Stephen Hemrick – Gay & Lesbian Review

No Way, They Were Gay? By Lee Wind If the people in power can prevent people from feeling empathy for each other, they can keep everyone divided and consolidate their hold on […]

Review of Nelly & Nadine By Cassandra Langer Danish filmmaker Magnus Gertten’s documentary Nelly & Nadine tells the incredible story of two women who fell in love in Ravensbrück on […]

Why My Father Called Me Son, Daughter, He, She and It By Rachel Noah Matlow Although he was technically forgetting who I am, there’s also something affirming about his honest assessment of my gender. It’s as […]

War Against the LGBTQ Community in Kenya By Daniel Kipchumba The onslaught of political attacks on the LGBTQ community in Kenya is taking a new turn, after a group of traditionalists climbed Mount […]

Love and Regret in Gay Bars By Les K. Wright One evening, a guy asked me if I wanted to go to the Central Arms. He explained it was a gay bar, and “with your good looks you’ll be pop […]

The Price of Queer Belonging By Gregory Walters While the attraction to live in gay neighborhoods—West Hollywood, the Castro, Boystown, Chelsea—is less than it used to be, LGBTQ peo […]

Review of Of An Age By John Burbidge While Of An Age doesn’t quite compare to Holding The Man and other Australian LGBTQ+ movies, it does have moments that draw you in and h […]

Blue Ridge Lambda Press Newsletter By Aila Boyd The Blue Ridge Lambda Press was one of several LGBTQ+ newsletters produced in the area between the 1970s and early 2010s. The press grew out of […]

On Writing Black Queer Fiction By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan As a writer, my characters’ queerness is always as central to their stories as their Blackness, their gender, or their size. For m […]

Beneath His Covers: Robert Smithson’s Library By Suzaan Boettger But here is my difference: I have a library within a library, and it replicates my subject’s. Reading books that were in Smithson’s col […]

You Got This: Howard Bragman and Coming Out Again By Mike Maimone Music has always been cathartic for me, but in this one area, I felt blocked from releasing anxieties via artistic expression. Although I […]

A Conversion Therapist’s Epiphany By Frank Perez Today, despite a major paradigm shift in public attitudes toward homosexuality and the criminalization of Exodus-type ministries in many […]

Butch Stories Saved My Life By Camille Kellogg Growing up, I certainly knew that butch lesbians existed. But it never crossed my mind that being butch was an actual, viable option for […]

The Rise of the Spanish Far Right in Madrid: A Clear and Present Danger to LGBTQ Rights By John Boyce In an increasingly fractured European political landscape, a bigoted minority with the right leverage has the potential to endanger hard won […]

An Awkward Coffee Break By John Brady McDonald, (Nehiyawak-Métis) While it is true that it has been over twenty years since I’ve been in a relationship with a man, it’s always awkw […]

Saleem Kidwai, India’s LGBT Activist By Lucky Issar Apart from being a history professor, Saleem was a queer activist, overtly subdued, but emphatically resilient. He eagerly offered his […]

E By Jonathan Fuller But when my friends from youth group started confessing who, in that incredibly small pool, they had a crush on, my innermost thoughts […]

Review of “Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer” Exhibit By Denise Noe Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer is an enthralling art exhibit. .. It brings to light shared histories of misunderstanding, […]

New Logic By Caitlin Hanratty “Uh huh,” I reply, as if it’s a universal truth: we fall in love with people as individuals, not their gender. I am following a new l […]

Considering a Place in Fiction for Badly-Behaved Queers By Brian Alessandro There is a valid concern that portraying an LGBTQI character as foul in fiction could make our place in the world tenuous. The post […]