Jessica Max Stein

This weekend, I am going to the house where I grew up for the last time before our family sells it. I have been surprised at the depth of my feelings of loss. I wonder how much my experience of growing up queer there intensifies the transition.

The house is a brick colonial in Rust Belt suburbia, on a street canopied by maple trees. A great place to be a kid, wearing whirligig maple keys on the end of your nose. Not such a great place to be, shall we say, a righteous babe.

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I’m so excited to be a new regular contributor to excellent LGBTQ blog The Bilerico Project! See my first post here!

19 years ago today, we lost one of the funniest, most present and memorable people ever to show up on this earth… Long live Richard Hunt! Now go watch some Muppets.

I’m so pleased to be a contributor to The Zinester’s Guide to NYC, new from Microcosm Publishing! Jenna Freedman of Lower East Side Librarian wrote an espeially fun review. Good times in NYC!

I can’t “Count” how pleased I am with Jerry Nelson’s recent shoutout in an interview with Ryan Dosier’s Muppet Mindset blog. Nelson finishes a Richard Hunt story by saying, “You’ll have to read about anything more in Max Stein’s book about Richard when it comes out.” As my grandmother would say, “From your lips to God’s ears!”

I was a recent guest on Sarah Mangle’s wonderful Toronto radio show, These Things That People Make. Here’s an archived podcast. Choose “Thursday: 2010-07-22″ and then “These Things That People Make” to hear about my adventures as Richard Hunt’s biographer, my thoughts on how times have changed for queers, and the dangers of gay marriage, among other hot topics. Enjoy!

I’m elated to be featured on the blog F*ck Yeah Queer Jews, alongside other fabulous queer Jews like Judith Butler and Susan Sontag! F*ck yeah!