Gay & Lesbian

In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah try to follow their hearts. Defying society and history, they buy a farm and discover they can live together, away from the world that had sought to li... More

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" ("Choice") biography of the author, poet, and American icon of womanhood, black arts, and survival. During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author... More

Here's the diary of a man who in mid-life found himself uprooted and dumped into West Hollywood, an unfamiliar place not exactly known for stability. White explores his neighborhood ? "queens: 6 percent; cranky 70-year-old Russians who give you the evil eye when you walk past: 2 percent; blonde girl... More

Fifty years after 4,000 women escaped the the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonized a new planet, the first generation born on Maternas has reached maturity. But their vision of a perfect world is very different from the vision of the founders."Do I sense the writing of a third book in thi... More

"What a rare and skillful thing is Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Steven Fales' engrossing, funny and often quite harrowing tale. A fine writer and actor."-Chicago Sun-Times A hit at New York's Fringe Festival, Steven Fales' true-life story has become a smash across the country. Now playing off-Broad... More

"For most dog owners, our dogs are not possessions, they are family. Gay men in particular have found joy in bringing dogs into their nuclear circles. Their dogs love them unconditionally, without judgment or regard to sexual orientation; comfort them when they are in pain; and because most men outl... More

A whirlwind exploration of poverty and dropouts, "Rose of No Man's Land" is the world according to Trisha--a furious love story between two weirdo girls, brimming with snarky observations and soulful wonderings on the dazzle-flash emptiness of contemporary culture.Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll i... More

The memoir of a gay man's quest for self-acceptance and spiritual meaning as he wrestles with conflicts involving homosexuality and religion.Soulfully Gay is a personal memoir of an intellectually rigorous gay man wrestling with fundamental issues of meaning and self-acceptance. Joe Perez finds hims... More

A powerful, entertaining story of self-awakening, the complex bonds of family, and of America during the late 1960s, this novel follows the journeys of 17-year-old Rigby John Klusener who leaves his home and family in Idaho and heads for a new life in San Francisco.The year is 1967, and Rigby John K... More

A Stoker Award-winning novelist sets his rich imagination to the task of reinventing Arthurian legend: Mordred, the traditional villain of Arthurian legend, emerges as a heroic and romantic figure.Stoker Award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg ("Afterlife," "The Hour Before Dark," and over a dozen othe... More

A smart, sexy, and fun collection of sizzling short stories that include some entertaining takeoffs of famous movie classics, plays, and literature. M. Christian is the author of the novel "Running Dry" and the critically acclaimed collections "Dirty Words," "Speaking Parts," and "The Bachelor Machi... More

Intense, sizzling, vibrantly real and all true lesbian erotica in the spirit of "Skin Deep" and "Wet," Nicole Foster edited the best-selling books "Skin Deep," "Awakening the Virgin," "Body Check," "Wet," "Electric," and "Ultimate Lesbian Erotica,"... More

A dazzling collection of profiles and interviews by the preeminent American cultural essayist of our time.In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, art... More

Desperately looking for a fresh face to launch his new cologne, Cameron knows he's found it in Blake and it's an offer Blake can't refuse. But not everyone is happy about Blake's sudden rise to fame, and the intense, growing love between the designer and his model.Blake Jackson is ultra-passionate a... More

Returning home after several years of absence, struggling gay actor Wally Day finds himself confronted with the ghosts of a past that he has tried to forget. His mother is grappling with her own foggy memory and has called him home to help her figure out the mysteries of their shared past.Returning ... More

In an amazing narrative of poems, Merrell tells an ordinary story in an extraordinary way--a remarkable memoir of a young gay man who's growing up, coming out, and exploring love.Talking in the Dark is a memoir in poetry about coming out and exploring love.... More

The field of "transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a new field of inquiry in the past decade, showing the fragmentation and diversification of masculinities and feminities - along with the error of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world soci... More

"The Deaf-Mute Boy"--equal parts travel story, love story, and a resonant confrontation with the Muslim world--is the tale of a gay American professor immersed in a North African society. Maurice Burke, an archaeologist, is invited to speak at a conference in the bustling port town of Sousse, Tunisi... More

Hillary Birdsong's idyllic New England childhood is brought to a sudden halt by the death of her beloved older brother. Brokenhearted and emotionally abandoned by her mother, Hillary consoles herself with city boy Miles, and at sixteen finds herself pregnant and a shame to her family. With few choic... More

In" Death of a Department Chair," protagonist Miriam Held recounts the events of the previous fall when she was suspected of killing Isabel Vittorio, the chair of her department and her former lover. The controversial and contrary Vittorio was, at the time of her death, attempting to block the hire ... More