Lambda Literary Foundation Launches Literary Website

Today the Lambda Literary Foundation launched a literary website and community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered readers and authors–Lambda Literary.

The website was built in six weeks by an international team of designers living in New York, Los Angeles, and British Columbia. It will publish new material, interviews, stories, reviews, and aggregate links from around the literary Internets. The site opened with a variety of content, including Is There, or Should There Be, Such a Thing as ‘Trans Lit?’” by Cheryl Morgan and a new column about “news and noteworthy tidbits from the LGBT writing and publishing community” by John Morgan Wilson.

The entire release follows after the jump. Lambda Literary Foundation board member Nicola Griffith had this statement: “We’re here; we’re queer; we read. And on March 1st, we’ll be even more visible to the world and to each other … We’re a community that loves books. We need books. All kinds of books: yaoi and high lit, graphic novels and celebrity tell-alls, heart-wrenching memoir and YA fantasy. We read to save our lives. We write, we edit. We publish, distribute, review, sell, advertise, lend, and buy. And Lambda Literary will now be home for the whole of the brilliantly diverse community that creates and supports our literature.”

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