Best of
Gay

1990

Back to Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus


Armistead Maupin - 1990
    No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run.”—Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary Supplement Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.  The nine classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second omnibus of the series—Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989)—continuing the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-too-human cast across the eighties—a decade troubled by plague, deceit, and overweening ambition.Like its companion volumes, 28 Barbary Lane and Goodbye, Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called "some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read."

Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two


Allan Bérubé - 1990
    Here is a dramatic story of these people, revealing the history of the anti-gay policy pursued by the U.S. military authorities in World War II. Two 8-page photo inserts.

The Nightrunner Series Trilogy: Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness, Traitor's Moon (The Tamír Triad, #1-3)


Lynn Flewelling - 1990
    

The Fire's Stone


Tanya Huff - 1990
    Clan Heir, he has fled his people when his beloved was slain by his own father's command, abandoning his training, duty and beliefs to become a thief. A master of his trade, he now dared the odds in Ischia, city of the volcano, where the price of being caught was death.DARVISH. Prince of Ischia, third son of a king who had no intention of giving up his throne. The prince was a drunkard, a lover, and a wastrel, yet was gifted with sword skills and with the ability to charm all around him. But not even his charm could free him from the political marriage now being planned.CHANDRA. Born a princess, she had chosen to become a Wizard of the Nine, that rarest of beings, able to master all the forms that sorcery could take. Now, promised as Darvish's bride, she undertook a desperate journey to Ischia to convince him they must not wed.Aaron, Darvish, Chandra—three strangers whose fates were about to become interwined. For someone had stolen The Stone, the magical talisman which stood between Ischia and the volcano's wrath. And unless the three could learn to work together on a quest to find the Stone, Ischia would drown in a sea of lava.

The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, poet, philanderer, legislator and outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions


Francis Wheen - 1990
    Coloured friends from the AntiguasArtistic friends, a few of whom Friends ordained and friends unfrocked,Are rather keen to kiss the groom. Friends who leave us slightly shocked,Friends from Oxford, friends from pubs, All determined not to missAnd even friends from Wormwood scrubs. So rare a spectacle as this!

Don't Be Afraid Anymore: The Story of Reverend Troy D. Perry and the Metropolitan Community Churches


Troy D. Perry - 1990
    But, for Troy Perry, excommunicated from the Church of God because of his homosexuality, this achievement has been marked by a struggle against adversity. Here is his inspiring story. Photographs.

Dancing on Tisha B'Av


Lev Raphael - 1990
    Whether bearing witness to the Holocaust and its aftermath, dealing with conflicts between being gay and traditional Judaism, or confronting anti-Semitism and homophobia, these passionate stories by a prize-winning author break new ground in contemporary fiction.

Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967


Jeffrey Weeks - 1990
    They can also be rich and passionate, at times lonely, at times exciting. Between the Acts reflects this in the life stories of fifteen gay men in the years when homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom.The interviews give a vivid impression of gay male life when documentary evidence is limited. These memories and experiences allow us exceptional insights into how gay men made sense of their needs and desires, and fashioned for themselves manageable personal and social identities. These moving accounts of individual quests for identity and community will appeal to gay readers and to those with an interest in life during the earlier part of this century.

The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989


Bonnie Zimmerman - 1990
    A collection of essays about lesbian literature since the emergence of the gay rights movement in 1969.

"Life Is Painful, Nasty & Short... In My Case it Has Only Been Painful & Nasty:" Djuna Barnes, 1978-1981


Hank O'Neal - 1990
    

Landscape: Memory


Matthew Stadler - 1990
    Set mainly in 1914-1916 and told in diary-like entries interspersed with 36 brooding illustrations by the author, the story follows the boys as they become lovers, ultimately separated by college and a tragic accident. Together they explore California's woods, beaches and mountains, and search for evidence of the earthquake that brought them together. Their excavations as well as Max's reading of Ruskin and Cicero, point to this sensitive novel's motif: how memory accretes into character and shapes perception.

N for Narcissus


Chris Hunt - 1990
    However he is far from happy as he is slowly awaken to his real self. His struggles to finally attain his true love is the center of the story. The background depicting the trials of Oscar Wilde and gay men's struggles in a prohibitive and often demeaning Victorian society is luminously written.

Love Between Men: Enhancing Intimacy and Keeping Your Relationship Alive


Rik Isensee - 1990
    This book is an invaluable guide: a highly accessible, immediately rewarding tool to help gay men cope with the unique situations and problems they face in society as men in relationships with other men.

July Nights & Other Stories


Eaton Hamilton - 1990
    Short fiction. Lesbian. Queer. With July Nights and Other Stories, Jane Eaton Hamilton (J.A. Hamilton) establishes herself as a bold new presence in Canadian fiction. "These are die-hard stories full of perilous honesty. I love Hamilton's creatures: they have flesh and blood and bones. They tell the truth even when it's as surprising as graffiti--tender-hearted and furious and right off the wall." --Linda Spalding"Jane Eaton Hamilton is wonderfully talented and completely fearless." --Sharon Butala"These works ride the perilous ride the perilous border between prose and poetry--a place of timeless, breathless beauty. These are stories to be read again and again."--Vancouver Sun"A fine new òcollection, one that I highly recommend."--Monday Magazine"Hamilton makes captivity to her word-spirits seem, at times, preferable to mere liberty. To favour one story says more about oneself than about the writer."--Prairie Fire"This is a strong first collection that will leave readers eager to see Hamilton’s next."--Quill and Quire"A disturbing pleasure to read."--Toronto Star"Crisp and clean, tender and dangerous."--Paragraph

By Word of Mouth: Lesbians Write the Erotic


Lee Fleming - 1990
    Thirty-one writers express the diversity of erotic experience in prose and poetry that is both sensual and political.

The Body and Its Dangers, and Other Stories


Allen Barnett - 1990
    Allen Barnett has written an extraordinary accomplished collection of short fiction, stories about the risk of desire, the pain of early pregnancy, the sullen yearning of unrequited love, the devastation of AIDS and its remedies.

Mineshaft Nights


Leo Cardini - 1990
    It was the most famous sex club in the world. Hidden among the warehouses of Greenwich Village's meatpacking district, it became a symbol of the sexual revolution that exploded during the freewheeling seventies.For nearly a decade, men in denim and leather came from all over the world to visit this theatre of sexual excess, where their most secret sexual fantasies could be brought to life in the sex-on-premises scenes that were played out night after night within its gritty, grimy walls.Mineshafts is told through the eyes and ears of the doorman Cam and recounts the men who fell under his spell. This collection of explicit stories will take you into the depths of the Mineshaft and into the psyches of the men who inhabited acting their sexual dreams.For Adults Only!

Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Career Illustrated


Robert Tanitch - 1990
    

Lavender Lists: New Lists For Gay And Lesbian Readers


Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher - 1990
    

Alyson Almanac: A Treasury of Information for the Gay and Lesbian Community


Alyson Publications - 1990
    

Sexual Orientation and the Law


Harvard University Press - 1990
    This range of viewpoints also appears in the legal community, reflected in legislation, legal decisionmaking, and legal scholarship. Sexual Orientation and the Law examines the legal problems faced by gay men and lesbians: the interaction between gays and the criminal justice system; discrimination in public and private employment; first amendment issues posed by gay students and teachers in public schools and universities; legal problems faced in same-sex relationships; child custody and visitation rights, as well as the ability to become foster and adoptive parents; and other contexts, including immigration, insurance, incorporation of gay rights organizations, and local legislation to prevent sexual orientation discrimination.The Introduction establishes a theoretical framework for approaching gay and lesbian legal issues, and an Afterword updates the comprehensive coverage of all legal developments through the summer of 1989. This review and analysis of the current state of the law is an important part of the discussion and debate that will make antigay discrimination recognized as a legitimate issue and gay concerns part of the mainstream of legal discourse.

The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex


Brian Pronger - 1990
    Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle.Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete in a straight sporting world, examines the homoerotic undercurrent subliminally present in the masculine struggle of sports, and explicates the growth of gay sports in the framework of the developing gay culture.

Decade Dance


Michael Lassell - 1990
    Michael Lassell's poems are worldly in the best way, defining the arc of a world of gay life in our our decade of mounting horror and oppression. With an effortless feel for dark laughter he roams the city, a startling combination of boulevardier and hooker. From the sublime pathos of "How to Watch Your Brother Die" to the caustic and riotous "Piss Jesse," Lassell is a master of the necessary word. In an age of tepid and whining verse, his baudy and bittersweet songs are like a plunge in cold champagne.- Paul Monette

Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall: Studies in a Male Homosexual Literary Tradition


Claude J. Summers - 1990
    

Intimacy Between Men: How to Find And Keep Gay Love Relationships


John H. Driggs - 1990
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