Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told is a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love

posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told takes place in 1996, with Jeremy Atherton Lin having just met the boy of his dreams, a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit. Simultaneously, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast […]

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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Sick and Dirty is a blazingly original historical review that details the persistence of queerness on screen, behind the camera, and between the lines, during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included “any inference” […]

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The South is an intimate story about inheritance, loyalty, and love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The South is a luminous and intimate novel about the weight of inheritance, the bonds of loyalty, and the awakening of love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia. The story unfolds during a visit by the Lim family to their rural clan estate after a long absence. Jay, in his mid-teens, and his […]

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The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story – collective tales about bisexual Berkeley raconteur

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Giveaway tells the story Clay Blackburn, a poet, book scout, and sometimes detective, who cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a “defrocked” FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime […]

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The Stalker – a down on his luck, self-entitled young man cons women into his delusional life

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Stalker follows a young man who combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude, as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early ’90s. An Untalented Mr. Ripley, a Dumb American Psycho.Robert Doughten Savile, aka “Doughty,” is the son of a once-wealthy, […]

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I Remember Lights – a tale of queer life and love in Montreal during the 1960’s and 70s

posted Sunday, May 25, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

I Remember Lights depicts a time when the world promised everything to everyone, however irresponsibly. In summer 1967, love is all you need…but some forms of love are criminal. As the spectacular Expo 67 celebrations take shape, a young man new to Montreal learns about gay life from cruising partners, one-night stands, live-in lovers, and […]

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You Crushed It – explores toxic masculinity, love, and the corroding nature of power

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

You Crushed It is a captivating exploration of love and the corroding nature of power in creative industries, that has the caustic daring of Bret Easton Ellis and the offbeat, psychological insight of Douglas Coupland, Raph Massi is crushing it. A young up-and-coming comedian, he’s successfully navigating the internal cosmos of the stand-up industry and […]

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There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts, filmmaker, musician, DJ, and broadcaster

posted Wednesday, May 14, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

There and Black Again tells the lifestory of Don Letts, looking back on his exceptional life. Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London’s punk and reggae scenes, earning his reputation as the ‘Rebel Dread’. His […]

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Guadalajara Pride is one of the city’s top annual events – June 14, 2025

posted Wednesday, May 14, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Travel

Guadalajara Pride is one of the city’s top annual events. Every June, Guadalajara, Mexico hosts one of the largest Pride parades in Latin America, attracting more than 100,000 attendees who gather to celebrate and raise awareness for the human rights, history, and visibility of LGBTQ+ people. The march begins at the statue of La Minerva, the […]

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The English Tutor – a broken promise, forbidden love, and an act of redemption beyond imagination

posted Friday, May 9, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The English Tutor is a poignant tale of love and conflict. Geoff Manderson is a weary English tutor from a privileged background, who finds his life forever changed when he takes on Yusuf, a Libyan war refugee, as a student. Unaware of the challenges that await, Geoff soon discovers that their clashing cultural values will […]

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