Boys and Oil: Taylor Brorby on Making Space for Queer Stories on the Great Plains
I developed two books. One I called “The Gay Book,” and one I called “The North Dakota Book.” Well, those are the same book, as you can imagine.
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Adam Swanson
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Adam Swanson is an editor and writer whose work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; Khôra; Washington Post; Lambda Literary Review; and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from Writing by Writers, Lambda Literary, and the Creative Writing Program at Emerson College. Adam is a Pushcart Prize nominee and won the 2022 San Juan Residency by Writing by Writers. After graduating from Western Kentucky University, he obtained a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University. In 2018, Adam completed George Washington University’s LGBT Health Policy & Practice Graduate Certificate Program, where he won the AIDS Healthcare Foundation student award. He is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at Emerson College. More at www.adamswanson.net.
You Don’t See the Whole Young Man until the Very End: An Interview with Douglas Stuart
The amount of pressure on young men still to get on with it and to bottle it up and to be strong and be certain is overwhelming. And it shows in the UK. The suicide rates for men are so high. It’s a mental health issue. We don’t allow men to express themselves or talk about their vulnerability, and we blame them for a lot; we get to that phrase “toxic masculinity” really quickly. I don’t believe masculinity is always toxic, I just think sometimes it’s very unhealthy and we need to examine it and open it up.