K.M. Soehnlein's Blog

Introductions at book events tend to be pretty similar, based on whatever official bio is on the writer's book jacket or website. A presenter who takes the time to write something personal and original about their reaction to the book...

I���m awash in anger and sadness today. The murders at Club Q in Colorado Springs are so heartbreaking and shocking but they didn���t just explode out of nowhere. We in the LGBTQ+ community are facing a wave of backlash. In...

Today marks one month until publication date for my novel Army of Lovers. It also marks 10 days before the staged reading of a screenplay, Otto Sabotage, co-written with Aron Kantor, which we���re presenting for the first time to the...

I interviewed my friend, author Sarah Schulman, about her recently released nonfiction book about ACT UP New York. It's called Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987���1993. You can read an edited version of...

With the great Michelle Tea 20 years ago today! This is me and Michelle Tea on May 31, 2001, beaming with joy after each of us won Lambda Literary Awards ��� hers for the inimitable, influential, already-a-classic Valencia (Mission San...

The first time I saw the boy who would be my husband perform was on stage at The Stud, a one-story wooden building that felt like a cross between a biker bar and a mountain lodge, low ceilinged and lined...

Kevin Killian has died, a tragically sad and unbelievable piece of news, an irrevocable loss for those who loved him and a stunning gut punch for those of us who knew him from the world of writing, where he was...

29 years ago, I was the victim of a homophobic, physical assault by a group of boys. There were three of us, in drag, and four of them, carrying lacrosse sticks, which they beat us with. The police were slow...

Friday night in SoMa. We meet a friend at a bar on Folsom, and while we���re on the sidewalk we nearly get hit by a guy zipping by in one those new scooter things. Then we walk to a restaurant,...

The writers that matter to us matter for reasons that are entirely personal. It���s usually not the writer���s biography or even subject matter that makes his or her stories meaningful, but the writer���s voice, a literary style translating intimately in...