A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0183-7 (0-8070-0183-X)

“I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man. . . .”

Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw—these are just a few words which have defined Kate... Read more >

A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein

Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0165-3 (0-8070-0165-1)

“I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man. . . .”

Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw—these are just a few words which have defined Kate... Read more >

The Revolution of Little Girls

Written by Blanche Mccrary Boyd

Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73812-1 (0-679-73812-6)

No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young... Read more >

Terminal Velocity

Written by Blanche Mccrary Boyd

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75032-1 (0-679-75032-0)

"In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon... Read more >

Rubyfruit Jungle

Written by Rita Mae Brown

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-27886-6 (0-553-27886-X)

By one of this country's most distinctive writers Rita Mae Brown's milestone first novel is the story of an unusually strong and colorful woman's irrepressible march through prejudices of class, sex, and race while retaining a positive self-image. Bawdy and moving, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America--and... Read more >

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9691-6 (1-4000-9691-X)

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the the short story. This first-ever compendium features a never-before-published 1950 story, “The Bargain,” as well as an introduction by Reynolds Price. Ranging... Read more >

Girl Like Che Guevara

Written by Teresa De La Caridad Doval

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-397-9 (1-56947-397-8)

Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolutionary who spends the summer of 1982, along with her peers, at the “School-in-the-Fields,” tilling tobacco fields to prove her dedication to Fidel and the revolution.

But she is also a study of contradictions. Lourdes outwardly scoffs at the old ways but wears an... Read more >

The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me

Written by David Drake

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47204-3 (0-385-47204-8)

David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes exploring thoughts and emotions shared by a whole generation of gay men and women. Read more >

The Gay Canon
Great Books Every Gay Man Should Read
Written by Robert Drake

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 10, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49228-7 (0-385-49228-6)

There are countless works of interest to gay men in print right now--anthologies, novels, memoirs, and more. It is a reflection of progress that there is such an openly recognizable culture. Yet how to make sense of the choices offered? What do gay men need to read? What books have shaped... Read more >

10,000 Dresses

Written by Marcus Ewert
Illustrated by Rex Ray

Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publisher: Triangle Square
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-850-0 (1-58322-850-0)

Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey’s awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. “You’re a BOY!” Mother and Father tell Bailey. “You shouldn’t be... Read more >

Light Fell

Written by Evan Fallenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-536-2 (1-56947-536-9)

Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction

Winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph... Read more >

Fogtown

Written by Anderson Gabrych
Illustrated by Brad Rader

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-1384-8 (1-4012-1384-7)

A gritty, graphic pulp fiction about the temptation, damnation and redemption of Frank Grissel, an aging, hard-knuckled private eye--and a deeply closeted homosexual, set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco.

Aided by his long-suffering secretary (and sometime live-in lover) Loretta, Grissel’s search for a runaway girl winds up... Read more >

Father's Day

Written by Philip Galanes

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7529-4 (1-4000-7529-7)

At the age of thirty-five, Matthew Vaber’s life is so messy it can only be at a turning point. In one direction is the neon glare of his father’s recent suicide, and in the other is the tough love of his fluorescent mother. He’d love to find love, but he can’t... Read more >

Mean Little deaf Queer
A Memoir
Written by Terry Galloway

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7331-5 (0-8070-7331-8)

In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed “child freak,” she acted out... Read more >

Plays Well with Others

Written by Allan Gurganus

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 2, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70203-7 (0-375-70203-2)

It's 1980, and Hartley Mims jr., a somewhat overbred Southerner, arrives in town to found his artistic career and find a circle of brilliant friends. He soon discovers both Robert Christian Gustafson, archangelic boy composer of Symphony no. 1: The Titanic, and Alabama Byrnes, a failed Savannah debutante whose gigantic paintings... Read more >

The Practical Heart
Four Novellas
Written by Allan Gurganus

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72763-4 (0-375-72763-9)

A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times).

Allan Gurganus's voice—by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane—deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables—rich in event, comedy, experience—surge with the force... Read more >

The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

Written by Naomi Holoch

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75952-2 (0-679-75952-2)

The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes.We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married... Read more >

Jack

Written by A.M. Homes

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73221-1 (0-679-73221-7)

In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal—even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack’s father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he’s gay, nothing will... Read more >

Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Changing America's Schools
Written by Kevin Jennings

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7147-2 (0-8070-7147-1)

Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-GLBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his school days in the conservative South, where “faggot” became more familiar to him than his own name. Creating safe... Read more >

Trevor
A Novella
Written by James Lecesne

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Triangle Square
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-420-6 (1-60980-420-1)

Trevor is an exuberant, sociable, and witty thirteen year-old. So how come, when he takes that nerve-wrecking turn toward his locker at school, does he feel scared and alone? Shunned by his friends, misunderstood by his parents, and harassed at school for being different, Trevor goes from wondering what color glitter... Read more >

Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A New Spelling of My Name
A Biomythography
Written by Geraldine Audre Lorde

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Crossing Press
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-89594-122-0 (0-89594-122-8)

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of... Read more >

Love Speaks Its Name
Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
Edited by J. D. McClatchy

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-41170-0 (0-375-41170-4)

From Sappho to Shakespeareto Cole Porter—a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.

The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most... Read more >

Hazmat

Written by J.D. McClatchy

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70991-3 (0-375-70991-6)

HAZMAT, meaning “hazardous material,” is an abbreviation familiar from signs at the entrances to long dark tunnels or on the sides of suspicious containers. Here, in a series of stunning poems, J. D. McClatchy examines the first hazmat we all encounter: our own bodies. The virtuosic “Tattoos” meditates on why we... Read more >

Ten Commandments

Written by J.D. McClatchy

Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 21, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70134-4 (0-375-70134-6)

Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers... Read more >

The Tricky Part
A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgiveness
Written by Martin Moran

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27653-7 (0-307-27653-8)

Raised in a loving Catholic family in Denver, Martin Moran was a star student who imagined that he’d one day become a U.S. senator. When he was twelve years old, a camp counselor seduced him, initiating a sexual relationship that would last three years–and haunt Moran’s life for decades. He discovered... Read more >