Gay storytelling

There are definitely times when I do latch onto something and think, this deserves the kind of thought and depth that writing an essay could bring about. Twitter I do for fun. Twitter is social media, and I think we have to keep it in that proper context. What do you think of yourself as?

Roxane Gay on the importance of storytelling

It seemed to be by us, for us, inverting some of the social shame around our own private lives and asking, instead, what if they were the hopeless cases who aspired to what we have? The show was a lodestone in the cultural representation of AIDS and its effect on gay men, a moving and elegiac attempt to capture the terror that a HIV diagnosis could wreak upon gay men and their lovers before the development of effective antiretrovirals.

150+ Gay Short Stories to read

I miss her; I imagine she misses me worse. I love her. When I left we were both twenty-six. It was insane; a lottery win. To a distant moon. She never understood any of it, no matter how many times I showed her charts or graphs or playful drawings of where The road was narrow and winding, the switchbacks crawling up the snow-laden mountains.

Celebrating 16 Years of LGBTQIA+ Stories

Currently the shift of the firefighters consisted of two differently blond men employing their skills in avoiding the anxiety build-up that was inevitable during the recess-time in their line of work. He shuffled towards the other man who What is a fire? How does one start?