Mann introduces you to people and places that inspire him. His physical journeys - to gay meccas like Key West and provincetown and overseas to Germany, Ireland and Scotland - lead to examination of gay history, family legacy, and the journey from youth's unrequited passions to mature adult relationships.
The music of Queen and powerhouse lead singer Freddie Mercury are best experienced with the volume turned all the way up. Alfonso Casas’s Freddie Mercury delivers a sonorous homage to the formidable singer and the turning points that produced a game-changing body of music that continues to inspire fans around the globe. First published in Spain and now available worldwide, this luminous work covers Freddie's three “births”: his birth as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar; his adoption of the last name...
Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US. In this compelling and deeply affecting memoir, Greg Bourke recounts growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and living as a gay Catholic. The book describes Bourke's early struggles for acceptance as an out gay man living in the South during the 1980s and '90s, his unplanned transformation into an outspoken gay rights activist after being dismissed as a t...
'For days now I have tried to start this diary, but the clatter of my existence has warned me off; the first mark on the page eludes me...' Derek Jarman's Smiling in Slow Motion concludes the journey started in Modern Nature, these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Friends, collaborators and enemies are catalogued as...
Honor. Courage. Commitment. These are the core values of the US Navy, a foundation of ethics by which every sailor must stand to be successful. From the time US Navy recruits raise their right hand and take the oath of enlistment, they are told these values are enough to make them respected sailors. But imagine when these values are not enough. Landon Wilson enlisted in the US Navy in 2011 at the age of twenty-one. Wilson served within the military with distinction and was appreciated by his co...
The Stonewall Reader
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing Triangle Tor.com, Best Books of 2019 (So Far) Harper’s Bazaar, The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019 The Advocate, The Best Queer(ish) Non-Fiction Tomes We Read in 2019 June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary o...
Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Tilden were the legendary quartet of the "Golden Age of Sports" in the 1920s. They transformed their respective athletic disciplines and captured the imagination of a nation. The indisputable force behind the emergence of professional tennis as a popular and lucrative sport, Tilden's on-court accomplishments are nothing short of staggering. The first American-born player to win Wimbledon and a seven-time winner of the U.S. singles championship, he w...
This study charts the stormy emotions of the friendship between Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide, whom he met in Paris in 1891. Through letters and diaries, Fryer looks at the men's lives through the eyes of their mothers, their wives and their boyfriends, The book is not just a chronicle of a cross-channel literary relationship, it also provides an insight into what W.H.Auden would much later call the "Homintern" - an international network of gay men and their companions, as well as the hypocracy of...
Small Fires (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature)
by Julie Marie Wade
Wade was the 2009 choice for the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature Author has an extensive publication record, and we can expect Small Fires to find reviews in her target audience -- journals and literary magazines Wade's essays confront her growing understanding of her sexuality and lesbian identity and should find a receptive audience among LGBT bookstores and reading groups Author is energetic and young, and can be expected to be open to online touring, book club phone calls, a...