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The Two of Them
by Joanna Russ Sarah Le FanuA time-traveling heroine vows to rescue a subjugated girl from a fundamentalist society by any means necessary in this “extraordinary novel” (Marge Piercy). Rebelling against her repressive 1950s upbringing in a sexist America, Irene Waskiewicz flees in search of liberation and adventure as a time-and-space-traveling agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Her partner is Ernst Neumann—a mentor, father figure, friend, and lover. When the two are assigned to a repressive fundamentalist colony, they meet a twelve-year-old poet whose spirit is being crushed by the harsh restrictions of the society in which she lives. But Irene’s attempt to rescue Zubeydeh doesn’t go as planned—especially when Ernst proves unexpectedly resistant. To follow through on her commitment to the girl, Irene must undertake a drastic course of action—no matter the cost . . . In this fierce and moving speculative science fiction novel of female solidarity, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joanna Russ “digs deep into her anger and comes up with a rich and lively tale” (Ms. Magazine).
Up the Walls of the World: Up The Walls Of The World And Brightness Falls From The Air
by James Tiptree Jr.The first novel from the award-winning author of Brightness Falls from the Air, a writer &“known for gender-bending, boundary-pushing work&” (Tor.com). Up the Walls of the World is the 1978 debut novel of Alice Sheldon, who had built her reputation with the acclaimed short stories she published under the name James Tiptree Jr. A singular representation of American science fiction in its prime, Tiptree&’s first novel expanded on the themes she addressed in her short fiction. &“From telepathy to cosmology, from densely conceived psychological narrative to the broadest of sense-of-wonder revelations, the novel is something of a tour de force&” (The Science Fiction Encyclopedia). Known as the Destroyer, a self-aware leviathan roams through space gobbling up star systems. In its path is the planet Tyree, populated by telepathic wind-dwelling aliens who are facing extinction. Meanwhile on Earth, people burdened with psi powers are part of a secret military experiment run by a drug-addicted doctor struggling with his own grief. These vulnerable humans soon become the target of the Tyrenni, whose only hope of survival is to take over their bodies and minds—an unspeakable crime in any other period of the aliens&’ history . . . Praise for James Tiptree Jr. &“[Tiptree] can show you the human in the alien and the alien in the human and make both utterly real.&” —The Washington Post &“Novels that deal with the mental gymnastics of superminds, or with concepts like eternity and infinity, are doomed to fall short of the mark. But Tiptree&’s misses are more exciting than the bulls‐eyes of less ambitious authors.&” —The New York Times
Angel Dance: A Thriller
by Mary F. BealClassic lesbian thriller. The narrator, Kat, has been active in radical feminist politics long enough to know how to take care of herself--which is a good thing because her new job, protecting best-selling feminist author, Angel Stone, is going to test every one of her survival skills. Kat is tough, cool and disengaged, except for her passion for Angel Stone. Angel may be the most attractive woman she has ever known, but being around her can only spell danger.
Homosexuals in History: A Study of Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts
by A. L. RowseRichard Coeur-de-Lion, Johann Joachim, Fritz Krupp, Erasmus, Winckelmann, Leonardo da Vinci, Lord Byron, Ernst Röhm, Michelangelo, Tchaikovsky, E. M. Forster, Christopher Marlowe, Diaghilev, Somerset Maugham, Henri III, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Francis Bacon, Rimbaud and Verlaine, T. E. Lawrence, James I, Walt Whitman, Louis XIII, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, Horace Walpole, André Gide, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick the Great, Jean Cocteau, Henry James, Jean Genet and numerous others walked every path of life and left their marks, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil, in every field of endeavor. Their single similarity was the sexual preference they shared--and the stigma society placed upon it. Now eminent English historian A. L. Rowse examines homosexual men of genius throughout history and the _ courageous, often desperate responses they made to society's hypocrisy.
An Idol for Others: An Idol For Others, The Quirk, Now Let's Talk About Music, Perfect Freedom, And The Great Urge Downward
by Gordon MerrickFrom the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lord Won&’t Mind comes the story of a man whose marriage of convenience will never keep him from taking what he truly wantsBefore he has even hit his twentieth birthday, Walter Makin has already earned a red-hot career on the stage and a reputation as a Boy Wonder. From afar, he is truly a man who has the whole world at its knees and a bright future ahead of him. Still, he has one weakness—other boys. Set in the 1940s, An Idol for Others follows Walter&’s internal turmoil as he tries to follow society&’s norms by marrying Clara, a wealthy, forceful heiress who is as enamored of Walter&’s status as she is of his body. In spite of Walter&’s efforts to refuse what he truly wants, he finds comfort again and again in the beds of other men—men who understand themselves and what they want in ways Walter can only dream of. However, when he meets and falls for a beautiful young writer, he can&’t deny who he is any longer. Now he must tell the world, regardless of the consequences.
I'll Love You When You're More Like Me
by M. E. KerrSabra St. Amour, reluctant teenage soap opera star, is spending the summer in the Hamptons with her domineering mother, recuperating from an ulcer and a nervous breakdown. Walking on the beach one day, Sabra meets Wally Witherspoon, son of the local undertaker, and his best friend Charlie. Wally has problems of his own, including being engaged to a girl he doesn't love while still pining for his ex, and his father's insistence that he follow him into the family business, which Wally detests. Charlie has just come out of the closet, which earned him a broken nose, care of his father. As the lives of these three teenagers collide over the course of one memorable summer, they are forced to choose between the future their parents want for them, and the life they want for themselves.
The Passion Of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics #78)
by Angela CarterI know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . 'New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve.
The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary (Books That Changed the World)
by John RechyFrom the award-winning writer, &“a passionate manifesto for gay rights by an author who openly and unapologetically identifies himself as a participant&” (People). In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives &“an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground&” of Los Angeles in the 1970s—the &“battlefield&” of the sexual outlaw. Using the language and techniques of film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the &“chorus&” of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary, reports of the violence our society directs against homosexuals—&“the only minority against whose existence there are laws.&” &“An intelligent, persuasive and, in its way, heartbreaking manifesto.&” —The New York Times &“A jolting book . . . An intense, personal, and courageous document. A book written out of rage, unnerving, thought provoking.&” —Los Angeles Times Praise for John Rechy &“Rechy shows great comic and tragic talent. He is truly a gifted novelist.&” —Christopher Isherwood, author and playwright &“His tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own, and he has the kind of discipline which allows him a rare and beautiful recklessness. He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. This is a most humbling and liberating achievement.&” —James Baldwin, novelist, playwright, and activist &“His uncompromising honesty as a gay writer has provoked as much fear as admiration . . . John Rechy doesn&’t fit into categories. He transcends them. His individual vision is unique, perfect, loving and strong.&” —Carolyn See, author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America
The Sunnier Side and Other Stories
by Charles Jackson Blake BaileyA masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.A selection of Jackson's finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set in the town of Arcadia in upstate New York, the stories in this collection address the unspoken issues--homosexuality, masturbation, alcoholism, to name a few--lurking just beneath the surface of the small-town ideal.The Sunnier Side showcases Jackson at the height of his storytelling powers, reaffirming his reputation as a boundary-pushing, irreverent writer years ahead of his time.
They
by Kay DickA dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—&“queer, English, a masterpiece.&” (Hilton Als)Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing &“They&” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it&’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out. Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick&’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.
They
by Kay Dick&“A masterwork of English pastoral horror.&” —Claire-Louise Bennett&“Creepily prescient . . . Insidiously horrifying!&” —Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)&“I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.&” —Lauren Groff&“Lush, strange, hypnotic, compulsive.&” —Eimear McBride"Crystalline . . . The signature of an enchantress." —Edna O&’Brien "A masterpiece of creeping dread." —Emily St John Mandel The radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years, with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgotten, Kay Dick's They follows a nameless, genderless narrator living along the lush but decimated English coast, where a loose cohort of cultural refugees live meditative, artistic, often polyamorous lives. But this rustic tranquility is punctuated by bursts of menace as they must continually flee a faceless oppressor, an organization known only as &“They,&” whose supporters range the countryside in a grisly mob of mostly mute, quasi-automatons. Moving in slow but deliberate concentric circles, &“They&” root out free-thinking subversives: the surviving artists, craftspeople, intellectuals, even the unmarried and the childless. As Dick unveils in ominous fragments, &“They&” are not affiliated with a dystopic totalitarian state, &“They&” are an unsanctioned multitude, the strength of which appears to lie not in official mandates, but rather in the swell of their ever-increasing numbers. An electrifying literary artefact—a lost dystopian masterpiece and overlooked queer classic—They returns to print in this special international publication brimming with contemporary resonance.
The Young in One Another's Arms: A Novel (Little Sister's Classics Ser.)
by Jane RuleAn award-winning novel of lesbian identity and camaraderie amid violence and war Ruth Wheeler is the one-armed caretaker of a motley crew of boarders living in her rooming house in Vancouver, British Columbia. The miscreants and outcasts in residence include a sexually confused academic, a one-time-dope-addict-turned-law-student, a high-minded deserter of the Vietnam War, a socially conscious female radical, and a gay man on the run from the cops. Despite personal differences and a turbulent outside world teeming with police brutality, the renters’ affection for one another grows and they form a progressive and idealistic “chosen family.” However, Ruth’s devoted and assimilative spirit is put to the test when her property is slotted to be destroyed by developers. The household packs up and sails to Galiano Island, where they establish a new home, start a business, and strive to overcome the initial antipathy of their neighbors. They even decide to collectively raise a baby born from an unwanted pregnancy. Winner of the 1978 Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award, The Young in One Another’s Arms stands as one of the most sophisticated portrayals of an alternative model for domestic life.
The Best Little Boy in the World
by Andrew Tobias John ReidThe classic account of growing up gay in America.<P><P> "The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in the world was a closet case who 'never read anything about homosexuality.' . . . John Reid comes out slowly, hilariously, brilliantly. One reads this utterly honest account with the shock of recognition." The New York Times<P> "The quality of this book is fantastic because it comes of equal parts honesty and logic and humor. It is far from being the story of a Gay crusader, nor is it the story of a closet queen. It is the story of a normal boy growing into maturity without managing to get raped into, or taunted because of, his homosexuality. . . . He is bright enough to be aware of his hangups and the reasons for them. And he writes well enough that he doesn't resort to sensationalism . . . ." San Francisco Bay Area ReporterFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Cytherea's Breath
by Sarah AldridgeEmma, establishing herself as a physician in early 20th century Baltimore, meets Margaret, a wealthy patron. Together they fight to be free in a society challenged by fights for women's suffrage, social reform, birth control and the practice of law.
Into the Dark Void
by John Simpson Robert CummingsIs Earth alone in the universe? In an attempt to answer that centuries-old question, scientists sent probes into the void, hoping they'd be found by intelligent life forms. In hindsight, it's decided that giving possibly hostile races directions back to Earth might be a dangerous idea, and the United Space Force Marines are dispatched to recover the probes. Corporal David Creswell has become a little too close to Blake Bickford, a recent graduate from Marine training, and fraternizing is against regulations. They manage to keep their romance under the radar until they are reassigned to a classified mission to retrieve the probes--aboard a ship where they're clearly not welcome. While trying to discover who is playing with Earth's toys in deep space, they'll give new meaning to "leave no man behind."
Sergio
by Manuel Mujica LáinezUna novela clave dentro de las narrativas LGBTQ+ en Argentina. Un muchacho sonámbulo se pasea desnudo por la cornisa de un hotel de las sierras, devorado por las miradas deslumbradas de los huéspedes. Sergio Londres es su nombre. Y la belleza de su cuerpo y la inocencia de su espíritu agitan los apetitos de todos aquellos que se cruzan en su camino. Con la decadencia de la aristocracia porteña como trasfondo, Sergio narra la odisea de un joven provinciano que se lanza a los brazos de la gran ciudad y experimenta con una exaltación turbada el despliegue de sus deseos. Sobre todo, cuando conoce a Juan Malthus. Entre ellos, crece un amor tímido pero irrefrenable, en el que, sin embargo, late un cruel presagio. Con una pluma delicada, cómplice y llena de picardía, Mujica Lainez construye una historia efervescente, con la que inaugura la última etapa de su producción literaria.
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
by Samuel R. Delany Kathy AckerIn a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of "the happily reasonable man," Bron Helstrom -- an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he -- or she -- seems.
We Who Are About To . . .
by Joanna Russ Samuel R. DelanyOne woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this “elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force” (Samuel R. Delany). In this stunning and boldly imagined novel, an explosion leaves the passengers of a starship marooned on a barren alien planet. Despite only a slim chance for survival, most of the strangers are determined to colonize their new home. But the civilization they hoped for rapidly descends into a harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers. One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They’re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction—which will prove to be a grave mistake . . . In Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joanna Russ’s trailblazing body of work, “her genius flows and convinces, shames and alarms” (The Washington Post).
Beauty and Sadness
by Yasunari Kawabata'One is repeatedly moved by the delicacy of the imagery and the understated precision' New Statesman. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever. Beauty and Sadness was Kawabata's final book before his suicide in 1972.
The Carnivorous Lamb
by Jamie O'Neill Agustin Gomez-ArcosThe latest in the Little Sister's Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco's Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described "carnivorous lamb") coming of age with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him.<P> Author Agustin Gomez-Arcos left his native Spain for France in the 1960s to escape its censorship policies. The Carnivorous Lamb, originally written in French, won the Prix Hermes, and this, its 1984 English translation, was widely acclaimed.
The Carpenter at the Asylum: Poems
by Paul MonetteNational Book Award winner Paul Monette&’s acclaimed first book of poetryOriginally published in 1975, The Carpenter at the Asylum was Monette&’s first literary success. In this collection of poems, he writes with playfulness and candor of everything from fairy tales to the change of seasons. &“All things glitter like fresh milk,&” he writes in one poem. And indeed, these works pull a sparklingly strange beauty from everyday objects and experiences.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
The Dave Brandstetter Mysteries Volume One: Troublemaker, The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of, and Skinflick (The Dave Brandstetter Mysteries)
by Joseph HansenThree hard-hitting crime novels in the groundbreaking series featuring a hardboiled openly gay detective from “an excellent craftsman, a compelling writer” (The New Yorker). When award-winning author Joseph Hansen introduced his unapologetically gay insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter, in his 1970 novel, Fadeout, the Los Angeles Times raved: “Hansen is the most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today,” and The Times (London) enthused: “After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor.” Adhering to the noir tradition while quietly revolutionizing the tough-guy hero, Hansen would pen a dozen Dave Brandstetter titles in total, concluding with A Country for Old Men, which earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America and a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Mystery. Troublemaker: Brandstetter investigates the murder of a gay bar owner, shot stark naked in his home. His mother insists the victim’s hippie lover killed him, but something doesn’t add up. “Hansen knows how to tell a tough, unsentimental, fast-moving story in an exceptionally urbane style.” —The New York Times The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of: In the small fishing town of La Caleta, Brandstetter finds himself almost as unpopular as the corrupt police chief whose murder he’s there to solve. One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Crime Novels of the Year Skinflick: When a crusading evangelist is murdered, the owner of a pornography store he targeted takes the fall for the crime. But as Brandstetter digs into the preacher’s private life, he uncovers dark secrets and a lot more suspects. “Most exciting book of the year . . . superbly plotted.” —The Advocate
The Female Man (Bluestreak Ser. #Vol. 721)
by Joanna RussFour alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.
The Lesbian and Gay Movements
by Craig A. RimmermanThroughout their relatively short history, lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. The Lesbian and Gay Movements explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts. Rimmerman tackles the challenging issue of what constitutes movement "effectiveness" and how "effective" the assimilationist and liberationist strategies have been in three contentious policy arenas: the military ban, same-sex marriage, and AIDS. Since the first edition in 2007, the landscape of lesbian and gay movements and rights has seen enormous changes. The thoroughly revised second edition includes updated discussion of LGBT movements' undertakings in, as well the Obama administration’s response to, HIV/AIDS policy, the fight to legalize same-sex marriage and overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, and the repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. "
The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation? 2nd Ed.
by Craig A RimmermanThroughout their relatively short history, lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. The Lesbian and Gay Movements explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts, describing the sources of these conflicts, to what extent the conflicts have been resolved, and how they might be resolved in future. Rimmerman also tackles the challenging issue of what constitutes movement "effectiveness" and how "effective" the assimilationist and liberationist strategies have been in three contentious policy arenas: the military ban, same-sex marriage, and AIDS. Considerable attention is devoted to how policy elites-presidents, federal and state legislatures, courts-have responded to the movements' grievances.<P> Since the publication of the first edition in 2007, there have been enormous changes in the landscape of lesbian and gay movements and rights. The thoroughly revised second edition includes updated discussion of LGBT movements' undertakings in, as well the Obama administration's response to, AIDS/HIV policy, the fight to legalize same-sex marriage and overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, and the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."