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.

Writer on motherhood, culture, books, personal finance, belonging and belongings. Editor of Open Secrets Magazine. https://rachelkramerbussel.com

Writer collaborating with her late husband on a book about life, death, sobriety, transitions, resurrections, and becoming lucid.

Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”

I summarize peer-reviewed research, reading past the abstract. What studies say isn't always what power centers tell us they say.

Queer & Polyamorous storyteller. My short film, COMING OUT POLYAMOROUS FOR THANKSGIVING, is streaming on YouTube and my memoir, ENTWINED: ESSAYS ON POLYAMORY AND CREATING HOME, is out now. (they/them)

Long-term AIDS Survivor, award winning writer, reality TV editor, living in NYC with my husband and our dog. I write about the trauma and drama of being gay.

Moe Ari, LMFT is a Relationship Thought Leader, the Love & Connection Expert @ Hinge, and TEDx speaker. He helps people feel more, fear less, and come home to themselves through emotional fluency, modern love, and the healing power of connection.

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.

Lavender Sound is an online writing community by and for LGBTQ+ people about LGBTQ+ music, with all subscription fees covering the cost of paying writers. We're also on Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/lavendersound

Four-time author, longtime journalist, playwright, actor, bad influencer. And I also have a pug.

I help successful business owners realign their lives and listen to what they actually need. I’m a coach who left a 7-figure career, writing on belonging.

Amelia Possanza is a full-time book publicist and part-time writer. Her debut book Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives received the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography. She currently rides her girlfriend's Bianchi.

Author, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage (Eerdmans, Oct 2025). Judy Garland’s doppelgänger. Mississippian living in Minnesota. Community College Instructor. https://www.kellyfosterlundquist.com/

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French Gay Writer of Geometries of Love | TTQ, RL & DLC | Daily posts & weekly chapters | Stories of silence, lust, and desire \ud83c\udff3️‍\ud83c\udf08✨

Scott Bane is the author of "A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney," a finalist for the 2023 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction.

Dana Baylous is a Houston-based Black lesbian writer crafting intimate, emotionally charged fiction and essays set in her evolving Texas universe. Her work appears in Wellspringwords and Our Bold Voices.

Author of TOWN OF BABYLON (National Book Award Finalist), THE PEOPLE WHO REPORT MORE STRESS, MIDDLE SPOON