I’m humbled that GLAAD has nominated me again for an award in the Outstanding Digital Journalism Article category. Ever since I won in that category last year for my Splinter piece on the erasure of bisexual men, I have kept the award on my desk. (At first, actually, I had to leave the trophy with my … Continue reading
For the Fall 2018 issue of Emory Medicine Magazine, I was happy to talk about one of the most amazing people at my alma mater: Dr. Vin Tangpricha, a world-renowned expert on transgender medicine. Below is a little snippet! And click through to read the rest. Allen, who first saw a counselor at Emory’s Student … Continue reading
Few things in 2018 meant more to me than the reader reviews for Love & Estrogen. In fact, I made this cheesy little collage of the most frequently-mentioned words so I can look at it when I’m feeling more like an imposter than an author. (“Author” is still something I’m getting used to calling myself, … Continue reading
This is it. The plea. Everyone who writes a book has to do this, so bear with me. If you’ve got at least $13.99, please, please, please pre-order Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States. The book is both a memoir and an LGBTQ travelogue. My personal story—of being closeted in Utah, coming out … Continue reading
As a Twin Peaks fan, I wanted a cover for Real Queer America that featured a neon sign—and I got one, thanks to an amazing designer at Little, Brown. Gaze upon its beauty! I like that the image—and the color scheme—is Americana through and through, and yet there’s the word “Queer” right there in unapologetic letters on the … Continue reading
Look. Now is the perfect time to pre-order Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States. If you do it now, you’ll have enough time to forget about it before it shows up in your mailbox or on your doorstep, and then it’ll be a nice surprise! Who doesn’t want a present from themselves in the … Continue reading
My whole life, I have wanted to write something beautiful and true. So when Danielle Friedman, my former editor at Fusion, reached out to see if I would tell my love story for Amazon Original Stories, I nervously accepted. Writing said story would require me to flex literary muscles I hadn’t used in a while: In … Continue reading
Remember a while back when I said that I was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award? Well, I won a GLAAD Media Award for my Splinter piece “Why Bisexual Men Are Still Fighting to Convince Us They Exist.” I can’t believe it! The award was hugely validating, and affirming, and also heavy: I left it with … Continue reading
I’m thrilled to share that I was nominated for “Outstanding Digital Journalism Article” by the LGBT media advocacy group GLAAD for my January 2017 Splinter article “Why Bisexual Men Are Still Fighting to Convince Us They Exist.” This article, for me, was a labor of love. Blessed with an editor who gave me ample time … Continue reading
Here’s an interview I did with the excellent blog TransEthics about coming out as transgender, transphobia within the academy, my career as an LGBT reporter, and what it will take for us to see full acceptance of transgender people in our society. Read more at the link below: https://transethics.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/trans-education-samantha-allen-on-gender-career-and-acceptance/ Continue reading
