Kay Gabriel

2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST! An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men "buy him things," lovers drive across state lines, users down volatile cocktails to see what happens,...

Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers, and organisers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions simultaneously: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organiser's question—how do we...