Dr. Eric Cervini (he/him) is an award-winning author, producer, and historian of LGBTQ+ politics. His first book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, was a NYT bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It also won the Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the NYT Editors’ Choice, and the “Best Read of 2020” at the Queerties. Cervini is the Emmy-winning creator and Executive Producer of The Book of Queer, a queer history docu-series boasting the largest all-queer cast in Hollywood history, now streaming on Max. In March 2024, Cervini launched Allstora, an online book marketplace, alongside fourteen-time Emmy-winner RuPaul Charles. Cervini currently serves as Allstora’s CEO. On the site, Cervini also hosts Eric’s (Very Gay) Book Club, where he highlights the most brilliant and exciting works of gay literature. 

Roxane Gay’s (she/her) writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women, and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda. 

Tre’vell Anderson (they/them) is an award-winning journalist, noted podcast host, and authoress doing world-changing work around society and culture. Named to Out magazine’s 2023 list of the 100 most impactful LGBTQ+ people and The Root’s 2020 list of the 100 most influential African Americans, they have dedicated their career to centering those in the margins, grey spaces, and at the intersections of life. Tre’vell co-hosts Crooked Media’s daily news podcast What A Day and is the Founder and Chief Imagination Officer of the social curation and media production house Slayzhon. They are also the authoress of We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film and the NAACP Image Award-nominated Historically Black Phrases: From ‘I Ain’t One Of Your Lil’ Friends’ to ‘Who All Gon’ Be There?’. Formerly Editor-At-Large for Xtra magazine and Director of Culture and Entertainment at Out, Tre’vell got their start in journalism at the Los Angeles Times. Their work—which has graced the pages of Essence, TIME and Entertainment Weekly, among others—has been recognized by the Online News Association, National Association of Black Journalists, the Shorty Awards, and the Los Angeles Press Club, among others. Tre’vell is a Board member for the National Association of Black Journalists. A well sought-after moderator and commentator, they’ve made appearances on MSNBC, NPR, Fox Business Network, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, and Entertainment Tonight Live as well as the Netflix documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. 

George M Johnson (they/them) is an award-winning Black Non-Binary writer, author, and executive producer located in the LA area. They are the author of the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue. As a former journalist, George has written for major outlets including Teen Vogue, Entertainment Tonight, NBC, and Buzzfeed and in 2019 was awarded by the National Association of Black Journalists for their article “When Racism Anchors your Health.” George was listed on The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2020, the Out 100 Most Influential LGBTQ People in 2021, and in 2022 was honored as one of the TIME100 Next Most Influential People in the World. Their second memoir WE ARE NOT BROKEN was released in September of 2021. It received the Carter G. Woodson Honor. In 2021 they wrote and Executive Produced the Dramatic Reading of All Boys Aren’t Blue starring Jenifer Lewis and Dyllon Burnside which received a 2022 Special Recognition Award from GLAAD and 2023 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Daytime Special. George is also a proud HBCU alum twice over, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated.