Author Maria Helena Dolan

This story? It’s a little unbelievable, but true. A schoolgirl makes it into the Big Time as a well-regarded Harlem...

Oh, Countée Cullen — Harlem boy meteor whose star climbed to the highest, brightest apogee, and then gradually faded. In...

People — queer and not — laud the Harlem Renaissance, but there is disagreement on so many aspects. For instance,...

Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act. – Marlon Riggs  Over a quarter of a century ago, we lost...

“I dare myself to dream of us moving from survival to potential, from merely getting by to a positive getting...

YouTube has a strange ability to showcase fare that rebuilds queer reality in previously unknown ways. Hence, we can delve...

Mom: a cross-dressing Chinese American lesbian doctor who fought racism and sexism and loved the impoverished, China’s neediest, Sophie Tucker,...

“Does this make sense?” We must ask that question when we look across cultures and times. So, how to explain...

This account will no doubt cause some distress for many, but I feel compelled to tell truths about Stonewall, instead...

My loves were Adrienne Monnier, James Joyce and Shakespeare and Company — Sylvia Beach Literary Paris between the wars owed...