“Many of us discovered our first lesbian pleasures through the cinema—I certainly did.”… read more

“Before social media, going out to a club was like going to church. Hence the title Christ Like, which confused many people who thought it was a religious book.”… read more

“Why sit down to write about people and places you’re not interested in? That’s just not worth it to me. You could be doing literally anything else.”… read more

“Crime novels have always been social novels, addressing problems in society. In that sense, they’ve always been important and always will.”… read more

“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