OD WRITIN
SELECTED WRITINGS OF JEAN GENET
Jean Genet
This comprehensive volume highlights Genet's virtuosity by exploring the broad array of genres in which he worked, including fiction, theater, poetry, essay, and autobiography. There are ex-cerpts from his novels, plays and poetry. Edited and introduced by Ed-mund White, he has collected notes from Genet's film The Penal Colony, letters, essays, and has uncovered a rare interview. A great companion to the biography also by White.
Ecco Press
Hardback $27.50
SCISSORS, PAPER,
ROCK
Fenton Johnson Raphael Hardin has returned home alone. Before, he had always brought lovers with him with whom his mother had been civil while his father had retreated to his workshop. Now his mother is dead, and Raphael has come back to see his dying father who is unaware that his youngest child may also be ill. What follows is a son's attempt to reconcile the relationships of his past.
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THE GENIUS
OF DESIRE
GENIUS OF DESIRE Brian Bouldrey Growing up gay in a Catholic family is at the heart of this poignant first novel about a young man named Michael Bellman. A confused young boy growing up, he goes to confession for sins he did not commit. As he grows and his desires start to surface, he begins to understand the double life he is leading and that he must come terms with coming out and being who he is. Ballantine Hardback $17.00
Short Fiction
GOD
AN ANTHOLOGY OF FICTION
Stephen Hayward,
Sarah Letamu Short stories from authors with religious backgrounds ranging from Zoroastrian to Jewish, Roman Catholicism to Islam, the tales in this witty and refreshing collection explore the theme of religion. Authors include Maureen Duffy, Allan Gurganus, Joyce Carol Oates, Michele Roberts, James Morrow, David Plante, John Wakeman, Bapsi Sidhwa, and
more.
Serpent's Tail Paperback $13.99
EVERGREEN CHRONICLES VOL. VIII NUMBER 2
Evergreen Chronicles
A collection of gay and lesbian fiction from the magazine. Contains stories from up and coming writers.
Evergreen Chronicles Paperback $7.95
Jonathan Neale
The Laughter of Heroes
LAUGHTER OF HEROES Jonathan Neale
In this comic novel about AIDS, three friends attempt to meet the wishes of John, a young man dying from AIDS. Before he dies, John wants to go to a Himalayan monastery and chant mantras, but his friends have other ideas: they decide to fulfill his boyhood dream and take him to Disneyworld. They discover that reality is truly expert at thwarting dreams. Serpent's Tail Paperback $11.99
FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN Steven Corbin Skylar Whyte, a critically acclaimed actor, is the eldest son in a dysfunctional African-American family. This book explores the dynamics of a family in which the lighter complected child
is favored over his darker brother. It examines the layers of racism within an interracial homosexual couple, and in the gay community at large. Alyson
Hardback $19.95
GAY MEN'S LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Mark Lilly Beginning with Wilde's and Byron's existentialist outlaw, the theme of social rebellion and the fight against conformity forms a common link among the literary works of the twentieth century. This book presents a unified analysis of this and other shared themes in the works of Baldwin, Isherwood, Williams, Forster, Genet, Leavitt, Cavafy, Holleran, Orton, and in the love poetry of the first World War. New York University Paperback $14.95
GAYS AND THE MILITARY
JOSEPH STEFFAN VERSUS THE UNITED STATES Marc Wolinsky, Kenneth Sherrill
One of the co-counsels in the highly publicized case discusses how gays constitute a politically powerless class that has been unjustly deprived of its constitutional right to equal protection. This volume presents the affidavits filed on behalf of Steffan in his suit against the US government. Princeton U. Press Paperback $14.95
LAW & SEXUALITY A REVIEW OF Lesbian AND GAY LEGAL ISSUES VOUME 21992 Tulane University School of Law
A collection of essays, articles, comments, and a symposium on the latest trends in laws affecting gays and lesbians. Tulane University Paperback $20.00
Gay Studies On Disk
CONDUCT
UNBECOMING GAYS AND LESBIANS IN THE US MILITARY Randy Shilts
The bestselling title, now in an electronic hypertext version for your Mac. An investigation into the situation of gays in the military over the past three decades, revealing for the
first time that some of the most celebrated soldiers in American history were homosexual, including the father of the US army. Five years of interviews with nearly 100 gay service people have uncovered extraordinary stories of heroism, perse cution, and increasing resistance while creating an extraordinary gay subculture in the military.
Voyager Expanded Bks Disc $24.95
Examines the biological roots of human sexual behavior. LeVay puts forward the compelling case that diversity of human sexual feelings and behavior can best be understood in terms of the development, structure, and function of the brain circuits that produce them. Discarding all preconceptions about the motivation and purpose of sexuality, he discusses the scientific evidence bearing on such questions as why we are who we are, and why we love who we love.
MIT Press Hardback $22.50
HOMOSEXUAL OPPRESSION & LIBERATION Dennis Altman First published in 1971, this book stands as an early work in the gay liberation movement that recognized the divisions within the movement as a form of healthy diversity, trying to explain each position and abstaining from accusations. Jeffrey Weeks' new introduction places this book in its historical context, while the author's new afterword examines its significance in light of today's lesbian and gay movement. New York U. Paperback $14.95
MATTER OF IMAGES ESSAYS ON REPRESENTATIONS Richard Dyer These essays move between general theoretical and political considerations on the nature of representation, focusing on particular examples: the Royals, PC labels, queens and dykes, film noire, penises, men's underwear, A Passage to India, Night of the Living Dead, and three kinds of heterosexuality. They also move between studies of marginalized groups (gays, lesbians, women) and dominant groups (heterosexuals, men, white people). Routledge Paperback $15.95
Gay Studies
LITTLE BIG MEN BODYBUILDING SUBCULTURE AND GENDER CONSTRUCTION
Alan Klein
A study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday activities. SUNY Paperback $16.95
WAY WEST
STONS, ISSA); & VERSE ALCOUNTS 1483
1993
EDWARD
DORN
WAY WEST
A ROUNDUP OF ESSAYS,
STORIES AND VERSE ACCOUNTS 1963-1993 Edward Dorn Collects four essential Dorn texts on the West: "The Moderns," "Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World," "Recollections," and "Gran Apacheria."
Black Sparrow Paperback $14.00
Editor's Choice
TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY CHALLENGE LESBIANS AND GAYS IN EDUCATION BRIDGING THE GAP
Sue McConnell-Celi Over thirty lesbian and gay educators present their stories of staying in and coming out in an educational setting. This fascinating anthology includes essays, comic strips, photographs, and fiction. Some contributions are from gay youth in high school. Lavender Crystal Paperback $17.95
GAY IDEAS OUTING AND OTHER CONTROVERSIES Richard Mohr Defending outing and advocation of masculinity with graphics by Mapplethorpe, Rex, and Tom of Finland, this book was too hot for many publishers. Mohr addresses, in diverse and often shocking ways, how gays ought to represent and position themselves in the face of an increasingly threatening climate of homophobia, repression and violence. Throughout the book he
affirms the values of liberty, privacy, dignity, and individual worth in gay life.
Beacon Press Hardback $25.00
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HOMOSEXUAL DESIRE
Guy Hocquenghem Originally published in 1972, this book has become a classic of Gay Theory. It examines the relationship between the Oedipus notion and society's strict channelling of desire into compartments. Themes are traced through the works of Ellis and Freud, Beluze, Guttari, Musil, Proust, Genet, as well as the policies of legislation and civil authority. Describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia, and how the homosexual as social being has been created in a capitalist society. Duke University Paperback $13.95
BOYHOOD, GROWING UP MALE A MULTICULTURAL ANTHOLOGY
Franklin Abbott This collection takes us back to our beginnings where patterns of behavior are set. These personal accounts show us exactly how boys are trained to become men. Shows the subtle enlightening cultural differences in being brought up male. Crossing Press Paperback $12.95 ROMANTIC LONGINGS LOVE IN AMERICA 1830-1980 Steven Seidman Provocative analyses of changes in American sexual mores. Attentive to the most recent work in new social history, women's history, and Gay and Lesbian history. Routledge Paperback $15.95
PROUST, COLE PORTER, MICHELANGELO, MARC ALMOND AND ME National Lesbian and Gay Survey Writings by gay men on their lifestyles and lives. Portrays the voices and experiences of over sixty gay men from all walks of life. Here are their earliest memories of what "gay" meant, and how they saw themselves in that knowledge. Also examines the coming out process, the diversity of relationships, and the impact of HIV and AIDS as a medical, political, and social force in the gay community. Routledge Paperback $15.95
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