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LINEAGE is a profile series that seeks to honor elder queer writers by learning how each came to master their crafts, and illuminating how they’ve made way for new generations of LGBT literary voices.
 
Rotating contributing editors will profile their forebears to explore the continuation of chosen literary family, and intersections of lived queer experience and the writing life.  

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1 Carl Phillips with Stephanie Glazier

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2 Rita Mae Reese on Flannery O'Connor

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