Live Through This serves as a memorialization for those black and brown queer bodies that are often not seen or heard… read more

“In the 70s, society labeled gay men irresponsible hedonists, so we proudly owned it and by declaring our love of sex we made a political statement.”… read more

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex… read more

“I get to present sexuality and gender in a way that I hope gives kids more options than I felt I ever had.”… read more

Two of queer theory’s leading contemporary scholars, Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, have collaborated on a slender, yet powerful, three-essay volume about sex and interrelational attachments…. read more

In Jean Roberta’s collection of eleven historical erotic short stories, The Princess and the Outlaw (Lethe Press), readers will encounter a broad range of characters and situations, from the fantastical to the mundane, from the joyous to the horrifying, from Amazon warriors and wayward nuns to down-and-out women of the 1920s and Canadian Mounties, all… read more

“I’m not buying into ‘we were all heroes’ and ‘we changed the world’ and all that stuff. That’s just too rah-rah and simplistic; we deserve a more nuanced understanding of those times and how it affected us, what motivated us then and what the outcomes are today.”… read more

Sex is supposed to fun, but writing about it can pose its own set of literary perils…. read more

Instead of emphasizing what to do, or more specifically, what one should do sexually, these comics explore how people feel…. read more

Anyone who assumes erotica is just not their thing may think twice after reading these stories. There’s warmth and humanity here, and a perfect balance of sex with storytelling…. read more