The Queer Love Project

Jerry Portwood is the founder of The Queer Love Project, which explores LGBTQ+ stories about relationships. He was a top editor at Rolling Stone, Out magazine, and New York Press. He's a longtime instructor at the New School's writing program.

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is a playwright and performer who Michael Musto called, “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” Sayre has written books, plays and television.

Michael Narkunski is a Los Angeles-based New Yorker whose overly personal essays can be found in Out, Narratively, and other, mostly gay, outlets. He works at an independent bookstore while finishing up his memoir.

My debut memoir, THE MAPS THEY GAVE US (Black Lawrence, 2025), was shortlisted for both the Oregon Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Writer, teacher, & psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon. www.waynescottwrites.com/

Since obtaining her MFA in fiction, Moriah Richard has worked with over 100 authors to help them achieve their publication dreams. They are currently the managing editor of Writers Digest magazine.

Former NBC News producer turned Chief Comms Officer. I've spent my career in control rooms, crisis war rooms and c suites watching leaders forge their voice in moments that tested them most. Off Script is about what those moments taught them and me.

A man of trans experience, going through some trans experiences. This is NOT my typical theater stuff, it's more musings and nerdery about gender. Also, if you're my family or something, maybe don't read the spicy ones?

\ud83c\udf08Brazilian writing Poems exploring urban perception, desire, and decay through poetry. My work turns cities like into fragmented mirrors of inner experience, where light, absence, and memory blur into shifting states of vision.

Writer and semi-professional opera queen. Find me at the intersection of opera, divas, nostalgia, gay stuff, artichokes, and New Jersey, or operaqueen.substack.com.

Lane Michael Stanley (he/they) is a transgender writer and filmmaker whose work explores queerness, class, restorative justice, grief, and healing. For his portfolio of writing, films, and plays, please visit www.lanemichaelstanley.com.

poet, writer, editor, designer MA JMU ‘26

Gen Greer (she/her) is a dog lover, runner, and slasher enthusiast. She’s dedicated the last few years of her life to writing a queer survivor-centered reimagining of Lolita from the perspective of Dolores Haze. Instagram: @doloresneverlolita