“Forging a queer identity then—when the word ‘queer’ itself was still an epithet—felt like a dangerously creative and a profoundly political act.”… read more

“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

“There are other ways to order the world than what the rules of a language may allow.”… read more

“Growing up gay in the Bible Belt undeniably shaped us, but how deep do Southern roots penetrate our fiction as adults?”… read more

Manga artist Gengoroh Tagame and translator Anne Ishii talk about working together, gay Japanese culture, and a spin-off of My Brother’s Husband…. 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

Authors Nairne Holtz & Lauren Saunders talk sex, celebrity crushes, and centering lesbian characters… read more

“Those of us who are black and queer still live behind two veils sometimes, and we encounter a lot of the problems W.E.B. DuBois discussed over a century ago […]”… read more

“So many gay social spaces are disappearing—bars, pubs, bookshops, clubs—there are fewer and fewer. At the same time, gay people are becoming more confident and unselfconscious.”… read more

“There’s a romanticism of artists toiling away in the garret, wearing ripped up tights, dancing alone in an unheated studio, and the reality is that artists work very hard for very little recognition.”… read more