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posted Monday, November 15, 2021
In 1992, Brian Francis placed a personal ad in a local newspaper. He was a twenty-one-year-old university student, still very much in the closet, and looking for love. He received twenty-five responses, but there were thirteen letters that went unanswered and spent years tucked away, forgotten, inside a cardboard box. Now, nearly thirty years later, […]
posted Saturday, November 13, 2021
The Queer Bible is an illustrated collection of essays written by today’s queer heroes—featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. The Queer Bible is a celebration of LGBTQ+ history and culture, edited by model, performer, and GQ contributing editor Jack Guinness. In 2016, model and queer activist […]
posted Tuesday, November 9, 2021
This is the story of one of the galaxy’s greatest queens, Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, as she transforms from wearing dresses made of trash bags because she has to, to wearing dresses made of trash bags because she wants to. My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska? is an exclusive look at her meteoric rise from timid kid to […]
posted Sunday, November 7, 2021
A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw […]
posted Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Be transported back 70 years. Banned in California is the true story of a 15-year-old gay runaway who finds himself in the 1950s Los Angeles underground world of homosexuals and early queer culture. Experience Jim Foshee’s adventures on the West Coast after hitchhiking from his home 800 miles away from a small Idaho town. Jim lives […]
posted Tuesday, November 2, 2021
CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. Few names are as synonymous with wealth and glamour as “Vanderbilt.” When Cornelius Vanderbilt, the teenaged son of a ferryman in New York […]
posted Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Moon Rising by Daniel Weisbeck is described as a character driven sci-fi biopunk thriller. She is not who she thinks she is. Her true identity is a mystery. Trapped in a cellar by a man she does not know; a young girl is forced to act out the life of someone she has never met […]
posted Monday, November 1, 2021
The Clash was a paradox of revolutionary conviction, musical ambition, and commercial drive. We Are The Clash is a gripping tale of the band’s struggle to reinvent itself as George Orwell’s 1984 loomed. This bold campaign crashed headlong into a wall of internal contradictions and rising right-wing power. While the world teetered on edge of the nuclear abyss, British […]
posted Monday, November 1, 2021
What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone’s lips when the beloved comedian retired his hugely successful TV show after 15 seasons—and at the peak of its popularity. The answer came not long after, when he roared back in a new role as stand-up-comedian, playing to sold-out houses wherever […]
posted Monday, November 1, 2021
Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada is a fascinating exploration and examination of one nation’s queer history and activism, and Canada’s definitive visual guide to LGBTQ2+ movements, struggles, and achievements. A fascinating and wide-ranging documentation of queer history, activism, and community that examines the vast collection of The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archives in the world. […]
