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Lesléa Newman
Donovan's Big Day
Tricycle Press (a division of Random House)
April 2011 * ISBN  978-1-58246-332-2  *  $15.99

Donovan's two moms are getting married! In this celebration of family and marriage, the author of Heather Has Two Mommies captures the joy and excitement of a wedding day, while Mike Sutton's humorous illustrations perfectly capture the day's events through the eyes of a child.

Aaron Anson  

Mind Your Own Life: The Journey Back to Love  

Balboa (a division of Hayhouse)  

June 2011 * ISBN 9781452532899 * $16.95

Life-enhancing memoir. Anson's quest for authentic confirmation would lead him on a mystical journey of love, laughter, turmoil and tears. He struggles with denial, depression and acceptance along with the inner conflicts of his own intolerant religious beliefs that embraced conformism over self-awareness. Engagingly dispenses insightful inspirations.

Michael Klein
then, we were still living
GenPop Books
October, 2010 * ISBN - 9780982359419 *  $15.00

"I heard Michael Klein read a poem from what was to become this remarkable collection and thinking that he had gotten to the heart of the new, changed world.  Now, I'm sure of it. Everything in this book is terrifying and beautiful and necessary.  This is a wholly original and essential book." -- Lynn Emanuel

Jane Weiss and Bonnie Zahn
You and No Other
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.
July 2010 * ISBN: 0-87839-370-6 * $14.95

This story is a brave, compelling revelation of Bonnie and Jane's decision to follow their souls' call into a same-sex relationship that demanded leaving their husbands and separating from their families - and then dealing with the consequences of that decision regarding children, careers, and relationships over twenty years.

Stanley Ely
Ten Ways to Your Cat's Happiness: A Novel
iUniverse, Inc. (Editor's Choice)
July 2010 * ISBN: 978-1-4502-4228-8 * $15.95

Filled with dialogue, humor, and a concluding serious message, Stanley's fifth book follows a struggling Manhattan writer escaping poverty with a short book on cat care. While negotiating the bumpy publishing world, he encounters colorful characters and conducts an on-and-off romance with a handsome doctor.

Tim W. Brown
Second Acts
Gival Press
October 2010 * ISBN 978-1-928589-51-8 * $20.00

Second Acts is a comic historical novel set in 1830s America, a time of great social upheaval and reform fervor, not unlike the 1960s. The novel tells the story of a young man, Dan Connor, who has followed his wife Rachel and her lover Bruce Bilson, a University of Chicago physics professor and the inventor of time travel, into the past. In his journey he obtains a mystical sidekick, a Potawatomi transvestite named Listening Rabbit (aka Bunny), and he befriends historical figures such as Albert Gallatin and Samuel J. Tilden. Rachel and Bilson maddeningly stay one step ahead of Connor. But as time moves forward, Connor’s fortunes rise while Bilson’s fall, and Rachel attains fame as a lyceum speaker, the Oprah of antebellum America. Second Acts refutes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s notion that “There are no second acts in American lives.”

Chip Livingtson
Museum of False Starts
Gival Press
March 2010 * ISBN:  978-1928589495 * $15.00
"Chip Livingston, in his first book, Museum of False Starts, makes a distinct trail of poems, through Mvskoke ancestral country, through the maze of American myths, through bars and parties at the edge, through disturbance and awe. What an auspicious beginning!" --Joy Harjo

Terri Griffith
So Much Better
Green Lantern Press
December 2009 * ISBN: 978-0982029244 * $20
Liz spends her workdays at the Credit Union monitoring the checking account of her former lover, running background checks on herself and avoiding the young girl with whom she’s having an affair. The seemingly minor events of Liz’s life build upon one another until they inevitably implode.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Big Bang Symphony:  a novel of Antarctica
Terrace Books
May 2010 * ISBN 978-029923500-0 * $24.95, cloth
This is a story about three women--a climate change geologist, a composer, and a galley worker--who have taken jobs in Antarctica. As they each fall in love and into trouble, their lives become more and more entwined--until one crisis binds them in friendship for life.

Carren Strock
A Writer's Journey: What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book
Gray Rabbit Publications
January 2010 * ISBN 978-1-60459-920-6 * $14.99

An English professor told Carren Strock she was not a writer and she didn't pick up a pen for 15 years. Then she sold her first book to a major publishing house and the second edition to an academic press. In this book she shares what she's learned along the
way.

G. L. McCarthy
But, Mercury’s Not In Retrograde
Booksurge Publishing
November 2009 * ISBN: 1-4392-5464-8*  $15.99
Description: Alex returns home to find more problems. Why is someone
messing with Cyn’s classic blue Mustang and what does the dark figure in Alex’s latest dream
mean? Will Alex’s new girlfriend be able to help?

Paul G. Bens, Jr.
Kelland: A Novel
Casperian Books
September 2009 * ISBN: 1-934081-19-1 / 978-1-934081-19-8 * $15.00
Description: A family evacuated from Saigon during the final days of the Viet
Nam War....a devoutly Catholic child troubled by visions both sacred and profane...
a couple drifting apart following a tragedy. Kelland appears to them all in various
guises. An enigma, a puzzle, and an almost imperceptible presence, Kelland is
violence, sorrow, joy and the common thread tying five disparate strangers together.

Frank Holland
DEBUT: CHICAGO, 1952
Xlibris Corp.
December 2008 * ISBN 978-1-4363-6937-4 * $23.99 (paperback), $34.99 (hardback)
Description: Against the background of forbidden gay bars and the need to lead double lives a half century ago, the secret relationship between two gay men is further complicated when they must take care of the mother of one of them who is dying.

Lesléa Newman
Nobody's Mother
Orchard House Press
November 2008 * ISBN 978-1-59092-695-6 * $11.99
Description: Lesléa Newman, the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA gives us a new poetry collection that explores mother/daughter relationships, family dynamics, cultural and sexual identity, and aging and loss. "Lesléa Newman has given us a strong book of carefully crafted poems that never run dry." -- Marge Piercy

Paul G. Bens, Jr.
Mahape a ale Wala'au
Torquere Press
February 2008 * ISBN 978-60370-279-9
Description: On the Island of O'ahu, vacationing Toshi meets the Speedo-clad Kristopher, a stunning Hawaiian student who sometimes needs "to be a little less" than his serious life affords him to be. As the two embark upon a sensual game throughout the streets of Waikiki, Toshi learns that sometimes he needs to be "something more" than he has let himself be.

Michael Boyd
Forever the Fat Kid
Trafford Publishing
January 2008 * ISBN: 978-1-4251-3945-2 * $18.00
Description: A memoir exploring how issues of weight, race, sexuality and family dysfunction play out in one man's search for happiness... (and success in musical theater!).

Leo Shelton
Soul-full - Poetry
Tugson Press
December 2007 * ISBN: 0979178614 * $12.00
Description: Soul-full is a deep, articulate and intense love affair between two poets! Another insightful, penetrating look into the talents of a deep and personable writer, Soul-full is about spiritual connections, respect, admiration, and is an emotionally charged dialogue that resonates through deep truths and movements of words.

Leo Shelton
MBG - Men Who are Black and Happen to be Gay
Tugson Press
December 2007 * ISBN: 0979178622 * $10.00
Description: MBG is a humorous look at stereotypes, those people put on themselves, and that sometimes culminate from those we put on others. They often become unwritten rules, even lifestyles or those ever-funny true-isms for how we live, love and laugh.

Lori L. Lake
Shimmer and Other Stories
Regal Crest
November 2007 * ISBN: 9781932300956 * $11.95
Description: Five stories of hope and loss, lovers and found family that Ann Bannon calls "pure gold." The characters are unsettled, adrift, and often disillusioned, but even the most hard-bitten still have hope as they wrestle with their devils, face up to their own errors, and discover their true worth.

Len Richmond
Naked in Paradise
Sybaritic Press
October 2007 * $11.95
Description: Recovering from the break-up of a three-year relationship with the handsome, hard drinking Mikey, the author tries gay personal ads—but only ends up deflowering curious straight men. A few months later, he meets Kieran, a formerly celibate college guy, precisely half his age, who’s trying out new sex, new drugs, and new experiences. Kieran may be the salvation he’s searching for, but first he needs to get over his obsession with Mikey—a revolving-door lover. Eventually, an affectionate ménage a trios develops between this trio of erotic neurotics, and the question becomes, can they navigate the choppy waters of a three-way relationship without rules?

Austin Alexis
Lover and Drag Queens
Poets Wear Prada Press
September 2007 * $6
Description: This is a chapbook of poems concerning romance and sexuality, broadly defined, and also a series of portraits of unusual people.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Biting the Apple
Carroll & Graf
September 2007 * ISBN-13: 978-0-78671-927-3
Description: Eve Glass, once an Olympic sprinter, is now a life coach. Unfortunately, her kleptomaniac tendencies are intensifying and her first girlfriend has begun stalking her. Biting the Apple pokes fun at some of our dearest held postmodern ideas about the existence of a true self and humanity as product.

John F. Rooney
The Rice Queen Spy
Senneff House Publishers
September, 2007 * ISBN: 0975275666 * $14.95
Description: A gay, erotic novel in which Philip Croft, a spy for Her Majesty's secret service is cruelly outed and tortured for his homosexuality. This novel traces Philip's life and his loves, and is a triumphant testimony to a gay man's passage through life as a rice queen-partial to Asian men.

Perry Brass
Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future
Belhue Press
May 2007 * ISBN 978-1-892149-05-3 * $16.95
Description: Futurist Faustian pact: 2075. Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-raised design superstar in Americanized Germany, is 78 but looks 40 years younger due to the perks of his stressful job. Meeting an impulsive, gifted man will destroy the life he has painfully built for himself, but allow him to reclaim his own soul.

Joan Larkin
My Body: New and Selected Poems
Hanging Loose
May 2007 * ISBN 978-1-931236-74-4 * $16.00
Description: In four decades of poems, Larkin takes on love and death, family and sexuality in a voice that is unsentimental, ruthless and clear-eyed. Larkin offers no false hopes, no resolutions, except to reflect, as honestly and directly as she can, the complicated, at times uncontrollable, messiness of being alive.

Beren deMotier
The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Marriage
iUniverse
April 2007 * ISBN 978-0-595-43987-4 * $15.95
Description: The Brides of March drove mini-vans, paid taxes, bought braces, and joined the PTA, never expecting the phone call in March, 2004, that would send them leaping through the suddenly opened window of same-sex marriage, with their kids along for the raucous ride.

Leo Shelton
RHYTHMS–Poetry and Muse
Tugson Press
April 2007 * ISBN: 0979178606 * $12.00
Description: The ramblings of the joys of life, the lust of loins, the beat of loves’ heart, and the somber tears of sorrow and loss, create soulful rhythms that can be heard and felt deeply. Realistic musings of both challenges and glories … of life!

C. Dale Young
The Second Person
Four Way Books
April 2007 * ISBN: 1884800769 * $14.95
Description: In The Second Person, we encounter the searing presence of the Beloved—a "you" that seems to advance and retreat from the gaze of both the speaker and the reader. Employing the careful emotion of Constantine Cavafy and the realism lying beneath Oscar Wilde's comic epigrams, Young has crafted a contemplative book of poems both wise and willing to learn.

Matthew Zender
Real Family
Authorhouse
March 2007 * ISBN 9781425976811 * $19.99
Description: This is a story about relationships. 5 childhood friends deal with life and the many revolving relationships that come and go. See how choices, events and decisions help shape who they become.

Jim Tushinski and Jim Van Buskirk, eds.
Identity Envy - Wanting to Be Who We're Not: Creative Nonfiction by Queer Writers
Harrington Park Press
February 2007 * ISBN: 1-56023-587-X * $19.95
Description: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers explore attachments to religions, races, ethnicities, genders, classes, and families of origin not their own. Includes work by Perry Brass, D. Travers Scott, Jeff Mann, Joan Annsfire, Renate Stendhal, John Gilgun, Daniel M. Jaffe, Max Pierce, and others.

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