Any Other Way charts a history of queerness in Toronto that is like the city itself: wildly diverse, erratic, and often contradictory… read more

The Pox Lover is essential for anyone trying to seriously understand the recent queer past… read more

“Nothing wrong with assimilation, but it leaves behind the rest of us who maybe don’t want to be like everyone else. The fight isn’t over.”… read more

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex… read more

For anyone feeling terrorized by the Trump administration’s dire promises, Nia King’s Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 2 is the perfect antidote to fear and an inspiring handbook of activist creations… read more

As world leaders converge on South Africa this week to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, the rest of us are left to mourn and memorialize in our own ways…. read more

Schulman is brilliant at conveying how devastating and surreal it was to live during the AIDS crisis, and in examining its impact on the living, she draws connections between the gentrification of cities like New York and the coincidental timing of the AIDS crisis…… read more

“Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 explores a little-known chapter of the writer’s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification.”… read more

Fifteen-year-old lesbian activist Amelia Roskin-Frazee who organized her middle school’s first GSA has gone on to found the Make It Safe Project which provides packages of LGBTQ focused books to schools and homeless shelters across the country.

Lambda caught up with Amelia to talk with her about the Make it Safe project, her involvement in LGBTQ activism, and the role books play in the coming out process…. read more