Find out what inspired Edward Schmit to write "The Open Era" down below.
In “My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond” (Bold Type, 2026), out in May, queer historian Hugh Ryan takes us from the painful purgatory of 7th grade, where his gender was a Lisa Frank trapper keeper, to his experiences with camp, AOL chat rooms, androgyny, coming of age in the mid-1990s AIDS period, Radical Faeries, Burning Man, sex work, 9/11, thruppledom, and much more, amounting to the author’s “attempt at a balance sheet.”
Sometimes the biggest milestones don’t arrive loudly. They appear quietly, almost like a sentence waiting patiently to be written. When I learned that I had been selected as an invited guest at BookCon, I paused for a moment, and not because I didn’t believe it, but because I understood what it represented. It wasn’t just an invitation. It was a reminder that storytelling has always been at the center of everything I do.
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