false 62652 2009054 1551522276 9781551522272 1 <![CDATA[First Person Queer: Who We Are]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2009054.First_Person_Queer_Who_We_Are 3.90 20 In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer experience, from coming out to "passing" as straight to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary gay and lesbian life-and by definition, are funny, sad, hopeful, and truthful. Representing a diversity of genders, ages, races, and orientations, and edited by two acclaimed writers and anthologists (who between them have written or edited almost one hundred books), First Person Queer puts the "personal" back into "queer."

]]> 157655 3.79 2681 109 62652 3.88 88 26 2777580 3.90 20 1 354278 1573442682 9781573442688 2 <![CDATA[Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256065630m/354278.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354278.Country_Boys_Wild_Gay_Erotica 4.62 8 Something about the country brings out the best – and the sexiest – in a man, and country boys are a special breed. These tobacco-chewin’, cattle-ropin’ icons in temptingly baggy overalls or skin-tight wranglers rank with cops and soldiers as one of the most potent symbols of the naturally masculine male. Sweating and sensual not from the gym but from honest, hard work (and play), they come in all shapes, sizes, and erotic potential. City homos hike the wilds to commune with nature and nature boys. Gay pioneers enjoy rural living and loving. Lonesome queers meet for moonlight trysts in the cornfields. Whether yielding to the rugged charms of that hunky ranger during bear season or skipping the farmer’s daughter and bedding his accommodating son instead, the men of Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica unabashedly explore the sizzling side of life far from the city lights. </div>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 2243804 1573443034 9781573443036 4 <![CDATA[Best Gay Romance 2008]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2243804.Best_Gay_Romance_2008 4.50 8
In Best Gay Romance 2008, editor Richard Labonté shows that however romance happens, however long love lasts—a heartbeat or a lifetime—erotic love between men is a wondrous thing. In “Viva Las Vegas,” the narrator casts off his boy-next-door image and, dancing down the grand staircase at Caesar’s Palace into the arms of a handsome stranger, finally becomes the romantic leading man he always knew he was. In the beautiful, nostalgic “Endless Against Amber,” a man recalls a long-ago summer love, before adult life got in the way, “we were just two boys in a beat-up old car like so many others, cruising the neighborhood for a laugh, only one thing on our minds….”]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 74440 4.06 18 7 97712 4.13 31 9 119291 4.12 207 36 141337 4.10 1079 240 143110 4.27 66 12 369734 3.61 59 13 793456 3.62 21 6 1396636 4.49 37 11 3013714 4.50 8 4 3013715 4.50 8 4 3013716 4.36 11 6 3013717 4.50 8 4 3013718 4.50 8 4 3013719 4.50 8 4 1017883 1551522098 9781551522098 4 <![CDATA[The Future Is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180273086m/1017883.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017883.The_Future_Is_Queer_A_Science_Fiction_Anthology 2.91 11 In a world increasingly complicated by questionable technologies and factional poli-tics, what does the future hold for gays, lesbians, and transgenders? In this anthology, the first of its kind in over ten years, provocative stories and comics posit a queer future of limitless possibilities, covering issues like cloning, gene manipulation, and gender assignment. It includes contributions from best-selling author and comic book creator Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys, The Sandman), World Fantasy Award-winner Rachel Pollack, and cult UK comic artist Bryan Talbot.]]> 157655 3.79 2681 109 62652 3.88 88 26 147839 1573442038 9781573442039 1 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2005]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147839.Best_Gay_Erotica_2005 3.43 7 Brains, muscle, tenderness, kink. Like the perfect lover, Best Gay Erotica 2005 has the total package (and you’ll never have to meet its parents). From the blushing explorations of a beautiful, untouched rural boy in Jonathan Asche's "Doll Boy" to the dark journey of Alpha Martial's "My Place" to the sexual confession of a homophobic "straight" boy in Alexander Rowlson's "Pink Triangle-Shaped Pubes," these 22 stories explore a heartpounding, tent-raising range of male-male desire.

]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 85543 3.71 411 82 1380555 1573443018 9781573443012 2 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2008]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183126457m/1380555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1380555.Best_Gay_Erotica_2008 4.00 6 Best Gay Erotica 2008. Here are 20 of the hottest and best-written man-on-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In “Underground Operator,” two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in forceful, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. “Donuts to Demons” finds a self-described “rock'n'roll artfag” searching for a lover “as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on craigslist.”</div>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 407179 4.14 29 4 310356 1573442259 9781573442251 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2006]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173628823m/310356.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310356.Best_Gay_Erotica_2006 4.00 5 Best Gay Erotica 2006 is a cornucopia of searing man-sex. From the languid, Bolero-paced striptease of a magnificently buff lover in James Williams’s “The End” to the fevered gropings of a skater boy and a pink-haired goth in “DogBoy and the BetaGoth” by Nadyalec Hijazi and Ben Blackthorne, Best Gay Erotica holds something for every wicked taste. In Jeff Mann’s “Daddy Dave,” a lover awakens his gentle new partner’s dominant side by letting him witness a master's skillful savagery. Steven Zeeland’s “Trouble Loves Me” maps a porn director’s odyssey through a vivid underworld of bad boy marines, sailors, and submariners. Edited by Richard Labonté and selected and introduced by the inimitable Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Best Gay Erotica 2006 furthers the series’ reputation for gorgeous storytelling and hot, no-holds-barred sex between men. The book also features an excerpt from Dennis Cooper’s new novel The Sluts.</div>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 79929 4.14 710 107 4759828 1573443360 9781573443364 2 <![CDATA[Best Gay Romance 2009]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4759828.Best_Gay_Romance_2009 4.50 2 Best Gay Romance 2009, editor Richard Labonté has assembled the foremost of contemporary short stories on the subject. Jack Fritscher's “The Calamus Emotion: Love Among the Ruins” tenderly tracks a romance in letters set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. S. J. Frost's “Semper Fi” finds a despondent young Marine looking for love in a Chicago bar after the death of the beloved Saudi Arabian translator who saved his life in Iraq. In Neil Plakcy's “The Baker,” more than yeast rises when an overworked French baker meets a customer searching for the perfect pain au chocolat. Emphasizing emotions over erotics, these vivid tales of love sought, lost, and found show that however romance happens, however long it lasts — one night or a lifetime — love between men is a wondrous thing.</DIV>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 1017885 157344104X 9781573441049 0 <![CDATA[The Best of the Best: Gay Erotica]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180273087m/1017885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017885.The_Best_of_the_Best_Gay_Erotica 3.67 3 </div>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 5083093 1551522454 9781551522456 1 <![CDATA[Second Person Queer: Who You Are]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5083093.Second_Person_Queer_Who_You_Are 5.00 2 First Person Queer, an anthology of nonfiction essays written in the first person by a variety of gay and lesbian authors, was a snapshot of GLBT life and experience in the modern age. Published in 2007, it received wide acclaim and won the Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies and the Independent Publisher Award (Gold) for gay/lesbian books.

Second Person Queer is an unusual companion book: it is an anthology of essays on GLBT life written in the second person. The essays take the form of letters to family and friends, missives to homophobes, confessions to lovers, and words of advice for the next generation; they deal with subjects as large and looming as violence, coming out, gay marriage, and raising children. They are as intimate and engaging as How to Become a Visible Femme, How Not to Be Offended by Everything, and How to Become a Country Leather Bear. Powerful, funny, poignant: these are the stories of who you are as a GLBT person, or the person you would most like to be.

Contributors include S. Bear Bergman, Sky Gilbert, Matt Bernstein Sycamore (a.k.a. Mattilda), Achy Obejas, Andy Quan, Michael Rowe, Stacey May Fowles, and Amber Dawn. 

Co-editors Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel have written or edited over one hundred books between them; Labonté edits the annual Best Gay Erotica anthologies from Cleis Press, and Schimel’s books include PoMoSexuals and The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica.

]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 157655 3.79 2681 109 2556179 1573443166 9781573443166 2 <![CDATA[Best Gay Bondage Erotica]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2556179.Best_Gay_Bondage_Erotica 5.00 2 62652 3.88 88 26 3595966 1573443174 9781573443173 2 <![CDATA[Boys In Heat]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3595966.Boys_In_Heat 3.33 3 62652 3.88 88 26 4860488 1573443344 9781573443340 2 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2009]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4860488.Best_Gay_Erotica_2009 3.50 2 Best Erotica series is the best-selling gay erotica series in America and with good reason. It sets the standard for erotic writing with searing action and stories that are smart, edgy, authentic, and wickedly inventive. Designed for your reading pleasure, Best Gay Erotica 2009 includes 20 of the hottest, best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. Featuring the works of Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Jamie Freeman, Robert Patrick, and more, these down-and-dirty page-turners showcase unique and in-depth characters that reflect gay lives not often found in erotic stories. From casual hook-ups to highly charged street encounters to dark backrooms, the men in this collection all let their lust and passions loose for all to read and enjoy. </DIV>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 38335 3.52 118 41 1989413 1573442909 9781573442909 2 <![CDATA[Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255753819m/1989413.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1989413.Where_the_Boys_Are_Urban_Gay_Erotica 3.00 2
Many a confident urban gay man in the Castro, West Hollywood, and Chelsea was once a wide-eyed newcomer. Every year thousands of young men arrive in these queer-friendly neighborhoods, seduced by city life and its sexual possibilities. In Coming to the City, Richard Labonté collects raunchy memoirs and stories about these newly arrived country boys. Here are stories of first times, initiations, bars, backrooms, dance clubs, and parties, reading (or misreading) the codes — and sometimes teaching those city boys a thing or two.</DIV>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 1017882 1573442399 9781573442398 0 <![CDATA[Hot Gay Erotica]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180273085m/1017882.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017882.Hot_Gay_Erotica 5.00 1 Romentics series of gay romance novels, contributes “The Competitor,” in which a hunky athlete unexpectedly meets his match at the gym. Cat Tailor’s rollicking “Delta Boys” finds four randy soldier boys, back from the frontlines, living out their fantasies in a sleazy motel room.</div>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 108308 1573442607 9781573442602 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2007]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171581192m/108308.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108308.Best_Gay_Erotica_2007 5.00 1 Best Gay Erotica 2007, twenty of the hottest and best-written sex stories to appear in print this year, along with fourteen pages of comics that aren’t for kids. In Jay Neal’s “The Lighthouse Keep,” a stranded traveler stumbles into a ghost story, a murder mystery, and a skin-tingling S/M thriller rolled into one, complete with B-movie storm effects and a gnarled ancient mariner. Cat Tailor’s “There’s More to Kink than Leather” follows a leather daddy as he makes a crucial misstep into a drag bar, where the queens are restless for new subjects. And in Greg Herren’s “Disaster Relief,” a renter whose apartment was flooded by Hurricane Katrina gets some unexpected comfort from a FEMA inspector. </div>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 4438925 1573443212 9781573443210 0 <![CDATA[Bears]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4438925.Bears 3.00 1 62652 3.88 88 26 712604 1573440485 9781573440486 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 1999]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177548575m/712604.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/712604.Best_Gay_Erotica_1999 3.00 1 26766 3.69 245 45 62652 3.88 88 26 147836 157344183X 9781573441834 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2004 (Best Gay Erotica Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172191305m/147836.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147836.Best_Gay_Erotica_2004 3.00 1 62652 3.88 88 26 85542 3.65 136 32 365622 1573441120 9781573441124 1 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2001 (Best Gay Erotica Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174147478m/365622.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365622.Best_Gay_Erotica_2001 3.00 1 62652 3.88 88 26 6665771 1573443743 9781573443746 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2010]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665771-best-gay-erotica-2010 0.0 0 62652 3.88 88 26 6383851 1573443468 9781573443463 0 <![CDATA[Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6383851-daddies 0.0 0 62652 3.88 88 26 2299889 1555832105 9781555832100 0 <![CDATA[Tickled Pink: Lesbian and Gay Humor Fiction]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2299889.Tickled_Pink_Lesbian_and_Gay_Humor_Fiction 0.0 0 62652 3.88 88 26 1017884 1573442135 9781573442138 0 <![CDATA[Best of Best Gay Erotica: v. 2]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180273087m/1017884.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017884.Best_of_Best_Gay_Erotica_v_2 0.0 0 62652 3.88 88 26 6351476 1573443514 9781573443517 0 <![CDATA[Boy Crazy: Coming Out Erotica]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255804939m/6351476.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6351476-boy-crazy 0.0 0 Boy Crazy explores in heady detail the “first time:” the first time feeling lustful toward another boy, the first time falling into bed with a peer, the first time discovering love with another young man. This youthful collection relishes the thrill of being crazy for a certain boy, for a moment or for a lifetime. In Jere M. Fishback’s “A Beautiful Motorcycle,” a young man shares a hotel room with his sister’s boyfriend and experiences a whole new kind of room service. Guitar lessons give way to instructions of a more amorous variety in L.A. Field’s “Summertime Blues.” Mesmerized by two hot young bikers, Warden finds himself taking a ride on the wild side in Jeffrey Rounds’ “This Is Not Your Country.” These and other stories of sexual awakening vividly evoke the trembling, heart-pounding, sweaty-palmed excitement of the first time.</DIV>]]> 62652 3.88 88 26 1136373 1573441406 9781573441407 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2002]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181278587m/1136373.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1136373.Best_Gay_Erotica_2002 0.0 0 62652 3.88 88 26 1136371 1573441627 9781573441629 0 <![CDATA[Best Gay Erotica 2003]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181278559m/1136371.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1136371.Best_Gay_Erotica_2003 0.0 0 62652 3.88 88 26 6594802 0 <![CDATA[Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6594802-stonewall 0.0 0 In this new collection, Fritscher rolls out nine excellently crafted short stories written over a forty-year career showcasing gay people, gay places, and gay events from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in “Dear Benny” through the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion up to Y2K in “Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way.”
In stories of memories and truths told with an almost psychic feeling for the way we are, Fritscher’s use of the omniscient narrator’s voice inflects his stories with humor, irony, and drama. As a prose stylist, he is a marvelously talented writer and a tuneful wordsmith whose joyful use of language surprises and delights the reader. His stories rhyme with the gay archetype. The title story, taking place in the last hour of the “Last Pre-Historic Gay Period”—sixty minutes before the NYPD raided the Stonewall bar!—is a classic screwball comedy with dialogue to die for. “Stonewall is pitch-perfect.” —Thomas Long, editor, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Associate Professor-in-Residence, University of Connecticut.
The nine stories, set between 1906 to 1999, stretch from Greenwich Village bars to Midwest movie palaces and to Alaska cruise ships via San Francisco teeming with gay-immigrant refugees from the 1970s culture wars. In the way the fast-talking “Stonewall” memorializes Christopher Street, three West Coast stories form a “Castro Street Trilogy.”
o “Last Tango on Castro Street” is a comedy about the early days of Gay Gentrification and sexual identity in San Francisco (adapted by the author into play Coming Attractions: Kweenasheba for San Francisco’s Yonkers Production Company).
o “18th and Castro” confronts themes of the birth of gay lib, coming out, blindness, guilt, and racism; its pace reads with all the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock directing a psychological thriller film about fear and fantasy on Castro Street four years after the Stonewall revolution.
o “B-Movie on Castro Street,” with its old-school blues for “the man that got away” skins down the exquisite freedom of the 1979 street-scene heyday with the opening line: “Lover trouble. Just like Bette Davis.”
While “Dear Benny” is a Valentine of boys in love, its opposite story, the existential “The Unseen Hand in the Lavender Light,” tracks a young boy, abandoned at the Bee Hive café, who comes out during World War II in the dark Apollo movie theater where, lit only by the light of the projector, he tries to grow up as the 1950s become the1960s. “The Story Knife” is the shipboard tale of a dedicated priest who discovers (not all to his dismay) that temptation has turned him into a sex-tourist beguiled by a cabin boy from Genoa.
In “Mrs. Dalloway Went That-A-Way,” his touching story of eldercare and gay marriage, he teases out Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway into a tender love story. Guided by gaydar, he reinvents the Celtic mythology of his own Irish roots spinning legendary Lady Gregory and James Joyce in the genius humor of “Chasing Danny Boy” which, published initially with Neil Jordan, director of The Crying Game, is perhaps one of the great gay short stories.]]> 143110 4.27 66 12 21259 4.00 94 24 62652 3.88 88 26 754576 3.60 5 2