LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO PIXIE DE COSTA! is the tragic tale of the De Costa Sisters; gracious, loving and talented Margot and the train wreck that IS Pixie De Costa! Their story beigins witht eh De Costa Family's Vaudeville act circa 1912, and travels forward in time to 1932, the height of the sisters' Movie Fame! But a horrible accident cuts the De Costa's assent short, and sends them spiralling downward into the pitch black abyss of evil! Today, it is 1957 and Margot and Pixie find themselves unhappily chained together by unresolved resentment and revenge! Things take a murderous turn for the worse when Pixie, in her lust for fame, decides to take matters into her own hands! A lighthearted evening of song and merriment...OR IS IT? Two acts. Roles for 4F, 5M.

"Our Time "marks the end of more than a decade of silence, giving voice to the LGBT men and women who served under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." These individuals enlisted knowing that the military would ask them to bury an integral part of themselves and yet joined because of their deep belief that the values of the military were worth the tremendous sacrifice. "Our Time "shares their stories for the first time, revealing an intimate portrait of military life.

Edited by air force officer Josh Seefried, a cofounder of the LGBT active duty military association OutServe, "Our Time "is a collection of remarkable depth and diversity. We witness the abuse--physical and mental--endured at the hands of fellow soldiers and superiors. We see the hardships faced by their families and partners and feel the pain of the choice between military and self. There are also examples of humanity at its very best: leaders with the courage to support their comrades in the face of tremendous pressure, friendships forged and minds opened, and love that endures the very toughest

of odds.

Throughout we are reminded of the bravery and selflessness of the men and women who chose to serve our country and defend our liberties while their own freedom was withheld. At once a testament to the wrongs of the policy and a celebration of the good that endured in spite of it, "Our Time "marks the start of a new era in our national history

Poetry. LGBT Studies. With a beauty purged of sweetness, the voices of BUTCHER'S SUGAR sing of the sublime in the debased, violence and desire, the truth of whatever is "rank with the carcass of mystery." Moving from childhood through adulthood, these poems re-inhabit and reclaim myths about the body and the self."Perhaps one turns to Christ or the pagan gods as an escape from the abject real of the body's stench. Perhaps to make love to a man is to always make love to the boy hidden underneath, forgotten. This need to both adore and kill what we no longer recognize within ourselves. Our bodies broken into, publicly shamed. Unmask the centurions, the butchers, and perhaps you'd instantly recognize their faces, Brad Richard suggests, if only you had his eyes to see."--Timothy Liu

Lesbian Erotica short stories where the main character is YOU! Take a trip into your fantasies with each story you read. With vivid imagery and tantalizing scenarios, these stories allow you to experience things not typically dared to be imagined! Lesbian Erotica has never had an avenue like this to explore sexuality with a sexy, yet witty outlook on intimacy. Creative locations from your own home to the Amazon Jungle, with escapades for every season...Adventures in Eroticism is sure to please on every level. Bedtime stories have never been so good! Look out for the rest of the series...Adventures in Eroticism: Workplace Adventures in Eroticism: Holiday Adventures in Eroticism: World Vacations

Willie Rae Flynn, once hired killer, now a private detective in New Orleans, forced to keep others at arm's length, yet hopelessly in love with a woman she dare not get close to... Drawn into a case involving Voodoo and an FBI agent with an agenda, Flynn must make a dark bargain in order to save the life of the woman she wishes she could love. A dark thriller with a dash of romance and a sprinkling of the supernatural, from Devon Marshall - author of the acclaimed 'Dante's Awakening ( Vampires of Hollywood #1 )'.

Volume One of a two volume, HBO documentary companion collection of the writings of film historian and gay activist Vito Russo.

Volume Two of a two volume, HBO documentary companion collection of the writings of film historian and gay activist Vito Russo.

Click, a straight-edge transgender kid, is searching for hir place within a pack of newly sober gender rebels in the dilapidated punk houses of Portland, Oregon circa 2002. Ze embarks on a dizzying whirlwind of leather, sex, hormones, house parties, and protests until hir gender fluidity takes an unexpected turn and the pack is sent reeling.

The mis-adventures of gay guesthouse owner and writer Rick as he sells his gay fiction for a cable TV mini-series. His partner Kim returns to England to claim his inheritance. Will their relationship survive?

From the minute you come out you are offered a sequined world and it is your responsibility to discover the rules, the customs, and the glory. Maybe you're a muscular jock fond of using the word "bro." You might be a leather enthusiast. Perhaps you're a Dungeons and Dragons player. Or an antiques dealer. Or a farmer in Kansas. No matter what you get into you are fabulous and you know it, but you might not know how to show it. You may be born gay, but fabulous takes work. Thus: Ruling with a Sequined Fist. You will learn about the four gay humours: glamour, filth, camp, and divinity. Using these skills you can find a place on the gay social spectrum. From there you'll learn how to dress up your surroundings and your life. You'll even learn how to gay-fight. Whether you're femme, butch, or something in between, this book will help you put your fiercest face forward.

Compelled by his own 2005 HIV diagnosis, journalist John-Manuel Andriote revisits his acclaimed chronicle of the AIDS epidemic in this updated and expanded edition of the University of Chicago Press 1999 hardcover original. Andriote examines the impact of AIDS on individuals and on the gay civil rights movement, from the coming-out revelry of the 1970s to the post-AIDS gay community of the twenty-first century's first decade. Victory Deferred looks at how AIDS has changed both individual lives and national organizations. It tells the story of how a health crisis pushed a disjointed jumble of local activists to become a national visible and politically powerful civil rights movement, a full-fledged minority group challenging the authority of some of the nation's most powerful institutions. Based on hundreds of interviews with those at the forefront of the medical, political, cultural, civic, and national responses to the epidemic, Victory Deferred artfully blends personal narratives with institutional histories and organizational politics to show how AIDS forced gay men from their closets and ghettos into the hallways of power to lobby and into the streets to protest.

DAMIAN is based on a true story. Originally written in 1998 it has recently been updated with the consent of all concerned. It is gay sexually explicit and contains ADULT material.

Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields-including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from movies by Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Godard to fiction by Proust and Pierre Bergounioux, Bersani considers various kinds of connectedness. Thoughts and Things posits what would appear to be an irreducible gap between our thoughts (the human subject) and things (the world). Bersani departs from his psychoanalytic convictions to speculate on the oneness of being-of our intrinsic connectedness to the other that is at once external and internal to us. He addresses the problem of formulating ways to consider the undivided mind, drawing on various sources, from Descartes to cosmology, Freud, and Genet and succeeds brilliantly in diagramming new forms as well as radical failures of connectedness. Ambitious, original, and eloquent, Thoughts and Things will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, film, literature, and beyond.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet's growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys and sorrows. MY LIFE AS ADAM is Bryan Borland's full-length debut and was included as one of only five collections of poetry on the American Library Association's inaugural "Over the Rainbow" list of best LGBT books of 2010.

Out in Paperback is a wonderfully entertaining look at gay mass-market paperback cover art that throws light on the important role of the book publishing industry in the development of gay popular culture. Richly illustrated with over a hundred covers of gay-themed "pulps" published between 1948 and 1998, this fascinating visual history provides new insights into a striking form of gay imagery. Following the huge demand for portable reading material during World War II, paperback publishing exploded in the post-war years. At the same time, the Kinsey Report and a spate of novels and non-fiction studies about male homosexuality suggested new and sensational subject matter. Literature, mass culture, and the emerging homosexual underground combined in the accessible pulp paperback with its striking, interpretive packaging.For many readers - including young, isolated gay men - an eye-catching, pocket-sized paperback cover on a drugstore rack provided their first intriguing look into a previously concealed gay world. What were the messages behind the emblematic images and flashy graphics? For whom were they intended? What was their impact on a rapidly changing North American society? Ian Young, author of The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory and an authority on gay publishing, probes beneath the surface of gay pulp covers to reveal their underlying, sometimes surprising, messages. Ian Young is one of the founders of the Canadian gay movement. His books include Sex Magick, The Male Muse, The AIDS Cult (with John Lauritsen), and The Stonewall Experiment. His essays, poems and short stories have been published in over fifty anthologies including What Love Is and The Golden Age of Gay Fiction. He lives in Toronto with his partner Wulf. This is a re-issued manuscript.

Matthew Woodhead has come out and thinks he has found the love of his life. He thought that once he'd gone through the trauma of coming out it would all be plain sailing but it wasn't so. Matt hadn't counted on the deeply ingrained attitudes of Northern Ireland's society in the 1980's. Matt and his friends battle against the twin prejudices of homophobia and sectarianism as the political situation deteriorates around them on their search for love and acceptance. 'Ulster Gay' is the second in the Thrice Alien sequence which began with 'Ulster Alien.'

It's easy to get distracted on the journey to self-discovery. We all come with our own baggage and it's impossible to predict how other people's damage will affect our story. Darryl Stephens' first novel follows a group of young men whose lives intersect around the notion that sex is just another means to an end in the ultimate quest for love and companionship. They turn to dive bars, drug habits, pop music and pornography to cope with the loneliness they suffer when they find their emotional well-being dependent on the support and understanding of other men. SHORTCOMINGS is a provocative and compelling glimpse into those intensely personal moments when men come together and allow fear to finally give way to love.

Busy Wheeler, a spirited tomboy who's adopted and best friends with a mentally handicapped boy named Billy, is suddenly having strange feelings for the new girl at school and fighting an overwhelming sensation that she's growing up too fast. After getting into trouble too many times at school, she is sent away to live for the entire summer with an aunt she's never met. As the summer unfolds, so does a deep-seated family secret, and Busy comes face to face with her birth mother. With the help of a new friend, Busy must learn to swallow her pride and make amends with a mother she's never known while laughter, unexpected kisses and a continuous trail of mischief lead her on an endless journey of adolescent discoveries.

A lesbian midsummer night's dream with the goddesses of celibacy, love, and marriage competing for Sappho's attention amid poetry contests, meteor showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic trysting, mix-ups and disguises. Wet and wild romantic comedy!

Silk Electric is a moving collection of poems exploring the conflict between spiritual, sexual and sacred spaces, while also juxtaposing the life of Diana Ross with black gay culture. Here is a new southern poet from Mississippi who exposes his soul through a candid, vulnerable account of his same gender loving self. Silk Electric searches for love in its most ideal form, but also reflects on love lessons from the past. Darius simultaneously takes you to church, the bedroom, the club, the bathhouse and the street corner all in one collection. Finally, Silk Electric is a celebration of the music of Diana Ross, a salute to civil rights activists including Medgar Evers, Beah Richards and Ossie Davis as well as a tribute to biological mamas, spiritual mamas and infamous drag-queens.

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Erotics, and Intimacy, 1886-2014 is an anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other men. Covering more than 125 years of modern and contemporary Japanese history, this book aims to introduce a diverse array of authors to an English-speaking audience and provide further context for their works. While no anthology can comprehensively represent queer Japanese literature, these selections nonetheless expand our understanding of queerness in Japanese culture.

The sequel to "When the Children Get Together," "Let It Be Real" answers many of the questions from the previous book. Filled with surprises, adventure is still present.

For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies is that of the uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexual, who expresses uncontrolled sexuality during wild Carnival festivities and is welcomed by a society that accepts fluid sexual identity. However, in "Beyond Carnival," the first sweeping cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil, James Green shatters these exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals.
Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the rise of a politicized gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s, Green's study focuses on male homosexual subcultures in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He uncovers the stories of men coping with arrests and street violence, dealing with family restrictions, and resisting both a hostile medical profession and moralizing influences of the Church. Green also describes how these men have created vibrant subcultures with alternative support networks for maintaining romantic and sexual relationships and for surviving in an intolerant social environment. He then goes on to trace how urban parks, plazas, cinemas, and beaches are appropriated for same-sex erotic encounters, bringing us into the world of street cruising, male hustlers, and cross-dressing prostitutes.
Through his creative use of police and medical records, newspapers, literature, newsletters, and extensive interviews, Green has woven a fascinating history, the first of its kind for LatinAmerica, that will set the standard for future works.
"Green brushes aside outworn cultural assumptions about Brazil's queer life to display its full glory, as well as the troubles which homophobia has sent its way. . . . This latest gem in Chicago's 'World of Desire' series offers a shimmering view of queer Brazilian life throughout the 20th century."--"Kirkus Reviews"
Winner of the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards' Emerging Scholar Award of the Monette/Horwitz Trust
Winner of the 1999 Hubert Herring Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies

The battle over the "gay question" continues, and it's much more than a simple disagreement over sexual preference or orientation. It's an emotionally charged issue debated by politicians and preachers alike that threatens to topple the house of Christianity. In "Arguing with God, " author J. T. Hutcherson addresses relevant issues that spark the debate between Christian fundamentalists and homosexuals.

Through a dialogue between friends-Eli, an evangelical, fundamentalist Christian; and Jay, a religious liberal and former fundamentalist Christian-Hutcherson offers an authentic discussion about God, religion, bigotry, and homosexuality. "Arguing with God" presents opposing perspectives on the issue of homosexuality and gives a clear portrait of the gap dividing the body of believers.Advance Praise for "Arguing with God"

"Hutcherson is a light in the spiritual and religious darkness. He offers an analytical offensive-a loving and informed response to Christian fundamentalism. Using weapons of theological knowledge and mature discourse, he faces the ultimate challenge of 'The Other' and gives answers to young Christians and adults estranged from the ordinary. He not only finds a place for himself, but becomes a model for all those disenfranchised and criticized the world around."

-Charles K. Bunch, PhD, Author and Transpersonal Therapist