interviews, essays, PODCASTS, ETC.
INTERVIEWS
"Author Rasheed Newson captures LA queer history in his latest novel"
"Rasheed Newson Reveals Hidden Black Hollywood in ‘There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood’"
"Interview with an Author: Rasheed Newson"
"Black, queer & caught in the 1950s studio machine:
The radical history behind 'There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood'"
"‘There's Only One Sin in Hollywood': Novel explores Black, queer life in Golden Age"
"Save It for Your Novel: The Difference in Writing for the Screen Versus the Page"
"Paris started with an openness to queer people" : Author Rasheed Newson
- FRANCE 24 ENGLISH
"Rasheed Newson wants to make you uncomfortable"
- THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Rasheed Newson centers LGBTQ history in debut novel"
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Rasheed Newson’s Debut Novel Retells the Early Years of AIDS in New York City"
- THEM
"In 'My Government Means to Kill Me,' vibrant life shines through the AIDS crisis"
- AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
"Facts and Fiction Collide in This Clever Novel of AIDS Activism"
- POZ MAGAZINE
"In His Debut Novel, Rasheed Newson Looks At Gay Life Amid The AIDS Crisis"
- BUSTLE
- ELECTRIC LITERATURE
"Rasheed Newson Talks Activism and Sex Positivity in His New Book"
- INTO
"Rasheed Newson says his novel, set in the early AIDS era, is ‘a call to action’"
- OC REGISTER
Rasheed Newson talks "unapologetically Black" and "unmistakably Gay" debut novel
“You just have to get on with it.”
ESSAYS, PODCASTS & PLAYLISTS
A double life unfolds in L.A.’s hidden 1950’s nightscape"
- Read an excerpt from "THERE'S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD"
"Books that take you behind the scenes of Black Hollywood"
"From Baldwin to Today: Queer Black Expats in Paris"
- AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS
"Reflecting on the Challenges of Telling Femme, Black, Queer Stories"
- CATAPULT
"A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses"
- LITHUB
Listen to Rasheed on THE READING BLACK GIRLS podcast (9/19/26)
Listen to Rasheed on SHAPING FREEDOM WITH LISANE BASQUIAT podcast (9/14/26)
Listen to Rasheed on WHO'S GONNA BE THERE podcast (7/23/26)
Watch Rasheed on THE GAILY SHOW (7/10/26)
Listen to Rasheed on A MORE PERFECT UNION podcast
with Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey (6/26/26)
with Cassandra Freeman at BGSQD (6/18/26)
Listen to Rasheed on PAGE & SCREEN podcast (6/16/26)
Listen to Rasheed on BEHIND THE STACK podcast (6/16/26)
See Rasheed in conversation with K.M. Soehnlein
Listen to Rasheed on GAYS READING podcast (6/2/26)
Listen to the "THERE'S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD" playlist
Listen to the "THERE'S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD" playlist on Spotify
Listen to Rasheed on WMUN/PAGE TURNERS
Listen to Rasheed on GAYS READING podcast (10/1/24)
Listen to Rasheed on PERMISSION TO WRITE podcast
Listen to Rasheed on GAYS READING podcast (8/24/23)
Listen to Rasheed on BFF: BLACK, FAT, FEMME podcast
Listen to Rasheed on BAD QUEERS podcast
Listen to Rasheed on HOMOPHILIA podcast
Listen to Rasheed on BURNED BY BOOKS podcast
Listen to Rasheed on DEBUTIFUL podcast
Listen to Rasheed on ALL OF IT WITH ALISON STEWART
Watch Rasheed on INSIDE VOICES podcast
Listen to the "MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME" playlist on Apple Music
Listen to the "MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME" playlist on Spotify