Eleanor Rykener: Trans Sex Worker of Medieval London?
The year is 1395. The city: London. The crime: an "unmentionable, ignominious vice" commonly known as sodomy. And the perp? A rascally, resourceful enigma named John Rykener, who enters the…
Glenn Burke was the 1st openly gay Major League Baseball player
and is credited for inventing the high five.
Queer Ecology Zine Series: Earthworms
Sarah Maloney
The Sky’s Gone Out
Peter Hujar’s everlasting portraits of writers, artists, and mortal remains
THE RED TREE / L’ALBERO ROSSO
short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini's Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man…
Tales from the Tardigay Lounge
Steamy the Water Bear was one of the greatest champion of gay rights of the 20th century, and his efforts changed the cultural landscape of mossy puddles and patches of…
DAUGHTER’S NON-BINARY PANDA
- Paul Taylor
The LGBTQ+ Literary Resistance
In November 2024, PEN America released its key findings from over ten thousand documented cases of book bans that occurred in the 2023–2024 school year: Thirty-nine percent of reported books…
Eddie Sandifer
He did his best
‘Hellraiser’ writer Clive Barker on the publishing industry’s homophobia
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser was based on his original novel, The Hellbound Heart, and told the story of a woman who starts to kill so that her brother-in-law, who had recently…