Carrasco’s main character, Alma Rosales, is a detective who now works under the identity Jack Camp, searching out leaks in a thriving opium smuggling ring… read more

Queer poetry as solace, Christopher Soto on Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color, YA literature needs more queer girls, and more LGBTQ news…… read more

I first saw Sister Spit perform in Portland, Oregon in the early 2000s. Michelle Tea and her gritty gang of dyke writers and poets were legends. Everyone had a story about the crew, who jacked off to what zine, who had gotten high with who before getting sober, or what punk houses had hosted the tour in years previous…… read more

We here at Lambda Literary are all very excited for the upcoming release of queer punk rock superstar Beth Ditto’s memoir: Coals to Diamonds coming this October, published through Spiegel & Grau, and co-written by the incomparable Michelle Tea. The memoir tells the story of Ditto, from her childhood growing up in rural Arkansas as a “sexually confused choir… read more

Decades after Women’s Lib and Stonewall, in the time of queer theory, gurlesque and “girls gone wild,” there are still aspects of women and transgender people’s sexuality that are taboo or discounted (the sexuality of older women and women with disabilities, for example, or a joyful transgender sexual self). We are looking for poems, prose, and multimedia/interactive art that address… read more