Favorite LGBT book | Favorite LGBT book
Jun.28.2011
Alice Street Editions has released a new edition of this 1986 novel by author Katherine V. Forrest, originally published by Naiad Press. If you read this novel long ago, it is worth the purchase price just to read the foreword from the author and the afterword written by Victoria A. Brownworth. But...
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Jun.28.2011
I just finished re-reading Desert of the Heart, written by Jane Rule, for about the twentieth time. It is a remarkable, perfect little book. I have almost memorized certain lines and phrases, and I am certain that this work, all Jane Rule's work, has influenced my own. It says what it has to say,...
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Jun.27.2011
Cities around the world commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots every June with LGBT--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender--Pride celebrations. Americans concerned with gay rights had a special occasion to celebrate last weekend. New York became the sixth state, and by far the most populous, to...
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Jun.24.2011
Here's my blog relating to writers who deal with lesbians. I'm referring to an excellent writer: Donna Leon--she writes detective stories based in Venice, Italy, and her series featuring a detective named Brunetti are superb. The other main characters are a lesbian couple--both famous in their...
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Jun.24.2011
Although you won’t find it on lists of LGBT classics, I would nominate Jonathan Kellerman’s long running Alex Delaware detective series as one of my favorites. It features a new twist on the classic formula of detective-plus-sidekick, professional-plus-amateur. In this series, a straight man...
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Jun.23.2011
10. Max Wolf Valerio
I first heard Max read at the National Queer Arts Festival 2009. I was invited to their reading, Exile: Vision Quest at the Edge of Identity, by Aja Couchois Duncan (Ojibwe poet who did not make this list, but who writes a beautiful blog, that deserves mention. http://www....
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Jun.23.2011
An influential book which acknowledges the existence of a degree of female
friendship in the early modern period Faderman’s text Surpassing The Love of Men. In herstudy of romantic friendship between women, from the Renaissance to the present time Lillian Faderman found that romantic friendship...
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Jun.23.2011
The recent blog topic is gay or lesbian writers who changed our lives; Willa Cather changed my life for the better at 15 years old. I always imagined her as a masculine lesbian with baggie pants a crew cut and a ponderous belly. She had wanted to be a doctor as her first choice of...
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Jun.23.2011
“Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel, is probably the most powerful memoir I have ever read. That being said, I know that I have possibly set myself up for ridicule and debate. Yes, I know, it’s a cartoon.
I was a skeptic. The last comic books I’d read were when I was a child: Casper the...
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Jun.22.2011
As a young queer, I read Dale Peck's novel Martin and John. John escapes abuse, meets Martin, and suffers the loss of the person and love he's found. The only detail that stays in my memory is blood in a yellow vinyl chair, "like the red speck in a spoiled egg yolk." The threat of...
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