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  • Jerry Portwood

    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.

  • Lindsey Danis

    LGBTQ+ travel writer, author of (Out) On the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel. http://www.lindseydanis.com

  • Justin Elizabeth Sayre

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

  • Alexander Leon

    Writer, organiser, campaigner. I write about queerness and whatever is rattling around in my head. Australian-born, Europe living.

  • Anthony DiPietro

    Anthony DiPietro is a queer, poly poet and arts administrator originally from Providence, Rhode Island. kiss & release (Unsolicited Press, 2024) is his debut collection.

  • Mac Crane

    Author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF (Catapult, 2023) and A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (Dial, 2025). jock. parent. sweatpants enthusiast. they/them.

  • Neth Williams

    Neth turned 20 years of drafting legal documents and reports into writing full-time. He produces many lifestyle and poetry pieces and is hired by insurance agencies, law and accounting firms, and licensing institutions to write material for them.

  • Ava Pauline Emilione

    honest ramblings on politics, identity, and culture

  • Char Breshgold Words/Pictures

    Char Breshgold paints and writes. She is currently working on a memoir, about the AIDS crisis years. She was a member of The Girl Artists, whose papers were acquired by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2023.

  • Moriah Richard

    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.

  • Ben Egerman

    Zines and more covering the history of queer Maryland!

  • Claybourne Elder
  • Mario Elias

    Art historian turned novelist that also still makes visual art! Beloved Disciples out May 12th 2026 via Amble Press

  • Lane Michael Stanley

    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.

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