Date & Time
5:00pm CDT - 7:00pm CDT
Price
About This Event
Come hear queer Southern love stories as we celebrate the latest issue of The Queer Love Project’s print quarterly. Happy, sad, surprising, subversive: You’ll hear every kind of tale.
Founded by writer Jerry Portwood, The Queer Love Project is a platform that invites LGBTQ+ people to share their experiences. It currently encompasses an online magazine, a podcast, and a zine, which publishes Vol. 2 this spring.
At this event, Southern contributors to The Queer Love Project (as well as a few local guests) will share their latest nonfiction, poetry, and other work. All are welcome to attend, because we all could use more love in our lives.
Jerry Portwood (he, him) has been working as a journalist for 25 years, getting his start in alt weeklies and community publications—most of which no longer exist. His short stories and essays have been published in various print and online journals (many of those also have vanished). He launched The Queer Love Project to create a platform where LGBTQ+ people could share stories and experiences. He’s been a top editor at Rolling Stone, Out magazine and New York Press and has been teaching essay writing and arts criticism at the New School for over 10 years. He has a novel, The Loneliest Boy in the World Saves Us All, that he’s working on publishing soon.
Mark Blankenship has been a journalist and critic for almost 25 years, specializing in theater, pop culture, and food. He’s contributed to The New York Times, Variety, NPR, and many others and he recently wrote official souvenir books for the Broadway shows Ragtime, Gypsy, and Oh, Mary!. Currently, he is the Nashville Bureau Chief at The Food Section, an award-winning magazine about Southern food and culture, and a lecturer in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama. Mark has appeared on two game shows: Jeopardy! (where he didn’t win) and Name That Tune (where he did). BlankenshipProjects.com
About This Event
Come hear queer Southern love stories as we celebrate the latest issue of The Queer Love Project’s print quarterly. Happy, sad, surprising, subversive: You’ll hear every kind of tale.
Founded by writer Jerry Portwood, The Queer Love Project is a platform that invites LGBTQ+ people to share their experiences. It currently encompasses an online magazine, a podcast, and a zine, which publishes Vol. 2 this spring.
At this event, Southern contributors to The Queer Love Project (as well as a few local guests) will share their latest nonfiction, poetry, and other work. All are welcome to attend, because we all could use more love in our lives.
Jerry Portwood (he, him) has been working as a journalist for 25 years, getting his start in alt weeklies and community publications—most of which no longer exist. His short stories and essays have been published in various print and online journals (many of those also have vanished). He launched The Queer Love Project to create a platform where LGBTQ+ people could share stories and experiences. He’s been a top editor at Rolling Stone, Out magazine and New York Press and has been teaching essay writing and arts criticism at the New School for over 10 years. He has a novel, The Loneliest Boy in the World Saves Us All, that he’s working on publishing soon.
Mark Blankenship has been a journalist and critic for almost 25 years, specializing in theater, pop culture, and food. He’s contributed to The New York Times, Variety, NPR, and many others and he recently wrote official souvenir books for the Broadway shows Ragtime, Gypsy, and Oh, Mary!. Currently, he is the Nashville Bureau Chief at The Food Section, an award-winning magazine about Southern food and culture, and a lecturer in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama. Mark has appeared on two game shows: Jeopardy! (where he didn’t win) and Name That Tune (where he did). BlankenshipProjects.com
Getting There
The Porch House
2811 Dogwood Place
Nashville, Tennessee 37204
United States
Date & Time
5:00pm CDT - 7:00pm CDT