Valiente: Courage and Consequences – high school jock’s conflicting thoughts on his sexuality and love of sports

posted Tuesday, March 15, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Valiente: Courage and Consequences showcases a captivating coming-of-age tale following Chente Jimenez, a high school athlete who must come to terms with who he really is before moving forward in life. Ever since his beloved father’s unexpected death and his best friend’s suicide, high school athletic phenom Chente Jimenez has been shutting out his family […]

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(R)evolution – Gary Numan’s memoir provides both a perspective of his career and his personal life

posted Tuesday, March 8, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams were encouraged, to the award-winning godfather of electronica, Gary Numan has seen it all. His incredible story can be charted in two distinct parts . . . The first: a stratospheric rise to success quickly followed by a painful decline into near obscurity. At […]

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Run, Rose, Run – Dolly Parton and James Patterson co-author novel

posted Monday, March 7, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

From America’s most beloved superstar Dolly Parton, and its greatest storyteller James Patterson, comes a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Set in Nashville, “Run, Rose, Run” is a novel about a young woman who comes to country music’s capital […]

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Threads: A Poetry Collection, by Jeffrey Round

posted Tuesday, March 1, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Intimate poems of love and death, memory and lost youth. A remarkable tapestry reminding us that poetry is often what saves us. “Jeffrey Round’s second poetry collection stitches together the fabric of love with autobiographical threads. His confessional lyric poetry traces love as star-filled erotic ecstasy, heartbreak, rueful burning, tender secret, or cold emptiness louder […]

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I Was Better Last Night – Harvey Fierstein’s tell all memoir

posted Tuesday, March 1, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award–winning actor and playwright, revealing never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career Harvey Fierstein’s legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood and back. He’s received accolades and awards for […]

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The Book of Casey Adair – gay man’s journey navigating life during the 1980s

posted Wednesday, February 23, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

In the fall of 1980, young Casey Adair begins a year of postgraduate theatre research in Spain, then on the verge of a military coup. As he attends plays and dinner parties, visits gay bars, and becomes increasingly involved in protests, Casey’s correspondence reveals intimate confessions and new understandings. He falls in love with a […]

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How Y’all Doing? – Leslie Jordan’s fun-filled, comedic stories about life

posted Tuesday, February 22, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll, irreverent voice. When actor Leslie Jordan learned he had “gone viral,” he had no idea what that meant or how much his life was […]

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The Music Game – award winning French Canadian book about three young millennials is now available in English

posted Monday, February 21, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont expertly captures the experience of the millennial generation, following three young women through a story of friendship, betrayal, romantic discovery, identity, sexuality and gender, feminism, and more. Friends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and […]

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They – queer dystopian 1977 novel with a genderless narrator is now back in print

posted Tuesday, February 8, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

THEY by Kay Dick is a lost dystopian masterpiece and overlooked queer classic newly available for the first time in forty years in this special international publication. THEY is eerily prescient and startlingly urgent. Two publishing people recently discovered THEY in used bookshops at almost exactly the same time. Which is a miracle because the book has been out of print […]

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Alphabet of Hope – anthology of stories written by members of the global LGBTQ+ community

posted Sunday, January 30, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Alphabet of Hope is an anthology of stories written by members of the LGBTQ+ community from around the world. Hope is a precious commodity for teenagers trying to understand their identity, and these authors share their own accounts of trying to understand who they are, and how the world is going to treat them once […]

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