graphic by Liana Kindler In video games, you can be a world hero. You can be a humanoid plant that explores and brings justice to the universe. You can be a two-dimensional square with a range of human emotions. But…
“Queer,” or “LGBT?”
Graphic by Liana Kindler The increasingly popular use of “queer” has become an area of contention in many LGBT communities. On one hand, “queer” has a historically negative connotation, carrying with it the weight of both collective and personal marginalization…
OutWrite’s Queer Lit Column: Desire, Dream and Magic in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
This review of Zami is the first in our series of investigating classic queer literature, forming an OutWrite Archive of novels, poetry, and memoir that our staff believes everyone should read. In the acknowledgements, Audre Lorde tells the reader…
A Personal Message from RuPaul
RuPaul Charles has a special message for all of the American electorate. That’s right! Don’t fuck it up! How to pledge a vote, or for more voting information: iwillvote.com Get a ride to the polls: drive2vote.org If you’re having issues with…
The Questioning Limbo
graphics by Liana Kindler A close friend semi-outed me in June. She asked me and my best friend what our sexualities were. It was a very open environment; we were at a small grad party of about ten friends, half…
How to Get Away with Murder Speed Recap: It’s About Frank
Hey y’all, it’s Skylar, your friendly neighborhood OutWrite marketing director and staff writer. Here’s the recap of Thursday’s HTGAWM episode, basically a recap of Annalise’s and Frank’s life. Flashback (11 years ago) Since this episode revolves around Frank, we…
Drag Race for Dummies: RuCap for the RuUnion
HIEEEEEEEEEEE. Sorry to everyone who missed my articles for the past few weeks–I was she-occupied with various events, and then I got sick(ening) and had to spend most of my time hacking up a lung instead of typing away at…
How to Get Away with Murder Speed Recap: Don’t Tell Annalise
Hey y’all, it’s Skylar, your friendly neighborhood OutWrite marketing director and staff writer. Today, we’re starting a weekly recap of everyone’s favorite Gay/Bi/Pan Murder Mystery Explosion, How to Get Away With Murder. Here’s the recap of the crazy shenanigans that…
Dear Closeted Person: Poem and OutWrite Illustration
Dear Closeted Queer Person, You are not broken, You are not ill You are not confused, You do not need fixing You are not an abomination You are not defined by another’s terms You are not going “through a phase”…
I’m Never Coming Out to My Family
And here’s why that’s OK. Coming out to my friends was hard enough (and the consequent decision I have to make of whether or not I want to come out to every new person I meet… but that’s another story…
