The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths.In this Nazi crusade, homosexual prisoners were confined to death camps where, forced to wear pink triangles, they constituted the lowest rung in the camp hierarchy. The horror of camp life is described through diaries, previously untranslated documents, and interviews with and letters from survivors, revealing how the anti-homosexual campaign was conducted, the crackpot homophobic fantasies that fueled it, the men who made it possible, and those who were its victims, this chilling book sheds light on a corner of twentieth-century history that has been hidden in the shadows much too long.

    This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.

    With a Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Editor Raymond Foye's essential selection from a quarter century of Wieners' extraordinary inspired work includes The Hotel Wentley Poems (1958), Ace of Pentacles (1964), Pressed Wafer (1967), Asylum Poems (1969), Nerves (1970) and large portions of later books. Plus revealing, brilliant interviews done with Robert Von Halberg and Charles Shively.

    Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the Butler Saw; but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton’s skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles; his sexual escapades—at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.

    Some are nude, some rude and others explicitly erotic. In miniature format, the collection presents one of Mapplethorpe's most controversial and accomplished portfolios.

    Fiction. Poetry. Essays. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. In IN THE LIFE, 29 black authors explore what it means to be doubly different--both black and gay--in modern America. These stories, verses, works of art and theater pieces voice the concerns and aspirations of an often silent minority. They can be poignant, erotic, resolute, or angry, but always reflect the affirming power of coming together to build a strong black gay community. In the introduction to the original 1986 edition, editor Joseph Beam wrote, The bottom line is this: We are Black men who are proudly gay. What we offer is our lives, our love, our visions...We are coming home with our heads held up high. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new introduction by James Earl Hardy.

    Evacuated in 1944 from the bustling but starving city of Amsterdam to the fertile farmland of Friesland, young Jeroen learns about another way of life and experiences both love and loss as he lives out the final months of the war and welcomes the Allied soldiers who free his country.

    Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds.

    In this as told to autobiography, Mumaw relates dramatic stories of the company's groundbreaking cross-country tours, of their building Jacob's Pillow from pre-Revolutionary hardscrabble to preeminent dance festival, and tells for the first time of his intimate relationship with dance pioneer Ted Shawn. This is revealed through details of their lives together and apart, descriptions of their dances, and a stunning selection of rare photographs.This exceptional memoir, first published in 1986, will engage the general reader and is bound to attract scholars who seek to conjoin the many current works in gay and lesbian studies with today's equally numerous critical works in dance.

    More short stones from the author of Old Dyke Tales.This is a many-faceted, all lesbian-themed collection, with stories about first love in old age; the scene in a lesbian bar; young women in a new stage of physical intimacy; romance and eroticism; lovers and friends.

    The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds are a startling, engrossing and unique new contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century sexual mores, and an instant, new classic of Victorian autobiography. Written in 1892, but until recently locked in a London library, they reveal the secret homosexual life of a nineteenth century man of letters. Symonds wrote his book knowing that it could never be published in his lifetime, but hoping that posterity would understand and vindicate what his own age despised and hid.

    Returning to her small Massachusetts town after four years away, sixteen-year-old Kate resumes her close relationship with her childhood friend and together they try to stop the dangerously escalating hostilities between their town and the less affluent community across the river.

    1. Subway Savages - Two subway delinquents take on young businessman Mark and leave him used and abused on the floor of the car. 2. Sailor Beware - American sailors Cal and Jake are drugged, pillaged and sold into slavery to a desert Sultan.

    Parents of gay children share their experiences.

    Fourteen-year-old Win undergoes tremendous conflict when teased that his new "Big Brother" is a homosexual, but as he grows to respect Elliott's values and the broadening experiences that Elliott introduces, he comes to realize that he must place more importance on his own beliefs than on the perceptions of others.

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