The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll turn out the lights,' only to look up and discover it's after midnight.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980), and Further Tales of the City (1982) afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life.Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal.Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

    His death releases passions that have been supressed in the street for many years.

    Killian produces a pantheon of distinctive characters--including himself as a young writer whose half-hearted work on a book about his murdered gay lover is stalled by his absorption in the dramas of others around him. The misfits, losers, adolescent rebels and rootless souls of Smithtown, Long Island (N.Y.), whose petty dreams and futile hopes the author sets forth with mercy, are the spiritual kin of Christopher Isherwood's creations in The Berlin Stories. Killian displays a facility for developing teenaged characters, such as Harry Van who, at 15 or 16, is continually aware that his golden youth is temporary; and Paula, a romantic who finds enlightenment in the music of David Bowie. His work is also noteworthy for unlikely phrasings ("Her face lit up like a jack-o-lantern, from inside, with the incredible light and heat of love").

    "Reports From the Holocaust" contains a chronological selection from the steady torrent of articles and speeches that Larry Kramer has produced since the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

    Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Jeffrey Weeks and John D'Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, Jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, Casto's Cuba - and peoples as varied as South African black miners, American Indians, Chinese courtiers, Japanese samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban working women. Gender and sexuality, repression and resistance, deviance and acceptance, identity and community - all are given a context in this fascinating work.

    A remarkable anthology, including many largely unknown poems from the trenches, in which Martin Taylor illustrates the extraordinary range of emotions generated by the horror of the First World War and the experience of trench warfare.

    "There's no moving away from this wrenching, beautifully told story".--Los Angeles Times.

    A leading feminist theologian affirms the sacredness of mutually empowering relationships and sexual pleasure.

    Intrigued, he wrote back to her and thus began a flood of correspondence that ended with her death in 1972.Selected from Dirk Bogarde's letter, 'A Particular Friendship' reveals the unexpected side of a great actor and film star: a man deeply committed to his home, witty, stringent, observant, some times depressed by the state of Britain or of his work but always razor-sharp with his pen. Sprinkled with reminscences, gossip and cameo portraits of the famous, the letters are a tribute to the relationship between two exceptional people.

    Here are their reports from the midst of an ongoing struggle, personal dispatches from the frontlines by some of the most accomplished writers of our time.

    His visitors included H.G.Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad. Miranda Seymour is a literary reviewer for the London "Evening Standard" and the "TLS". She was written several children's books and novels including "Carrying On".

    Here is a cartoon strip that glances at gay relationships, the murky questions of gay politics, the surprising ironies of relationships, and the unique culture that lesbians and gay men are unconsciously building together.

    Kennedy, Michael Klein, Wayne Koestenbaum, Steve Kowit, Michael Lassell, Phillis Levin, Robert Louthan, Paul Mariah, Richard McCann, J.D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, James Merrill, Paul Monette, Honor Moore, Carol Muske, Eileen Myles, Frankie Paino, Molly Peacock, Felice Picano, Stanley Plumly, James Purdy, J.M. Regan, Adrienne Rich, Mark Rudman, Stephen Sandy, Ron Schreiber, Maureen Seaton, Charlie Smith, William Jay Smith, Laurel Speer, Elizabeth Sullam, David Trinidad, Jean Valentine, Chester Wienerman, and Miller Williams.

    He has come to symbolise the 'swinging London' of the mid-Sixties, with his subversive and distinctly gay message conveniently blunted. Kenneth Halliwell, who with his lover helped to create the Ortonesque, was cast as villain by the theatrical establishment long before the tragedy that ended both their lives. In this pioneering study, Simon Shepherd reclaims Orton and Halliwell for the gay movement, setting both their achievements and their limitations against the repressive backdrop of homophobia and hypocrisy that is still so characteristic of England today.

    Each chapter is amusingly illustrated with a caricature by Michael Willhoite.

    Poems deal with childhood, the past, exile, art, sisters, music, identity, and school.

    These are just some of the intriguing characters encountered by a young pedlar as he journeys through the east of England in 1204. Their stories intertwine to form a fast-moving tale of romance, murder and witchcraft, taking us from Norman castle to Saxon hovel, from the studios of Paris scholars to the dens of London thieves.

    

    Caught in an emotional trap of his own devising, and with his ex-lover lying in a hospital dying of AIDS, the writer is forced to confront his own mortality in this brilliant novel of erotic obsession in the gay subculture of New York's East Village.

    Suspense. Murder. In these masterfully executed stories brought together by editor Michael Nava, well-known names and newer writers present tales that will intrigue, chill, and startle with their plot twists and complex characters. Readers introduced to these talented writers will rapidly turn the spine-tingling pages. Mystery. Suspense. Murder. In these masterfully executed stories brought together by editor Michael Nava, well-known names and newer writers present tales that will intrigue, chill, and startle with their plot twists and complex characters. Readers introduced to these talented writers will rapidly turn the spine-tingling pages.

    A story about the discriminatory treatment of gay males in Britain as late as the 1970's, centering upon the relationship a 19-year old pursues with his 15-year old boyfriend, and ultimately leading to legal and social condemnation.

    Written in a warm, direct style, this book is leavened with humor and filled with anecdotes and examples drawn from the lives of the author's clients and friends.

    But the consequences are beyond anyone's wildest imaginings, forcing them into a bizarre triangle which outlasts Fiona's death and brings results that are to amaze the world. In Born of Man Stephen Gray has written a highly original and entertaining story of a pregnancy and birth with a remarkable difference - for in this case the baby's 'mother' is male.

    

    The role of the male homosexual--during the pivotal era of 1400 to 1800--is thoroughly explored. A wide-ranging group of authors offers relevant and fascinating material on sexual history and sexuality, in general, and on homosexuality and European history, in particular.

    Harry, about to leave school in war-weary London, is torn emotionally between Noreen, a trainee nurse, and Joe, the delivery boy from a local grocery store. Touching Harry, explores the hazards and the comedy of growing up gay in an alien landscape.

    Now his masterful lens has captured some of the world's most handsome men at their most disarmed and disarming--in the vulnerable purity of slumber. These astonding images of beauty and intimacy are magnificently printed in color and duotone throughout this magnificent book that will be as much a joy to give as to receive. 69 photos, 20 in color.

    Determined to escape his stagnant life in a New England mill town, Timothy allows himself to be willingly enslaved at a lush estate by a mysterious man known only as Montclair, where his most sensual fantasies and deepest fears become real as he succumbs to his master's every wish and desire.

    Sexually unresolved and unsuccessful in his relationships with women, unhappy in work and unfulfilled in life, Picano flees to Europe and settles in Italy in the golden era of Cinecitta, Rome's version of Hollywood. Even after he falls in with the questionable glamour of the time, his adventure is not over. He returns to Manhattan and a suddenly very gay world. This funny and sad remembrance of a Europe and New York that has entirely changed in today's world confirmed Picano's place among the most talked-about writers of his time.

    

    Lacking the formal support systems--families, schools, churches--gay men rely on their folklore in interacting with one another and to relieve the pressures of belonging to a stigmatized group. Jokes and other forms of humor, language, and personal experience narratives help gay men to identify and communicate with one another--even in straight settings.More Man than You'll Ever Be explores the uses of gay men's folklore. Whether funny or sad, poignant or shocking, each story and joke contains messages, sometimes surprising ones. Goodwin decodes some of these messages to help us understand not only the gay subculture but also ourselves.