We can and should look past ‘Brokeback Mountain’ to promote other artistic and literary representations of being gay in rural USA…. read more

Light Years is a fast-paced coming-of-age tale about growing up gay during the sixties and seventies… read more

Pico’s poems value the vulgar and silly, as they mingle laffs and puns with colonialism, death, trauma, and our society’s disgraceful treatment of Janet Jackson…. read more

Introspective and understated, Lot gives voice to the silenced pain of Houston’s Black and Latinx working class… read more

The narrator of The Stranger from the Sea inhabits a cultural milieu that suppresses its truths through propriety and etiquette…. read more

The Music of What Happens offers a refreshingly honest portrait of modern, queer adolescence… read more

Banis was considered one the pioneering voices of the 1960s gay fiction market… read more

Fascination by Kevin Killian is an engaging and challenging collection of memoirs. The book has already inspired some engaging and challenging commentaries, namely the introduction by poet and novelist Andrew Durbin and a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Corley Miller. Both commentaries place Fascination in the New Narrative Movement. Durbin explains… read more

“As writers and actors, they lived in this blur of illusion and reality; it was the condition of their lives.”… read more

Warren’s novel The Front Runner was one of the first contemporary gay-themed novels to gain mainstream success… read more