Best of
Gay

1991

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration


David Wojnarowicz - 1991
    Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.

Invisible Life


E. Lynn Harris - 1991
    Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough enough, but Raymond was becoming more and more conscious of sexual feelings that he knew weren't "right." He was completely committed to Sela, his longtime girlfriend, but his attraction to Kelvin, whom he had met during his last year in law school, had become more than just a friendship. No matter how much he tried to suppress them, his feelings were deeply sexual.Fleeing to New York to escape both Sela and Kelvin, Raymond finds himself more confused than ever before. New relationships -- both male and female -- give him enormous pleasure but keep him from finding the inner peace and lasting love he so desperately desires. The horrible illness and death of a friend force Raymond, at last, to face the truth.

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon


Tom Spanbauer - 1991
    The narrator, Shed, is one of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: a half-Indian bisexual boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny town of Excellent, Idaho. It's the turn of the century, and the hotel carries on a prosperous business as the town's brothel. The eccentric characters working in the hotel provide Shed with a surrogate family, yet he finds in himself a growing need to learn the meaning of his Indian name, Duivichi-un-Dua, given to him by his mother, who was murdered when he was twelve. Setting off alone across the haunting plains, Shed goes in search of an identity among his true people, encountering a rich pageant of extraordinary characters along the way. Although he learns a great deal about the mysteries and traditions of his Indian heritage, it is not until Shed returns to Excellent and witnesses a series of brutal tragedies that he attains the wisdom that infuses this exceptional and captivating book.

Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men


Essex HemphillCalvin Glenn - 1991
    African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award. BROTHER TO BROTHER, begun by Joseph Beam and completed by Essex Hemphill after Beam's death in 1988, is a collection of now-classic literary work by black gay male writers. Originally published in 1991 and out of print for several years, BROTHER TO BROTHER is a community of voices, Hemphill writes. [It] tells a story that laughs and cries and sings and celebrates...it's a conversation intimate friends share for hours. These are truly words mined syllable by syllable from the harts of black gay men. You're invited to listen in because you're family, and these aren't secrets-not to us, so why should they be secrets to you? Just listen. Your brother is speaking. This new edition includes an introduction by Jafari Allen.

Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921


John Phillips - 1991
    This collection of Violet's letters explores her part in the affair and provides details of the other principals involved.

The Dark Beyond the Stars


Frank M. Robinson - 1991
    Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying.Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain, and against the lure and challenge of the dark beyond the stars...

A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story


Holly Woodlawn - 1991
    At the age of 16, Harold became Holly Woodlawn and skyrocketed to fame as a superstar in Warhol's movie Trash. "This is must reading".--Harvey Fierstein. Photographs.

Erotic Drawings by Jean Cocteau


Jean Cocteau - 1991
    Enveloped in a nimbus of immorality, he if any had a way of continually provoking the cultural authorities and astounding the public with his inexhaustible creativity. Be it as a writer, commentator or painter, actor, choreographer or producer, in the course of his spectacular career he worked and quarreled often enough with all the great artists of his era, from Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Satie and Picasso to Apollinaire, Radiguet, Gide and Truffaut. But no matter what form of artistic expression Cocteau chose to use, he left his personal stamp upon it in some inimitable way. While his literary works and films are known to a wide public, Jean Cocteau's extensive oeuvre as a painter and draughtsman still holds surprises in store. This book, with over 140 illustrations, presents a broad selection of his erotic drawings from four decades, many as yet unpublished. From "Le Livre blanc", Cocteau's controversial homoerotic manifesto printed anonymously in 1928, to his works from the early 60s, the style and line-work may vary but never the theme: Cocteau's highly explicit works are devoted to one subject alone: the Eros of the male sex."As far back as I can remember, I can find traces of my love for boys. I always preferred the strong sex, which I think may legitimately be called the fair sex."With these words Jean Cocteau openly acknowledged a homosexuality that he lived out to the full, and expressed in his erotic drawings. The volume contains 140 of his most beautiful works from four decades, most of which are published here for the first time.

Back 2 Back


James Earl Hardy - 1991
    A special academic essay on black gay literature accompanies the text, along with an introduction by James Earl Hardy.

An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality


Judith Barrington - 1991
    "A refreshingly honest treatment of a complex subject."--Library Journal ΒΆ"A wide and useful collection."--Booklist

Far Flung


Peter Cameron - 1991
    Far Flung is a remarkable collection of stories from a skilled young writer.

Trust: The Hand Book: A Guide to the Sensual and Spiritual Art of Handballing


Bert Herrman - 1991
    The book explains in depth, not only techniques and health considerations, but a myriad of other details that affect participants, including chapters on the Kundalini and spiritual possibilities of handballing.

Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics, and Culture


Winston Leyland - 1991
    Featuring the work of over 100 writers and artists, this is a classic collection covering all areas of gay culture - history, art, fiction, politics, and poetry.

The Forbidden Poems


Becky Birtha - 1991
    This collection of poems deals with the author's experiences in confronting racism, being an African-American and a lesbian-feminist, and grieving over the loss of a longtime lover.

People with AIDS


Nicholas Nixon - 1991
    Interviews and illustrations of fifteen AIDS patients provide a sampling of what life is like with AIDS and how people cope with the treatments, medications, support or lack of support from friends and family.

Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature


David Bergman - 1991
    O. Matthiessen, andΒ  Larry Kramer.Β  He considers the entire range of literature, including poetry and drama, and gives attention to African or Native American themes in the work of Alain Locke, Countee Cullen, Francis Grierson, David Plante and others.

Not Like Other Boys: Growing Up Gay: A Mother and Son Look Back


Marlene Fanta Shyer - 1991
    In alternating voices, this poignant book describes the parallel lives of a mother and son during the painful years that they kept silent, even though they both suspected that Chris was gay. Chris tells of his ongoing struggle to change his sexual orientation, and Marlene's attempt to control her son's sexual future.

Bayou City Secrets


Deborah Powell - 1991
    When Hollis Carpenter, veteran crime reporter for the Houston Times , is pulled from her beat to cover a no-news society item, she resigns in disgust. Andrew Delacroix, the paper's owner, intervenes, inviting Hollis to dinner and asking her to reconsider the new assignment while showing a genuine interest in her current story concerning guns that have vanished from the police station's evidence room. Hollis returns from her evening with Delacroix and his beautiful wife, Lily, only to find that her apartment has been burgled. She decides to seek help from Joe Mahan, a friend and cop, but at his house she finds his corpse; Joe has been murdered. Then Hollis herself receives a death threat and is nearly gunned down in public with Lily, whom she meets for an evening out. Clearly, whatever the now unemployed reporter stirred up is dangerous and edging ever closer. Although Hollis is more a smart aleck than a wit and Lily remains undeveloped, Powell effectively makes their lesbian relationship integral to the mystery.

Indivisible: New Short Fiction By West Coast Gay and Lesbian Writers


Terry WolvertonLynette Prucha - 1991
    At a point where lesbians and gay men are moving beyond political division, Indivisible represents unity and the need to transcend human differences. These stories embrace all the manifestations of love and anger, prejudice and fear, passion and lust, in the age of AIDS. And the authors' ethnic backgrounds--including black, Southeast Asian, Latino, and Native American--are as varied as the genres in which they write, such as mystery, mythology, and contemporary and historical fiction. This stunning volume is at once shockingly graphic, scathingly funny, and deeply moving.

The Big Gay Book


John Preston - 1991
    From data on the best places to live to AIDS & health services, here is a wealth of info on gay life today. B&W illus.

Spontaneous Combustion


David B. Feinberg - 1991
    . . both urgent and convincing."--The New York Times Book Review In this sequel to David Feinberg's national bestseller Eighty-Sixed, B.J. Rosenthal navigates life with an HIV-positive diagnosis amidst the "constant tide of deaths" in New York City during the AIDS crisis.

The Whistling Song


Stephen Beachy - 1991
    Here are Huck and Jim titled for today. Stephen Beachy's voice is engaging and subversive as he captures the essence of Matt, a survivor who is streetsmart yet innocent.

Dog Years


Dennis Denisoff - 1991
    An HIV-positive man seeks to come to terms with a life not fully lived through his encounters with a beautiful young man and his sister in the Ukraine.

A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory


Judith Roof - 1991
    Editors have led readers to the "artistry" of a work containing lesbianism, emphasizing instead the literary history and historical context of the work rather than the representations of lesbianism. The editor for Colette's The Pure and the Impure, for instance, affirms that Colette has a knowledge of a "strange sisterhood," but assures readers she has never strayed from the "normal."In the groundbreaking A Lure of Knowledge, Judith Roof demonstrates that representations of lesbian sexuality occupy specific locations or positions in the arguments, subject matter, and rhetoric of Western European and American literary criticism. She examines the political context of representations: how lesbian sexuality is used as a signifier an why it appears when and where it does.Roof argues that attempts to depict or explain lesbian sexuality spur anxieties about knowledge and identity. In reaction to and denial of these anxieties, lesbian sexuality is represented in film, literature, theory, and criticism as foreplay, as simulated heterosexuality, as erotic excess, as joking inauthenticity, as artful compromise, or as masculine mask in a specific repertoire of neutralization and evasion. Challenging the heterosexism of film theory and feminist theory, this book analyzes the rhetorical use of lesbian sexuality. Roof explores a range of discourses, from the woks of such authors as Anais Nin, Olga Broumas, Julia Kristeva, Jane Rule, Luce Iriguray, and Sigmund Freud, to films such as Emmanuelle, Desert Hearts, Entre Nous, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, to professional tennis.

Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men


Jack Hart - 1991
    An accurate, informative, illustrated, and humorous guide to gay sex.

The Bear Cult


Chris Nelson - 1991
    [erotic]

Certain Voices


Darryl PilcherCarter Wilson - 1991
    This anthology of gay male fiction explores such concerns as homophobia, AIDS, childish bonding, and being in and out of love.

Inversions: Writings by Dykes, Queers, and Lesbians


Betsy Warland - 1991
    A distinguished collection of bold, diverse, defiant and affirming texts by twenty-four dyke/queer/lesbian writers from Canada, Quebec, and the U.S.

Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man


Alexander Poznansky - 1991
    A biography of the Russian composer, focusing on his private life, in an exploration of the inner man.

The Rites of Man: Love, Sex, Death, and the Making of the Male


Rosalind Miles - 1991
    What does it mean "to be a man" in a world where male violence has set the agenda for militarism, sexual crime, and recreational slavery? Miles sets out to redefine masculinity by questioning the components of "manhood" and tracing all the stages of a man's life in an analysis that will illuminate the roots of violence in a way not previously explored.

That Old Studebaker


Lee Lynch - 1991
    Her odyssey will take her across the United States and a world of changes.