“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

“It’s actually a remarkable moment for teaching comics right now. The medium is finally getting the interest it deserves from academia…”… read more

“[…] it’s embarrassing to love something that doesn’t love you back. You don’t want to seem naive, or self-loathing. You don’t want to be a bad lesbian. So I think even acknowledging faith is a very vulnerable act for a queer person. Writing about it is even harder.”… read more

“Many of the wins for migrant undocumented communities have been as a result of undocumented femme/women/gnc leadership. Don’t believe the hype that it was done by cis straight men.”… read more