REBEL MALES

CLIFT, BRANDO and DEAN

Graham

McCann

REBEL MALES CLIFT, BRANDO AND DEAN

Graham McCann

Discusses the three stars, the connections between them, their clashes with their fathers when they pursued the "frivolous" and "effeminate" careers of acting, their closeness with their mothers, and how they felt themselves to be bisexual and therefore well suited to roles in which gender boundaries were fluid.

Rutgers U. Press Paperback $14.95

FRIDA KAHLO THE PAINTINGS Hayden Herrera Showcases the sensually vibrant full-color paintings of the renowned Mexican painter along with documentary photos and text that detail her fascinating life.

HarperPerennial Paperback $25.00

PATTY DIPHUSA

AND OTHER WRITINGS

Pedro Almodovar The first half of the book consists of the adventures of Almodovar's alter-ego: the sexually-ambiguous porn queen Patty Diphusa, whose street-wise memoir moves through the high and low life of Madrid. Also included are short stories and essays on such subjects as his films, Gone with the Wind and how to become an internationally famous filmmaker. Faber & Faber Paperback $10.95

GRIE

THE DESTINY OF ME Larry Kramer Continues the story 10 years after the events that occurred in The Normal Heart. Ned Weeks is now HIV+ and has entered a Washington, D.C. hospital to try an experimental AIDS treatment administered by doctor who is an NIH antagonist. This play explores the memories that haunt Ned as he searches to understand his life as a gay man and as leader of the AIDS activist movement. Plume

Paperback $9.00

From Drawing the Line Against AIDS

DRAWING THE LINE AGAINST AIDS John Cheim, Diego Cortez, Carmen Gimenez, Klaus Kertess Approximately 150 internationally recognized artists have each contributed a work on paper to help contribute to the fight against AIDS. The result is a magnificent and authoritative celebration of the art of drawing today. The artists selected traverse many boundaries and several generations. Rizzoli Paperback $29.95

CERTAIN REALISM MAKING USE OF PASOLINI'S FILM THEORY AND PRACTICE Maurizio Viano Focusing on the personal and expressionistic dimensions of Pasolini's cinema, the author argues that homosexuality is present in the films in ways that critics have failed to acknowledge. This book gives a film-by-film critical treatment.

Univ. of California Paperback $18.00

FAMILIES

A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY, COMMITMENT, AND LOVE

Aylette Jenness Seventeen children and their parents openly discuss the challenges and benefits of contempo rary family life today. Includes interviews with children of gay and lesbian parents. Houghton Mifflin Paperback $4.95

WHEN HEROES DIE

Penny Raife Durant 12 year old Gary Boyden idolizes his uncle Rob, a former basketball star who is outgoing and took the place of Gary's father when he ran off. But Rob's been sick lately, and Gary's mother reveals that Rob is not only gay, but has AIDS. Soon Gary is forced into doubts about his own sexuality, his relationship with his Uncle, and what really constitutes a hero in people's eyes. Atheneum Books Hardback $13.95

Patricia Smith

A BEACH PARTY WITH ALEXIS

A COLORING BOOK

Sarita Johnson-Calvo

Alexis and her two moms decide to have a cookout on the beach and invite all of Alexis' multi-cultural friends.

Alyson Wonderland Paperback $2.95

THE WORLD IS ROUND Gertrude Stein

This is Stein's only children's book, about a little girl named Rose and her search for identity. This is a charming and witty book, using Stein's usual humor and imagination, based on a young neighbor in the French farming community of Bilignin where Stein and Toklas summered. This story offers a rare view of the real little girl and her friend Miss Stein. Shambhala Hardback $6.00

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THE GIFT OF GOOD-BYE A WORKBOOK FOR CHILDREN WHO CARE ABOUT SOMEONE WITH AIDS Denise McNaught

Readers

This book, dealing with the painful experience of losing a loved one to AIDS, is written specifically to support a child through the inevitable grief process that accompanies losing someone to the disease

Delta Paperback $9.95

EL SIDA

VERDADES EN LUGAR DE MIEDO

Karen Hein, Theresa Digeronimo

The Spanish language edition of the bestseller, AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts. Teenagers have enough to worry about. School. Money. Parents. Friends. Dating. Now there's AIDS. Knowing the facts will not change the realities of AIDS. The facts in this book, directed at a teenage audience, can make a real difference in their lives, offering information and allowing choices to be made.

Consumer Reports Books

Paperback $4.95

English Version Also Available Paperback $4.95

Editor's Choice

Poetry

YELLOW

SNOW

AND OTHER POEMS Gavin Geoffrey Dillard This latest collection of poetry from the wellknown Naked Poet includes photographs of the author in the buff. Bhakti Books Paperback $14.95

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ORPHEUS IN HIS UNDERWEAR William Bory "William Bory is the American Cavafy, and shares the Alexandrian poet's obsession with boys, beauty, and death" Edmund White Cythoera Press Paperback $10.00A

COAST TO COAST Bruce Bawer

This first full-length collection of one of America's leading literary critics contains 35 elegant, meditative lyrics. With challenging emotional honesty, making use of the geographic tensions between our two coasts, Bruce Bawer speculates on the terms and significance of religious devotion, the life of art, family, and homosexual love. Story Line Press Paperback $11.95

SELECTED POEMS

(1946-1985) James Merrill A nearly complete collection of Merrill's work that includes 121 poems in a single volume. Features works from "First Poems" (1951) through "Late Settings" (1985.) Knopf Paperback $14.00

CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER A POEM

James Merrill Includes the whole of the trilogy The Book Of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books Of Number, and Scripts For The Pageant, with a new coda The Higher Keys. This grand audacious narrative poem deals with a host of characters, both real and imagined, in dialogues from this world to another. Knopf Paperback $16.00

CLOSE TO DEATH

Homicide, drug abuse, and AIDS related deaths are forcing black male life expectancy into a steady decline. These men, no longer afraid to die, wear baseball caps with C2D, for "close to death." This book of poems amplifies the voices and souls of black men at various stages in their lives. Zoland Books Paperback $10.95

YOUR NATIVE LAND, YOUR LIFE Adrienne Rich The author said of this collection, "In these poems I have been try. ing to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, and erased."

Norton Paperback $8.95

Close to Death

PSES BY

Patricia Smith

EXPERIMENTAL LOVE Cheryl Clarke The preeminent AfricanAmerican lesbian poet writing today, with a heady command of the language, the ability to work in a variety of forms, and an uncompromising Black and queer stance, she continues her thematic explorations of love objects and death subjects. Firebrand Books Paperback $8.95

GAMES OF VENUS AN ANTHOLOGY OF GREEK AND ROMAN EROTIC VERSE Peter Bing, Rip Cohen This first comprehensive anthology of ancient Greek and Koman erotic verse revives the tradition of eroticism in the arts for the modern reader. Unblushingly rendered with robust new translations, it presents the whole spectrum of erotic poetry from Sappho to Ovid. Routledge Paperback $15.95

WALPURGIS NIGHT Joan Cofrancesco

A collection of poems that include musings on lesbian relationships, cats, Gertrude and Alice, reincarnation, spirituality, Janis Joplin, astral travel, witches, muses, and other subjects.

San Diego Poets Pres Paperback $10.00

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