Best of
Glbt

1982

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk


Randy Shilts - 1982
    His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

Annie on My Mind


Nancy Garden - 1982
    The book has been banned from many school libraries and publicly burned in Kansas City. Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, “Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.”

Bid Me to Live: A Madrigal


H.D. - 1982
    documents her traumatic experiences during WWI on which she blamed a number of personal tragedies, including a stillborn child, the end of her marriage, and her pained relationship with D. H. Lawrence. This critical edition returns the novel to print for the first time in a generation. Editor Caroline Zilboorg offers invaluable background information and perspectives that facilitate a rich and rewarding reading of a complex novel. Including an introduction that recounts the autobiographical narrative on which the book is based, a biographical key to all the major characters, explanations of textual references, and photographs of all the central figures in the text, this is a powerful resource for understanding and appreciating one of the Imagist author's most accessible novels. H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961) is an American writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose.

Another Country


Julian Mitchell - 1982
    Bennett is openly gay, while Judd is a Marxist.One night a house man walks in on Martineau and a boy from another house together in the dark room. Martineau commits suicide because of the shame of having been found in a homosexual embrace, and chaos erupts as teachers and the senior students try their hardest to keep the scandal away from parents and the rest of the outside world. However, the gay scandal gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler, who dislikes both Bennett and Judd, a welcome reason to scheme against them.

The Journey


Anne Cameron - 1982
    In 1982, we moved to San Francisco and then merged with Aunt Lute Books (out of Iowa) in 1986 to become Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Company. The Aunt Lute Foundation became a separate, non-profit publishing company in 1990 while Spinsters Ink moved to Minnesota in 1992. Today, we are housed in Duluth's Building for Women with other feminist organizations dedicated to serving women.Spinsters Ink publishes fiction and non-fiction that deal with significant issues in women's lives from a feminist perspective: books that not only name these crucial issues, but -- more important -- encourage change and growth. We are committed to publishing works by women writing from the periphery: fat women, Jewish women, lesbians, old women, poor women, rural women, women examining classism, women of color, women with disabilities, women who are writing books that help make the best in our lives more possible.Two women travel through the wild Canadian West of the late 1800s to escape the violence of their pasts.

Elements of a Coffee Service


Robert Glück - 1982
    Gluck achieves the difficult art of integrating unabashed (gay) erotic writing into an intelligent non-pornographic narrative."-Ian Young

Water Dancer: A Novel


Jenifer Levin - 1982
    Water Dancer is the story of a world-class swimming instructor who returns to swimming after a self-imposed hiatus due to the death of his only child.

Two Strand River


Keith Maillard - 1982
    Set in the Vancouver of the early 1970s, it commemorates a heady time when experimentation was a passport to self-awareness.Entertaining, building to a powerful climax, "Two Strand River" generated an immediate cult following when it was first published in 1976. It will be a great read for new Keith Maillard fans and a special treat for those already hooked on his provocative, elegantly written novels.

The Muse of the Violets: Poems


Renée Vivien - 1982
    

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove: A Play in Two Acts


Jane Chambers - 1982
    The friendships, the laughter, the love, the fears of being outed, the difficulties of being gay and how it affects relationships with family, children, parents and careers, the demonstrations of what the painful price could be for a gay life 30 years ago in everyday America, had never before been told with such respect. Chambers' comedic dialogue, sensitivity to human nature and tender treatment of her characters help the play transcend preconceptions and show the universality of these women's journeys.

H.D., the life and work of an American poet


Janice S. Robinson - 1982