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QUEER DHARMA Voices of Gay Buddhists Volume 1 ![]() Edited by Winston Leyland. ![]() $19.95 paperback. (0-940567-22-9), 416 pp. $50.00 hardcover. (0-940567-21-0) ![]() Over thirty-five writers and fifty separate works are featured in this illustrated, ground-breaking book of 416 pages with articles from various Buddhist traditions (Vipassana, Zen, Tibetan). An Introduction by the editor is followed by Kobai Scott Whitney's "Vast Sky and White Clouds: Is There a Gay Buddhism?" Queer Dharma has six major sections: ![]() |
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GAY ROOTS: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics & Culture Volumes 1 and 2 ![]() Edited by Winston Leyland ![]() Vol. 1 $22.95 paperback; $50.00 hardcover, 702 pp. ISBN 0-940567-13-X (paper); 0-940567-12-1 (hardcover) Vol. 2 $19.95 paperback; $50.00 hardcover, 320 pp. ISBN 0-940567-15-6 (paper); 0-940567-14-8 (hardcover) ![]() |
An anthology encyclopedic in scale, Gay Roots collects
work by more than 100 writers and artists. Five books in one, the mammoth
700-page Vol. 1 has sections on "Gay History," "Gay Sex and Politics,"
"Gay Biography and Literary Essays," "Gay Fiction," and "Gay Poetry."
Includes work by such writers as Gore Vidal, Tennessee
Williams, Allen Ginsberg, W.H.
Auden, Rimbaud/Verlaine, Robin Maugham, and such pieces as "Living
in Truth" (on the probable sexual relationship between the Egyptian pharaohs
Akhenaten and Smenkhkare).
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Vol. 2 includes much new work, such as Charley Shively's
study of George Washington's very bisexual military circle during the
Revolutionary War, "The Historical Roots of Homophobia," "The Passions
of Michelangelo," the
complete novella, Costa Brava, and much more. ![]() --Bay Area Reporter ![]() |
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GAY SUNSHINE INTERVIEWS: Volumes 1 &
2 ![]() Edited by Winston Leyland ![]() Vol 1: $14.95 paper (0-917342-61-5); $25.00 hardcover (0-917342-60-7), 328 pp. Vol. 2: $14.95 paper (0-917342- 63-1); $25-00 hardcover (0-917342-62-3), 288 pp. In depth interviews with gay writers and artists, providing seminal insights into the connections between sexuality and artistic creativity. Included are Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Jean Genet, William Burroughs, John Rechy, Lou Harrison, Taylor Mead, Ned Rorem, Mutsuo Takahashi. John Wieners, Roger Peyrefitte, many more. |
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BLACK MEN WHITE MEN Afro American Gay Life and Culture ![]() Edited by Michael J. Smith. ![]() $18.95 paperback (0-917342-28-3), 240 pp. ![]() For the first time, the Afro-American and interracial gay experience: a collection of short stories, personal reminiscences, interviews, political articles, photos, poems, drawings -- from the most scholarly to the most explicit by 43 writers/artists. Re-issue of a gay classic. |
Includes work such as "The Double Life of a Gay Dodger," [on a black baseball player]; "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" -- a short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Bruce Nugent; "T'ain't Nobody's Bizness: Homosexuality in 1920s Harlem," by Eric Garber; "Racism in the Gay Press," "Struggles of a Black Gay Pentecostal," work by world-famous writer Langston Hughes, and much more......![]() --New York Native |
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MEN LOVING MEN A Gay Sex Guide and Consciousness Book ![]() Mitch Walker. ![]() $18.95 paper (0-917342-52-6) 160 pp. ![]() Men Loving Men is a complete sex guide, with direct illustrated explanations for all forms of gay lovemaking: sucking, anal intercourse, masturbation, sex toys. An up-to-date section on gay health/safe sex practices is also included in this 2nd edition of a gay classic. ![]() --Gay Psychologists' Newsletter. ![]() |
Two seminal books on the gay life and consciousness
of America's national poet, Walt
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CALAMUS LOVERS: Walt Whitman's Working-Class
Camerados ![]() Edited by Charley Shively ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-18-6), 224 pp. $25.00 hardcover (0-917342-17-8) ![]() Examines Whitman's relationships with his comrades and same-sex lovers. The surviving (mostly unpublished) letters which many of these men wrote to Walt place his Calamus poems in context and provide a unique insight into gay life. Illustrated. ![]() |
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DRUM BEATS: Walt Whitman's Civil War
Boy Lovers ![]() Edited by Charley Shively ![]() $14.95 paper (0-940567-07-5), 256 pp. $25.00 hardcover (0-940567-06-7) ![]() Letters to Walt from fifty Civil War soldiers and lovers. Also includes remarkable new material on Abraham Lincoln's possible bisexuality and the homosexual underworld of that period.. Illustrated with 35+ Civil war era photos & drawings. |
CRUISING THE SOUTH SEAS
![]() Stories by Charles Warren Stoddard ![]() $14.95 paperback (0-940567-03-2), 192 pp. $25.00 hardcover (0-940567-02-4) ![]() First modern reissue of the true autobiographical stories of adventures with young Hawaiian and Tahitian men by the late 19th century California writer, C.W. Stoddard, a friend of Bret Harte and Walt Whitman. |
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Boyd McDonald's S.T.H. Series (5 volumes)
![]() FLESH: True Homosexual Experiences Vol. 2 $14.95 paper (0-917342-91-7), 192 pp. ![]() SEX: True Homosexual Experiences Vol. 3 $14.95 paper (0-917342-98-4), 192 pp. ![]() |
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Men nationwide write with no-holds-barred
about their sexual encounters -- truck drivers, hustlers, professors,
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STRAIGHT HEARTS' DELIGHT : Love Poems and Selected Letters ![]() Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky Edited by Winston Leyland ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-65-8), 240 pp. ![]() Poems and letters over a 30-year period illuminate the love relationship of two famous beat writers, as well as friendships with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady etc. Includes all of Ginsberg's gay love poems up until time of publication. Illustrated with photos and drawings. |
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![]() The Collected Poems of Jean Genet ![]() Translated by Steven Finch ![]() $14.95 paper (0-917342-76-3), 120 pp. A collection of all the poems by the famous homosexual French writer, Jean Genet. Bilingual edition (French/English). In a framework of traditional French verse, the eternal and universal themes of poetry and prose, life and death, love and indifference, water and earth, day and night, reality and illusion are reunited and reevaluated. ![]() ![]() |
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THE YOUNG SAILOR and other poems
![]() Luis Cernuda; Translated by Rick Lipinski ![]() $10.00 paper (0-940567-01-6), 128 pp. $25.00 hardcover (0-940567-00-8) ![]() A collection of superb, homoerotic poems by the famous Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1920-1963), of the generation after Garcia Lorca. "Some bodies are like flowers, Others like daggers, Others like rivers of water..." |
THE DISROBING Sex and Satire ![]() Royal Murdoch ![]() $10.00 paper (0-917342-96-8), 112 pp. Royal Murdoch (1898-1981) was born in California, lived in New York City for many years and then in Mexico City for the last two decades of his life. He won the Van Rensselaer Poetry Prize in 1933. The Disrobing, an in- memoriam volume, is the first collection of his gay writing, covering a fifty-year period. |
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Included are journal selections, part of an
autobiographical novel, aphorisms, and poetry. This is one of the few
books available written by an older gay man and covering all his life.
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CUTE and other poems ![]() Jim Everhard ![]() $10.00 paper (0-917342-93-3), 80 pp. ![]() Cute brings together a body of poetry that dramatizes the evolution of gay awareness with wit and passion. Washington D.C. poet Jim Everhard died of AIDS in 1986, one of that large number of creative artists lost to our community and country over the past decade and half. His work, poetry and prose, is also in Gay Roots Volume 2. ![]() ![]() |
![]() Jim Everhard (1946-1986) at Rehoboth Beach, Del., 1984 Photo by Orry Kelly Don't miss this gem! Read excerpt from book |
BUDDHA'S KISSES
![]() Poems by Richard Ronan ![]() ![]() $10.00 paper (0-917342-73-9), 96 pp. ![]() This is a book of love poems, a work of grace and relentlessness. Its main concerns are the love of men, the presence of loss, and aloneness in time and place. Richard Ronan died of AIDS in 1989 in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() |