Featured Books

Archival, Intergenre, Fiction, Art

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

Ned Asta

Intergenre, Memoir, Archival

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Brontez Purnell

Archival, Memoir

Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals

imogen smith

Poetry

Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo

Matt Longabucco

Poetry

The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber

Michelle Tea on Red Jordan Arobateau

The following is Michelle Tea’s foreword to Red Jordan Arobateau’s Time Also Will Make It Interesting: Selected Journals, edited by Cameron Awkward-Rich. I was on my way to interview Red Jordan Arobateau for the San…

Interviews |

July 7, 2026

An Interview with Valerie Hsiung, Author of The pedestrian

Valerie Hsiung’s The pedestrian is a hybrid novel, a contaminated lullaby, and a distorted detective story that encircles a mother, a child, a house, a body. Through its maze of uncanny repetitions and ritual…

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June 13, 2026

Congrats To Our Two 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winners!!!

Congrats to our two 2026 Lambda Literary Award winners!!! Bianca Rae Messinger's pleasureis amiracle won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry! & Charlie Porter's Nova Scotia House won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction! Read more here.

TuesdayJuly 28 @ 6:00pm

Bambi Lake Panel & Celebration

Celebrate Bambi Lake with the Angels of Light at the Koret Auditorium on Tuesday, July 28. Panelists include Tahara,…

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WednesdayJuly 29 @ 7:00pm

Bambi Lake Celebration & Performance

Celebrate Bambi Lake and Devour Me, Again at Tally Ho! Books on Wednesday, July 29, with special performances by The…

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ThursdayJuly 30 @ 6:00pm

Bambi Lake’s Devour Me, Again: SF Launch

Celebrate the launch of Bambi Lake's Devour Me, Again, hosted by the Tenderloin Museum on Thursday, July 30. Readers include Brontez…

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Larry Mitchell

Ned Asta

Lou Sullivan

Ellis Martin

Zach Ozma

Yongyu Chen

Bambi Lake

Brontez Purnell

Red Jordan Arobateau

Michelle Tea

imogen smith

Antonio Ochoa

Valerie Hsiung

Stine An

Joon Oluchi Lee

Matt Longabucco

Jay Gao

Michelle Tea on Red Jordan Arobateau

An Interview with Valerie Hsiung, Author of The pedestrian

Congrats To Our Two 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winners!!!

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Bambi Lake Panel & Celebration

Bambi Lake Celebration & Performance

Bambi Lake’s Devour Me, Again: SF Launch