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Book Review: ‘Vacationland’ by Susan X Meagher

Maine’s wilderness is part of Devin Savary’s DNA, bringing her joy in a way that nothing else can. She loves her isolated cabin without electricity or running water, and ice skating her way to work in the winter. Devin is also one of the best guides in the state for hiking, hunting, camping, or fishing trips, any time of year. She knows that the only way to survive harsh winter conditions is to respect them and be prepared, which is why she prefers to plan the excursions she’s hired to lead. Devin isn’t happy when she’s brought in at the […]

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Judith Katz and Hilary Zaid on Inheritance, Influence, and the State of the 21st Century Lesbian Novel

Judith Katz is the author of two published novels, The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won the 1992 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and has been reissued in its 25th anniversary edition by Bywater Books. A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Hilary Zaid is the author of numerous works of short fiction, including “My Triple X Valentine’s at the Far Point Senior Villas” (Day One) and the Pushcart-nominated “For Non-Speakers of the Mother Tongue” (The Tahoma Review). Her debut novel, Paper is White, was released in March from […]

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Film Review: ‘The Marriage’

LGBT movies made in Kosova are such a rarity  (if there are even others besides this one) it is inevitable that coming from a country still torn apart by strife, and culturally deeply homophobic, that any such films would never be allowed a happy ending. For once that is hardly a spoiler but the acceptance of reality in a society where it is not actually illegal to be homosexual, but it is nigh on impossible to be openly gay and survive. Kosovian filmmaker Blerta Zeqiri’s debut feature film combines a powerful indictment of her country’s troubling political climate with a most […]

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Book Review: ‘Winter Kept Us Warm’ by Anne Raeff

 She didn’t understand it, this love for him, but it was there, and if seven o’clock passed, then eight, then nine, the only way she could calm herself was to remember the bomb shelter, the waiting, the silence, the planes overhead, the buildings crashing down around her. I am safe, she repeated to herself, over and over again. —Winter Kept Us Warm We may never stop writing about post-war fragmentation. After all, it takes generations to get out of a single family, and we as writers are many families. And perhaps it’s even worth venturing to say that that is […]

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Book Review: ‘Getting Off’ by Erica Garza

Erica Garza is not the sex addict we’re used to seeing. She’s not Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey, seemingly clinging to a label as an excuse for being a monster. She’s a decent person, a bisexual, a POC and a woman, with a problem that began in childhood. “From watching soft-core on cable TV at twelve, to downloading photos at a snail’s pace on AOL at fourteen, to tuning in to streaming sites with broadband forever after, my habit became more immediate, more intense, and harder to escape,” she writes. The book opens on an average night for her, the […]

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Book Review: ‘My Brother’s Husband’ by Gengoroh Tagame

Japanese illustrator Gengoroh Tagame has drawn erotic gay manga for decades. His innovative work champions hairy and large men, an anomaly in the world of Japanese manga, where skinny, hairless boys tend to be the norm. His exquisitely drafted comics intertwine beauty with BDSM and violence, expanding the boundaries of how eroticism is expressed in comics – and all this, in Japan – a country where LGBTQs are more closeted than in the U.S. Tagame’s latest book, My Brother’s Husband, opens a series that is aimed at decidedly different readers from his earlier work – this story is for an […]

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Book Review: ‘Lethal Care’ by Claire McNab with Katherine V. Forr

Chief Inspector Carol Ashton is about to take on a rather sensational case. In the opening scene of Lethal Care, we are skillfully given a wealth of information in a conversation between Madeline Shipley, of television’s The Shipley Report fame, and her old flame. We learn Carol has recently been promoted to Chief Inspector, that Carol’s son is out of the country and Carol’s relationship with Sybil may be rocky. We also learn Inspector Rooke, who was investigating the death of socialite and media darling, Greta Denby, died under tragic and questionable circumstances, leaving Carol to take up his assignment. […]

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Film Review: ‘Disobedience’

  Disobedience is the first English language film for award-winning Chilean writer/director Sebastián Lelio, and with it, he continues his theme of stories that are centered around strong unique women.  First, there was ‘Gloria’ followed closely by his Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman that starred Daniela Vega a trans actress, and now comes this tale of a lesbian love affair within London’s Orthodox Jewish community. Ronit (Rachel Weisz) is an ex-pat photographer based in NY who suddenly gets a call that her estranged father, a celebrated Rabbi in London, has died. Her initial reaction is to get drunk and then have anonymous sex in a bar bathroom, but […]

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Yrsa Daley-Ward: On Divorcing Analysis from Process and Voicing the Unspoken

I recently spoke with the writer Yrsa Daley-Ward, about her first book, bone, a bold and expansive collection of poems that confront trauma, longing, self-empowerment, and survival with clarity, soundness, and remarkable wit. bone was first published by Daley-Ward herself, a poet-actress-model-songwriter, but soon enough caught the attention of Penguin, which has now issued the collection in the U.S. In the conversation that follows, we discuss the genesis and evolution of the book, Daley-Ward’s approach to composition, and the many challenges of the writing life. Bone is such an expansive book in both breadth and depth—in the time it covers […]

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Book Review: ‘Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice’ by Clayton Delery

  Fernando Rios was a twenty-six-year-old Mexican tour guide lured to his death by a group of Tulane students, who beat and robbed him in a shadowy French Quarter alleyway in 1958. Clayton Delery, the author of Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice, unearthed this crime while researching another travesty in his hometown, the fire at the Up Stairs Lounge. The fire, a monstrous act of arson, was, for decades, the largest single act of terror against LGBT folk in the US–that is, until the massacre at Pulse nightclub. News […]

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