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The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond Reason That She Could Fly

posted Saturday, January 15, 2022

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The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond Reason That She Could Fly is a visionary young-adult illustrated novel about Eggs, a homeless girl who knows how to fly. In a rusted unnamed city full of five-dollar hotels and flea markets, a young homeless girl named Eggs is trying to make her way in the world. She’s […]

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High-Risk Homosexual – memoir looks at being gay and Latinx in a machismo world

posted Tuesday, January 11, 2022

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A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse […]

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Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes

posted Monday, January 10, 2022

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DAMN SHAME: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is funny, moving, bawdy, and powerful. Written by 62-year-old actor, erotic provocateur and anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sexuality advocate David Pevsner. Over the course of his 40-year career in show business, he has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and numerous TV network shows […]

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Vancouver Vice – a look at the gritty history of Vancouver’s West End

posted Saturday, January 8, 2022

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The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the well-known home to the city’s tight-knit gay community that would soon be devastated by the AIDS epidemic. But the West End’s […]

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The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties

posted Friday, January 7, 2022

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In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock’n’roll was changing pop, politics and society for good. Through a mix of new interviews and contemporary reports, Darryl W. Bullock shines […]

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A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan

posted Saturday, December 18, 2021

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Shane MacGown is a punk poet protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon, and accidental creator of one of the most controversial Christmas songs ever made.  The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues’ notorious frontman from outcast to national treasure has never been told – until now. Fairytale of New York is a song about […]

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A Tale of Two Omars – A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring

posted Saturday, November 27, 2021

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The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father’s side and Holocaust survivors on his mother’s, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents’ Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When, in the wake of the Arab Spring, […]

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Householders – linked short stories about self-deluded utopians, and nascent queers

posted Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives. A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse […]

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Peter Frampton’s musical memoir – Do You Feel Like I Do?

posted Monday, November 22, 2021

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From his early rise to fame to battles with his health, this revelatory memoir by legendary guitarist Peter Frampton celebrates the life of a rock icon. Do You Feel Like I Do? is the incredible story of Peter Frampton’s positively resilient life and career told in his own words for the first time. His monu-mental album Frampton […]

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The Spectacular – three generations of women make for a strong family

posted Wednesday, November 17, 2021

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It’s taboo to regret motherhood. But what would happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational story exploring sexuality, gender and the weight of reproductive freedoms, from the author of The Best Kind of People. It’s 1997 and Missy’s band has finally hit the big time as they tour […]

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