‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism’ by Adrian Brooks
The battle cries, blood, sweat, and tears of those who have both come before and will certainly exist after today’s LGBT activists are long gone, are carefully protected and cherished.
Read an Excerpt from ‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years or LGBTQI Activism’: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s Reflections on the Stonewall Riots
“The night of Stonewall, two friends and I sat in Sheridan Square talking with the boys, trying to have a good time.”
‘Blackmail, My Love’ by Katie Gilmartin
Blackmail, My Love is a book to read for the page-turning mystery, but to savor for the nuance and detail and heart-breaking reality of what it was to be a lesbian or a gay man in 1951
Paul Russell: Merging Fiction and Fact
In his new novel The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, author Paul Russell brings an almost forgotten witness to history back to life: the younger brother of the great writer Vladimir Nabokov, a gay man who lived in the shadow of his famous family.
Russell spoke with Lambda Literary Review about creating Sergey’s unreal life, blending historical fact with a novelist’s imagination, and reveling in the syntax of Gertrude Stein.
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2010 in Review: Gays & the Military
From WWII To DADT One
‘Sometimes She Lets Me’ ed. by Tristan Taormino
The stories in Sometimes She
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September signals the start of
‘Muscle Men’ & ‘Biker Boys’
I consider Richard Labonté the Dean