Eli Erlick

1 week ago | yesmagazine.org | Eli Erlick |Evette Dionne

The narrative that we are in the midst of the first generation of trans children is so omnipresent as to be ambient. It is repeated ad nauseam in the media, online, by doctors, and by parents. Trans children, these various gatekeepers say in unison, have no history at all. [. . .] What happens if this consensus turns out to be baseless? —Jules Gill-Peterson, 2017In 1939, the sleepy British town of Great Yarmouth rumbled awake. National media picked up the story of two brothers, Mark and David Ferrow.

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | James Syhabout |John Birdsall |Miranda Spivack |Eli Erlick

What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a RevolutionJames Beard Award winner Birdsall (The Man Who Ate Too Much) provides an eye-opening exploration of how food has helped shape “the queer arc of survival” in American life. Moving from the mid-19th century to the early 1990s, he covers how restaurants like the Paper Doll in San Francisco (which opened in 1944 as arguably “the first queer restaurant in America”) demanded “respect for gays, lesbians, and those whose...