Lives of Great Men

And I was just baffled as to why that particular summer, there were all of these rash of anti-LGBTQ stories. Obviously, you just can’t put these things in a vacuum. [...] And then I had a good friend of mine who at the time, I was asking advice on how to get books published, and all of that. [...] I find that a lot of our lives and a lot of the things we do are reactions to love. [...] And that I find it’s a form of love. [...] And in examining my life and the life of all the LGBTQ people I know, love is always at the centre. [...] I was very dismissive of people who were in the diaspora, who had made a career for themselves, and returned home and conformed, because there was also that. [...] And I could not be so judgemental of people who make the choices they have to make to survive. [...] And that made me wonder if you would have anything else to say about the different experiences of men and women in these queer spaces you’re writing about? [...] And that speaks to their fear of the content. [...] And I wonder if that indicates a certain shift, in terms of new channels for queer representation and storytelling?