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| BAR WATCHER [Dorien Grey] Third in Dick Hardesty gay mystery series. Gay men are being killed by unknown assailant but all are unsavoury characters who have acted out in public. At the same time, Hardesty's brain seems to be controlled by his hormones until he realises that one of his bedroom friends may be under suspicion. { 237pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £9.99, 1879194791:9781879194793 , GLB Publishers } |
| BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS [Chris Kent] A new novel by the noted author of books about schoolboys in the UK. The novel depicts in unapologetic terms a world with changing boundaries, where some of the adolescent boys choose to dally with willing, mature men. Butt this is not a tawdry tale of young victims lured into destructive relationships; in fact, the young students of Bruce Academy are frequently the sexual aggressors.... { 273pp, 140x215mm, January 2006; PB, £10.99, 1879194600:9781879194601 , GLB Publishers } |
| BETWEEN TRASH & TRAMP [Bryd Roberts] He was a beautiful man, a professional boxer, and father, but it also became common knowledge that he made much of his living by hustling with both men and women. In that conservative southern town, that was enough to start tongues wagging, political wars breaking out, even murder. { 236pp, 140x215mm, January 2000; PB, £9.99, 1879194295:9781879194298 , GLB Publishers } |
| BI RANCHERS, BI MATES [Bill Lee] A breakthrough in explicit fiction -- the bisexual barrier is breached! Bill Lee has produced a truly bisexual novel that is as honest as it is explicit. Why should explicit fiction be unisexual -- heterosexual or homosexual -- when the bisexual lifestyle may be natural for so many of us? Steve, a lusty horse-breeder and rancher, learns to let nature take its course in his relationships with his fellow cowboys and his women. He has a lot of friends, males and females, who are only too happy to help in demonstrating the joys and satisfactions of bisexuality on the ranch, on the rodeo circuit, and in the bedroom. You will want to join him and his friends in this new exciting novel. { 163pp, 140x215mm, January 1991; PB, £5.50, 1879194023:9781879194021 , GLB Publishers } |
| BLASPHEMY [Roger N Taber] Laurence Fisher, a Londoner stuck in a go-nowhere job, is too wrapped up in his own unhappiness to spare concern for anyone else -- until he meets Danny, a street-wise, troubled hustling kid in danger from pimps, drug dealers, and kidnappers. Roger N Taber gives us a suspenseful action story where love intrudes after all, and with a reach for freedom in the British twenty-first century. { 261pp, 140x215mm, October 2006; PB, £10.99, 1879194619:9781879194618 , GLB Publishers } |
| BLESS THE THUGZ & LIL' CHIL'RINS [Fredryk Traynor] A first of its kind, a gay gangster paperback by a former denizen of the streets. This novel starts in the streets of San Francisco and ends up, via the ladder of successful rappers and gangster operations, in a castle in the Berkeley Hills, but in so doing it traces the lives of unforgettable characters and depicts especially the intense love between two men caught in traps, sometimes of their own making, but certainly mostly traps of the everyday societal morass of black urban life. Reading it is not for the faint of heart. The language is strong, authentic street black patois, and the action is sometimes brutal. While there have been other noted gangster novels, this is the first gay version, to our knowledge. That may lead to distaste and even hatred on the parts of some in the life; we shall see. { 205pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £9.99, 1879194546:9781879194540 , GLB Publishers } |
| BLOOD WARM [Robert Burdette Sweet] Bob Sweet is a young, bisexual, disillusioned writer who travels to Grenada with thoughts of suicide and finds himself unwittingly entangled with native women and also women of his past, but then, in the mysterious realm of voodoo meets Junior, a dark-skinned giant who woos him among the fires around the enchanted lake... { 281pp, 140x215mm, January 2005; PB, £10.99, 1879194562:9781879194564 , GLB Publishers } |
| BOTTLE GHOSTS [Dorien Grey] Sixth in Dick Hardesty gay mystery series. Dick is commissioned to find a missing partner who is an alcoholic and finds that several men with an alcoholic history have disappeared in the last few years. Dick and his young lover join an alcoholic's psychology discussion group to try to solve the mystery. { 233pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £10.99, 1879194732:9781879194731 , GLB Publishers } |
| BOYS IN SHORTS : English School Boy Short Stories [Chris Kent] Chris Kent follows up his very successful novel, 'The Boys of Swithins Hall' with a prime collection of short stories about the English school boys he knows and loves so well! { 238pp, 140x215mm, January 2000; PB, £9.99, 1879194287:9781879194281 , GLB Publishers } |
| BOYS OF SWITHINS HALL [Chris Kent] Set in an English boys' boarding school, this is the story of Tim Dunn's sexual awakening -- in overdrive. A gay English schoolboy novel following the traditional genre. { 189pp, 140x215mm, January 1999; PB, £9.50, 1879194252:9781879194250 , GLB Publishers } |
| BOYS WILL BE BOYS : Two Novellas [Chris Kent] Two novellas back to back, both parodies of famous boys' books as only Chris Kent, the most noted boys-books authors of today, knows boys. 'Coral Island Boys' after 'The Coral Island' and 'Little Big Men' after 'Lord of the Flies'. { 225pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £9.99, 1879194406:9781879194403 , GLB Publishers } |
| BRASS PONY : Two Novellas [Marsh Cassady] Two novellas about gay men in childhood and old age and the factors that bring each alive and make them live, together and alone. { 211pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £9.99, 1879194821:9781879194823 , GLB Publishers } |
| BRAVEHEARTS & MEMORIES : Two Novellas [Chris Kent] Two novellas back to back: 'Bravehearts' tells the story of boys' roles in the Scottish War of Independence against the English. 'Luverboy's Memories' is a collection of memories of the boy exposed to or tempted by the joys, trials, and tragedies of adolescents in finding their sexuality. { 205pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £10.99, 1879194899:9781879194892 , GLB Publishers } |
| BREVIARY OF TORMENT [Thomas Cashet] Thought-provoking poems, politically and erotically coloured, expressing the love-hate relationship we all have with torture, both within and without the framework of the law. Classical illustrations. { 109pp, 140x215mm, January 1991; PB, £9.50, 1879194031:9781879194038 , GLB Publishers } |
| BUNNY BOOK : A Novel for Anyone Who Believes Life & Death Are, After All, A Wonder [John D'Hondt] This strange book could become a classic of literature that deals with AIDS, physical suffering, and loss. It's the 'Moby Dick' of bunnies, all right -- their scientific and anthropological history, their mythic and psychic manifestations, and most of all their starring role in children's books. In 'The Bunny Book' cuteness and cosiness come to represent a hopeless longing for safety and resolution. { 276pp, 140x215mm, January 1991; PB, £7.99, 1879194058:9781879194052 , GLB Publishers } |
| BUTCHER'S SON [Dorien Grey] Number one of the series, featuring Dick Hardesty. Hardesty is pressed into service when someone starts burning down gay bars all over town and the police chief (nicknamed 'the butcher') shrugs the whole thing off. Then drag queens and female impersonators get into the act and Dick is required to sleuth out who is hot and who is not. { 198pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £9.99, 1879194864:9781879194861 , GLB Publishers } |
| COMMONWEALTH CHRONICLES : Virginia Short Stories [Bryd Roberts] Byrd Roberts is becoming the main 'Voice of Virginia' (I guess that should be 'gay Virginia') with his new work, 'Commonwealth Chronicles' that follows his popular novel, 'Between Trash and Tramp'. His favourite locale is the Norfolk area, historically the playground of randy sailors, but most people don't play those games; some of them are making up and breaking up, or buying their special china pattern with that someone special, and then other guys are into wrestlers -- therein lies a special tale which Byrd Roberts does best... { 181pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £9.99, 1879194740:9781879194748 , GLB Publishers } |
| COUNTRY ROGUES [Bill Lee (ed)] Savour outdoor 'gay love' far from the madding crowd in an amazing collection of erotic tales. These are the kind of stories to take with you into the Wilderness for company on rainy days alone in the tent -- and make you squirm in your pants. { 210pp, 140x215mm, January 1995; PB, £8.99, 1879194198:9781879194199 , GLB Publishers } |
| CROSSING BORDERS [Will Carr] A 1950's personal travelogue and journey around the Mediterranean by a then young Jewish boy who came out as gay during the trip that engaged the heart and mind. REVIEW: "Will Carr's automobile journey, 'Crossing Borders', around the Mediterranean Sea in 1953 bristles with relevance over fifty years later. Historically, we witness the same smouldering tensions over Palestine that divides Arabs and Jews today. On the personal level, it is a coming out saga for someone who not only discovers a world of ambiguous sexuality but also comes to realise that he, too, is not one to limit himself to any specific label. Nevertheless, the sexual adventures of the naive, twenty-seven year old Will with men of several different nationalities dramatise the conflicts, both inner and outer, of someone who is trying to discover who he is during the terrors of the McCarthy era." -- James Brogan, Professor of Gay Studies at San Francisco State University { 372pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £15.99, 1934203068:9781934203064 , GLB Publishers } |
| DANCING ON THE BARRICADES [John Coriolan] Playwright-turned-novelist John Coriolan presents a pleasantly enigmatic glimpse into the lives of disparate people brought together for a ballet program to tour the country, and he deftly captures the essence of spirit found in the artists, their sexual ruminations, their politics, amidst the personal/political turmoil of a hidden agenda. The well-characterised individuals tell you the story as it progresses from their perspective with clever dialog (or often monologue) masterfully engineered and skilfully interwoven across the individual musings. The need to expose social taboos against nudity and self-expression, and also a lurking, concealed plan for political domination runs through each of the chapters { 184pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £9.99, 1879194481:9781879194489 , GLB Publishers } |
| DEVIL IN MEN'S DREAMS [Tom Scott] A gay man's collection of tales that bring you up short with your own thoughts and words coming at you from the page -- the day they called you 'Fag', the trick who relieved you of your meagre possessions, the discovery of those purple spots on your neck... and the age-old excuse, The devil made me do it. { 245pp, 140x215mm, January 1992; PB, £7.99, 1879194082:9781879194083 , GLB Publishers } |
| DIFFERENT SLOPES [Bill Lee] At its core, this is a story of love triumphing over the confusing rigidities of a world always at war with itself. The men and women must conquer their own uncertainties and the resistance of everyone around them to discover and, eventually, to live their various sexual lives: straight, gay, lesbian, and most importantly, bisexual. In the absence of guidance or role models, we see a bisexual family composed, and we cannot resist the certainty that it is a stable family, a happy one, and one in which the light of love will not be extinguished. This is Bill Lee's best writing yet, and very likely his most important. It is not pornography, although the sexual situations are stimulating. Rather, it is a historical romance with erotic chapters -- a complete success. { 213pp, 140x215mm, January 1996; PB, £9.50, 187919421X:9781879194212 , GLB Publishers } |
| DIFFERENT VOICES : A Different Voice & other Stories [Walter Febick] A novella (A Different Voice) and six short stories about gay men finding their ways to relationships. Some episodes are humorous, some touching, and some are futuristic. { 176pp, 140x215mm, January 1999; PB, £8.99, 1879194260:9781879194267 , GLB Publishers } |
| DIRT PEDDLER [Dorien Grey] Tony T. Tunderew's latest barely-fictionalised novel about the scandalous behaviour of a governor has earned him overnight success. Previously an obscure junior executive, he's now writing a second book, which promises to dig up even more dirt, and certain people are very nervous about what kind of inside information he might have picked up. With an ongoing battle with his publisher over rights to the second book, a looming divorce, and blackmail, Tunderew needs a private investigator. Since he suspects a gay man of being the culprit he turns to gay detective Dick Hardesty. { 231pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £10.99, 1879194724:9781879194724 , GLB Publishers } |
| DUSKOURI TALES [Bryd Roberts] Byrd Roberts has done it again! Hot on the heels of his last book, 'Between Trash and Tramp', comes a collection of 'gothic' short stories that takes you on a journey through a largely gay, make believe land with unexpected and often bizarre twists. Bravo for surprising, delighting, and horrifying me, a jaded reader! { 132pp, 140x215mm, January 2000; PB, £8.99, 1879194317:9781879194311 , GLB Publishers } |
| FAMILIA AFFAIR : An Erotisex Fantasy Novel [Rod Palmer] Set in a not-so-long ago era (1970s) when 'Gay Pride' was more than a marketing slogan, Rod Palmer's one-handed erotic 'Familia Affair' provides an amusing Soprano-lite plot about mob families, gay activism, and falling in love in post-Stonewall New York City. It's a fast and fun synthesis of accomplished anthropological porn and sweet, almost Puritan, romance. { 186pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £9.99, 1879194422:9781879194427 , GLB Publishers } |
| GAY WARRIOR : Transforming Betrayal into Wisdom [F Jim Fickey PhD & Gary S Grimm MA] What makes a gay boy a gay man? This important book provides us with a map and valuable roadside assistance as we seek to make our journeys into male maturity. It helps us better identify and articulate the dead end detours many of us are taking, and challenges us to take responsibility for who and what we are. { 185pp, 155x230mm, January 2002; PB, £11.99, 1879194376:9781879194373 , GLB Publishers } |
| GOOD COP [Dorien Grey] One of the residual spots of conflicts in gay rights is in the police force, and this work takes that conflict head-on in the murder of a gay policeman and the investigation by the inimitable Dick Hardesty. We meet many of the familiar characters as well as get to know Jonathan, a young hustler who becomes more than a casual acquaintance. The entire police force is suspect in this community mystery of intrigue and murder. { 234pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £10.99, 1879194759:9781879194755 , GLB Publishers } |
| GOOD NIGHT, PAUL [Robert Peters] Poems and verse written by a lover to a lover, for all lovers with memories and those still looking forward to new experiences. Long considered a 'poet's poet', Robert Peters has fashioned a collection likened to those of Walt Whitman: What incense stunned your system? What lost health food nurtured you? In the keystone sequence, English Pulpits, the poet's lover pops-up like a jack-in-the-box in the pulpits of remote English churches. { 75pp, 140x215mm, January 1991; PB, £5.99, 1879194066:9781879194069 , GLB Publishers } |
| GUILTY AS CHARGED : The True Story of a Gay Beret [Jay Hatheway] The true story of the psychological trauma experienced by the first Green Beret soldier when he was court-martialled by the Army in the 1970s. It details the first constitutional challenge to the prohibition against homosexuality in the armed forces. { 185pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £11.50, 187919483X:9781879194830 , GLB Publishers } |
| HARDBALL FOR BILLY BUDD [Richard Dann] A love story of gay male athletes and a literary spoof on college athletics at the beginning of the 21st Century. { 294pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £10.99, 1879194805:9781879194809 , GLB Publishers } |
| HIRED MAN [Dorien Grey] In the continuing saga of Dick Hardesty, gay PI, he is hired to protect the interests of a gay/bisexual escort service when a client is murdered. Lovers of murder mysteries will find the complex twists and turns fascinating. This book breaks new ground by being the first mystery novel to make bisexuality an issue in solving a crime. { 274pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £10.99, 1879194767:9781879194762 , GLB Publishers } |
| HOMO ERECTUS [Edward Proffitt] Ed Proffitt's work is of the new period. His poems are not merely word games like those of the last century; they communicate actual human experience as well as being God forbid readable. They are eclectic, mining the rich heritage of the past with a difference: though he can handle free verse and disjunctive forms with the best, much of his verse is metrical and even rhymed. However, his rhyming is usually subtle and his metres experimental (e.g., he will play off against iambic pentameter with a nine-syllable line). All in all, this is a poet of consummate skill who has something to say that touches us all. { 143pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £10.99, 1879194341:9781879194342 , GLB Publishers } |
| HOMOAFFECTIONALISM : Male Bonding from Gilgamesh to the Present [Paul D Hardman] Paul Hardman's provocative but always critical study is the first major treatment of homoaffectionalism in any language. A worthy successor to Hans Blüher's classic work on the role of homoeroticism in male society, it concludes with a probing analysis of the current dispute over the right of lovers of their own sex to serve in America's armed forces. { 253pp, 155x230mm, January 1993; PB, £8.99, 1879194112:9781879194113 , GLB Publishers } |
| HOMONYM [Edward DeBonis] About family and one man's search, full of touching portraits of a man in a world not his own, where his brothers are dying daily. And when Mr DeBonis writes about his own struggle to declare his freedom and claim his identity, and the pain he encounters in the process, his work is at its best. No one knows better the stranded, empty beach feeling of a person trapped outside his own identity. There is craft and excellence in these poems. More often than not, the arrows fall true in the bull's eye of the heart. { 115pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £9.99, 1879194430:9781879194434 , GLB Publishers } |
| HOMOPHILE STUDIES IN THEORY & PRACTICE [Dorr W Legg (ed)] Generations before there were many gays and lesbians (but closets were cluttered with homosexuals), Dorr Legg and ONE Incorporated were proud and out. This unique documentary chronicles the educational, scholarly and political base of this evolution, no, revolution, in American homophilia. { 464pp, 155x230mm, January 1994; PB, £9.99, 1879194171:9781879194175 , GLB Publishers } |
| HOUSE OF BROKEN DREAMS [Bryd Roberts] A tale of the aristocratic Widdicombe family, one of the first families of Virginia, whose members were secretly gay or lesbian. Tragedy stalked the family behind its shuttered windows and hedged gardens, but the drama and passions of Virginia's great are revealed in all their sordid details and hidden plots. The Norfolk, Virginia area becomes as alive as your own neighbourhood. { 175pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £9.50, 1879194414:9781879194410 , GLB Publishers } |
| IN THE STEPS OF MISTER PROUST [Stanley E Ely] This is a very atypical coming-of-age story about Josh, a freshman at Columbia; it becomes much more when Josh is introduced to Proust's writing. Stanley Ely's uncanny ability to take Proust's works and fine-tune Josh's story in such a fashion that they parallel modern life, intertwined, is simply genius, and it charts new territory into the worlds of coming-out stories and coming-of age tales -- not since 'Catcher in the Rye'. { 238pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £11.50, 1879194473:9781879194472 , GLB Publishers } |
| ISLAND MAMBO [Robert Burdette Sweet] The author describes the book as a bisexual murder mystery, but I think it is much more. Yes, Edgar, a raging business high-roller, has sex with men and women, husbands and wives, all unknown to the others, but when he invites the two couples to his island home, they find he has been murdered, and that's only the beginning. They meet the ancient, withered Mambo and her black male successor who was also Edgar's lover, and then it gets complicated. A suspenseful novel with a murder at its centre, 'Island Mambo' leads the reader on a bizarre, almost hallucinatory journey into our inner fears and drives. Staying alive may require trusting in unseen forces and leaving the known safe orld behind. It gives a vision of how we might act if we knew no one was watching? { 203pp, 140x215mm, January 2006; PB, £10.99, 1879194589:9781879194588 , GLB Publishers } |
| KING'S ASSASSIN [Robert Burdette Sweet] Robert Burdette Sweet displays stunning imaginative powers in recreating 17th century Indian history. Set in the oppressive pre-monsoon heat, "The King's Assassin" sizzles with repressed sexuality that resonates with relevance for our own times. { 202pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £10.99, 193420305X:9781934203057 , GLB Publishers } |
| KINGS & BEGGARS [Paul Genega] Verse that is sometimes gentle, sometimes bleak and satirical, but always on the mark. Paul Genega is rapidly distinguishing himself as a major voice in contemporary American poetry. { 62pp, 140x215mm, January 1993; PB, £6.99, 1879194147:9781879194144 , GLB Publishers } |
| MAN IN SHADOW [Russell Thomas] Peter is a respected English professor but he lives a double life: when he is not in suit-and-tie, teaching, he is frequently on his knees in the woods or arcade movies, serving the hung, shadowy figures of the night. This book is a good example of the maturing genre that is gay-and-lesbian fiction. Not only does it present the differences in personality that demarcate gays from straights, it is beginning to explore the depths of the differences as well as the complications that gays face every day. As in 'Man In Shadow', inner struggles between past obsessions and established love require crucial decisions that are not easy. You may see yourself in these pages. You will be drawn deeply into Peter's life and understand where he's coming from. { 232pp, 140x215mm, February 2007; PB, £10.99, 1934203009:9781934203002 , GLB Publishers } |
| NORTH AMERICAN LEXICON OF TRANSGENDER TERMS [Raven Usher] Lexicon or dictionary of terms used in transgender assignment. { 64pp, 105x150mm, January 2007; PB, £5.50, 1879194627:9781879194625 , GLB Publishers } |
| PAPER MIRROR [Dorien Grey] The Hardesty household is still adapting to the presence of Joshua, a four-year old, when a book cataloguer is murdered. The investigation leads to a long-dead, secret gay writer, whose remaining family is determined to conceal his sexual preferences. Homophobia rears its ugly head. { 200pp, 140x215mm, January 2005; PB, £10.99, 1879194570:9781879194571 , GLB Publishers } |
| POPSICLE TREE [Dorien Grey] Dick and Jonathan are left with Jonathan's nephew to raise when the boy's parents are killed in an accident. This is happening when a woman with a small son living in their building is also killed and Dick goes after the villain, especially after someone cuts his brakes cables. It is a time of conflict between awakening parental instincts and Dick's investigative talents. { 247pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £10.99, 1879194554:9781879194557 , GLB Publishers } |
| RABBIT'S LEAP [James Hagerty] Samuel is a closeted biology teacher, picking up what he can (preferably sailors) in forays to the obvious places in San Diego until he meets the top of the tops in the S&M group, but soon finds himself in the midst of family feuds, royal court and transvestite affairs, even dungeons with a pederastic bishop in the family manse. It is an unforgettable story, something like the Rocky Horror show. { 211pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £10.99, 1879194775:9781879194779 , GLB Publishers } |
| RAM STAM BOYS [Chris Kent] Guy Tilson has a new guitar to take back to school for the new semester and on the train meets a new boy who is a tantalising challenge all semester. When not jumping in and out of each others beds, the boys form a rock band, the Ram Stam Boys, where the only rule is that you are not allowed to be a virgin. That is really not a problem. { 151pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £9.99, 187919452X:9781879194526 , GLB Publishers } |
| REAL TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS : An English School Boy Parody [Chris Kent] The delicious follow-up to his successful novels, Chris Kent returns to his favourite theme of public school boys -- this time through a clever retelling of Thomas Hughes Victorian children's novel, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. In Kent's version, the boys have a lot to learn, but will their naughty headmasters get their just desserts in the end? { 152pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £9.50, 1879194392:9781879194397 , GLB Publishers } |
| ROGUES OF SAN FRANCISCO [Bill Lee (ed)] Reveals the bright new SFO School of Writers whose collective erotic-poetic stories will appeal to readers wanting progressively-upbeat, masculine-identified, archetypal, ritual, transcendental sex and a very 90's higher consciousness in raw sex. { 228pp, 140x215mm, January 1993; PB, £7.99, 1879194155:9781879194151 , GLB Publishers } |
| ROGUES TO REMEMBER [Bill Lee] For over ten years, Bill Lee has been entertaining gay readers with explicit stories and fantasies of man-to-man sex of all types: military, construction, cowboys, even porn stars. We now bring his readers a collection of short stories on these themes, some never-before published, and all with that wry touch that characterises Bill Lee. { 162pp, 140x215mm, January 1991; PB, £7.50, 1879194007:9781879194007 , GLB Publishers } |
| ROLE PLAYERS [Dorien Grey] Dick and his lover, Jonathan, finally manage to take a holiday, and it is, to some extent, a sentimental journey for Dick -- it is to New York City, the site of former adventures, and where his former lover is now settled in with a new lover, Max, who happens to be involved in a theatre company. So Dick and Jonathan fly in for opening night, but also arrive soon after one of the original cast is murdered -- gunned down with a shot in the back, and ending up face down in a car park. It seems Dick can't even have a holiday without playing his usual role of sleuth, and there is also a different kind of role playing as well... { 245pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £10.99, 187919449X:9781879194496 , GLB Publishers } |
| SAINT OF SODOMY [William Tarvin] The Saint of Sodomy plagiarises my 'Don Juan' and libels my manly hero by turning him into a gay milquetoast Don Jaunt. Ten million lawyers (from Infernal Circle 8) have counselled me to seek damages against its author, William Tarvin. Furthermore, I am in torturous correspondence with the likewise-libelled Shakespeare, Joyce, and Auden (torturous since we reside in different Infernal Circles) concerning a defamation class action suite against this poetaster. Any other authors (Literary Canon, only) who wish to be a party to this proceeding should contact: Lord Byron, Circle 7, Round 3, Inferno, 66673. (The above missive, bearing mysteriously scorched edges, appeared in the publisher's mailbox just before going to press. We have chosen to ignore it, perhaps to our peril. -- Editor) { 126pp, 140x215mm, January 1999; PB, £7.99, 1879194279:9781879194274 , GLB Publishers } |
| SEA & STONES : Voices From Atlantia [Thomas R McKague] A novella of three generations of a gay/bisexual family whose lives converge on a barren hillside. Populated with characters who leave the reader hungry to know more about them, their pasts and their thoughts and the whys of their lives. It is about the choices we make and self-discovery, and how those choices affect not only our own lives but those of the people we care about. It is also about family, and how love and caring for each other rather than an accident of genes is what truly defines that word. { 105pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £8.99, 1879194813:9781879194816 , GLB Publishers } |
| SECRET BUDDIES, 2ND EDITION : An Erotic Novel [Mike Newman] Innocence this raunchy is a rarity; sex this uninhibited is a delight. There was scant erotica with as much wit, insight, or true originality when Secret Buddies was published more than a decade ago, and despite a flood of erotica since, this welcome second edition of a remarkably sweet novel is as hot as they come. "People think they hide their sex because it's dirty, but, really, sex is only dirty because people hide it. The whole world is backwards, you know?". { 275pp, 140x215mm, January 2003; PB, £11.50, 1879194457:9781879194458 , GLB Publishers } |
| SENSUOUS MATES / INSEPARABLE SAMURAIS : Two Novellas [Bill Lee] This book is composed of two novellas: 'Montana Mates' is the love story of a young cowboy and an Indian boy he meets in a mountain pool in Montana. 'Inseparable Samurais' is a historical love story of two samurais with seeming eternal ties during the Edo rebellion in the 19th century. { 196pp, 140x215mm, January 2006; PB, £10.99, 187919466X:9781879194663 , GLB Publishers } |
| SEX & THE SINGLE CAMEL [Phil Clendenen] If you would like to feast on peach-fuzz boys, kif, and the streaming life of Morocco tongue-stroked earlier by Burroughs, Ginsburg, and Bowles, 'Sex and the Single Camel' is for you. The language is most original and the eroticism perpetual; the quirky style, evoking steamy peregrinations through Arabic sex bazaars, is rich, poetic, and yes, bizarre! You may want to rush to Maroc and never return. { 184pp, 140x215mm, January 1994; PB, £9.50, 187919418X:9781879194182 , GLB Publishers } |
| SNAPSHOTS FOR A SERIAL KILLER [Robert Peters] Book and play. The cerebral images of a gay computer programmer-serial killer whose victims' mutilated bodies are found in parks and highway ramps in Orange County, California. { 130pp, 140x215mm, January 1992; PB, £7.50, 1879194074:9781879194076 , GLB Publishers } |
| SOFT SLOW MOTION [Dixie Schnell] This collection of poetry by Dixie Schnell is beautiful, showing the many ways her life has been touched as a former truck-driver, and managing to embrace feelings that we should all understand. If reading poetry is your thing, then mark Dixie Schnell as someone reaching out with inner being. { 102pp, 140x215mm, January 2000; PB, £8.99, 1879194309:9781879194304 , GLB Publishers } |
| SUBWAY STOPS : Collected Poems [Abmorman] Abnorman's poems, joyous and brave, reverberate with originality and zest. They steam and scream with a no-nonsense style that grabs you often by the throat, and by the balls. { 83pp, 140x215mm, January 1998; PB, £7.99, 1879194244:9781879194243 , GLB Publishers } |
| SUMMER CLUB & THE CREATURES [James A Richards] "Summer Club"may remind you of novels of the olde days when orphan boys found they were really sons of millionaires, but those days are probably gone until updated by this book. Totally ignorant of the choices open to all of us, David grew up thinking he was a loser, until he was thrust into the company of some knowledgeable young people who showed him what his body was good for and where his mind should be travelling. He traverses the barriers of bisexuality and even the Creatures in the mirrors are no longer to be shunned. REVIEW: "This is another in a series of mature gay stories, realistic and wise while being entertaining and educational. James Richards takes it all on and brings success to the forefront." -- Bill Lee, San Francisco Rogue. { 210pp, 140x215mm, May 2007; PB, £10.99, 1934203017:9781934203019 , GLB Publishers } |
| TALES FROM C.A.M.P. : Jackie's Back! [Victor J Bani] Reprinting of three popular novels in Gay History from the 1960s (from the man from CAMP series) plus the author's summary of the legal battles waged in those days. { 310pp, 155x230mm, January 2006; PB, £10.99, 1879194597:9781879194595 , GLB Publishers } |
| TANGLES [John Coriolan] John Coriolan's subtly compelling sexual descriptions of a married couple in NYC in the 1970s portray just about every aspect of bisexuality and makes a strong case for open marriage. Mature gay erotica. { December 2008; PB, £10.99, 1934203025:9781934203026 , GLB Publishers } |
| TIME TO LIVE [Jim Brogan] Jim Brogan's 'A Time To Live' is as enjoyable as it is honest and wise. It's a 'must read' for the gay community because, finally, here is a book concerned with the problems of ageing, especially those of sex, affection, and grief in an AIDS-haunted San Francisco. The main character, Brian, becomes vastly richer through his need to accept the inevitabilities of maturing the 1990s... as does the reader of this engrossing, well-told tale that dares embrace the intrigue of reality itself. { 224pp, 140x215mm, January 1997; PB, £9.50, 1879194228:9781879194229 , GLB Publishers } |
| TOWARD THE BEGINNING [Veronica Cas] Lesbian historical novel which uses an old lesbian bar in Los Angeles as the reference point for tracing the lives of a group of lesbians who met first after World War II. They survived the social stigmata and interpersonal problems of the era and trace back through history to highlight the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years, through fiction. { 216pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £9.99, 1879194872:9781879194878 , GLB Publishers } |
| UNRULY ANGELS [Ronald Nevans] Novel on the lives and times of gay men in New York City in the early 1980s and the impact the new disease, AIDS, had on them. { 256pp, 140x215mm, January 1998; PB, £9.99, 1879194236:9781879194236 , GLB Publishers } |
| WEIGH-IN : Collected Poems [Winthrop Smith] 'The Weigh-In' offers a coverage of the underside of gay experience in America that recalls John Rechy and Michael Lassell. Using incantatory techniques borrowed from Gertrude Stein and contemporary minimalist music, Smith conveys the repetition-compulsion of promiscuity (see 'Monotomy'), which forms the basis of his special aesthetic. In these poems words are snapped in half like breadsticks and sentences enjambed between lines to fashion a jagged argot of Smith's very own, one well suited to portray anonymous lives bent on ecstasy at any cost, to whom he brings the protection of poetry. { 171pp, 140x215mm, January 1996; PB, £8.99, 1879194201:9781879194205 , GLB Publishers } |
| WHITE SAMBO : A Novel in Stories [Robert Burdette Sweet] Robert Sweet shows a virtuosic command of fictional techniques, but he is not showing off. His style is never merely an overlay, but always organic to the stories. And in this day when so many writers are specialists in the angst of their demographic group, Sweet manages to imbue his characters with human credibility and their situations with utterly recognisable tensions. And probably because of this, 'White Sambo' offers a more powerful and touching vision of gay life than one could find in more politicised accounts. Here, it is always the people who matter. For me this book was a find. { 235pp, 155x230mm, January 1993; PB, £5.99, 1879194120:9781879194120 , GLB Publishers } |
| ZAPPED : Two Novellas - Asbestos: A Book for Lepers / How to Make Love to a Foot [Robert Peters] A world-acclaimed poet presents two new age novels back to back: asbestos: 'A Book for Lepers' and 'How to Make Love to a Foot'. Both novellas are parodies of the gestalt psychology fad of the sixties and the pop culture of the era. A wonderfully experimental text. { 135pp, 130x230mm, January 1993; PB, £7.99, 1879194104:9781879194106 , GLB Publishers } |
| 9TH MAN [Dorien Grey] A serial killer is stalking the gay community and the police are largely ignoring them because all the victims are gay. Dick Hardesty takes on the job of bringing the real killer to justice as part of his first experience as a gay detective. { 160pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £9.99, 1879194783:9781879194786 , GLB Publishers } |