10/14/2025
Check out the new Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast featuring Frank Pizzoli, then read Hank Trout's review of Frank's book in The G&LR.
https://glreview.org/article/writers-of-a-generation-speak-out/
Join me and Frank Pizzoli as we discuss the evolution of q***r literature over the decades! As a longtime q***r advocate, writer, and journalist Frank has so much knowledge to share about both his own lived experiences as well as the current state of q***r literature in the era of anti-intellectualism. Frank takes us back to growing up gay in Central Pennsylvania and being outspoken as a college student when he participated in the anti-war movement. And that brings us to his thoughts on today's political climate!
Frank explains why he thinks our current American political system is actually encouraging people to abandon critical thinking and why there's a "dumbing down" of the general public. In Frank's new book Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work, he talks with several iconic gay writers about their legacy and what q***r literature looks like today. You'll learn all about his conversations with writers like Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and Christopher Bram (just to name a few). By the end of our conversation, not only will you learn about the history of q***r literature, but you'll also understand how q***r authors and their legacies are all around us.
