Pity – multi-generational Northern England family saga depicts both a celebration of resilience, and a possibility for change

posted Monday, May 13, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Pity is the debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan, that explores community, masculinity and post-industrialization in Northern England. The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shoveling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. It […]

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BIKE Athletic celebrates the 150th anniversary of the jockstrap with special product releases

posted Wednesday, May 1, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Fashion

BIKE, founded in 1874, revolutionized men’s underwear by being the first to add structure and protection without limiting comfort or mobility. Since that day, over 350 million jockstraps have been sold worldwide. BIKE’s longevity puts it firmly in the pantheons of enduring fashion brands, such as  Brooks Brothers (1818), Levi’s (1853), LEE (1889), and LL […]

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A Good Happy Girl – female deals with past family trauma by hooking up with lesbian couples

posted Saturday, April 27, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

A Good Happy Girl is a poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple. Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking […]

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Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration

posted Tuesday, April 16, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Explore the ever-evolving culture of the queer community with this beautifully illustrated, 64-page seek-and-find book. Pride: A Seek-and-Find Celebration is a fun-filled tribute to LGBTQ+ history and culture from icons to allies, milestones to marches. The seek-and-find illustrations are packed with the faces and places that have graced a story of progress and strength. The detailed […]

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Mona of the Manor – Armistead Maupin’s latest novel continues the Tales of the City series with a mystery set in England

posted Saturday, April 13, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Mona of the Manor is the long-awaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupin’s beloved and enduring Tales of the City series. Set in the early 1990s, it follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britain’s golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted son Wilfred, as they come to […]

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Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism – memoir of a cult Liverpool musician’s scenic route to fame and artistic validation

posted Wednesday, April 3, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism is part memoir, part social history, highlighting a poignant, and often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician’s scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Paul Simpson was its William Blake, a self-destructive genius so lost in mystical visions […]

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The House of Hidden Meanings – RuPaul’s new memoir is a self-portrait of the legendary international icon

posted Wednesday, April 3, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and […]

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Selamlik – an emotional and unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism 

posted Tuesday, April 2, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Selamlik tells the story of Furat, a Syrian in his early 20s, who visits Sibki Park in Damascus, a gathering place for gay men from all over the city. He then learns about the Hammams, secret meeting places for gays located throughout the old city. Inside these public baths, the air is thick with the […]

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What’s New Across the USA for 2024

posted Monday, April 1, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Travel

The United States is a vast nation of contrasts, from the wild and wonderful, to the weird and wacky. Whenever you choose to travel, there’s always something new to discover. Below we listed some exciting updates and happenings across several states, so have a glance then pack your bags and head out out on an […]

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Boys Alive – newly translated version of a censored 1955 Italian novel about the sordid lives or Rome’s unhoused youth

posted Saturday, March 30, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Boys Alive, first published in 1955, was author and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s first work of fiction, and it remains his best known to date. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini’s move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and squalor of the big city. The life of […]

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