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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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BUDDHISM & HOMOSEXUALITY: HISTORICAL ESSAYS: Includes article on same-sex sexuality at the time of the Buddha; also historical articles on homosexuality in Japanese and Thai Buddhism.
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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).
Winner of Lambda Book Award for best gay book of the year. |
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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. "This radiant volume reveals the roots of gay culture, its omnipresence, continuity and its ongoing ability to shake us up." --Bay Area Reporter "Winston Leyland is one of the seminal figures in the history of gay publishing. Now he has given us Gay Roots, a huge compendium of gay scholarship and literature." --The Sentinel |
"This massive anthology could stand alone as a documentary record of gay
life in our time. First as a San Francisco tabloid, then as a book publishing
house, Gay Sunshine is legend for honest, open, unapologetic reporting
of gay life." --MultiCultural Review "Gay Roots is one of those books I'd like all my friends to have. Then, when I visited, I could see where it opens automatically and I'd know my friends better. This hefty anthology is a treasure...it engages the erotic, the scholarly, the political, the poetic, the exotic, the local and the personal equally. No matter what gay or straight convention might enforce, Gay Sunshine always reflected the whole universe of gay interest." --Lambda Book Report |
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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Provocative
aperçus on writing in general and on the relationship of homosexuality
to art in particular." --Washington Post "Many of the interviews transcend mere 'people journalism' and emerge as first-class literary and social criticism on their own, almost creating a new genre of commentary on life and letters." --New Age "By drawing together a constellation of stars, each one accompanied by a fine photograph, all engaged in naked revelation, Winston Leyland has managed to make hundreds of pieces of a definition spark off poetically and dramatically." --American Book Review |
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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...... "A pioneering anthology...this book is a challenge, a mirror to hold up to ourselves." --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. "A warm, wonderful, tender book written by and for gay men. The book's emphasis is on sharing, growing, discovering roots, confronting fears, becoming whole and real. --Gay Psychologists' Newsletter. "A fine manual in tone and feeling . . it conveys a sense of being at peace with sex and sexuality." --Siecus Reports. |
Two seminal books on the gay life and consciousness
of America's national poet, Walt
Whitman: |
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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. "Here at last is the long awaited truth about Whitman -- and then some." --Advocate |
"A
historic book ... it definitely oversteps the boundaries of what prudish
people call good taste ... fascinating." --San Francisco Examiner "On the battlefield of Whitman studies, Calamus Lovers scores a ringing victory for openness, truth and scholarship." --Boston Phoenix |
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. |
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,
workers. Illustrated. "True horny stories of male-male love and sex... terse vivid accounts. An act of radical publishing." --Village Voice "Puts the sex back in homosexuality..." --G.C.N. Boston "Has glowing endorsements from William Burroughs, Thom Gunn and Gore Vidal, making S.T.H. the gay man's guarantee of literary cachet." --Soho Weekly News "The most important book ever published for gay men." --G.L.C. Voice [on Meat] "S.T.H. provides an alternative version of American sexuality, celebrating encounters and desires that embarrass and refute those 'straight' depictions of the world that we all grew up on ... A legend, a national treasure. I've even heard S.T.H. referred to along with Proust. These volumes are masterpieces. Across the land you can hear the sound of one hand clapping." --Advocate |
Frontispiece from Straight Hearts' Delight. Photo by Richard Avedon. Read excerpt from book |
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. |
"Defiant eroticism and a hard-won grace." -- Los Angeles Times
"Ginsberg's Beat ragas, traditional lyrics and East Village odes combine a Whitmanesque embrace of the body with a Buddhist vision of self-transcendence." --Publisher's Weekly "In gathering together love poems, photographs, drawings and letters, Winston Leyland exposes two extraordinary bodies--living literature, literary lives--never before seen in such clear, transparent beauty/totality. Straight Hearts' Delight provides wonderful clues and questions about how love, poetry, sex, relationships, the world and revolution are (can be) linked together." -- Prof. Charley Shively |
TREASURES
OF THE NIGHT : 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. "Finch has accomplished the best possible renderings of Genet's loose and easygoing yet well-controlled line arrangements ... preserving the linguistic force and emotional vitality of Genet's seductive eroticism and blunt sexual statement .... No better collection of Genet's poems is available now or likely to appear in the future." --Library Journal |
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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.
"[His work] has individuality, momentum." -- Marianne Moore "Royal Murdoch's highly individual style of lyricism marks him for special notice. . . His originality seems born of a remarkably varied career." --New York Sun |
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. "[Cute] is a marvelous book. Rich and funny, deeply moving and nearly always wry even in his grimmest poems, and sometimes genuinely visionary, Everhard is one of the best gay poets." --Ron Schreiber "Jim Everhard's work is probably the most brilliant, insightful among that large body of poetry engendered by Stonewall and the subsequent gay liberation movement." --Winston Leyland |
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 RonanRead excerpt from book $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. "A fresh, insistent and luminous flow, a notable range."--James Purdy "Orientally simple and baroquely erotic." --Joe Brainard |