HIV/AIDS

interview

lgbt history

New DIY Documentary Honors AIDS Media Activism, Love, Loss, and Queer Community

Shot on a mix of consumer-grade recording devices — iPhone, Zoom, VHS camcorder, and Super-8 film — the documentary is an homage to grassroots AIDS mediamaking across decades and its…

Lauren Herold —

Mar 21, 2025

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lgbt history

A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.

Lauren Herold —

Jan 9, 2025

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audre lorde

book features

A New Biography Transforms Our Understanding of Audre Lorde and the Genre Itself

“Biographies normativize people,” Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells me. “It’s like: this is a person, they were born, they died, their life is linear, they’re only one person. My queer…

Lauren Herold —

Sep 6, 2024

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nonfiction

book features

Looking Back on 1970s Lesbian Feminist Film and Sci-Fi To Reimagine the Future

“I mean props to those who are three years old and are like, ‘I’m gay.’ But some of us have to meet some gay people, and sometimes those people are…

Lauren Herold —

Jul 13, 2024

nonfiction

parenting & family

When it Comes to Queer Fertility, There Are No Perfect Choices

I was 22 years old when I donated my eggs anonymously at a fertility clinic in New York City.

Lauren Herold —

May 29, 2024

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lgbt book reviews

Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature

The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.

Lauren Herold —

Mar 18, 2024

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nonfiction

book features

K. Allison Hammer Imagines the Queer and Trans Possibilities of Masculinity

Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.

Lauren Herold —

Feb 8, 2024

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trans book

book features

Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet

“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and…

Lauren Herold —

Dec 12, 2023

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book features

The Erotics of Asexuality

For Ela Przybylo, the concept of “asexual erotics” emphasizes non-sexual intimacy and ways of relating to one another.

Lauren Herold —

Aug 2, 2023

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book features

A Queer and Trans Reading of Tammy Wynette

How come so many LGBTQ people worship divas, pop stars, and tragic Hollywood figures? How do LGBTQ readers, viewers, and listeners find queer pleasure in media targeted to the mainstream?  

Lauren Herold —

Jul 21, 2023

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Rage Party

book features

In The Terrible We, Cameron Awkward-Rich Makes Space for Bad Trans Feelings

How do we hold transness and disability together, rather than denying the ways the “bad feelings” like dysphoria and anxiety have historically been a key part of trans thought, art,…

Lauren Herold —

Jun 15, 2023

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Rage Party

lgbt pride

Kemi Adeyemi’s Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife

Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.”…

Lauren Herold —

Jun 10, 2023