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Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses Michael Montlack (editor)
Editor Michael Montlack has assembled an anthology of a hundred gay poets—award winners and fresh voices—in thrall with female icons throughout the ages ranging from Gloria Swanson to Mary J, Blige, from Edith Piaf to Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler to… More
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The Heart’s History Lewis DeSimone
This is Edward—architect, friend, lover, mystery. Everyone has their own Edward: a kaleidoscope of images struggling to define a man who has never let anyone get too close. But now, Edward is dying, and all of his loved ones are… More
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Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant Melissa Scott et al.
Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the great city of Astreiant. During the annual trade fair, with a city filled with travelers and merchants, someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and convinced… More
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The Master of Seacliff Max Pierce
It is 1899, and young Andrew Wyndham has accepted a position tutoring the unruly son of wealthy industrialist Duncan Stewart in the hopes that the work will be brief yet provide an avenue to pay for his passage to France… More
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Icarus 12 Steve Berman et al.
In this issue, the finale of Scot D. Ryersson’s Victorian-era dark fantasy novella, “The Arsenic Flower,” will not disappoint; our handsome friend across the pond, James Bennett, offers readers a story of fate and regret dealt to the man in… More
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a+e 4ever Ilike Merey
Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face. Guys punch him, girls slag him and by high school he’s developed an intense fear of being touched. Art remains his only escape from an otherwise emotionally empty… More
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Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction JoSelle Vanderhooft et al.
Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year.
Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman read countless books, periodicals, and webzines to collect a range of tales—from… More -
Slant Timothy Wang
James, an Asian boy who likes video games and romantic comedies, realizes he’s gay while attending college in Boston. He begins a whirlwind exploration of the gay world, negotiating its many pitfalls, including the first kiss, his first love and… More
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Eat Your Heart Out: A Novella Danya Ingram
A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee’s Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden,… More
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Icarus 11 Steve Berman et al.
Our Winter 2011 issue features a chilling Victorian tale of revenge from Scot D. Ryersson, a weird tale of transformation by Rodello Santos & Damon Shaw, and a dystopian science-fiction story by Thomas Carl Sweterlitschan.
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From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction eds., Charles Rice-Gonzales & Charlie Vazquez et al.
For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published.
Prepare yourself to dance in a disco in Silver Lake, check… More -
The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam Alex Jeffers
Explaining himself to himself and to the man he loves, Ziya tells Adam the stories of his life:
A bilingual childhood and youth in cosmopolitan Istanbul, city of the world’s desire, and the Aegean resort of Bodrum. A bewildering trip… More -
Wilde Stories 2011: Best Gay Speculative Fiction Steve Berman, editor
Celebrate a decade of gay speculative fiction with Wilde Stories 2011!
This expanded volume from Lethe Press brings stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an inhospitable wilderness, and fiends who hide under handsome… More -
Bear Like Me Jonathan Cohen
Fired from his job at Phag Magazine, Peter Mallory has to find a way to make a living—and get revenge! When his best friend suggests writing a book about the bear community—and using his new ursine look to go… More
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A History of Barbed Wire Jeff Mann
Winner of the 2006 Lambda Literary Award.
In intense, lyrical language, Jeff Mann’s short stories give us an array of tormented characters: adulterous lovers, a kidnapper and his handsome victim, the sadistic ghost of a Confederate soldier, a yearning forestry… More -
A Study in Lavender Joseph R.G. DeMarco et al.
What other characters from English literature have captivated hearts and minds as thoroughly as Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion John Watson?
Many fans imagine the relationship between these men is deep and more than platonic. In A Study in … More
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