When acclaimed gay novelist Elliott Mackle asked the director of the University of Miami’s writers’ workshop if he had any...
Awakenings (Bella Books) is a story of stirrings in many forms. Couched in the near history of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s...
While in the throes of the US presidential election, what better way to “escape” all the mud slinging, the pundit...
The Trees in the Field introduces us to 50-year-old Raybelle McKeehan, Senator from Tennessee, single-minded in fairness and her dedication...
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
Awww romance! People like reading about adoration almost as much as they like feeling it. It’s literature’s great everlasting theme....
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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Rhapsody is a hope-filled tale of healing—the healing of a painful past, hidden behind a mask—and the hope of overcoming...
In Molly: House on Fire, a once-and-casual character in other R.E. Bradshaw books gets her own starring role. High profile...
