Red Room Where the Writers Are

Doing It is a collection of carefully selected postings together with salient advice from famed sexologist Isadora Alman's Web site rubric "The Sexuality Forum," where readers of her advice

Originally published as Aural Sex & Verbal Intercourse this is a book about people interested in sex - those who call the Sex Information Switchboard with their questions and conc

"Isadora Alman has been called a hip Dr. Ruth, a sexy Dear Abby, and a bawdy Miss Manners.

Killian Kendall is used to being overlooked, even in his own family. That’s about to change.

“Nothing can stay the same forever.

Killian Kendall's life is changing faster than he can keep up. He's graduating from high school, breaking up with his boyfriend, and starting a new job with a private investigator.

Paul Maloney, a small-time private i

Michael Jones, a young gay artist and part-time prostitute will do anything to stage his first exhibit

Love is never what you think.

Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms is a collection of these performance art texts, along with doc

Marked by maturity and poetic vision, Harmless Medicine is fiercely devoted to the margins of que

Bite Hard, a collection of poetry, fiction, and performance pieces by Justin Chin, weaves tog

DO YOU KNOW YOURSELF?

He’s the only vampire cop around—and a gang of Vespa-riding vampires threaten to drain San Francisco dry!

I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide.

A laugh-till-you-cry abridged audio from Kate Clinton's I Told You So with added bonus tracks.

In a climate when most truth is inconvenient, trusted veteran weathergirl/comic Kate Clinton tracks the rapidly changing affronts of homophobia, the high atmosphere clashing of religious and secular s

It's Come To This! 25th Anniversary Tour"Kate, You're Not Showbiz - You're Show Art!" ...

Beloved political humorist, Kate Clinton, cuts loose and runs with the burning issues of the day - same and same old sex marriage, pop and pope culture, good and bad Bush fatigue - in this one-funny w

Fast, fun and free-wheeling, and live from Los Angeles -- no, its not a sporty hybrid -- it's Kate Clinton's hysterical new CD, The Marrying Kind.

What the L? is a new collection of published and unpublished writings that showcases Kate Clinton's gifts as one of the all-time favorite lesbian comics.

Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of mothballs.

Kate Clinton strikes again in this 2001 release in which no one is spared.

Self-proclaimed fumerist (feminist humorist) Kate Clinton returns with another classic live recording.

Recorded live in Boston (dead doesn't record well), Kate draws on her recovering Catholic roots, years of high school English teaching, and her authority on Bush and bawdy politic to build laught

The Holocaust played out in microcosm on a tiny island in the English Channel allowed to be occupied by the Germans.

A hefty volume of bedtime stories Mother Goose never thought to write down.

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A college professor faces the dark side of the Internet in a so-called "review" website that allows any and all, even non-students, to

The life of a man growing up gay in Catholic, working class Detroit

An openly gay professor in the mid-1970s encounters hostile forces at a university in Fresno.

Young Tim sets off to find the Meaning of Life and meets various weirdos along the way. (The original title was A Queer Comedy.)

A fictional account, set in San Francisco, of an attempt to assassinate the assassin of a gay Supervisor REVIEWS:

A novel in e-mails, letters, and faxes that tells the story of a gay father who has sired a child with a lesbian mother. Tensions abound between the various partners.

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Joel Derfner is gayer than you.

In the tradition of Less Than Zero and Bright Lights, Big City, Tom Dolby has written a searing debut novel about going after your dreams without losing yourself in the process.

Selected poetry, ranging from relationships to the first US-Iraq war.

The publication of Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me in 1998 launched a fresh, vital voice in comedy.

"The relationship between Walter Fricke and his gay son Aaron is arrestingly portrayed as it evolved during six years from conflict to mutual understanding and respect." -Publisher's Weekly

"The relationship between Walter Fricke and his gay son Aaron is arrestingly portrayed as it evolved during six years from conflict to mutual understanding and respect." -Publisher's Weekly

Reflections of a Rock Lobster has been widely praised as the best book ever written about growing up gay.  It will be valuable for young people who are just beginning to understand their own and othe

17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth i

The essays in this book weave together the varied strands of experience that contribute to a feminist activist life.

At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contra

Fresh, tough, and thoroughly addictive, this sparkling debut calls to mind the beloved and bestselling works of Miriam Toews and Mark Haddon.

In the summer of 1995, young American writer Martin Paige agrees to chap

The stunning first novel in a new Edwardian mystery series featuring the young heiress Ursula Marlow

In a memoir studded with delicious lines and unforgettable set pieces, Robert Leleux describes...

Crave consists of 15 stories about werewolves, aliens, spies and a host of other things. Love. Abandonment. Commitment. Lust.

Sixteen hot stories about vampires and aliens, Elvis impersonators and pirates, vengeful goddeses and curious

Edited by Gail Belsky About the Anthology

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 What's Best for Jane picks up in 1975, ten years after the close of Miss McGhee.

In the early 1980s in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Dorothy lives with her bartending mother, her bar-attending stepfather, and her sweetly precocious little brother.  At the age of nine, Dottie is pla

Ever met a forty-year-old lesbian Republican librarian in love with her own repression?

Kimo Kanapa'aka's world turns upside down in MAHU. ...

MAHU SURFER, Neil Plakcy’s second mystery novel, sends openly gay Honolulu homi ...

Gregg Olsen, New York Times Bestselling True-Crime Author

Vince Liaguno, author of The Literary Six"Ripe with suspense and an escalating momentum that doesn't let up..."

What Would You Give Up for Immortal Life and Love? By day, Elise draws and paints, spilling out the horrific visions of her tortured mind.

What do you get if you mix three beautiful women and their deepest secrets with too many lawyers, corporate executives, and ovezealous reporters? One highly public love triangle:

What happened to Delta? Left hanging at the end of Tropical Storm, you finally get to find out. Who makes it out of the jungle alive and who doesn't?

At Conrad’s wedding, everything appears perfect as he embarks on a life with the woman of his dreams and a legal career

My longest book of poems (144 pages), The Alchemy of Opposites contains all the poems that I wish to preserve written since 1992 to its publication in 2000. ...

Using Jungian and queer theory, this article examines the queer personas of Ennis and Jack, whose queer archetypes fit into a context that had not generally been thought to contain those archetypes.

This article analyzes Wilde's masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, in terms of Queer Theory and the Jungian concepts of Synchronicity and the archetype of the Trickster.  The primar

This article analyzes Oscar Wilde's alcoholism and self-destructive personality as the adult child of alcoholics and as a romance addict who preferred younger men.

Charming underachiever Jamie Garner is living a slacker's life in San Francisco during the dot-com boom--avoiding his stalled career as a radio producer, barely holding on to his relationship with

Alta Corral is a distinctive character in contemporary fiction--a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other women.

Men Speak Out features original, accessible essays

"While gay people's struggle to win the right to marry continues, weddings are already happening -- and gay couples, their families, and friends planning their celebration will ...

A fabulous montage of word and image, this is the first book ever to chronicle the origin and evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Why would a lesbian raised in a Jewish home have a sudden desire to be a tough-talking Catholic girl?

Recognized as perhaps the world's most queer destination, San Francisco has a long, storied history of embracing--and influencing--gay and lesbian culture.

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With unapologetic honesty and characteristic lyric beauty, G.

Introducing poet G. Winston James and Lyric, the newest offering from GrapeVinePress.

Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing marks the twentieth anniversary of Other Countries--a small organization endeavoring to create a po

In Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, more than 40 writers address the question of how we, as same-gender-loving black people, affirm ourselves as sexual and spiritu