There are times when you need to play with danger STARbooks Press is proud to release HOMO THUGS, edited by SHANE ALLISON. What is it about thugs that so excites gay men? Could it be the leather-clad jackets, those bulging thighs under cut-up tattered jeans, the gang colors that launch bridled lust (and other body parts) of their beholders? Maybe it's the promise of hot sex under the threat of a switch blade - or something more organic. Or, perhaps it's the sheer pleasure of transgression, of getting down and dirty with a man who couldn't care less about abiding by the law. HOMO THUGS, edited by SHANE ALLISON, explores the sexier, sleazier side of these masculine brutes and mischievous makers from gay gang bangers to queer mob bosses and pimps on the down low. Editor Shane Allison assembled stories by Christopher Pierce, Jay Starre, Peter Eros, H.L. Champa, Michael Braken, Landon Dixon, Wayne Mansfield, and other seasoned writers about the men of the street who don't ask, but take what they want when they want it. These sizzling stories pay happy homage to those bad boys of the night who keep the streets (and a lot of other locales) sultry and - erotically dangerous

Gym Boys examines what takes place behind the closed doors of the locker room. This book is a tribute to the body beautiful, where men who look like Greek gods are worshiped for their outsized attributes. Editor and Gaybie Award--winner Shane Allison takes us into the erotic world of hard-working guys who like to work out, along with hard-bodied body builders and the men who desire them. These uninhibited stories are by the masters of the genre, and editor Shane Allison gets the party started with a true confession of his own. At the gym, in the locker room, and especially in the steam room, the hunks who look hard, work hard, and play hard inspire fantasies the world over. Come along for the ride and explore what goes on both in the gym and in those showers and locker rooms after a hard, sweaty work out. What happens when a personal trainer takes things to a whole new level with his lusty client? How rowdy does it get when rock hard jocks get it on in the showers after a game? The steamiest gay erotica ever!

Got a big pole that needs planting? Need help getting the heat turned back on? Well, strap on your tool belt and get ready for a rough ride! The hunks of Hard Working Men will do whatever it takes to get the job done. These sweaty studs, brawny bears, and cocksure construction workers go all out to turn on, tune up, and fulfill every work order. When a man living in wintry seclusion is visited by a cable repairman in Marvin Richmond's "Service Call," things start to heat up. William Holden sets loins ablaze when a lonely neighbor gets a house call from a couple of horned-up tree trimmers in "Out on a Limb." In the world of Hard Working Men, hats aren't the only things that are hard.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Inspired by the underground classic I REMEMBER by Joe Brainard, Shane Allison takes us on a fragmented, lustful, and poetic tour of his life, from a turbulent childhood in Florida to his life in New York City. Allison's book is an epic poem/memoir full of frozen moments that capture a sexual, cultural, and emotional coming of age."Shane Allison taps directly into memory, like a faucet pushed into a maple tree to procure the sweet syrup. Sexy things, embarrassing things, the ugly and the fraught, the things of the child and the things of the man, all pour out in profusion. His testimony--of bullying, racism, and casual homophobia, but also the best rimjob he ever had--has the power to dismantle centuries of chains, the crippling superego."--Kevin Killian

Slut Machine is an enticing first volume that is brave, honest and rich in eroticism, humor and growing up gay and southern in America. This book of poetry takes on a Frankensteinian quality in which ideas span from the influences of Allen Ginsberg and Madonna to eroticizing Mexican and Chinese fast food restaurants.