A Point of Pride 2024: An Interview with Chad Stroup

What inspired you to start writing? 

I was a lover of horror at a very young age (we’re talking like two years old and I was already obsessed with monsters). I was reading by age three, and by about year seven or eight, I found Stephen King, which led to eventually discovering Cabal by Clive Barker at age 11 or 12 (a very queer book not only because of its author, and still my favorite novel to this day).

Transgender Awareness: My Gender is a Chainsaw by Jef Rouner

My Gender is a Chainsaw By Jef Rouner Gender is a construct. You know, like those killer robots in Chopping Mall. And just like them, it has sharp edges. It took me forty years to figure out what gender I was, and frankly the question is still far from answered. I recently settled simply on “not cis,” and when people ask me my pronouns I answer “he/him will do.” It’s not me being a melodramatic pain in the ass… well, not JUST that. The mystery and ambiguity of that label brings me back to the gender heroes of my adolescence:…