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The question is not why my brother had to die. The question is how do I save him?
Exploring the AIDS crisis, space colonization, and earth-bound lesbianism, DEAD BOYS IN SPACE uses poetry, speculative fiction, sci-fi, and crip queer politics to ask: what if a generation of gay men didn't die of AIDS? What if their exile was actually escape? And what happened to the family they left behind?
Told from the perspective of a sister mourning her brother-one she never knew-Sara Youngblood Gregory's startling debut, DEAD BOYS IN SPACE, is a testament to anger and love, sex and sickness, grief and family.
Sara Youngblood Gregory's DEAD BOYS IN SPACE is a book that understands the impossible math of queer time: how we inherit a crisis we did not survive, how we live in the after without ever being "after" it. It refuses the lie that PrEP has made us safe from history. Instead, it asks what it means to desire, to grieve, to build a body and a future in the long shadow of AIDS, in a family that still breathes and remembers.
-Bryan Borland, editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry
In DEAD BOYS IN SPACE, Sara Youngblood Gregory deftly grapples with queer and feminist histories refracting them through personal experience and poetic experiments. It is a marvel to behold.
-Julie R. Enszer, author of Pinko Commie Dyke
Author: Sara Youngblood Gregory
Publisher: YesYes Books
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781946303134
About the Author
Youngblood Gregory, Sara: - Sara Youngblood Gregory is an award-winning lesbian journalist, editor, and author. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Vice, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, them.us, and many others. Sara serves on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom, where she is currently editing the forthcoming Butch-Femme Renaissance issue. She was the News and Reporting Spring 2023 Fellow at TransLash Media, covering anti-trans legislation and community organizing in her home state of Florida. In 2023, Sara was the recipient of the Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. The same year, her speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books and will be published in May 2026.
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The question is not why my brother had to die. The question is how do I save him?
Exploring the AIDS crisis, space colonization, and earth-bound lesbianism, DEAD BOYS IN SPACE uses poetry, speculative fiction, sci-fi, and crip queer politics to ask: what if a generation of gay men didn't die of AIDS? What if their exile was actually escape? And what happened to the family they left behind?
Told from the perspective of a sister mourning her brother-one she never knew-Sara Youngblood Gregory's startling debut, DEAD BOYS IN SPACE, is a testament to anger and love, sex and sickness, grief and family.
Sara Youngblood Gregory's DEAD BOYS IN SPACE is a book that understands the impossible math of queer time: how we inherit a crisis we did not survive, how we live in the after without ever being "after" it. It refuses the lie that PrEP has made us safe from history. Instead, it asks what it means to desire, to grieve, to build a body and a future in the long shadow of AIDS, in a family that still breathes and remembers.
-Bryan Borland, editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry
In DEAD BOYS IN SPACE, Sara Youngblood Gregory deftly grapples with queer and feminist histories refracting them through personal experience and poetic experiments. It is a marvel to behold.
-Julie R. Enszer, author of Pinko Commie Dyke
Author: Sara Youngblood Gregory
Publisher: YesYes Books
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 102
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781946303134
About the Author
Youngblood Gregory, Sara: - Sara Youngblood Gregory is an award-winning lesbian journalist, editor, and author. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Vice, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, them.us, and many others. Sara serves on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom, where she is currently editing the forthcoming Butch-Femme Renaissance issue. She was the News and Reporting Spring 2023 Fellow at TransLash Media, covering anti-trans legislation and community organizing in her home state of Florida. In 2023, Sara was the recipient of the Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. The same year, her speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books and will be published in May 2026.
