by Grammy Award nominated artist and lesbian icon, Meshell Ndegeocello. “This year’s ceremony was a true celebration for us after what has been an unimaginably difficult year for so many,” said Sue Landers, executive director of Lambda Literary. “While we couldn’t be together in person again this year, we are so excited to be back honoring LGBTQ literature and all of the wonderful writers who make up our community.  Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.”The Lammys are the most prestigious award in LGBTQ publishing. Please join us in celebrating the following authors and their literary accomplishments.

 Lesbian Fiction

Gay Fiction

Bisexual Fiction

Transgender Fiction 

Bisexual Nonfiction

Transgender Nonfiction

LGBTQ Nonfiction

 Lesbian Poetry

Gay Poetry 

Bisexual Poetry

Transgender Poetry

 Lesbian Memoir/Biography

 Gay Memoir/Biography

Lesbian Romance

Gay Romance

 LGBTQ Anthology

LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade 

LGBTQ Young Adult 

  • Flamer, Mike Curato, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

LGBTQ Comics

 LGBTQ Drama

LGBTQ Erotica

LGBTQ Mystery

LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

LGBTQ Studies 

During this year’s ceremony, Lambda Literary announced a new honorary award, the Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction. Kenan, who won a Lambda Literary Award in 1992 for his novel Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, passed away in August of 2020 and the prize bearing his name honors writers whose work explores themes of Black LGBTQ life, culture, and history, with its winner receiving a $3,000 cash prize. Ana-Maurine Lara is the inaugural recipient of the prize. Other special prizes announced throughout the evening included Brontez Purnell and Sarah Gerard winning the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, a $5,000 prize given annually to two LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels and show promise to continue publishing high quality work for years to come. Nancy Agabian won the $2,500 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, granted to a writer committed to nonfiction work that captures the depth and complexity of lesbian and queer life, culture, and history. The Judith Markowitz Award recognizes two writers whose work demonstrates exceptional potential, and T Kira Madden and Taylor Johnson were awarded this year’s $1,000 prizes. More information on these winners and their prizes is available here.

Lambda Literary thanks the following sponsors for their support of the Lammys.

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Editor’s Note: Recently, author John Weir shared the following post on his Facebook page. We found the post to be a moment of clarity despite the cultural uncertainty. He kindly let us share it.

Social distancing? Went for a midnight run in Prospect Park, met nary a soul–which was actually kind of pleasant–forgive me, Jesus–found myself thinking about the disasters I’d lived through in NYC, or witnessed elsewhere–“Disasters I’ve Known,” not about my romantic life!–rather: In 1983-84, I ran a Writers Group for People With AIDS, Thanksgiving to Easter, and they all died, all the members, 12 guys; and so did the two “buddies” to whom I was assigned by Gay Men’s Health Crisis; and that was what being 24 was like!

And then my friend David Feinberg died, spectacularly, theatrically, for months; and that was being 34! And then 9/11, and the city shut down for months afterwards: the National Guard in tanks patrolling Lower Manhattan, empty stores, empty streets–who knew I’d miss tourists!

And because of magazine pieces I was assigned to write, I was in Oklahoma City the day the government knocked down the gutted shell of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building; and a week after Hurricane Katrina, I was in Houston, where thousands of displaced people, who’d spent days living in terror in the New Orleans’ Superdome, were now living in fear and uncertainty in the Houston Astrodome, sleeping on fold–out cots across the outfield.

Disaster changes people, rearranges their cells, wrecks their lives and sometimes weirdly saves them; and the government always behaves badly. The slow response. The negligent response. Sometimes criminally negligent. The inept response, the self–serving response, the refusal altogether to respond. I know why people hate the government, but voting for Trump was running with a lit torch into a matchstick house: now you’re on fire too, whether or not you know it.

Where’s the redemption? What’s the lesson learned? Just that–I guess–we got through it–if we did! Not everybody survives traumatic loss. Pardon my keen grasp of the obvious. You will surprise yourself, though, at what you can endure; and while people who cannot or will not help may fall away and out of your life, still, people who seem amazingly caring and able, and whom you would not have known otherwise, will show up, abruptly, miraculously. And while suffering is a big price to pay for connection, that’s something disaster also brings, in addition to loss: connection.

“For such loss, abundant recompense?” Wordsworth says! But he never met Trump. I wouldn’t say “recompense,” anyway, and who wants abundance? Abundance would crush me. Deprivation I can handle! I’m right for disaster, I guess. Something it gives: the chance to fight together with relative strangers against loss or the threat of loss. A kind of communion. To discover people who care, not because they know you, but because they don’t–because they take for granted that you matter as much as they do, just because you’re on the planet, and we’re in this together.

During these challenging times, contributions from people like you make it possible for Lambda Literary to serve our community’s brightest lights.

Justin Torres’ We the Animals  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is all the best one hopes to encounter in a young author’s debut novel: all the raw emotion just past processing the wounds accumulated during adolescence, all the nostalgia for life as it was then mixed with the realizations of the convoluted beauty life reveals itself to be, and the no-holds-barred energy that comes from a young author dying (or living) to express themselves. The novel shows such mastery of crafting vibrant, visual, concise prose that it’s hard not to fall in love with and want to reread the novel as you find yourself reaching the last sentences. (more…)

Rejoice bibliophiles! November has arrived and so has a cavalcade of fall books.  This month you can pick up new releases from Dennis Cooper, Mari SanGiovanni, Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Chantal Regnault, and Samuel Delany. (more…)

What causes us to call each other ‘family’?  Do genetic links hold meanings in the absence of actually meeting one who shares them?  Is blood thicker than water when water is all you’ve ever known?  Each of these questions is considered in Blood Strangers (Heyday Books), a memoir of one woman’s search for her father’s biological family.  Briccetti documents, in vivid detail and often elegant prose, her obsession with her own genealogy.   (more…)

The end of a hot and extremely dry summer brought a number of enjoyable distractions. Richard Stevenson’s latest Don Strachey case shows author and P.I. back in top form, thirty years after their debut. There were second novels from Joseph R.G. DeMarco and Scott Sherman. Jordan Castillo Price and Andrea Speed continued their alternate universe mystery series, joined by newcomer Stephen Osborne. I am happy to report that I was part of Cheyenne Publishing’s decision to bring Ruth Sims’s pioneering YA Pride Pack mysteries back into print. Two authors — Michael Gouda and Marshall Thornton — brought off that rarity: single-author short story collections. And two anthologies of all new crime writing appeared, one edited by DeMarco and the other by Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann. Plus, the excellent film adaptation of Ken Bruen’s comic thriller Blitz became available onDVD. (more…)

“I’m all for a good dose of literary misery, but I can’t help wonder if there aren’t additional meaningful, and dramatically potent, channels into the heart of the human experience…” (more…)

The chronicle of the displaced, teenage sex worker is such a staple of gay film and literature that he’s almost his own genre. From Richie McMullen’s Enchanted Youth to Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, the young, inflammable rebel’s trials, tribulations, and “liberation” loom large in the creative mind with harsh lessons and dark, sexual adventures on urban mean streets. (more…)

Set in the declining town of Leominster, Massachusetts in the 1980s, Michael Graves’ blistering debut collection Dirty One (Chelsea Station Editions) depicts the harrowing lives of working-class adolescents on the verge. (more…)

“I’m always interested in the idea of the sacred and profane. I’m a very spiritual and sexual person. Liberating my spirituality, by being irreligious, and my sexuality, by coming out, empowered me more.”

Azwan Ismail is an engineer, poet and editor in Kuala Lumpur. He came to my attention last year when his It Gets Better video appeared on YouTube. Immediately after uploading it, Azwan found himself in the center of a media firestorm that resulted in death threats. Because of his tremendous courage, Change.org named him a Gay Rights Hero of 2010. He edited Orang Macam Kita (People Like Us), the first-ever Malay-language LGBT anthology (Matahari Books, 2010). (more…)

Sapphire’s first novel, Push, is a regular selection for my Introduction to Women’s Studies classes. Students enjoy reading the novel and watching, on their own, the film, Precious directed by Lee Daniels, with its major stars. Often we discuss the movie’s fidelity to the novel and where it diverges, thinking about how the two forms of artistic expression work differently. More importantly, however, we discuss the important questions Push raises about literacy, poverty, and AIDS. (more…)

One of the problems with comics anthologies is that they aren’t always good. You’re forced to plod through a lot of not-so-talented and amateur creations, in hopes of discovering one or two slivers of greatness. Famous artists contribute to the call for work, but instead of crafting new, exciting stuff, they dig through their closet and pawn off B-grade comics that no one else would publish, because they know a small publisher will slobber over their big name. It’s rare to find compilations that are as carefully constructed, drawn and written as artist’s individual monograms. (more…)

Imagine you wrote a book and it was shortlisted for the National Book Award.  Imagine the excitement you would feel getting the phone call telling you that your words are being recognized for their literary excellence.  Now imagine finding out you were nominated by accident because your book’s title sounds similar to the one that was actually supposed to be nominated.  That’s what happened to Lauren Myracle last week.  Myracle, a New York Times bestselling author of middle grade and young adult novels, was named as a Young People’s Literature finalist for her latest novel, Shine, about a girl who struggles to find the truth in small town North Carolina after her best guy friend falls victim to a brutal hate crime. (more…)

Happy Accidents (Voice), Jane Lynch’s breezy memoir about her life and work as a post-Stonewall American actor, has something for everyone. It is an interesting mix of Americana as well as a cross-section of the history of stage and TV sketch comedy. Both narrative and nostalgia, Happy Accidents is fun with flair, a chronicle of happenstance and the absurdities of life as she gleefully connects the dots between her personal and professional life. Lynch explains humor, and her always present desire for laughter (more…)

The Brown Boi Project in Oakland, CA just finished up it’s third annual leadership retreat. A “community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice,” the Brown Boi Project holds annual leadership retreats for masculine of center people of color aged 35 and under who wish to “work across issues and communities, talk about race, class, culture, gender and sexuality, and explore what a commitment to social justice looks like.”

In addition to its leadership retreats, the BBP also has released a ground breaking health book, Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois. (more…)

It’s a shame that summer is over, for Terrance Dean has written a textbook example of the fast-paced “summer novel” with Mogul (Atria Books). Drawing on his experience in the music business, already discussed in his 2008 non-fiction book Hiding In Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry from Music to Hollywood, Dean here lays out the life and hidden loves of a top producer “on the DL.” (more…)

“Writing these pieces was almost like putting together an album. I wanted fifty-dollar words and I wanted to create literary pop. Colorful, fizzy, glitterized fiction.”

Reviewer Richard Labonte recently branded Michael Graves “a next-generation master of prose” based on the strength of his startling original collection of short stories, Dirty One (Chelsea Station Editions). Tom Cardamone chats with the refreshingly enthusiastic author about Halloween, Mitt Romney, suburban drug use and more. (more…)

The opening chapter of The Girls Club (Bywater Books) by Sally Bellerose lays it all out on the table. But this just a taste of what the reader will find throughout the rest of the novel—body, sisterhood, illness, family, confused sexuality. In this unabashed prose, Bellerose captures a specific time, place, and circumstance while managing to remain timeless in her story. The narrator, Cora Rose, and her two sisters, Marie and Renee, dominate this book—they make it readable, believable, engrossing. (more…)

For me, and for many fans of literary fiction, particularly the gay ones, a new Alan Hollinghurst novel is an event. From 1988, when his first book The Swimming Pool Library was published to great acclaim, to 2004 when he won the Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, Hollinghurst became known as one of Britain’s great novelists and arguably the greatest gay novelist writing in English today. (more…)

Today, two new poems by Monica McClure. (more…)

On a beautiful fall evening at New York’s Dixon Place on Tuesday October 5, writer Dinick Martinez took the stage, reading from a black and white composition notebook; “It’s hard to forget the harrowing moments when I was blind in love with the wrong man.”

The audience murmured an understanding response to the experience and the specificity of the language, perhaps remembering moments when they were also blind in love with the wrong person. (more…)

Post-Modern Meta Alert! Writer Stephen Beachy has not only injected himself as a character into his latest work of fiction, Boneyard (Verse Chorus), he has also cleverly placed himself in the book’s press materials/book trailer. (more…)

During my senior year of college, as I was researching for my thesis on the poetic response to AIDS, I ran across Tim Dlugos’s “Retrovir” in Michael Klein’s anthology Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS. Immediately gut-checked and seduced by those few poems, I went searching for more Dlugos, which wasn’t exactly easy, even in the age of instant access to, well, almost anything. Through several used and rare book dealers, I found copies of Dlugos’ Strong Place (with introduction by David Trinidad), Powerless (again, Trinidad introduction), and a rare chapbook, For Years. When news circulated that Trinidad was in the process of editing a Collected Poems, I waited intently. The wait was well worth it (more…)

Something I often find annoying about biographies is their blatant attempts to shape our responses. Either the writer crafts an homage, believing the subject is beyond reproach, or barely concealed antipathy creates a portrait that is diminishing. Such is not the case with Robert A. Schanke’s current treatise: Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans. Schanke scrupulously details his tumultuous life and career, never hesitating to elaborate for the sake of balance and fairness. (more…)

“I absolutely believe that writing and publishing erotica, especially for minorities, is a political act. We must write our own stories, our own truths, otherwise our detractors and enemies will do it for us”

I picked up Best Lesbian Erotica 1998 when I worked at an indie bookstore, and it changed my trajectory. Suddenly I was asking myself, why do I love this lesbian erotica so much? (more…)

“It’s a blessing and a curse, this business of writing about everything that challenges, confounds, or embarrasses me.  Contrary to how it must seem, it actually springs from an aversion to self-reflection. If I didn’t write about my life, I would never understand what the hell was happening.”

“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.

This month’s  “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from Melissa Febos. (more…)

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Lammy Awards!

This year, awards are offered in 26 categories alongside 7 special prizes, including two that are new in 2024: The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence, named in honor of Michael Denneny, who founded the first ever LGBTQ+ imprint at a major publishing house, and The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing, in memory of the celebrated author and long-time SF Chronicle book review editor Patricia Holt. The announcement of these 130 finalists marks the beginning of a season of uplifting and spotlighting these authors and their work throughout the awards season, with interviews, events, and other special opportunities to get to know the finalists and their vital stories.

The Lammys are the most prestigious award in LGBTQ publishing, with 75  judges who spent six months considering over 1300 submissions. Young Adult and Speculative Fiction continue to drive the growth seen in the last few years of submissions.  Finalists and winners will be celebrated at the award ceremony held at Sony Hall in midtown NYC on Tuesday, June 11th. 

Please join us in celebrating the following creators for their outstanding contributions to the queer literary landscape:

Lesbian Fiction

  • Big Swiss // Jen Beagin (Scribner) 
  • Biography of X // Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Organ Meats // K-Ming Chang (One World)
  • Our Hideous Progeny // C E McGill (HarperCollins Publishers)
  • Pomegranate // Helen Elaine Lee (Atria Books)

Gay Fiction

  • American Scholar // Patrick E. Horrigan (Lethe Press)
  • Blackouts // Justin Torres (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Brother & Sister Enter the Forest: A Novel // Richard Mirabella (Catapult)
  • Family Meal // Bryan Washington (Penguin Random House / Riverhead Books)
  • I Will Greet the Sun Again // Khashayar J. Khabushani (Hogarth Books)

Bisexual Fiction

  • All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel // Ruth Madievsky (Catapult)
  • Endpapers // Jennifer Savran Kelly (Algonquin Books)
  • Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen // Sarah James (Sourcebooks)
  • Natural Beauty // Ling Ling Huang (Penguin Random House / Dutton)
  • Old Enough // Haley Jakobson (Penguin Random House / Dutton)

Transgender Fiction 

  • Bellies // Nicola Dinan (Hanover Square Press)
  • Girlfriends // Emily Zhou (LittlePuss Press)
  • The Rage Letters // Valérie Bah; translator Kama La Mackerel (Metonymy Press)
  • Trash // Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (Deep Vellum)
  • Wild Geese // Soula Emmanuel (Feminist Press)

Bisexual Nonfiction

  • Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men // Vaneet Mehta (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
  • Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto // Zachary Zane (Abrams Image)
  • Creep: Accusations and Confessions // Myriam Gurba (Avid Reader Press)
  • Crying Wolf // Eden Boudreau (Book*hug Press)
  • Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir // Kawika Guillermo (Duke University Press)

Transgender Nonfiction

  • Love and Money, Sex and Death // McKenzie Wark (Verso Books)
  • Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary // Miss Major and Toshio Meronek (Verso)
  • On Community // Casey Plett (Biblioasis)
  • Tar Hollow Trans: Essays // Stacy Jane Grover (University Press of Kentucky)
  • Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure // Mx. Sly (Arsenal Pulp Press)

LGBTQ+ Nonfiction

  • Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America // Daniel Black (Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press)
  • Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City // Elyssa Maxx Goodman (Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press)
  • Hi Honey, I’m Homo // Matt Baume (BenBella Books)
  • Otherwise // Julie Marie Wade (Autumn House Press)
  • Out: A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond // John Sovec, LMFT (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Lesbian Poetry

  • Ardor // Alyse Knorr (Gasher Press)
  • Because You Were Mine // Brionne Janae (Haymarket Books)
  • Couplets // Maggie Millner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Dream of Xibalba //Stephanie Adams-Santos (Orison Books)
  • Teeter // Kimberly Alidio (Nightboat Books)

Gay Poetry 

  • Hard Drive // Paul Stephenson (Carcanet Press)
  • Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems // Richard Blanco (Beacon Press)
  • Love(ly) Child // Emanuel Xavier (Rebel Satori Press)
  • Trace Evidence // Charif Shanahan (Tin House)
  • What We Lost in the Swamp // Grant Chemidlin (Central Avenue Poetry)

Bisexual Poetry

  • A Film in Which I Play Everyone // Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf Press)
  • Desire Museum // Danielle Cadena Deulen (BOA Editions)
  • Ephemera // Sierra DeMulder (Button Poetry)
  • Good Grief, the Ground // Margaret Ray (BOA Editions)
  • Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge // Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books)

Transgender Poetry

  • Hood Vacations // Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (Black Lawrence Press) 
  • Portraits as Animal: Poems // Victoriano Cárdenas (Bloomsday Literary)
  • Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco // K. Iver (Milkweed Editions)
  • Taking to Water // Jennifer Conlon (Autumn House Press)
  • Transitory // Subhaga Crystal Bacon (BOA Editions)

LGBTQ+ Poetry

  • Lanternfly August // Robin Gow (Driftwood Press) 
  • motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life // Destiny Hemphill (Action Books)
  • Pig // Sam Sax (Scribner)
  • The Perfect Bastard // Quinn Carver Johnson (Northwestern University Press)
  • Toska // Alina Pleskova (Deep Vellum)

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

  • Hijab Butch Blues // Lamya H (The Dial Press)
  • Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives // Amelia Possanza (Catapult)
  • Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche // Vi Khi Nao (11:11 Press)
  • To Name the Bigger Lie // Sarah Viren (Scribner)
  • Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters // Lynnée Denise (The University of Texas Press)

Gay Memoir/Biography

  • Leading Lady // Charles Busch (BenBella Books)
  • Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It // Greg Marshall (Abrams Press)
  • Mother, Nature // Jedidiah Jenkins (Convergent Books)
  • Reaching Ninety // Martin Duberman (Chicago Review Press )
  • Tweakerworld // Jason Yamas (Unnamed Press)

Lesbian Romance

  • A Lady to Treasure // Marianne Ratcliffe (Bellows Press)
  • Catch // Kris Bryant (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Dance with Me // Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Love at 350° // Lisa Peers (The Dial Press)
  • Lucky in Lace // Melissa Brayden (Bold Strokes Books)

Gay Romance 

  • Dionysus in Wisconsin // E. H. Lupton (Winnowing Fan Press)
  • Mistletoe & Mishigas // M.A. Wardell (Self-published)
  • The Art of Husbandry // Jay Hogan (Southern Lights Publishing / Self-published)
  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen // KJ Charles (Sourcebooks)
  • We Could Be So Good // Cat Sebastian (Avon Books)

LGBTQ+ Anthology 

  • 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies // Tuck Woodstock & Niko Stratis (Rapid Onset Gender Distro / Self-published)
  • A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals  // Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier (Rutgers University Press)
  • Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection // Madeline Dyer; with contributions by Cody Daigle-Orians, Kat Yuen, Akemi Dawn Bowman, Rosiee Thor, Madeline Dyer, Linsey Miller, K. Hart, S.E. Anderson, Emily Victoria, Anju Imura, RoAnna Sylver, Moniza Hossain, Lara Ameen, Jas Brown, and S.J. Taylor (Page Street Publishing / Page Street YA)
  • Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue // Benjamin Schaefer (Wayne State University Press)
  • Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders // Bogi Takács; with contributions by Cameron Van Sant, Celia Neri, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Emma Alice Johnson, Hal Y. Zhang, Isha Karki, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Julian K. Jarboe, Julie Nováková, Kanika Agrawal, Laura Jane Swanson, Leigh Harlen, Lisa M. Bradley, Lydia Moon, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Phoebe Barton, Polenth Blake, Premee Mohamed, Santiago Belluco, Stefani Cox, Tessa Fisher, Ursula Whitcher, and Vajra Chandrasekera (Atthis Arts)

LGBTQ+ Children’s Books 

  • The Apartment House on Poppy Hill // Nina LaCour; illustrator Sonia Albert (Chronicle Books)
  • Door by Door // Meeg Pincus and Meridth Mckean Gimbel (Crown Books for Young Readers)
  • Gender Identity for Kids // Andy Passchier (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • Grandad’s Pride // Harry Woodgate (Little Bee Books)
  • The Wishing Flower // A. J. Irving and Kip Alizadeh (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

LGBTQ Comics

  • A Guest in The House // Emily Caroll (First Second)
  • Belle of the Ball // Mari Costa (First Second)
  • Blackward // Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Roaming // Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • The Chromatic Fantasy // H.A. (Silver Sprocket)

LGBTQ+ Drama

  • Fat Ham // James Ijames (TCG Books/Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company)
  • For Both Resting and Breeding // Adam Meisner  (Scirocco Drama / J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)
  • I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet // Andrew Rincón (Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company)
  • Joan of Arkansas // Milo Wippermann (Ugly Duckling Presse)
  • the bandaged place // Harrison David Rivers (Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company)

LGBTQ+ Middle Grade 

  • Dear Mothman //  Robin Gow (Amulet Books)
  • Ellie Engle Saves Herself // Leah Johnson (Disney Hyperion)
  • Just Lizzie // Karen Wilfrid  (HarperCollins / Clarion Books)
  • Matteo // Michael Leali (HarperCollins)
  • The Beautiful Something Else // Alder Van Otterloo (Scholastic Press)

LGBTQ+ Mystery

  • A Calculated Risk // Cari Hunter (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Don’t Forget the Girl // Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark)
  • The Good Ones // Polly Stewart (HarperCollins Publishers)
  • Transitory // J. M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Where the Dead Sleep // Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)

LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica 

  • A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories // laura q (Microcosm Publishing)
  • Chef’s Choice // TJ Alexander (Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books)
  • Fly with Me: A Novel // Andie Burke (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  • Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date // Ashley Herring Blake (Berkley)
  • The Fiancee Farce // Alexandria Bellefleur (Avon Books)

LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction

  • Bang Bang Bodhisattva // Aubrey Wood (Solaris)
  • I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel // Marisa Crane (Catapult)
  • The Archive Undying // Emma Mieko Candon (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • The Saint of Bright Doors // Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • The Thick and the Lean // Chana Porter (Saga Press)

LGBTQ+ Studies 

  • Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II // Jennifer Dominique Jones (University of North Carolina Press)
  • Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine // Christoph Hanssmann (University of Minnesota Press)
  • Queer Career:  Sexuality and Work in Modern America // Margot Canaday (Princeton University Press)
  • Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China // Travis S. K. Kong (Duke University Press)
  • The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti // Erin L. Durban (University of Illinois Press)

LGBTQ+ Young Adult

  • Cold Girls // Maxine Rae (Flux)
  • Only This Beautiful Moment // Abdi Nazemian (HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray)
  • Pritty // Keith F. Miller, Jr. (HarperCollins / HarperTeen)
  • That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1) // Brittany N. Williams (Amulet Books)
  • The Wicked Bargain // Gabe Cole Novoa (Random House Books for Young Readers)

Tickets to this year’s ceremony at Sony Hall in NYC are now available for purchase here. You can also support our finalists by buying their books.

On behalf of Lambda Literary, congratulations to all of our authors, poets, playwrights, and all of the people who make these works happen.

Each category is judged by a panel of three judges selected primarily from Lambda’s extensive community of readers, authors, fellows, former finalists, and other stakeholders, provided they themselves do not have titles eligible during the award year. Judges and their categories are kept confidential unless they want to be named in the credits for the ceremony. We maintain a goal of selecting judges who share an affinity with the category they are judging as they are experts on their own representation. The judges are provided with a broad rubric for selecting their longlist titles, with factors including the title’s LGBTQ content, quality of writing, and artistic merit. Judges may also consider factors such as the presence of harmful representation or the impact the title or the author has had on the LGBTQ community. Judge panels are given autonomy in making their decisions, meaning that Lambda’s board and staff do not interfere or dictate the selection process. Titles provided for the longlist (top 10 titles, not publicized) are vetted to ensure they meet all technical criteria for eligibility (verified publication year, appropriate category and publishing avenue, etc) and any title found to not meet those requirements is disqualified. Finalist authors or their submitting representatives (publishers, editors) are notified of shortlist (top 5) placement in advance of the public announcement, to confirm details such as contributor names and whether or not they will be accepting the nomination.

Dear friends,

After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to put The Review on hiatus. This is not a decision we take lightly. We understand and are grateful that the Review continues to mean so much to the creators of the works we feature, and those who have relied on our content to guide them toward incredible LGBTQ+ reading.

We want to emphasize that this is not the first time The Review has gone on hiatus. It has existed for a long time without the financial support our other programs have received in order to sustain itself. The publishing world has undergone significant changes over the past decade, and it is imperative for us to adapt and rethink our approach to continue our tradition of excellence in providing a literary review that highlights the important work of LGBTQ+ communities.

We assure you that this is not the end of our journey with The Review, but rather a strategic pause. We are in the process of assembling a dedicated task force to explore innovative and sustainable models that will allow us to relaunch stronger and more resilient than ever. We are committed to maintaining the high standards and rich legacy of The Review, and we are optimistic about finding a path forward that honors our history while embracing the future.

We are proud of The Review’s existing content. All of it will remain available online at lambdaliteraryreview.org, in addition to a few new pieces already slated for release in the coming days. Beyond that, we will not be accepting new pitches. To the incredible community of writers, readers, and supporters who have been the backbone of The Review, we extend our heartfelt gratitude. Your contributions, passion, and loyalty have been the driving force behind The Review’s success. We deeply value the role each of you has played in shaping The Review, and we are eager to embark on this next chapter together. 

We invite your ideas, your creativity, and your support as we navigate this transition and work towards a bright and sustainable future for The Review.

FAQ

YOU MENTIONED FINANCIAL REASONS BEHIND THE REVIEW’S TEMPORARY HIATUS. WHAT EXACTLY ARE THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES?

  • Our cash balance has decreased by more than 75% over the past 15 months, and this challenging financial situation necessitates the pause and re-evaluation. We want to assure our writers, readers, and contributors that the decision to put The Review on hiatus is solely based on financial considerations. 

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EXISTING CONTENT ON THE REVIEW?

  • The Review website will remain active, and all previously published articles, including those with diverse political perspectives, will continue to be accessible at lambdaliteraryreview.org.

HOW LONG WILL THE REVIEW BE ON HIATUS?

  • We are uncertain at this time. Restructuring the Review in a way that ensures we don’t have to disrupt its operation again is going to take time, planning, and a substantial funding commitment. Once all of these vital details are in place, we will be thrilled to announce a relaunch date.

THE REVIEW HAS POSTED CONTENT RECENTLY WHICH MAY BE SEEN AS CONTROVERSIAL TO SOME AUDIENCES. DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MOVE TO PLACE THE PROGRAM ON HOLD?

  • Absolutely not. If the hiatus were a response to a particular article, we would simply have removed that content. Our commitment to editorial integrity remains steadfast, even as we navigate these financial challenges. We deeply value editorial independence and the diverse voices that have found a platform at The Review, as well as the work the Review has done highlighting the contributions of creators living at other intersections of marginalized identity. The decision to pause our operations is not a reflection of our stance on any particular issue but a strategic move to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Review and all Lambda Literary programs. .

HOW CAN I HELP?

  • We are in conversation with brilliant, skilled members of our community whose areas of expertise will help us re-envision what the Review can offer and how to create a sustainable financial model for it going forward. If you have professional experience in a relevant area that you think may be of value as we develop this team, you are welcome to inquire about how to get involved at dgoldenburg@lambdaliterary.org. You can also always support Lambda through donations that make all of our work possible. 

November 16, 2023

Dear Lambda Literary Community members,

I am writing to share an important update regarding Lambda Literary’s leadership. Our Executive Director Samiya Bashir (she/her) has resigned, and the Board of Directors has accepted her resignation. We are grateful for Bashir’s efforts and wish her well in future endeavors.

Bashir joined us a year ago, and during her tenure, Lambda Literary has continued our important work: the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards were as vibrant and exciting as ever. The LGBTQ+ Writers in Schools Program has continued to promote engagement with LGBTQ+ literature in K-12 educational institutions. The Lambda Literary Review remains an essential spotlight on LGBTQ+ literature and forum for community discussions. The Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices is serving more early-career authors than ever before.

As we embark on this transition, I want to assure you that our commitment to Lambda Literary’s mission remains strong. The Board will soon launch an inclusive national process to select a new Executive Director who will lead us forward.

The Board has engaged Dolph Goldenburg (he/him) of Successful Nonprofits® to serve as the Interim Executive Director, and Bashir will work with him to ensure a smooth transition. Goldenburg is a professional interim executive who has served LGBTQ+ organizations based in New York, California, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia.  Goldenburg’s experience and skills make him exceptionally well-suited to maintain our momentum during this transition period.

Change is a natural part of organizational growth and offers opportunities for renewal and progress. We are excited by these opportunities and confident that Lambda Literary will be an even more vibrant champion for LGBTQ books and authors in the years ahead.

We will keep you updated as our search for a new Executive Director moves forward in 2024. In the meantime, I want to express my sincere appreciation for your continued support. Together, we will continue to both preserve LGBTQ culture and affirm LGBTQ lives through our literature.

Sincerely,

Roz Lee (she/her)
Board President

November 17, 2023 Amendment

We have noticed a range of comments and speculation on social media regarding the transition of Lambda Literary’s leadership. While we will not be disclosing further information out of respect for the privacy of our former Executive Director Samiya Bashir, our Board of Directors believes it is imperative to clarify that the reasons for the resignation are unrelated to the speculation.

Lambda Literary’s Board and staff also believe that, given the current climate, it is critical to reaffirm for our community that Lambda Literary’s mission is fundamentally incompatible with censorship. Our community–full of brilliant authors, talented editors, and eager readers–has a special place in times of crisis. Among other functions, literature uniquely enables us to imagine worlds that are more just and freer than the one we live in today.

Lambda Literary, our Board, and our staff remain steadfastly committed to the principles of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and freedom of expression. These principles guide all our decisions and will play a driving force in our upcoming executive director search.

Sincerely,

Roz Lee (she/her)
Board President

Sex can be a fundamental aspect of our relationships with others and an act of affirmation for queer and trans identities, but writing about sex often leads writers down a path towards the transcendental. While this is all well and good, it can be a slippery slope towards cliche and overly metaphorical. This open-genre workshop will focus on the awkward, the messy, and the humorous aspects of sex and desire. 

7 – 9 PM EST both days (virtual) – 4 hours of instruction time
Workshop Fee: $150

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Join us for an evening reading of erotic stories and poems by some of our favorite lesbian writers at one of New York City’s most iconic lesbian bars, Henrietta Hudson. All are welcome to enjoy refreshments, mingle and soak in sensuous lesbian escapades.  This steamy hour of wordplay curated by Lambda Literary will prepare you to continue the festivities and head down to NYTW for a raucous night of merries. The Lesbian Story Hour is free. RSVP here to help us keep head-count, but Walk-Ins are welcome: 

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Come with us to see MERRY ME at New York Theatre Workshop after the event at 7pm. We’re offering our Lambda Literary community a special discount code for a discount by using the code FOREPLAY! BUY TICKETS for MERRY ME: https://www.nytw.org/show/merry-me

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October 19, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 19, 2023
Publicity Contact: Chloe Feffer, Program Manager, Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
Phone: (213) 277-5755
Email: retreat@lambdaliterary.org

7 LGBTQ Writers to Join Lambda Literary’s 2024 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices as Faculty

New York, NY—For over 30 years, Lambda Literary has championed LGBTQIA+ books and authors based on its belief that lives are affirmed and culture preserved when our stories are written, published, and read. Since 2007, Lambda Literary has offered the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices—the nation’s premier LGBTQIA+ writing residency, which brings together emerging poets, playwrights, screenwriters, essayists, novelists, and memoirists in a safe, welcoming, and love-centered community.

Lambda Literary is pleased to announce the 2024 Faculty to lead our fellows during our prestigious Writers Retreat. We are returning back in person from July 28-August 3 at Chestnut Hill College outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Applications for fellowships open October 30, 2023 and close on December 11, 2023.

Fiction

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Fiction is Casey Plett.

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman (2021), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Little Fish(2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award in Canada; and A Safe Girl to Love (2014), also a winner of a Lambda Literary Award. She was the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers (2017) alongside Cat Fitzpatrick. Casey has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. She is the publisher at LittlePuss Press. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and splits her time between New York City and Windsor, Ontario.

Nonfiction

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Nonfiction is Raquel Gutiérrez.

Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez’s first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and listed in “The Best Art Books of 2022” by Hyperallergic. Brown Neon was a 2023 Recipient of The Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. A 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism, as well as a 2017 recipient of the The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Gutiérrez calls Tucson, Arizona home.

Playwriting

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Playwriting is James Ijames.

James Ijames is a playwright, director and educator. Ijames is the recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist recipient, two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play, two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Direction of a Play, a Pew Fellowship for Playwriting, the Terrance McNally New Play Award, Kesselring Honorable Mention Prize, the Whiting Award, a 2019 Kesselring Prize for Kill Move Paradise, a 2020 Steinberg Prize and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama recipient.

He received a B.A. in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and a M.F.A. in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Ijames is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a co-artistic of the Wilma Theater. He resides in South Philadelphia. 

Poetry

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Poetry is Chen Chen.

Chen Chen is the author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017). He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.

Speculative Fiction

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Speculative Fiction is Charlie Jane Anders.

Charlie Jane Anders is an author, columnist, and speaker living in San Francisco. She has written multiple science fiction books, including the Unstoppable series, and has published a book of essays, Never Say You Can’t Survive, about how creativity bolsters resilience. She also hosts a recurring literary event, Writers with Drinks, in which local writers share their work with an appreciative and tipsy audience.

Screenwriting

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Screenwriting is Rasheed Newson.

Rasheed Newson is the author of My Government Means to Kill Me, which examines the political and sexual coming of age of a young, gay, Black man in New York City in the mid-1980s. The novel is a 2023 Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “The 100 Notable Books of 2022” by The New York Times. Rasheed is also a television drama writer, producer, and showrunner. Along with his television writing partner, T.J. Brady, he co-developed and is an executive producer of the drama series Bel-Air. Rasheed and T.J. have also worked on The Chi, Animal Kingdom, and Narcos, among other drama series.

Young Adult Fiction

The Faculty Member to lead our fellows in their study of Young Adult Fiction is Darcie Little Badger.

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the “Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time”. Her second novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award and a Newbery Honor, and is on the National Book Awards longlist. 

Lambda Literary is excited to announce that in 2025, we will be offering a fully-online winter Virtual Retreat. This Retreat will offer three cohorts: Prose, Poetry, and Performance. We’re taking this year to envision and plan what this new offering will look like. Stay tuned throughout this year for more updates.

We are honored to welcome all seven of our faculty members to our 2023 Retreat. To learn more about the Retreat, please visit our website.

With care,

Chloe Feffer (they/she/he)

Program Manager

Lambda Literary

These Burning Stars: A Queer Space Opera Debut Novel by Bethany Jacobs
A Reading, Author Interview, and Book Signing
Interviewed by Margaret Rhee
Presented by Cathy N. Davidson
 
Thursday Nov 9th, 6-7:30 
 
Location: Skylight Room, 9th Floor, Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue and Zoom
 
Please join us onsite or online for a reading, interview and book signing, featuring debut science fiction author Bethany Jacobs (These Burning Stars, Orbit Fall 2023) as interviewed by poet, science fiction writer, scholar and activist Margaret Rhee (The New School) and presented by Cathy N. Davidson (Founder, Futures Initiative)

Participants:
Cathy N. Davidson, Host and Presenter, Futures Initiative
Margaret Rhee, Interviewer, Guest, The New School
Bethany Jacobs, Author of These Burning Stars  
https://www.orbitbooks.net/2022/06/13/acquisition-announcement-these-burning-stars-by-bethany-jacobs/

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Queer writers and oral historians are largely responsible for the survival of queer stories chronicling our community’s experiences on the margins of societies. Ted Kerr, Abdi Nazemian, Rasheed Newson, and Eric Wat are authors whose lives and works have been impacted and informed by HIV and AIDS and will discuss the condition’s impact on the evolution of art and the literary world. This program is organized by Lambda Literary as part of the 2023 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, presented by One Institute.

Join Lambda Literary as the “Non-Profit of the Game” at the New York Liberty game vs the Los Angeles Sparks on September 7th, 2023! We will be tableing in the lobby so please come say hello! Otherwise, just come out and enjoy a basketball game with some friends.

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