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Arts & Entertainment - Books
2012 Stonewall Book Awards announced
The 2012 Stonewall Book Awards were announced today by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Li…

James Hormel : Former ambassador reflects on life, activism and philanthropy
James Hormel, born in 1933 in the heart of the Depression, was mostly sheltered from the economic crisis facing the United States. Howeve…

Edmund White and Felice Picano Discuss Gay Literature
This month we've invited several LGBT authors to participate in our first ever Voice to Voice conversation series. Throughout January we'…

Fellow Authors Choose Best LGBT Books of 2011
The Best LGBT Books of 2011: 92 Authors Select Their Favorites
This was the year Borders went out of business, shuttering 511 stores…

New Book by We the People and www.gaysonoma.com Columnist
"Nobody wants to live old," declares long-time We The People columnist Kay Mehl Miller, Ph.D., in her new book Living with the Stranger i…

Books For Kids With LGBT Parents
Rainbow Rumpus, the online magazine for kids and teens with LGBT parents, is launching a free series of downloadable books designed to fi…

Bob Smith: Standup Comedian, Time Traveler
Since Bob Smith started writing and performing stand-up in 1977, heâs appeared on The Tonight Show, had his own HBO special, and crafted …

Pebbles on the Mountain

For a very long time, the history of gay and lesbian activism was

written as if New York City's Stonewall Riots of July …

Bronski, Michael. ãA Queer History of the United Statesä, Beacon Press, 2011. Our Story
It is so good to know that our history is being written down and I am aware of at least three histories of LGBT America that will be out …

The Passion of Vito Russo
When Vito Russo died on November 1, 1990, after a long and torturously painful battle against AIDS, the author of the best-selling ãThe C…

Colm Toibin's New Books Reviewed
All a Novelist Needs: Colm T—ib’n on Henry James
Edited by Susan M. Griffin
Johns Hopkins. 148 pages, $25.

R…

New 'Leatherman' book: The story of sexual renegade and businessman Chuck Renslow
A prominent Chicago gay activist and entrepreneur is the subject of an in-depth biography, Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, by j…

Outspoken activist Larry Kramer wants to know why this generation is so apathetic while he's still so angry
To say Larry Kramer is polarizing is like saying Rush Limbaugh is a little bit conservative. The Pulitzer-nominated playwright, screenwri…

Was Gandhi Queer?
A new biography of Gandhi that examines the passionate love the man revered by India as Bapu, the ãfather of the nation,ä had for a Germa…

New Book About Gay Men And Substance Abuse Released
Hazelden Publishing has released Gay Men and Substance Abuse: A Basic Guide for Addicts and Those Who Care for Them ö one of the first bo…

Jodi Picoult's 'Sing' homes in on gay rights
Or does best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult, as usual, have an uncanny sense of good timing?

Her new novel, a cri de coeur for …

Finalists for the 23rd Lambda Literary Awards
Lesbian Fiction
Big Bang Symphony, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe; Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, by Zelda Lockhart; 
Holding Sti…

GAY FICTION; TWO TRADITIONS
Profiting from the findings of some recent scholarship, we can discern two radically different categories of modern American gay-male fic…

Michael Cunningham: Beyond Death in Venice
BY NIGHTFALL, Michael Cunninghamâs latest novel, begins with a quote from Rilkeâs Duino Elegies concerning the terrifying, unfathomable p…

She always walks on the dark side'
CRIME NOVELIST Patricia Highsmith is best known in the United States for two of her many tales, Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr.…

New "Steven's Comics" Collection to Include Foreword by Dan Savage of the "It Gets Better Project"
Northwest Press announced today that their forthcoming collection÷David Kelly's Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven's Comics÷will featu…

Out Writer Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77
Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories about ordinary people in rural North Carolina struggling to find their place in the world establ…

Up At The Villa
THE PROBLEM with biographies of Somerset Maugham is that the last ten years of his life have always overwhelmed what went before them. In…

Herman Melville's Homoerotic Side Highlighted In New Book
"The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville" (Doubleday, $26.95), by Jay Parini: Before you embark on this particular literary voya…

His courageous story proves Sen. Allan Spear was one of Minnesota's most influential politicians
If the measure of political leaders is the cultural change their work creates, it's reasonable to conclude that Allan Spear was one of th…

Living in Fear of Being Found Out: Grant Wood by R. Tripp Evans
In exactly the way a painter might stare at an actual scene for a landscape then delete people, shift houses, or move mountains to suit t…

Alyson Books Will Restructure as E-book Only House; Weise Leaves
Unable to arrange the sale of Alyson Books, parent company Here Media has announced that it is dropping Alysonâs print book program and p…

Groundbreaking Educational Book Series On Homosexuality Presents A Look At Gay Lifestyles to Tweens
Educational Publisher Mason Crest announces the creation of a pioneering series of books geared toward young adult students and older and…

Archie Comicâs Character Comes Out
A teenager has come out in Riverdale, and no, it's not noted "woman-hater" Jughead Jones.

If ever there was a sign of changing…

Sexual Outlaw on the Gay Frontier
When the author Justin Spring finally tracked down the executor of Samuel Stewardâs estate, he had no idea what this sexual outlaw and li…

Adaptation of the "First Gay Novel" is First Release from Gay Graphic Novel Publisher Northwest Press
Northwest Press, a new publisher devoted to printing high-quality work showcasing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories, is brin…










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