 | This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories
Publication Date: June 1, 2002Gripping Stories Of City Boys And Men Living - And Dying - For Their Outsider Sexuality; Doing their best to come to grips with being gay in a heavily Irish-Catholic working-class community - known for its fierce loyalty and strong, traditional religious ethic, the boys and men in these stories are caught in the crossfire of traditional values, Irish tragedy, and the inevitable intrusion of diversity. The result of this lethal mix is occasionally comic, often tragic, sometimes redemptive and sometimes disastrous, but always compelling. ...
 |  | So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
Publication Date: September 1, 2008“Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth.”—The San Francisco Bay GuardianMattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco—battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-nightepiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer w...
|  | While England Sleeps: A Novel
Publication Date: October 7, 1993Set against the rise of fascism in 1930's Europe, this ambitious novel by the award-winning author of Family Dancing tells the story of a love affair between two young men--an aristocrat and a working class member of the Communist party--who are swept into the violent chaos of war. ...
|  | Light Fell
Release Date: January 1, 2009“ Touching. . . . It raises brave questions about the nature of family and betrayal, rupture and healing.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A stirring exploration of obsession, spirituality and the healing power of time. . . . Light Fell is an astonishingly accomplished first novel, wisely attuned to life’s infinitely strange turns.”—The Miami Herald“Evan Fallenberg has written an honest and brave book.”—Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of An Almost Perfect Moment“Elegant. . . . Moving.”—...
|  | Bourbon Street Blues
Release Date: April 1, 2003Native boy Scotty Bradley knows how to bend his hometown's every unwritten rule. it doesn't hurt that he's buff, boyish, and completely irresistible, with a job by day as a personal trainer...and the occasional night gig dancing on the bar for rent money. Hey, it's a living. Scotty likes his relaxed life, living upstairs from the coddling lesbian couple he calls his aunties, and hanging out with his eccentric, close-knit family -- stoner-hippie parents, Uptown but well-meaning sister, and scheming lawyer brother. And with New Orleans's biggest circuit party -- Sout...
|  | Like People in History: A Gay American Epic
Publication Date: July 1, 1995Traces forty years in the life of two gay men who share a madcap but enduring relationship and a passion for a handsome Vietnam veteran, against the backdrop of gay urban culture from the fifties up to the present. ...
|  | Raised in Captivity
Publication Date: October 1, 1995"By a mile, the best new play of the season>"--John Heilpern, New York Observer. ...
|  | Sleeping, Sinning, Falling
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry.The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books in English translation. One of them, From the Country of Eight Islands, an anthology of Japanese poetry which he translated and edited with Burton Watson, won the American P.E.N. translation prize for 1982. ...
|  | Love! Valor! Compassion! and A Perfect Ganesh (Drama, Plume)
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|  | Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry
Publication Date: February 8, 2005Emanuel Xavier has edited an extraordinary anthology collecting work from America's hottest queer spoken word performers and slam-poets. Queers have always been in the forefront of US poetry: Whitman, Stein, Hughes, Ginsberg. But it's at this curious hinge of twenty-first century NOW that poetry itself has found its way into the ear of public consciousness, so that we are finally hearing Whitman's varied carols tambourining. Many of the poets in this anthology are not generally known outside the Slam, Performance, and Hip Hop Poetry worlds, but here they are...
|  | Remarkable Journey of Miss Tranby Quirke
Publication Date: November 17, 2009When love enters Tranby Quirke's life in the form of a beautiful 19-year-old student, Lysette McDonald, she embarks on the most remarkable journey of all.London: 1909. Thirty-four-year-old spinster and secret suffragette Tranby Quirke spends her days toiling in obscurity as a lecturer to modern women and spends her nights embarking on exotic foreign adventures—but only inside her head. Then love enters Tranby’s life in the most unexpected of ways and her real life adventures take her on a journey beyond imagining. ...
|  | Getting Off Clean
Publication Date: February 15, 1997The one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape--both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working class suburb of boston, he intends to go away to college and leave his old life far bhind.But all his plans are set askew when he meets Brooks, a mysterious, wealthy, black student at a local prep school.As their relationship grows ever deeper and more complicated, Eric must come to terms not only with his family and community, bu with his warring ambitions and desires. ...
|  | Men Overboard
Publication Date: July 12, 2012Looks can be deceiving. Hairstylist Aaron Turner doesn’t consider himself overweight, just under height.As stylish as he is outgoing, he brings a Carrie Bradshaw like wardrobe in extra large and a fierce attitude to this adventure on the high seas, not knowing that a killer has come along for the week long cruise as well. Friends Aaron Turner and Phillip Baxter have not yet settled in when the bodies begin piling up.The best pals begin to think the passengers of the Titanic booked better tickets when they find themselves linked to the dead bodies.Becomin...
|  | We Have a Pie
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|  | Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
Publication Date: November 15, 1988An eighteen-poem cycle on the death of his lover from AIDS emphasizes the power of love and its survival through pain and anger, and the tragedy and magnitude of a terrifying twist of fate and its effect on a generation. ...
|  | Rough Music (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: June 25, 2002| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, Rough Music is a novel of one family at two defining points in time. Seamlessly alternating between the present day and a summer thirty years past, its twin stories unfold at a cottage along the eastern coast of England.Will Pagett receives an unexpected gift on his fortieth birthday, two weeks at a perfect beach house in Cornwall. Seeking some distance from the married man with whom he's having an affair, he invites his aging mother and father to share his holiday, knowing the sun a...
|  | An Imperfect Arrangement
Publication Date: June 22, 2007Alex Palini believes that his one chance at love has already come and gone after the unexpected death of his life partner three years earlier. At the age of thirty-five, he is dating twenty-two-year-old Stephen Clark...
|  | To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (High Risk Books)
Publication Date: February 1, 1993| Series: High Risk Books novel, tr L Coverdale, based on Foucault's death...
|  | One Last Waltz (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Publication Date: March 15, 1988| Series: Stonewall Inn Editions (Book 11) In this brilliant and lyrical novel of family passions and personal fate, Ethan Mordden weaves a family saga of fiery intensity, as the scornful Witch of Fooley plays chess with the King of Tara to determine the fate of his sons....
|  | Protection
Publication Date: June 3, 2012When Gabriel MacKenna enters Wentworth Prison in 1931, he promises himself two things: never to be buggered and never to turn prison queer. Tough, smart, and ruthless in a fight, he quickly makes a name for himself inside. But Gabriel, saved from the noose by a social crusader, is serving two life sentences. And life is a very long time to endure Wentworth with no comforts but prison food, card games and cigarettes. To survive endless days without the touch of another human being... Five years after Gabriel's incarceration, Joey Cooper arrives at Wentworth. Ever...
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