A queer 'Anne of Green Gables' retelling hopes to help LGBTQ+ youth
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Dan in Green Gables, from author Rey Terciero and illustrator Claudia Aguirre, adapts a children's classic for the 21st century. Here's an exclusive excerpt. Keep Reading →
Julie Murphy and Jonathan Van Ness wrote 'Let Them Stare'
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Jonathan Van Ness has been working on his first fiction book, Let Them Stare, for three years. The Queer Eye star originally got the idea for the young adult novel in the summer of 2022, and then spent years collaborating with author Julie Murphy (“she’s so incredible,” he says of the bestselling Dumplin’ and Side Effects May Vary writer) and stretching a new artistic muscle before releasing the book this May. Keep Reading →
Many people consider the Stonewall uprising to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. But before the raid that launched a thousand Pride parades — and many more rainbow-washing advertisements — activist entrepreneurs were leveraging capitalism to build both queer equality and community, work that later secured one of America’s earliest Supreme Court victories for gay rights. Keep Reading →
Ah, the American library. A place where anyone seeking the pleasure of reading can go to gain the wisdom, escapism, and knowledge that books have to offer. Unless those books are queer in any way, shape or form! Keep Reading →
As all Black LGBTQ+ folk who are visible do, Karamo Brown navigates multiple marginalized identities. On that neverending journey, he's had to make choices in hopes of finding a slice of joy in the American pie of oppression, to survive in spite of (or because of) a white cishet system. His memoir, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope, reveals the decisions he made. A look behind the sometimes annoyingly perky veneer of the Queer Eye co-host, it's a how-to of sorts for those looking to move through the world in similar ways. But I can't stop thinking about the cost of Brown's form of survival, or the society that necessitates his acts of survival in the first place. Keep Reading →
Karamo Brown and The Cost of Survival