It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me, is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.

    It had a limited printing of 607 copies, 600 numbered and signed copies and 7 hardback copies, lettered and signed.Hard to find, this chapbook answers the question of whether Steve Finn and Ghost (from Brite's amazingly popular novel Lost Souls) were ever more than "just friends."

    What started out as a whisper of an idea between lovers - Garage owner Michael Brody and financial backer Mel Cheren - eventually culminated into a dance palace that existed for more than a decade and is still spoken about with reverence.Keep on Dancin' gives hundreds of private recollections from the people who were there: Tom Moulton, Francois Kevorkian, Grace Jones, Thelma Houston, Frankie Knuckles, Junior Vasquez and others help recreate the moment when love was the message.Scheduled for release in the spring, Keep on Dancin' promises to usher in a wave of Garage nostalgia. An authorized CD of Larry Levan's Garage classics is also scheduled for release this spring. Ultimately, the author, who has devoted himself to AIDS related philanthropic work, plans to reopen the Garage in its original space in Manhattan, with the profits going to AIDS related charities.

    Here Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price reveal how the nation's highest court has reacted to these cases -- from the surprising 1958 victory of a tiny homosexual magazine to the 2000 defeat of a gay Eagle Scout. A triumph of investigative reporting, Courting Justice gives us an inspiring new perspective on the struggle for civil rights in America.

    The son of a preacher, Tom reaches out to Joel in friendship, and their bond to each other becomes as tight as brothers. Joel's openness to his own feelings and acceptance of himself (a healthy trait instilled by his loving parents) allows him to explore some new and confusing feelings he has for Tom. His confusion clears, however, after a reckless drinking bout ends with a very public kiss from Tom. But Tom's torment of sin and self-incrimination are far from over. Common Sons, the first in a series entitled "Common Threads in the Life," is a moving tale of self-discovery, love, and finding the courage to come out and come to grips with the truth in the face of hatred and adversity.

    During each of three major eras, he argues, one field dominated discourse on male-male sexual relations: popular culture in the Edo period (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century.This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

    Auden, "Word of Mouth" offers a sweeping introduction to gay American poetry of the past half-century. It includes major works by Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, and others.

    On the bus headed out of town they hook up with Finn and Critter, a couple of speed-freak boyfriends who take a shine to both of them. They also meet Ula, who is mourning the death of her fiancé and taking a trip across the United States in his memory. The five become fast allies, united by personal loss and by the allure of intimacy only friends in the throes of conflict can understand. When Jonnyboy drops out of sight, Radboy stays behind in San Francisco, where the underground world he has been introduced to inspires his own burgeoning sexual and emotional desires.

    An English-Cypriot by birth and Brooklynite by design, Georgiou is part bewitched observer, art seductress, part spy. She dances across the urban landscape and reports back from the streets in stereophonic sound. Music is the overriding metaphor for the life she creates and its spiritual underpinnings. The Margins of desire are Georgiou's home -- from the first shudder of physical attraction to the awareness of one's body, one's identity, through the arms of lover or in the lyrics of a popular song. Her work is as much about the faith that beats of life and love as it is about the expression of these experiences, as beautiful and elegiac as they may be. Tapping cultural icons from Bill Clinton to Bob Marley, Monet to Mary J. Blige, her poems simmer with lyrical energy that blurs the line between the spoken and written word. The result is a language as accessible as it is original; poems that hit the ear as smoothly and seductively as Marvin Gaye singing Mercy Mercy Me, and resonate just as deeply. This collection introduces the voice of a brilliant new poet whose mix of words, music, images and ideas pushes the genre to its most exciting outer limits.

    It is work whose erotic and emotional power remains unabated to this day. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs, Dirty Pictures is a lively and entertaining book encompassing the rise of the gay movement, the world of fine art, and the function (and the functioning) of pornography. For the millions of fans of Tom's work throughout the world, as well as readers unfamiliar with his work, this study brings uncommon insight into Tom of Finland's decidedly uncommon work.

    We ended up having more workers than competitors, and rain was nearly the sole occupant of the bleachers lining our ancient brick-dust track. Of the few athletes who showed to compete, one runner caught my eye. His rail-thin body reminded me of a Kenyan runner's; he looked like a champion. He appeared old enough to be in high school, but I didn't recognize him and figured him to be a junior-high runner. Always on the lookout for future athletes, I wanted to find out more. But rules governing our sport prohibited me from speaking to potential athletes until they had graduated from the eighth grade. To circumvent this, I asked one of my runners, Erich Phinizy, to investigate. "Find out his age and where he goes to school," I said. "And tell him about our program."Erich returned with valuable information. The runner was in junior high and would be attending Huntington Beach next year. He also informed me that our future runner was of English descent. Erich pointed to the only two people sitting in the bleachers and said, "Those are his parents.""Damn, not England," I thought. "They're a bunch of soccer freaks," I hoped he wouldn't be like a former English runner of mine, who once remarked, "What's the purpose of running if there's no ball to kick along the way?"Although the soccer coach and I were close friends, we often competed for the same athletes, as soccer players are often runners and vice versa. Each of us ran a quality program, coachingour athletes year-round."So, Erich, what's his name?""Oh, I didn't get that, Coach. Sorry.""Don't worry about it."The possibility of this kid's running for our team excited me, especially since he had come to race the three-mile, an unusually long distance for a 13-year-old. I scanned the entry list and saw, unfortunately, that there were only two other runners in his race. One was a 60-year-old jogger, and the other was Erich. Eager to assess the kid's talent, I asked Erich to pace him. "Run alo

    His various careers—as a performer, artist's model, writer of a memorable autobiography, and authority on style and etiquette—are examined with wit, affection, and disinterested criticism. Designed to explore his life from a variety of angles, The Stately Homo is a tribute to one of the twentieth century's true English eccentrics.

    Splashed against the tumultuous backdrop of the McCarthy witch hunts, Stonewall and the gay liberation movement, the birth of the 700 Club and the religious right, the outbreak of AIDS and the arrival of in-your-face queer activism, this chatty, authoritative broadcast history tells the stories of such notorious and noteworthy moments as- 1947: Radio gays--A bitchy fashion photographer throws fits at the drop of a designer hat on the adaptation of Moss Hart's Lady in the Dark- 1967s: Monkey business--The Monkees flick limp wrists while caroling "Don we now our gay apparel" for a Christmas special- 1974: Pepper in the wound--A notorious Police Woman episode depicts a gang of deadly lesbians who rob, torture, and murder senior citizens- 1977: Wash your mouth out--Billy Crystal portrays Jodie Dallas on Soap, the first hit series with a gay character in a central role- 1991: L.A. Law breaks 'em--Amanda Donohoe and Michelle Greene share a two-second kiss . . . and start a storm of controversy- 2000: The last laugh--Featuring not one but two gay male characters, Will & Grace skyrockets to the top of the ratings chartsFrom mocking banter between Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on '50s radio to a historic peck between women on '90s television, from the stereotyping of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals as sissies and psychopaths to their widespread acceptance as real people, Alternate Channels is a compulsively readable chronicle of lesbian, gay, and bisexual images in the media--packed with unthinkable shows, bizarre personalities, unlikely heroes, and some of the strangest protests ever staged in the name of civil rights.

    For readers of "Frontiers Newsmagazine" and "Instinct," his fish-out-of-water observations have provided both deep belly laughs and comfort in knowing that even the imperfect can thrive in the City of Angels. His optimistic joie de vivre, irreverent outlook and finely tuned sense of self-deprecation consistently furnish both insight and howls of laughter. Joel Perry writes and produces comedy sketches for the same company that produces Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Jim Rome, Michael Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh-and often wakes up feeling dirty about it. He lives in Los Angeles with his spouse, Fred, and two cats who are so adorable and cuddly you just want to vomit.

    With the same grim beauty as John Rechy’s “City of Night” and Jean Genet’s “The Thief’s Journal,” this novel traces the arabesques of acrid smoke and loneliness wound around the dim world of hustlers and johns, of porn theaters and crumbling hotel rooms. "Between Dances," an early work by Erasmo Guerra, received a Lambda Literary Award in 2000 and was reissued in a second edition. Praise for "Between Dances" “I was drawn to this book with its plot about a young Latino ‘thang’ trying to survive in New York by dancing in sleazy strip joints. What a kick to read about New York City from the point of view of a gay Tejano. The protagonist, Marco, is a Tex-Mex Holly Golightly—part hustler, part hopeless romantic.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of “The House on Mango Street” “Between Dances is a novel about looking for light in the shadows and holding onto hope in the face of despair.” —The Bloomsbury Review “[Guerra’s] writing is beautifully rendered . . . Between Dances is an impressive debut. It is safe to assume that we can expect further greatness from Erasmo Guerra.” –Lambda Book Report “. . . distinguished by a writing style that is as lavish and beautiful as the world it describes is bleak and harsh.” —Southern Voice

    Best known for her ongoing work as a member of The Five Lesbian Brothers, Kron's solo pieces are very personal examinations of both herself and her family history. This is singularly clear in 2.5 Minute Ride, where her writing deftly maneuvers between the tragic drama of the Holocaust and the wry comedy of her family's attempts to pursue pleasure at the local amusement park. This critically acclaimed work played to sold out audience for over six months at New York's Public Theatre. Also included is the riotous 101 Humiliating Stories, which first premiered in 1993, and in fact only consists of seventeen tales but each, as the author observes, has several humiliations. It recounts the adventures and misadventures of a self-described Big Lesbian as she tests the boundaries of decorum in social and professional situations.

    He works at a small ad agency that's about to go bankrupt anytime soon. One day, the president of the company introduces a new employee named Taeyul who was scouted from an industry-leading firm to vitalize the company. From the first encounter, Soohan doesn't like Taeyul... because Taeyul reminds Soohan his first love.

    Rather than being a harrowing, in-the-trenches account of AIDS . . . Loss within Loss is a reflective, self-possessed, and frequently inspiring testimonial, benefiting from the perspective that only time provides."—David Bahr, The AdvocateAuthor Biography: Edmund White is the award-winning author of The Married Man, The Farewell Symphony, Genet, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, A Boy's Own Story, and several other books. He is professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

    Soehnlein captures the spirit of a generation and an era, embodied in the haunting, unstoppable voice of thirteen-year-old Robin MacKenzie, a modern-day Holden Caulfield, whose struggle for a place in the world is as ferocious as it is real.The time is the late 1970s--an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday Night Fever. The place, suburban New Jersey. At a time when the teenagers around him are coming of age, Robin MacKenzie is coming undone. While "normal boys" are into cars, sports, and bullying their classmates, Robin enjoys day trips to New York City with his elegant mother, spinning fantastic tales for her amusement in an intimate ritual he has come to love. He dutifully plays the role of the good son for his meat-and-potatoes father, even as his own mind is a jumble of sexual confusion and painful self-doubt. But everything changes in one, horrifying instant when a tragic accident wakes his family from their middle-American dream and plunges them into a spiral of slow destruction.As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own. Falling into a fevered triangle with two other outcasts, Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him beyond the spring-green lawns of suburbia, beyond the fraying fabric barely holding together his quickly unraveling family, and into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.In The World Of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein has created a dazzling gem of a debut novel in the tradition of Ordinary People and A Boy's Own Story, one that sparkles with raw honesty, poetic beauty, wry insight, and a rare richness of emotion that reverberates long after the last page is read. It is a story about growing up and falling apart, of rebellion and acceptance, of unspoken lives and irreversible choices that are made.

    Her poems exist only as fragments, and her life is not much more than speculation, but Sappho's pull-as writer, voice, and image-affects every era. Ovid, Baudelaire, and Jeanette Winterson are just a few of the writers who, each generation, claim Sappho as their own. Who is Sappho? Lesbian, mother poet, lover, suicide warning, and icon. In this innovative blend of personal reflection and cultural history Margaret Reynolds illuminates Sappho's genius, her life, her sexuality, and the extraordinary influence she has had across centuries. Built on key themes, this book features a rich offering of poems, plays, essays, and stories by leading writers that bring Sappho's legacy to life.

    These stories concentrate on the holidays and home lives of the school boys he knows and loves so well. When boys get together in the movie theaters, the swimming pools, the vacatons spots, well, boys will be boys in all their randy, wild glory.

    Lucky for us. The author of "Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me" and "That's Mr. Faggot to You" returns with more skewed observations on the strange state of the queer union. As fans of his previous collections have happily discovered, little escapes his attention, and no topic is too controversial or sacred to be tackled. "The Condensed History of Gay Pride" is enough to send any politically correct gay leader shrieking into the streets. But Ford's favorite target remains himself. The fact that Cher's butt is more famous than he is really irks him, and he is willing to pretend to be straight in order to get help while shopping for clothes. He murdered his rival's "egg baby" in high school to secure a good grade, and he sacrificed his own to a chocolate cake. Whether he is equating becoming a man with buying a barbecue in the very moving "Rite of Passage" or considering the state of parenthood in the unforgettable "Cheaper by the Dozen," Ford continues to observe life in ways that help us more closely observe ourselves-while never, never forgetting to make us laugh. "In Ford's hands, pretty much anything can yield a laugh. He is an idea humorist-genially misanthropic, suspicious of ideology and convention, cynical or passionate depending on the occasion. And he is something else: a good read.-"Lambda Book Report" Michael Thomas Ford's previous essay collections, "Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and "That's Mr. Faggot to Youremained on best-seller lists for months, earning him unanimous critical praise and a Lambda Literary Award for humor. His syndicated column, "My Queer Life," runs in dozens of papers nationwide, and his weekly radio program of the same name can be heard on Stellar Networks at www.gaybc.com. He lives in Boston, where he is finishing his first novel.

    From childhood (he was convinced Jesus was going to come snatch him up into the clouds) to his struggles as a fashioned-challenged young gay man (off to school I'd go looking for all the world like some demented golf pro in miniature) to an awkward sexual encounter which gives new meaning to good clean fun to his growing confusion with the evolving queer world wherein gay men long to be soccer dads rather than Daddies and lesbians date men because guys are a lot simpler. Through it all two things remain constant: Michael's laugh-out-loud musings' and Roger, his 110 pound Labrador who has taken up permanent residence in Michael's bed.

    But, the incident also left him hungering for taboo pleasures... Driven by the raging conflict between his mind and body, Kei visits a crossdresser "massage" parlor. There, he finds himself opening up completely to a "gal" named Nana, despite knowing there's a guy under those clothes. Kei's overwhelmed at first by his body's sheer sensitivity, but he soon starts wanting it... deeper. Blushing and hesitant, he musters the courage to spread his legs for Nana...!"We only just met, and my finger's practically making you melt... Oh my god, Kei. You're coming so hard with your whole body."An innocent college student with a weakness for pleasure seeks a lesson in bottom play from a masterful crossdresser!

    This text, based on interviews with over 100 Israelis, as well as Palestinians, explores how, within a decade, Israel has evolved from a society that marginalized homosexuals to one that offers one of the most extensive legal protections in the world.

    Marilyn Hacker, J.D. McClatchy, Eileen Myles, Letta Neely, and Mark Wunderlich are but a few of the many artists included in this rich, varied, and contemporary anthology.

    Right, at some point in the relationship you will both say, "I love you." What do you mean when you say, "I love you"? What does he mean when he says, "I love you"? What does anyone mean when he says it? Love is a word we have all used at one time or another, but it is also a word that carries many meanings.I have asked hundreds of gay men, "What is love?" and there has been no shared or agreed-upon answer. Even lovers have different answers. When I ask male couples who are experiencing major problems why they are staying together, they usually say, "Because we love each other." This answer doesn't tell me much.What does love mean to you? Your answer is important and may help you understand your past, present, and future relationships. It may also help you figure out why you may have trouble forming and developing long-term relationships.What You May Have Learned About LoveAs a child, you learned that if you were really good, your mother said, "I love you." If you were punished for being bad, you may have been told, "Mommy still loves you." Early in life you learned what you needed to do to be loved. You conformed to your parents' expectations, which guaranteed your parents' love and protection. You believed you wouldn't be abandoned if you met their expectations. You believed you were safe if you were loved. As a child, you tested your parents' love and their limits. You placed demands on them to make sure they continued to love you. You learned from your parents about love.As an adolescent, you learned about love from television, movies, and friends. You found yourself attracted to someone, and you were told you were in love. You may have also been told this was puppy love or adolescent love and that it would not last long. You saw sexual intimacy and were then told this was love. You learned the word love and associated it with various definitions.Love has different meanings for different people, which makes it almost impossible to know how the word is being used by anyone. Some of the following expressions are just a few uses of the word love:o "I fell in love the moment I saw you." (Love means being sexually attract

    Best known for 'The Berlin Stories' - the inspiration for the "Tony and Academy Award-winning" musical 'Cabaret' - Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer. Through twenty-four essays and interviews, 'The Isherwood Century' offers a fresh, in-depth view of the author, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence."'The Isherwood Century' allows us to see [Isherwood's] long and colorful life as an expression of the freedom to reinvent oneself." - Los Angeles Times Author Biography - James J. Berg is the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. - Chris Freeman is assistant professor of English at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

    

    Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede* Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde* Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne.Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages

    Offers practical advice for gay men on exercise, diet, medical care, relationships, and other topics.

    Focusing on the work of influential photographers such as George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harriet Leibowitz, and Bruce Weber, author David Leddick chronicles the visual revolution that paralleled social and sexual liberation since the late 1950's. With brief biographies of the models, including early renegades like Yves St. Laurent, Joe Dallesandro, Rupert Everett and more-this provocative book features reproductions of the original photos alongside portraits of the models today. This dynamic history of male nudity in art and advertising is for all audiences, gay and straight.

    The cards show fire, danger and death as family secrets converge when a woman seeks council for a murder not yet committed.

    Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. After exchanging his least favorite sexual act for ticket money, a young hustler named Reggie (gay, racially mixed, and currently flat broke) finds himself crossing the desert on a Greyhound bus. Unfortunately, Reggie is on speed and believes that sinister cosmic forces are in play and that they're focused on him. Even worse, he may be right. DISTORTION follows Reggie's dark journey from indigent hustler to MTV star and back, across the country and through the twists of his own mind and the minds of the equally dysfunctional people who know him. I like you you were great I mean I really love you I gotta go...

    In this group of original essays, scholars and activists writing from a number of different perspectives provide a comprehensive overview of this heated debate. Contributors thoroughly investigate the politics of the gay and lesbian movement, beginning with its political organizations and tactics. The essays also address the strategies and ideology of conservative opposition groups, such as the Christian Right. They focus on key issues for public policy, including gays and lesbians openly serving in the military, anti-discrimination laws, and the ongoing crisis of AIDS. The book ends with chapters that discuss the ways in which the political struggle for gay rights has played out in various arenas—in Congress, in the courts, in state and local governments, and in electoral politics.Forcefully argued and accessibly written, this collection is an important contribution to the current discussion about civil rights for gays and lesbians.

    Danny lives in an often uncaring world amidst the comic torment of his relentless pubescence. His motto is" Persons should be kind, all of them, explicitly we sissies which ain't able to defend theirselves". Danny's desperate search for love and acceptance leads him through a series of comically bizarre adventures. Lemon Gulch is a darkly comic moral tale where kindness is rewarded and evil sternly punished.

    Anthony a lesbian?Who were the "berdaches"?Who was Katharine Lee Bates?What was the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee?What were Oscar Wilde's trials about?What is the history of gay bathhouses?When did American gays, lesbians, and others first start calling themselves "queer"?Who was E.M. Forster?Who were Havelock Ellis and Edith Lees Ellis?How gay was the Harlem Renaissance?Who were Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas?Who was Willa Cather?What was the Leopold and Loeb case?Who was Natalie Barney?What was the first gay rights organization in America?Who was Janet Flanner?What was the "Padlock" Bill?What was "The Well of Loneliness"?Who was Babe Didrikson Zaharias?Was Eleanor Roosevelt a lesbian?What was "The Children's Hour"?What happened to gays and lesbians during the Holocaust?Who were some of the lesbians in Hollywood's golden age?What is the origin of the phrase "a friend of Dorothy's"?Who were Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead?What were the army drag shows during World War II?What were "blue discharges"?When did the American gay and lesbian press begin?How gay were Tennessee Williams's plays?What was the Kinsey Report?What were the lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s?What were physique magazines?Who was Christine Jorgensen?What wasthe Mattachine Society?How did McCarthyism affect gays and lesbians?Who were the Daughters of Bilitis?Who was Rudi Gernreich?Who was James Baldwin?What was the Boise Sex Scandal?What was Evelyn Hooker's research about?What was the Wolfenden Report?Who was Lorraine Hansberry?What was the Supreme Court's first pro-gay ruling?What have gays and lesbians experienced in revolutionary Cuba?Who was Bayard Rustin?What was NACHO?What is the origin of the annual gay and les

    Film. FLESHPOT is an indispensable guide to sex cinema from around the world. From the pioneering stags through frightening sex-education films, radical British porn of the 70s, to the latest Japanese break-through hardcore and beyond. Includes previously unpublished articles by Kenneth Anger and George Kuchar. Jack Stevenson is a brilliant filth scholar [who] knows more about obscure, dirty movies than anyone alive -- John Waters. Fully illustrated. Adult content.

    Set in San Francisco - with all the haunting lyricism for which Reed is known - this novel examines the beauty of romance, the challenges of relationships, and confrontations with the past. As the novel opens, the narrator is meeting with his new therapist for the first time, hoping to find meaning as he approaches his fortieth birthday. His rich social life involves an intriguing group of men and women, each filled with enthusiasm and the joy of living fully, despite difficulties and setbacks - from the ebullient young woman called 'Mad Mama,' to AIDS patient Michael, and the narrator's housemates and best friend Charlton, an older gentleman with all the wisdom and grace of having seen it all. But the inevitable challenges of life intervene, and each character must confront the meaning of aging in the gay community, of health crises beyond the epidemic, of masculinity, dashed dreams, and hope.Author Biography: PAUL REED is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels _Vertical Intercourse_, _Facing It_, and _Longing_. His nonfiction work ranges from memoirs and humor to essays on AIDS and health. His short stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Black Sheets, The Advocate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bay Area Reporter, University Journal, and the collections _Stolen Kisses_ and _Pulp Friction_. Writing under the penname of Max Exander, he has authored five volumes of erotica. Mr. Reed holds a Master of Arts degree in social anthropology from the University ofCalifornia at Davis. For a decade, he worked as a book editor at the Berkeley publishing firm Ten Speed Press. Since 1991, he has been disabled with AIDS. A native Californian, he divides his time between San Francisco, Healdsburg, and Miami. He can be reached via the website www.paulreed.com.

    From the author of the suspense thriller Uprising.

    Showcasing the gay characters and stories that the Zodiac features every night in The Great Cosmic Soap Opera, Gay Stars includes in-depth character sketches illustrating every sun sign, as well as practical insights and advice on using astrology to improve those aspects of life that most concern gay men—like sex, relationships, and spiritual growth. Sprinkled throughout are quotes and portraits of gay icons and heroes, providing entertaining and inspiring examples of astrology at work. Gay Stars is your star-studded tour through the fabulous universe of gay culture.

    Though written as fictional tales, the stories are based on true events, told to the authors by the hustlers who lived them or written by former hustlers themselves.Rent Boys will appeal to gay erotic fiction readers, readers curious about the secret life of hustlers and escorts, and fans of the authors, who are some of the best gay erotic writers working today, from coast to coast.Nearly every gay publisher now produces gay erotic anthologies. Starbooks anthologies are among the bestselling because they focus on the 18- to 21-year-old niche, and Rent Boys targets the same proven market.

    Somewhere Running takes an erotically-charged look at sensuality in an unforgivingly urban context. Tentacular and rhythmically insistent, the text exposes what it means to be seen, takes on the artist as voyeur, and charts the transformation of the two women from objets d'art into autonomous subjects of their own desire, voice, and movement. Reminiscent of Beckett and Duras, fusing idiom and image, Somewhere Running is a genre-bending book that loosens language from the reader's expectations.

    An internationally known anthropologist and an eminent social worker/psychotherapist show how families can thrive and actually grow through the creation of more honest relationships when a son or daughter comes out.

    In a sometimes disturbing story laced with humour, he speaks of the terrible sadness - but also the great tenacity - of a people too often invisible in an unsympathetic world.

    Massengill began photographing Brian in 1992 in Knoxville, Tennessee, shortly after Brian's high school graduation. During the intervening years, as the photographer and model became friends, Massengill's portraits of Brian documented his radical physical transformation. His hair was bleached, shaved and re-grown several times. Tattoos, piercings and scarifications further adorned his body and dramatically altered his appearance from year to year. Massengill's portraits have ranged from pensive and introspective to playful and wildly erotic.

    The handsome drifter he rescues from the gutter comes to fulfill Phil's darkest erotic fantasies, but once he is completely transformed into a cop, his mind warps and he frames the dirtiest of betrayals.

    It is about a unique community of women where conventions were overturned and lives transformed, and it is about a social movement in which tens of thousands of women confronted the police and military to resist the momentum towards nuclear war.

    . . . Essential reading." —Choice"[P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims. . . . [O]riginal and refreshing. . . . [A] sensational book, part of what I see emerging as a new commonsense revolution within academe." —Kevin White, International Gay and Lesbian Review

    Part Jacqueline Susann romantasy, part cheesy Lost in Space episode, this gay comedy will delight any fan of pop culture literature.

    Using poetry as a healing metaphor, he embarks on a personal journey that parallels the historic and contemporary displacement of the Métis people. With anger, humor, and powerful language, The Gathering offers rare insight into the world of Canada's Métis, creating a bridge between Native and non-Native worlds.

    His photographs were taken in New York City's sex clubs. The indistinct figures merge and melt into the industrial architecture of darkened cinemas and hallways reserved for anonymous sex, but there are flashes of clarity even here -- tenderness or indifference, passion or release.

    But Tinisha's appetite means she is soon looking for more.

    Then in a local gym he meets beautiful, androgynous Kasper who takes him under his wing. But Jip's attacker is still at large.

    The stories feature vivid characters who experience moments of human fragility in their quests for relationships and love that take them to the darker sides of humanity. Readers will enjoy a stream of surprising tales of moonstruck love, drunkenness, lunacy, and despair, brilliantly painted across wide stretches of coastal landscape. Rooney's Shorts is flooded with currents of memory and tides of dawning sexuality as they crash and swell against whirlpools of alcoholism and self-destruction. The salt-sprayed lives of Rooney's characters create a captivating sea that explores the inner workings of vulnerable relationships between men and boys and the relational power struggles that erupt between them.

    All too often, gay men hide their childhood memories of being sexually victimized, because of fear, shame, and the stigma of stereotypes which equate homosexuality with child abuse. Some gay men may view these histories as "rites of passage" and dismiss other perspectives as betrayals of their community or inadvertant support for the anti-gay agenda of the religious right. Certain therapists and so-called support groups ridicule them as hysterics with false memories. Groups like the North American Man-Boy Love Association or the Rene Guyon Society dismiss the source of their anguish as wishful thinking or a healthy, consensual intergenerational romance. Finally here is a book that addresses the unique emotional and psychological needs of gay male survivors of sexual abuse.Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma offers new hope by separating the crime of pedophilia from the consensual intimacy of an adult male same-sex relationship. It provides specific guidance for therapists working with gay men either in individual or group therapy settings, and offers practical treatment suggestions as well as moving insights into the painful conflicts gay men may have in accepting their own sexuality and revealing their status as child survivor of an adult sexual predator. Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma discusses practical ways to help the survivor heal, including:adopting eye movement desensitization and reprocessing techniques to treat traumatized gay menhelping gay men to break the old arousal patterns associated with their abusershandling survivors'formidable issues of trust, addictions, depression, and low self-esteemleading survivor groups of mixed sexual orientationdiscerning the special meaning of HIV to traumatized gay menrespecting cross-cultural differences in treating the gay male sexual trauma survivorfinding new directions for research This powerful volume offers sufficient technical detail to be useful for the therapist working with gay men, yet it is written with enough clarity and compassion to be used as bibliotherapy for men just coming out as gay, as survivor, or as both. Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma is an essential resource for mental health professionals, as well as for gay men who have themselves survived sexual abuse or who love someone who did.

    It's what straight people take fashion from."--Tony WoodcockFrom the New Edwardians and muscle boys to Radical Drag and Genderfuck, gay men's dress has had a profound impact on fashion. However, it is easy to forget that, with few exceptions, gay men earlier in the century took great pains to conceal their sexual identity. Men such as Quentin Crisp, while highly influential, were far from the norm. Most gay men resorted to a number of subtle dress codes to identify themselves to other gay men -- from Oscar Wilde's famous green carnation, which was still being worn in the 1930s, through to suede shoes.Beginning with a look at the subcultural world of gay men in the early part of this century -- particularly in New York and London -- this fascinating book analyzes the trends in dress adopted by gay men as well as the challenge gay style has made to mainstream men's fashion. The importance of dress choice to the formation of sexual identity is highlighted, as is gay influence on punk and the fashion industry as a whole. The rise of new dress choices in the wake of gay liberation is analyzed with particular emphasis on the masculinization of gay dress. The importance of the body to gay culture is addressed, from the physique magazines of the 1950s, through to tattooing and body piercing, and their origins in the S&M scene.Anyone interested in gay culture or the history of dress will find this book to be essential reading.

    His boyfriend, Warren, is a socially conservative psychic. Flip's sister, Rosie, is a union organizer who trusts the workers -- until they make the wrong decision. Will Warren understand Flip's drive to be an artist? Will Flip forgive Warren for having a trust fund? Will they break up or will they get married and raise Warren's eight-year-old biracial niece? And will Rosie's clerical workers finally go on strike?This witty, perceptive novel captures the way we live today -- from the guilty pleasures of watching a television cop show to the endless fascination of shopping, from obsessing about relationships to maintaining friendships via late-night phone calls, from the daily politics of office work to the thrill of finally standing up to your boss. Leaps of Faith races from the gyms of Chelsea to the cafes of the East Village, from an uptown university to a downtown theater group, proving along the way that a novel where the personal is always political can also be enormously fun.

    And they have been remarkably successful. Laws dating back to the times of King Henry VIII, once enforced with the lash and the noose and endorsed by the mass of right-thinking citizens, have been repealed in all states and territories. After the breakthrough in South Australia in 1972, efforts to remove unjust laws only ended with the victory in Tasmania 25 years later. But even before that was achieved, demands for full legal equality had moved onto the public agenda and seem now to be within grasp.

    Howard Roffman, one of the world's most widely known and respected photographers of the male form, brings us Jagged Youth. Based on the book of the same name Jagged Youth has once again captured in photographs the magical attractive power of young men.

    Over time, their relationship grows and they decide to spend the rest of their lives together. They plan a wedding, a formal binding into a permanent relationship with family and friends on hand as witnesses to solemn but beautiful vows. It's an occasion people dream about for most of their lives, though it is often joked that the wedding is more for the parents than the children. But what if they're gay?Andrew Merling was a graduate student in clinical psychology when he met Doug Wythe, a television promotion director. Their relationship continued for three-and-a-half years before Doug formally proposed marriage to Andrew. Together, they agreed to have a traditional affair for family and friends.While Doug was not as close to his extended family, Andrew came from large, tight-knit Jewish family in Montreal. When he announced his engagement and the couple's plans for a traditional Jewish ceremony and a festive celebration, it was then that previously unacknowledged prejudices and hidden concerns suddenly reared their contentious heads.Typical wedding conflicts over money and manners paled next to worries over whether Andrew's parents would find themselves ostracized by their conservative community. Then, just two months before the big day, the family had to decide if they were ready to perform the ultimate act of "coming out," when ABC-TV News asked to profile them as part of an episode on "Turning Point," and bring national attention to their personal struggle.The first book to speak to both sides of a controversy that is altering our society, this fascinating chronicle follows Doug, Andrew, and his parents Sheldon and Roslyn onthe rocky road from engagement to understanding. With the impending wedding as a catalyst, they embark on a painful, joyful odyssey of discovery, struggling both to be heard and to find acceptance from each other, their friends and communities. Their four distinct voices blend to create a unique depiction of one family coming to grips with the reality of being a gay couple in today's world.Two people meet and fall in love. Over time, their relationship grows and they decide to spend the rest of their lives together. They plan a wedding, a formal binding into a permanent relationship with family and friends on hand as witnesses to solemn but beautiful vows. It's an occasion people dream about for most of their lives, though it is often joked that the wedding is more for the parents than the children.But what if they're gay?Andrew Merling was a graduate student in clinical psychology when he met Doug Wythe, a television promotion director. Their relationship continued for three-and-a-half years before Doug formally proposed marriage to Andrew. Together, they agreed to have a traditional affair for family and friends.While Doug was not as close to his extended family, Andrew came from large, tight-knit Jewish family in Montreal. When he announced his engagement and the couple's plans for a traditional Jewish ceremony and a festive celebration, it was then that previously unacknowledged prejudices and hidden concerns suddenly reared their contentious heads. Two people meet and fall in love. Over time, their relationship grows and they decide to spend the rest of their lives together. They plan a wedding, a formal binding into a permanent relationship with family and friends onhand as witnesses to solemn but beautiful vows. It's an occasion people dream about for most of their lives, though it is often joked that the wedding is more for the parents than the children.But what if they're gay?Andrew Merling was a graduate student in clinical psychology when he met Doug Wythe, a television promotion director. Their relationship continued for three-and-a-half years before Doug formally proposed marriage to Andrew. Together, they agreed to have a traditional affair for family and friends.While Doug was not as close to his extended family, Andrew came from large, tight-knit Jewish family in Montreal. When he announced his engagement and the couple's plans for a traditional Jewish ceremony and a festive celebration, it was then that previously unacknowledged prejudices and hidden concerns suddenly reared their contentious heads.Typical wedding conflicts over money and manners paled next to worries over whether Andrew's parents would find themselves ostracized by their conservative community. Then, just two months before the big day, the family had to decide if they were ready to perform the ultimate act of "coming out," when ABC-TV News asked to profile them as part of an episode on "Turning Point," and bring national attention to their personal struggle.The first book to speak to both sides of a controversy that is altering our society, this fascinating chronicle follows Doug, Andrew, and his parents Sheldon and Roslyn on the rocky road from engagement to understanding. With the impending wedding as a catalyst, they embark on a painful, joyful odyssey of discovery, struggling both to be heard and to find acceptance from each other, their friendsand communities. Their four distinct vo

    This is a pre-computer age of typewritten manuscripts, small shops and lunch hours: it is also an age of gay repression, accelerating consumerism and race riots. Hazel Smith suggests that the location and dislocation of the cityscape creates "hyperscapes" in the poetry of Frank O’Hara. The hyperscape is a postmodern site characterized by difference, breaking down unified concepts of text, city, subject and art, and remolding them into new textual, subjective and political spaces. This book theorizes the process of disruption and re-figuration which constitutes the hyperscape, and celebrates its radicality.

    But Freeman is also a master of classic solo and couples portraits - with consummate lighting they present intense moments full of power, eroticism and even tenderness. Since his models are also unique masculine beauties, you should not miss out on this complex erotic masterpiece. Ed Freeman himself is an absolute multi-talent. After working for 25 years as musician and producer he decided to focus his energies on photography. His motifs are for the most part nudes and landscapes that he often turns into dramatic scenes with the help of computer technology. In doing so he has described an incredibly expressive photographic language. His works have been published in countless magazines and anthologies. "Work" is his first solo publication, which is now available in a soft-cover edition.

    The Friction series of gay erotica presents the sexiest stories by the top erotic writers from the world's most popular gay erotic magazine.

    This dramatic transformation has resulted due to the perspective of gay men; their ability to step outside the assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a different point of view. This book will reward readers seeking new insight into faith as well as culture, myth and traditions.

    A work of fiction that manages to be both sexually frank and laugh-out-loud funny, "The Boys Across the Stree"t is the story of an ex-porn star named Rick, who lives across the street from a Chasidic boys' school, and his budding relationship with the students and their families. Rick pursues his interest in the boys by adopting Chasidic dress and dares to confront the codes in Leviticus proscribing homosexual behavior; to Rick, these codes are responsible for the bigotry that batters his life. As his relationship with the boys deepens from obsession to friendship, Rick finds himself confronting areas of prejudice within himself. Despite being an avowed atheist, he finds himself drawn to the religious fervor of the Chasidic men as are they to his passionate embrace of their most contemptible of sins. The collision of their different worlds-combined with their increasing closeness-results in interactions that are intense, funny, and full of longing, often all at the same time. As smart as it is comic, "The Boys Across the Street "is a powerful blend of eroticism and religion-a novel filled with unforgettable characters, and one that is certain to stir up discussion about sex and repression.

    Adam Pell is a ranger, defending the realm as he mourns the death of his cousin, the king.Then he meets Morgan, on his way to enlist, and the attraction is instant and mutual. But Morgan is not what he seems. Dangerous, complex, haunted by his past and compelled by his masters to carry death with him wherever he goes, he brings a dreadful threat to Cardia – and to Adam Pell himself.

    A 2000 Lambda Literary Award FinalistThe past decade has seen homosexual scandals in the Catholic Church becoming ever more visible, and the Vatican's directives on homosexuality becoming ever more forceful, begging the question Mark Jordan tries to answer here: how can the Catholic Church be at once so homophobic and so homoerotic? His analysis is a keen and readable study of the tangled relationship between male homosexuality and modern Catholicism.