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posted Saturday, July 17, 2021
It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a young rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don’t seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former ‘Dilly boy’ prostitute – finds himself investigating. Dodging murderous Soho hoodlums and the agents of a more sinister power, […]
posted Tuesday, June 29, 2021
How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood by Canadian author, Trystan Reese. You may remember Trystan as “the pregnant man” in 2017 when the story of his family’s pregnancy journey gained international media attention. On June 8th—just in time for Pride Month—the Vancouver native is releasing […]
posted Monday, June 28, 2021
Acclaimed author Brian Malloy brings insight, humour, and the authenticity of his own experiences as a member of the AIDS generation to this universal story of love and loss set in New York City and Minneapolis at the peak of the 1980s AIDS crisis. Published on the 40th anniversary of the disease’s first reported cases, After […]
posted Thursday, June 24, 2021
While some countries accept transsexuality, most of Arab countries are yet to do so. “Without”, by Younis Alakhzami, is a frank and sensitive account of a man searching for belonging as someone he feels he is not. “Without” tells a story of searching for belonging both in the world and within your own skin. Born […]
posted Monday, June 21, 2021
From award-winning Canadian authors Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson comes a heart-warming tale of two cousins on a road trip to Toronto for the Pride Celebrations. WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE is a contemporary YA novel, perfect for readers looking for a story of friendship and family. As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent many happy summers […]
posted Friday, June 18, 2021
Queercore is a queer and punk trans media movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine (“zine”) J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. declared “civil war” on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams, consolidating a subculture of like-minded filmmakers, zinesters, musicians and performers situated in pointed opposition […]
posted Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Bath Haus is the story about Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, who finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they’ve made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn’t be visiting […]
posted Monday, June 14, 2021
Conspiracy Theories and Supernatural Legends Create a Contemporary Story of Fear and Prejudice When you can read a novel while listening to songs written by one of the characters, you know you’re in unusual territory. That’s what author Jon O’Bergh offers with his latest novel Shockadelica and an album by the Bone Man titled Box of Bones. Both […]
posted Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many […]
posted Tuesday, June 1, 2021
We could all use a little bit of optimism and joy these days, and no one is better primed to help us rediscover what makes us happy than Lenni and Margot. In The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though […]
