The selections in Best Gay Stories 2016 illustrate that, in times of strife, our culture continues to further define itself… read more

Ranging from alternative histories to reexamined myths, reimagined fairy tales to futuristic societies and space exploration, Heiresses of Russ 2015 runs the gamut of imagination…. read more

“The men you will meet in these pages are pained by the realizations that they are no longer young boys who can leap off rocks into a swimming pool or can happen upon a tryst without consequence. Some are at the precipice of adulthood, some are already across the great divide of years […]”… read more

Begun in 2008, the annual series Wilde Stories has striven to provide the best in gay speculative fiction (much as its companion series Heiresses of Russ strives to do for lesbian speculative fiction). The latest installment in this series contains fourteen selections published during the calendar year 2013, which first appeared in other anthologies, literary… read more

In the past year, Lethe Press has “queered” Sherlock Holmes (A Study In Lavender, Joseph DeMarco, editor) and Edgar Allan Poe (Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, edited by Steve Berman) and this October turned their queer eye at the original prince of darkness, Dracula. Fourteen authors (some veterans of the earlier volumes and some new)… read more

In the Introduction to this collection, editor Connie Wilkins says, “Among the gifts claimed for us by Joanna Russ…is the right to write and publish fiction about women who are…the central actors in their own lives.”… read more

Collections such as this also invariably bring up the question, “What is a ‘gay story,’ anyway?” Is it simply a story that a gay person has written? Something that features gay characters prominently? How much focus needs to be on the uniqueness of gay life, or can the protagonist be someone who “just happens to be gay?” Does the author have to be gay—or male—to do it justice?… read more

Buy Libraries a Book for Gay Kids: Steve Berman, the editor of Speaking Out: LGBT Youth Stand Up, an inspirational work for LGBT teens about living openly and fighting intolerance, is raising funds to buy copies of the book for high schools libraries around the country. He estimates that approximately every $10 raised will cover… read more

Subterranean Press has released Hamlet’s Father, a retelling of Hamlet where Prince Hamlet’s father is portrayed as a child molester murdered by one of his past victims, Horatio. First published in 2008, the book was authored by Orson Scott Card, who wrote in 2004: “the dark secret of homosexual society – the one that dares… read more

Above Lambda Literary Award winner and current finalist Michael Klein @ The Rainbow Book Fair. For a recap of the fair read Jeff Adams’ dispatch. Photo (c) Heidi Russell… read more