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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 […]
posted Monday, May 31, 2021
Lambda Literary, the nation’s premier LGBTQ literary organization, has announced the finalists of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards (a.k.a. the “Lammys”). Winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony on June 1, which is free for all to watch. The event will also be captioned and include live ASL interpretation. Created over thirty years […]
posted Monday, May 31, 2021
REMEMBERINGS by Sinéad O’Connor is a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song. Sinead O’Connor hasn’t released any albums in the past few years, but she has been getting some writing done. Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame […]
posted Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Testing the Wind by Peter Ilgenfritz (Coffeetown Press, April 2021) is a memoir of coming out and coming of age in the 1970’s and 1980’s. It tells the story of Peter’s wrestling with the meaning of sexual identity in the 1970’s and the particular challenges of coming out as a gay man and young pastor in the […]
posted Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Set in 1998, “Tramps Like Us” is the story of a group of gay men in Toronto who are struggling with the process of growing older in the community. Sound familiar? The first draft was written the year before the UK series Queer as Folk was broadcast, and so the author had no choice but […]
