The Geeks OUT Blog
Enjoy our extensive catalogue of geeky media coverage with an eye towards the LGBTQ+ community. Our editors strive to provide a diverse range of topics, genres, figures, and perspectives just for you.
Interview with Victoria Ying
Victoria Ying is a critically acclaimed author and artist living in Los Angeles. She started her career in the arts by falling in love with comic books, this eventually turned into a career working in animation and graphic novels. She loves Japanese Curry, putting...
Queer Quills and Nerdy Thrills: Glimpses Through My Geeky Glasses – Fantasy and Supernatural
Sapphic Adventurers Unite! Busy Geek Breakdown (TL;DR): Read these books for some Sapphic Fantasy (Supernatural) Realness! Gideon the Ninth- Tamsyn Muir; Hench - Natalie Z. Walschots; Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo; Valiant Ladies - Melissa Grey; Warrior of the...
Interview with Lin Thompson
Lin Thompson (they/them) is a queer author of books for middle-grade readers. Lin grew up playing pretend games in the backyard and basement of their home in Kentucky. Now they get to write pretend stories in the backyard and basement of their home in Des Moines, IA,...
Rebelle Re-Views: ‘A Strange Loop’ Takes London, An Interview with Kyle Ramar Freeman
A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson has leapt across the pond for a limited run on the West End. On a drizzly and overcast London evening, I got to sit on a Zoom with the show’s star, the lovely and soft-spoken Kyle...
Interview with Terry J. Benton-Walker
TERRY J. BENTON-WALKER grew up in rural GA and now lives in Atlanta with his husband and son, where he writes fiction for adults, young adults, and children. He has an Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Georgia State. When he’s not...
Interview with Amanda Leduc
Amanda Leduc is a writer and disability rights advocate. She is the author of THE CENTAUR’S WIFE (Random House Canada, 2021), DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE (Coach House Books, 2020), and THE MIRACLES OF ORDINARY MEN (ECW Press, 2013). Her...
Interview with Jen St. Jude
Lambda Literary Fellow Jen St. Jude grew up in New Hampshire apple orchards and now lives in Chicago with her wife, daughter, and dog. Their debut YA novel, IF TOMORROW DOESN'T COME, will be published by Bloomsbury Children's (US) and Penguin Random House (UK) in...
Interview with Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Sabrina Imbler is a writer and science journalist living in Brooklyn. Their first chapbook, Dyke (geology) was published by Black Lawrence Press. They have received fellowships and scholarships from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tin House, the Jack...
Star Trek (But Make it Gay) – Bonus (and very out of order, both chronologically and in release order – Edition!!)
If you missed out, please see my reviews on Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation, and The Original Series. Busy Geek Break Down (TL;DR): Updated to include this weeks episode ... So far this new season of Strange New Worlds has everything my Queer Trekkie...
Interview with Author Mark Oshiro
MARK OSHIRO is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning Latinx queer author of Anger Is a Gift, Each of Us a Desert, and Into the Light, as well as their middle-grade books The Insiders, You Only Live Once, David Bravo, and Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the...