LGBTQ+ Voices: Saaed Jones

"Kudzu"

“Kudzu”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

This piece strikes a certain heartstring: The first three lines are a daunting reality faced by many in the LGBTQ+ community. The words to…

LGBTQ+ Voices: Jameson Fitzpatrick

“A Poem for Pulse”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

The amount of times I've heard "It's not even that difficult to be gay anymore I don't know what you're complaining about" and wished I had the…

LGBTQ+ Voices: Joseph O. Legaspi

“Whom You Love”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

I find something new that I love about this piece every time I read it — it inspires that cozy warm feeling of love in its absolute purity, something that…

Siri Hustvedt

Interviewed by Mia Funk

Siri Hustvedt is the internationally acclaimed author of a book of poems, six…

LGBTQ+ Voices: Ocean Vuong

“Home Wrecker”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

Home Wrecker: Ocean Vuong

And this is how we danced: with our mothers’
white dresses spilling from our feet, late August

LGBTQ+ Voices: Alexander Guidry

"What's In a Name? (An Ode to Transness)"

LGBTQ+ Voices: Kat Cassar & Samuel Gratton

"A Message To Cisgender Artists"

LGBTQ+ Voices: Danez Smith

“The 17-Year-Old & The Gay Bar”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

A personification of how queer liberation is comparable to religious enlightenment

The 17-Year-Old & The Gay…

LGBTQ+ Voices: Joy Ladin

“Survival Guide”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

Friendly reminder: live your life to find yourself.

Survival Guide: Joy Ladin

LGBTQ+ Voices: June Jordan

“Poem about My Rights”

LGBTQ+ Voices Editor: Alexander Guidry

"Wrong is not my name."

(Trigger Warnings: gender identity confusion, mentions of rape, mentions of violence, use of sexual…