‘I Can Give You Anything But Love’ by Gary Indiana
I Can Give You Anything does, in fact, give you just about everything: travel writing; diary entries; fragments; and deliciously wicked but not inhumane portraits of a variety of noteworthy figures
‘Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles from the Edge of Sex’ by Tina Horn
Love Not Given Lightly is compelling and oh-so-readable. Whether you know of and partake of this world or not, Horn’s portraits are deeply moving in their tender look at human sexuality and connection.
‘The Boys from Eighth and Carpenter’ by Tom Mendicino
Tom Mendicino’s latest novel explores the bonds of brotherhood, literal and metaphoric, between two brothers who on the surface appear so dissimilar
‘Under The Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta has written a new classic of the lesbian novel, timeless in its risk and heart, immediate in its voice for the persecuted LGBT people of Nigeria
‘The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghost’ by Tiya Miles
Historians reveal uncomfortable truths and novelists force us to look at them. Perhaps The Cherokee Rose is a nod in support of the New South that recognizes its multicultural past, present, and future.
“Bendova Like I Told Ya”: Big Freedia and the Healing Power of Contradiction
Ease with contradiction would appear to be a kind of puckish response to systemic disenfranchisement
A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’
The book is an illuminating account of the lives of a group of New York City LGBTQ homeless youth
