Miss Manhattan @ Niagara I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September's Miss Manhattan, Elyssa's long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 of…

SW was my only redemption- ✂️ from my convo w Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project 💓

NYRS Launch @ Book Row Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed a…

Queer Discourse Podcast I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency,…

Season 3 Episode 5 of Queer Discourse podcast. Thanks to Lou Barrett for the convo about such major themes as agency, solitude, the Italian-American condition, and the Yoko Ono of it all: dalecorvino.substack.com/p/queer-disc...

"ANDRÉS" excerpts from AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appearing @ The Memoirist: open.substack.com/pub/thememoi...

Felice Picano’s AMBIDEXTROUS reviewed A twink-death-forward review of my memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appears in Issue 005 of The Whitney Review of New Writing. I also appear in the issue as a contributor, reviewing a memoir by the late Felice Picano, whose death in March came while we were…

The Twink Death of it all Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I'm feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of the…

Blueskies! My memoir which just dropped has its 1st review and I swoon 🥹 For The Whitney Review, Journey Streams writes, “his writing is as sumptuous as his story is steeped in turmoil…” asterismbooks.com/product/the-... bit.ly/AfterKept

Happy Indy Bookshop Day! Advance copies of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY available at @bgsqd.bsky.social (photo) and Fabulosa In SF Or walk into your fav queer Indy & order: Stories LA @nonbinarian.bsky.social @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social @tubbyandcoos.com @thelittlegayshop.bsky.social

Starting tonight I’m taking my queer liberation memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY on the road. Now shipping: www.crpress.org/shop/afterli...

From the carpet for the LA Premiere of THE BIG JOHNSON, Lola Rocknrolla’s doc feature about QueerCore Party King Drag Queen, my hustler brother Dean Johnson. @slamdance954.bsky.social

Yea the state is crumbling, but I’ve got a 🏳️‍🌈, s*X affirming memoir to launch in 1 MONTH! Pre-order: bit.ly/AfterKept The gorg @otroedgargomez.bsky.social called it “…nothing short of a masterpiece. I swear this book activated something ancient and homosexual in me.” 🙈

Heyyyy just got this blurb from #queerlit legend Felice Picano. His 1979 thriller the Lure was the first novel I read w a nuanced 🏳️‍🌈protagonist, Noel, the titular lure. FP’s kind words are for my SW memoir, AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY from C&R Press bit.ly/AfterKept #writingcommunity #memoir

Real-time queer relationship advice from your fav married x hustler:

‘24 Writing Year in Review: Much 💓 to the queer venues, bookshops, reviews, and readers.

Yesterday for World AIDS Day @bgsqd.bsky.social I read an excerpt from an Allan Barnett story from THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS from @rebelsatori.bsky.social Getting deep into his work, I adore his voice—it is vital, heartbreaking, and laced w sharp, dry, gay humor (I’m at 1 hr in) bit.ly/49mneJa

1st time participating in World AIDS Day bringing up some feelings. I spent the crisis hiding my college roommate/lover’s diagnosis from classmates, friends, family. Reading from this vital work at @rebelsatori.bsky.social annual reading today at 3 PM @bgsqd.bsky.social live & streaming.

INTRO: Hi BlueSky: I’m 🏳️‍🌈 NYCer married author. Figuring out platforms, the Great Sorting™️, & our newly captured context. Came to writing via s*x work, which informs my advocacy for bodily autonomy. You can find my essays on Marilyn Monroe, kink, & Lemebel online. 📖 2: www.crpress.org/shop/afterli...