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Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
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Alyson Stoner on the Power of Movement and Queer Joy
“One of the most beautiful things, especially in the queer experience, is joy.”
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Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir
“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”
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‘I Want You More’ Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star
Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller “I Want You More,” building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows despite not being a cook.
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Packing for A-Camp with DeAnne Smith
“I’m still not sure how any of it happens.”
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“I Needed To Create Something To Save Myself… That’s What I’ve Done”
“Ain’t nobody trying to slow down! Life is fun. Keep doing it.”
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Brigette Lundy-Paine Is Making Their Own Kind of Trans Art
“There’s a movie that I really want to do that’s a girl part and then I’m done. I’m excited to give myself the gift of being an out trans person.”
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Queer Indigenous Musician Black Belt Eagle Scout Talks “The Land, The Water, The Sky”
If you’ve never listened to Black Belt Eagle Scout before, then 1. you should, and 2. you should be prepared for the sort of rapturous experience of listening to each song.
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Bodybuilding Icon Bev Francis Reveals Real World Behind ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
“It’s pretty simple. I wanted to win. That’s pretty much it, I wanted to be Ms. Olympia.”
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“Mother Has Lived, What Can I Say?”
DonnaSue Johnson describes herself as a “big, black, beautiful, Bohemian, bougie, Buddhist butch.”
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Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot
“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”
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Joe Osmundson on Expansive Science Writing and Living in an Impossible World
“It is tension: living well on a viral warming planet is too much to ask of any person. And yet it is what our circumstances are asking of us.”
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Straddler On The Mountain: Mel
Mel won the Kipper Clothiers campership this time around, and you’ll know why when you see her amazing style. A third-time camper and longtime reader, she talks about Toronto, working at a hotel, her Filipino family, and (duh) A-Camp.
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Author Meryl Wilsner on Writing MILFs, Age Gaps, and Twisting Tropes
“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”
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Author Melanie Bell on her YA Novel “Chasing Harmony” and the Messy Process of Growing Up Queer
“The people I met who were identified as musical prodigies had long journeys involving conflict between their abilities and personal needs and finding who they were beyond the weight of expectations. When I was younger, successes and failures felt huge, and this is the case for Anna too.”
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Murray Hill on “Somebody Somewhere” and His Decades-Long Career in Showbiz
“To me, showbiz means the spotlight is on you. And not only is the spotlight on you, but you’re feeling the light. You’re feeling the light and then you’re giving the light.”
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Straddler On The Mountain: Brooklyn
Say hi to Brooklyn – she’s a campership winner Texan trans* girl who spoke openly and honestly about her unsupportive family, being homeless and the importance of having a loving community to fall back on.
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Michelle Tea on Queer Pregnancy and Writing a Memoir in Present Tense
“I really want it to feel like you fell down a rabbit hole into this world, because that’s how I felt. That was the reality of the experience for me.”
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A Memoir Isn’t a Self-Help Book
Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.