Queer Early Medieval: LGBTQ+ History Month
To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month I’ll be talking to Cheryl Morgan about gender and sexuality in 7th-C Britain, and why I chose to write Hild as bisexual.
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Mass murder and the consequences of hate
I woke up today to news that an American citizen went to, Pulse, a queer nightclub in Orlando, F, and shot and killed at least 50 people and injured at least 50 more. This is the worst mass shooting in US history. It was aimed squarely at QUILTBAG folk (and on a club’s “weekly upscale Latin night”).
Read moreHild’s sexuality
I’ve been asked this often enough that it’s time to be clear: Hild is not straight. Interviewers and reviewers have already asked…
Read moreBrit Mandelo interview, part 3 (of 3)
[This is Part 3 of my long, conversational interview with Brit Mandelo, editor of Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and sexually fluid speculative fiction (Lethe Press, April…
Read moreInterview with BEYOND BINARY’S Brit Mandelo, Part 1 (of 3)
This is a long, conversational interview with Brit Mandelo, editor of Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and sexually fluid speculative fiction (Lethe Press, April 2012),…
Read moreDonate a book for quiltbag YA readers
What a cool idea: Lambda Literary Foundation‘s My Story Book Club for quiltbag YA readers now has a donation programme. My Story aims to…
Read moreResilience
A student of mine, Eric Nguyen, has edited a marvellous book, Resilience: To be queer and young is to be STRONG. To…
Read moreThe long slow march towards LGBTQIA equality
official White House photo by Pete Souza A week ago, Kerry Eleveld interviewed Pres. Obama in the Advocate. President Obama tells The…
Read moreThe future of queer publishing
Over at LambdaLiterary there are four video clips of a recent panel held in West Hollywood, The Future of Queer Publishing. The…
Read moreCalling all SF readers, and queer YA writers
Want to read future Hugo-winning f/sf? Well, for the price of becoming a supporting member of Aussicon 4, the world science fiction…
Read moreBlueSolitaire, a new discussion list
A few years ago, a book lover built two email lists, BluePlace and Ammonite, for the purpose of discussing, respectively, crime fiction…
Read morequeer literary community: our time is coming
Elliott Bay, one of Seattle’s storied independent book shops, is moving from Pioneer Square to Capitol Hill. It’s good news for me….
Read morenew world first for the quiltbag nation
At hunter of justice, this news: Openly gay man appointed to South Africa’s highest court In a genuinely pathbreaking act, South African…
Read morewhat is Obama thinking?
So, what is Obama thinking with his selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration? We all know that…
Read moreWar Machine, Time Machine
This summer, Liverpool University Press published Queer Universes: Sexualities and Science Fiction, edited by Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon….
Read moreJoe Biden
Obama picked Joe Biden. Big surprise. What did surprise me is Biden’s relatively good record on quiltbag issues. According to Waymon Hudson…
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