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.

Award-disdaining Author, Exile & Kook, Mr. Troy Ford | Keeping an eye on the abyss so you don't have to \ud83d\udc9c\ud83c\udfa9\ud83d\udc08‍⬛ Creator of Qstack - the LGBTQIA+ Directory of Substacks \ud83c\udff3️‍\ud83c\udf08

Molly Thornton is a multi-genre writer and cultural consultant. A former Lambda Literary Fellow, she has been published by The LA Times, Peach Mag, Okay Donkey Mag, Hippocampus Mag, The Lavender Review, and more. Find her at mollythorntonwrites.com

Less he than they and more queer than gay, Brian Watson is an emerging writer. They share intersections of Japan and queerness in OUT OF JAPAN, their Substack. When not writing, Brian designs t-shirts, beads bracelets, and plays too many word games.

Aidan is an actor, advocate, writer, and relationship enthusiast based in New York City. When not acting or advocating, he writes about self-improvement, relationships, and sex in his once-weekly newsletter, Gay Buffet.

I write from Oman about Edinburgh, Victoria, New York, and Muscat. I write about being a woman, queer, and whatever else I find along the way.

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. www.michaelnarkunski.com

Barcelona-based playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director. Plays: Smiley, The Swallow, Skin in Flames. Films: God's Crooked Lines, Invasion. Netflix shows: The Innocent, Smiley.

Queer, nonbinary writer and activist, living in the original homelands of the Shawnee, Cherokee and Osage (Louisville, KY). They are happiest in the Appalachian Mountains and swimming in oceans, lakes and creeks. Find more, www.jardanapeacock.com.

I'm the author of three novels (Hard, Sweet Like Sugar, An Older Man) and a true-crime memoir (The End of Her). As a journalist, I’ve written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Out, The Advocate, Newsweek, and elsewhere.

I am a gay man living in Pittsburgh, PA and work with my family in commercial construction (very butch LOL). It is with such pleasure and honor that I get to work with my brother and carry on our family legacy.

I'm a playwright, essayist, travel writer, and proud co-author of Out in the World, National Geographic's first LGBTQIA+ travel guide. My work also appears in The New York Times, Washington Post, HuffPost, Out, Wired, Insider, Thrillist, and more.