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.

Gay therapist. I write the stuff gay men live but rarely name.

Less he than they and more queer than gay, Brian Watson is an award-winning emerging writer. They share intersections of Japan and queerness in OUT OF JAPAN, their Substack.

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

Ghostwriter of business books. Author of The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace (Lanternfish Press). Austin, TX. All opinions are my own, or my cat's.

Writer, Filmmaker, Performing Artist in NYC and the Hudson Valley. MFAs from Columbia University and Bennington Writing Seminars. Feature film Lust Life Love on Apple TV etc. Jazz singing on Spotify etc. LGBTQ+ Cat Lover!

Dan Pal has been a Film Professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Film Critic, Director, Screenwriter, Festival Programmer & memoir writer. He writes about film, television, and music at https://danpal.substack.com/

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.

Lapsed queer femme. Writer, editor, gardener.

She/her. Journalist originally from the US Midwest now in Portugal, working to make sense of this history we're all living in. Author, NO PLACE LIKE HOME: LESSONS IN ACTIVISM FROM LGBT KANSAS.

Writings of a gay millennial, airing the closet I came out of, one skeleton at a time.

Author Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze Sex & My Mother, published in NYTimes, WashPost, Salon, DailyBeast, HuffPost, TEDx speaker, Moth GrandSLAM winner & 6-time Moth StorySLAM champ, performs 4 solo shows including Pearl Necklace AGaySexcapade

James writes on environmental norms and queer social politics for Discourse & Society and The Advocate, City University of New York.

I’ve spent 25 years leading communications through some of the toughest challenges organizations face. But the stories that have taught me the most about leadership didn’t always happen in boardrooms. They sometimes happened in my family. I’m the a

Author of the contemporary urban fantasy novels The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery (summer 2025) and The Broken Hearts Agency (summer 2026), freelance book editor, arts and culture lover