Travel through time with the Breaking Form ladies as we revisit some queer times and places.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

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Check out Felice Picano's website https://www.felicepicano.net/, and this tribute to the writer, who died in 2025 at the age of 81.

For more about how Saint Sebastian became a queer icon, read here.

Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues is available in many formats on Feinberg's website: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/

In addition to publishing poetry and prose, Darrell g.h. Schramm writes for national and international rose publications, especially on heritage roses. He edits Rose Letter, a small quarterly of the Heritage Roses Group, and a newsletter The Vintage Rose for The Friends of Vintage Roses. For many years, he taught rhetoric at the University of San Francisco.

Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families was edited by John Preston and published by Plume in 1994.

Check out "The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'" by Dean Shackleford in The Tennessee Williams Annual Review (available through jstor).

Read more of Richard McCann's poem "Days of 1990" from Ghost Letters (buy it from Alice James Books here).

The book David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side was edited by by Sylvère Lotringer, Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin, and Jennifer Doyle, and it was published by Semiotext(e). The book resulted from Wojnarowicz's meetings with Lotringer; they'd arranged to meet In February 1991 to conduct a long-awaited dialogue on Wojnarowicz’s work. Wojnarowicz was then at the peak of his notoriety as the fiercest antagonist of morals crusader Senator Jesse Helms–a notoriety that Wojnarowicz alternately embraced and rejected. Already suffering the last stages of AIDS, David saw his dialogue with Lotringer as a chance to set the record straight on his aspirations, his personal history, and his political views.

Check out this video of Wojnarowicz reading "All I Can Feel Is the Pressure"