Being flat broke in Vegas and not much of a world traveler in any case, I let my imagination soar...
When my best friend, Helen, went to Paris with her mother, I asked her to bring me back a Paris blue ribbon. Helen’s mother didn’t approve of her daughter’s homosexual friend, so I never got my ribbon. Now, Barry Brennessel has given all of us romantically inclined homosexual boys a ficelle [...] Read More
The love between teen boyfriends Reid Conniff and Everett Forrester is threatened when Everett suffers a disabling sports injury in Every Time I Think of You, the 2012 Lambda Award winning romance novel by Jim Provenzano. It is a theme that Provenzano explored in his first novel, PINS (Myrmidude Press, 1999). I wondered what meaning sports injuries have for him personally, and for his work
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I believe in love, Alfie. Without true love we just exist, Alfie. As we celebrate the 24th annual Lambda Literary...
A Romance with Tijuana Most images of Tijuana are not very romantic. Crowded, dirty, hustling, violent, it is a town...
Au contraire, Mr. Eliot, April is the most romantic month and we have a shower of new romances that will soften the hearts of even the romance wary (or weary). Read More
Though this Edwardian grandfather of gay romance wasn’t published until 1971, sometime after its grandchildren were well into their adolescence, E. M. Forster’s Maurice remains a forerunner and not just an afterthought.
The recent publication of a “sequel” to Forster’s novel of homosexual love, End of Story by John M. Bowers, professor of English literature at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, affords us an opportunity to (re)discover just how much Maurice still remains ahead of its time. Read More
“When fiction is made according to its nature, it should reinforce our sense of the supernatural by grounding it in...
In 1967, Captain Harding is working his way up the promotion ladder within the U.S. Air Force. He’s a go-getter...
Lord of the Fraternity Todd Gregory returns to Polk State for Games Frat Boys Play (Kensington Books), the sequel to...
