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‘Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Papers in America’ edited by Tracy Baim

Is there still a place for LGBT community newspapers in the world of social media? Tracy Baim’s edited volume Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Papers in America provides a history of the LGBT press, but no easy answers as to its future.

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‘The First Robin of Spring’ by Natalie London

The First Robin of Spring

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‘Slow Lightning’ by Eduardo C. Corral

So much has already been

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‘The Dragon Tree Legacy’ by Ali Vali

The Dragon Tree Legacy (Bold Strokes

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‘Coming Out Can Be Murder’ by Renee James

Experts estimate that the number

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‘Licking the Spoon’ by Candace Walsh

Food is, of course, the perfect metaphor for Walsh’s life: through much stumbling, there is a persistent desire to find the right dish, the perfect spice, the ingredient that brings it all together.

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‘H’ by Jim Elledge

When Walt Whitman declared, “Through

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‘Adaptation’ by Malindo Lo

If you had nightmares as

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‘Far from the Tree’ by Andrew Solomon

In Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search For Identity (Scribner), psychologist Andrew Solomon poses a fundamental question: How do you nurture a child who is nothing like you?

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‘Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me’ by Ellen Forney

An association between artistic creativity and mental illness is something many of us take for granted without questioning which came first or why the two should be linked. In her new graphic memoir, cartoonist Ellen Forney tackles that question in light of its impact on her work as an artist with Bipolar I Disorder.

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