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09/14/2005 

David B. Feinberg, 1991, 1992
 
In these two interviews with Owen Keehnen, the late author and activist David B. Feinberg (1956-1994) discusses his involvement in ACT UP, his award-winning novels Eighty-Sixed (1989) and Spontaneous Combustion (1991), his play The Pathological Flirt, and the influences on his work.

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09/14/2005 

Lesléa Newman, 1994
 
In this 1994 interview with Owen Keehnen, Lesléa Newman discusses her children's, young adult, and adult novels; the dramatization and film versions of A Letter to Harvey Milk (1987), the lesbian and Jewish influences on her writing; and the controversy over Heather Has Two Mommies (1989).

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09/01/2005 

Lipstick Conspiracy
 
Lipstick Conspiracy is a San Francisco-based all-transgender band founded in 2003. Though still relatively new, the group has been welcomed by critics. The Portland Mercury characterized the group as rock-n-roll's first all-tranny band, the San Francisco Bay Guardian named them "Best Girl Band" of 2004, and The SF Observer praised their "simple guitar riffs" and "punchy, rhyme-induced lyrics."

Here, band members tell us about their inspiration, music, and the obstacles they have faced and share some advice for queer bands that are just starting out.

08/31/2005 

Mabel Maney, 1995
 
In this 1995 telephone interview with Owen Keehnen, comic novelist Mabel Maney discusses her young adult female detective and nurse novels, The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse (1991) and The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend (1994), parodies of the Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames novels that reestablish an institution/mythology in gay terms in the late 1950s.

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08/31/2005 

Joseph Carrier, 1996
 
In this 1996 interview with Owen Keehnen, applied anthropologist Joseph Carrier discusses his findings, reported in De Los Otros (1996), regarding the unique nature of gay life and culture in Mexico and the problems and hurdles homosexual men face there in coming out and in HIV prevention.

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08/14/2005 

Charles Silverstein, 1992
 
In this 1992 interview with Owen Keehnen, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Charles Silverstein discusses The New Joy of Gay Sex, which he co-authored with Felice Picano, pointing out the differences between the new book and its predecessor, including new essays on venereal diseases, gay relationships, and social and legal matters involving gays.

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08/14/2005 

Nisa Donnelly, 1995
 
In this 1995 interview with Owen Keehnen, novelist Nisa Donnelly discusses her novel The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay (1994), as well as attempts to erode the barriers between lesbian and gay writing, the necessity of created families, and her lifelong passion for writing.

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07/31/2005 

Terry Wolverton, 1996
 
In this 1996 interview with Owen Keehnen, lesbian poet, novelist, anthologist, and artist Terry Wolverton discusses her novel Bailey's Beads (1996), her writing process, the writing workshops that she conducts, and her upcoming projects.

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07/31/2005 

Sasha Alyson, 1992
 
In this 1992 interview with Owen Keehnen, publisher Sasha Alyson discusses his plans to retire from the pioneering gay and lesbian press that bears his name, his career in gay publishing, his future plans, and the controversy caused by the children's books in the Alyson Wonderland series.

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07/15/2005 

Stathis Orphanos: Selected Literary Portraits
 
Photographer Stathis Orphanos has created unique portraits of many of the leading cultural, entertainment, and literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. Orphanos's photographs have been widely exhibited, and many are now housed at UCLA's Stathis Orphanos Photographic Archive.

This exhibition features 21 portraits of writers who have contributed to the glbtq literary heritage.