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Anti-Memoir, Anti-Me By Kawika Guillermo Punk poetics is a form of musically-infused writing shaped by queer and trans authors like Patti Smith, Kathy Acker, Kai Cheng Thom. […]

Embracing My Identity with New Language By Subhaga Crystal Bacon I say I came out formally at that time because I had long since come out to myself one summer afternoon in elementary school while […]

On Selfhood: Young Lesbians By Patricia Silva On Selfhood: Young Lesbians assembles art works, ephemera, and oral histories from 36 marginalized urban lesbians, ages 18-25. Installed […]

My Multitudes By David Cameron Strachan In junior high school, I saw that I wasn’t developing like other boys. I was teased for my small genitals and breast growth. Our […]

The Future and Legacy of Queer Zines with Yezmin Villareal In 2017, Issues, a zine-in-residence ini­tiative started by Hello Mr., transported Colby Anderson and Yezmin Villarreal’s visions for a queer alternative pu […]

Robert Lord’s Hello Book By Eric Trump The New Zealand playwright Robert Lord kept eight diaries throughout much of this time, from 1974 to 1991, shortly before his death from an […]

Free in “PV” By David Monticalvo For the first time in my life, I was happy to be gay, and could enjoy being me. I didn’t know it at the time, but this moment was a s […]

From Venice to Greenwich, and Points in Between By Edward J. Sullivan Many of the male members, including Juarez, were queer and manifested a distinct and often highly idiosyncratic as well as a socially […]

On Ambiguity in a Small Town By Charlie J. Stephens There are fishing people and service workers and librarians and tradespeople. Few people have managed to use the they/them pronouns […]

Trans Joy Onstage Deep in the Heart of Texas By Brian Fehler This spring, Ground Floor Theatre in Austin presented the world premiere of Always a Boy, by mother-son playwrights Jo and Jeremy Ivester. […]

Oy Vey and Gay By Chef Rossi Being a bisexual rocker chick suited my image, but still, there were all those pesky penises to contend with. At first, I thought, “Maybe I […]

The Rituals of Revival By Sarah Drepaul This is what distinguishes the festival from other queer art performances, at least in the U.S.: it is not afraid to understand and […]

An Unconventional Coming Out By Thomasin Lockwood I frequently thought of women, but could barely admit it to myself, let alone go out and explore it. A drunk make out with a female […]

Queerbaiting History: Maestro and Fellow Travelers (Part Two) By Jonathan Alexander I didn’t realize at first that this series, especially when seen alongside Maestro, actually epitomizes queerbaiting: it titillates w […]

Queerbaiting History: Maestro and Fellow Travelers (Part One) By Jonathan Alexander Both of these shows also offer us portraits of queer life and love amidst the homophobia of the mid to late twentieth century. But as […]

The Straight Men that Made Me Gay By Gregory Walters I grew up at a time when there weren’t any visible or out homosexuals. Liberace had stated under oath he wasn’t gay. Elton John was mar […]

Companionship & Transformation: Linus Borgo By Cassandra Langer “Visceral and shocking to many, Linus Borgo’s first solo show, Monstrum, at Yossi Milo Gallery on Tenth Avenue in the trendy, Chelsea a […]

Remembering Edwin By Ronald Valdiserri It began with the illness and death of my brother’s partner Tommy, the loss of our dear college friend (the character Lenny in the n […]

A Writer’s Beginning By Laury Egan I don’t consider myself an LGTBQ+ writer; I am simply a writer who sometimes creates stories that include LGTBQ+ characters, though they are t […]

Bruno Isaković: Performer, Artist, Teacher By Mike Dressel It’s an hour before the Queer New York International Arts Festival (QNYIAF) is about to begin, which brings together an assortment of g […]