Through Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program, with generous support from the New York City Department of Education, Lambda Literary is able to connect queer writers with K-12 classrooms throughout all five boroughs of New York City. Key factors to the program’s success are publishers and key publishing professionals, whose book donations allow Lambda… read more

“Reading is a more active pursuit than watching TV/movies, and in that sense is more like playing a game…”… 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

“Punk and riot grrrl influenced me hugely, not just musically but politically and aesthetically as well, and my friends too.”… read more

“We tell stories to give life meaning. We impose structure on chaos. We choose a beginning and an end; we elevate some details and discard others; we try to find lessons and useful information.”… read more

“Comfortable, rational, naturalistic stories that fit into what heterosexual people assume is the queer experience should not be the only things that are published.”… read more

“I think in some ways the message of the books is to have enormous empathy because you don’t know what someone else is going through.”… read more

“Everything I believe in will come out in my books […]”… read more

“This program gives a school and a library program with a rich culture of reading (like my own) the opportunity to bring reading to life and motivate students in a unique way.”… read more

“It’s interesting to me how much of an ’80s revivalism is going on right now so it definitely is not only me who’s intrigued and inspired [by the era].”… read more