Good news! I am quoted at length in this NBC article by Travel and Culture journalist Dan Allen: "Bayard Rustin’s connection to queer history may have started with his very name."It's on the subject of LGBT activist Bayard Rustin's namesake, travel writer Bayard Taylor - fellow Pennsylvanian and author of America's (possibly) first gay novel, ( Read more... )

My annotation of Joseph and His Friend got a great review today, calling it a "magisterial tome" that contextualizes a valuable piece of history. Check it out!

Out in Print - The Annotated Joseph and His Friend


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Out this month, a research endeavor that took me over a year to complete, and my ticket to being a 'rogue scholar'--find out the stories behind the story that is America's first gay novel, Joseph and His Friend!


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I've had an editing weekend, and it seems like a good time for an update:

0) The Joseph and His Friend Annotation

Two weeks ago I went through the nearly 500 pages of my annotation project, Joseph and His Friend. It took a year to research, nine grueling days to compile, nine relatively easier days to edit it. The manuscript was pretty clean the ( Read more... )

The Dropout, The WorkerSince I quit that PhD program at UT Dallas (and I still spit on the memory of it quite bitterly), I've been hard at work. First up were the on-the-ground concerns of sudden, full-time working life ( Read more... )

While reading and researching for an upcoming project, I came across Alan Dale's (pseudonym) 1889 book A Marriage Below Zero (so old it's free to read online). Two things struck me right away: this plot sounds an awful lot like my own My Dear Watson, and despite the dismissal of the book as anti-gay melodrama, it's actually a very amusing read. ( Read more... )