Anthologies

• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Seal Press, 2010, Lambda Literary Award Winner)

  • "Transgressing Gender at Passover with Jesus!” (short story)

• Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)

  • • “Not Our First Rodeo: Memory and Imagination Stir Up Hope” (personal essay)

• Rainbow in the Word: LGBTQ Christians’ Biblical Memoirs (Wipf & Stock, 2017)

  • • "Falling for Ebed Melech" (essay)

• Trans-Kin: A Guide for Family and Friends of Transgender People (Bolder Press, 2012)

  • • "Confessions of an Unlikely Ally” (personal essay)

• Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis (Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2020)

  • • "Bigger Love" (short play)

• The Future Is Not Fixed: Short Plays Envisioning a Global Green New Deal (Applause / Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

  • • “Mentoring Session #4” (short play)

• Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse (edited by Jallen Rix, 2011, Lambda Literary finalist)

  • • Multiple contributions throughout the anthology (memoir)

• Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker Blog Reader (Lulu Press, 2009)

  • "The M Word," and "Doin' Time in Estes Park" (personal essays)

Journal and Magazine Publications

“Trading camo for couture, why I refuse to disappear in Trump’s America” — The Advocate

“‘Ex-Gay’ Survivors Go On-Line” — The Gay & Lesbian Review

"Shell Game" —  Unlikely Stories

Quaker Liturgy in a Rural Context, Liturgy Journal

"Joseph and the amazing multidimensional story – Genesis 37" REtoday

“Bigger Love” in Geez Magazine Issue 55 (short play)

"Queer Climate Performance Art in the Most Unlikely Places" Howl Round Theater Commons

"Free spirit: After experiencing years of homophobic prejudice, Peterson Toscano calls for solidarity" The Friend

“I Am What I Am, It Is Not a Choice” — The New Statesman

“I Am an Ex-Gay Survivor” — The New York Blade

“Ex-Gay Recruiters Go for Youth” — PlanetOut

Friends Journal

“Speaking Lies to Power: Daryl Hannah, Barbie, and Quaker Tricksters”

“A Reluctant Minister: Reflections on Performance Art among Friends”

“What Is Actually There” (short story)

“Penn’s Spring” (short story)

“Unlearning Fear and Shame”

Huffpost

Peterson was a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and published 15 essays, including:

"We’re all in the Same Boat Together? Reflections on Hurricanes, Undocumented Residents, and LGBTQ People"

"Unbreakable -- Lessons Learned in an Ex-Gay Bunker"

"Why on Earth Is This Gay Guy Marching for Climate?"

"Daring to Dream in a time of Donald Trump: An ex-gay survivor speaks out"

With Many Roots: Cli-Fi Imaginarium

"ECOCIDE! Coming Soon to a Cineplex Near You” 

“I’m Not Dead Yet!” 

“Seaweed Seduction” 

“Radical Care: A Human Resource” 

Plays

Transfigurations—Transgressing Gender in the Bible

Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House -- How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement

Queer 101–Now I Know My gAy,B,C’s

I Can See Sarah Palin from my Window!

The Re-Education of George W. Bush 

How the Indians Discovered Columbus 

Footprints–An Inspirational Comedy (retired)