The Queer Bible – today’s queer heroes write about their heroes from the past

posted Saturday, November 13, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska? A Memoir by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

posted Tuesday, November 9, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration

posted Sunday, November 7, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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Banned From California – Persecution, Redemption, Liberation … and the Gay Civil Rights Movement

posted Wednesday, November 3, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, chronicled by Anderson Cooper

posted Tuesday, November 2, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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Moon Rising – Biopunk Thriller with LGBT Characters Cuts to the Core of Humanity

posted Tuesday, November 2, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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We Are The Clash – a look back at the final years of one of the greatest punk bands ever

posted Monday, November 1, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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Talking to Canadians: A Memoir by Rick Mercer

posted Monday, November 1, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada

posted Monday, November 1, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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. […]

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Jacket Weather – reconnecting and falling in love, four decades later

posted Saturday, October 30, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith, Mean Streets meets A Visit From the Goon Squad in this quintessential New York City story about two people who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the 1980s, meet again in the present day, and fall in love. Mike knew June in New York’s downtown music scene in the eighties. Back then, […]

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