In Justin Torres’s lyrical new novel, “Blackouts,” these two forms — erasure poetry and queer history — collide to create one epic conversation between a pivotal 20th-century queer sexology text and two unreliable queer Puerto Rican narrators (or perhaps three, depending how you read the genre-bending conclusion).
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We’re going through a Great Reorganization of Sexuality and Gender—the second such transformation in U.S. history.
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You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer history.
Read MoreThe Thrilling Power of Queer Indifference
Perhaps you have noticed, of late, that society is “collapsing.” That the incoherent babbling of the vicious and insane now dominates prime-time news and every corner of the internet…
Read MoreA Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love
It is this war, as much as that “Great” one, that “In Memoriam” explores. Winn shows us parents, siblings, friends and enemies all trying to reckon with the unspeakable, referencing gay desires only through allusions to poetry or meaningful (yet ultimately unfathomable) silences.
Read MoreThe Women's House of Detention Wins a 2023 Stonewall Book Award
The Women’s House of Detention wins the 2023 Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction from the American Library Association!
Read MoreWriting My Community's History Helps Me Chart Our Better, Brighter Future
This is why I write queer history: Because I cannot see the future, but by clearly seeing the past, I know in my soul that the future can be different – will be different, cannot help but be different. There is no historical constant except change.
Read MoreThe Last Free Woman
The first words Nan McTeer ever said to me were, “I’m currently in hospice care. I have lung cancer, it has metastasized to my brain, but my mind is still okay! You’ve got a while to pump me for information.”
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