Law of Desire

By Jose Quiroga
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodovar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. ...

Trash

By Jon Davies
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Popular Culture
Series: Queer Film Classics

Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's film book series Queer Film Classics, delves into the legendary 1970 film that was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey ...

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

By S. Bear Bergman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Social Issues

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Now in its second printing

Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, is a new collection of essays on gender and ...

American Hunks

By David L. Chapman & Brett Josef Grubisic
Categories: Visual Arts, Popular Culture, Photography, Cultural Studies, History, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Excerpted on out. com

The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, ...

I Like It Like That

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Erotica

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Shortlisted for a TLA Gaybie Award (Best Gay Erotica)

From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer come these intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men's ...

Second Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, Anthologies, Lesbian Literature

First Person Queer, an anthology of non-fiction essays written in the first person by a variety of gay and lesbian authors, was a snapshot of LGBT life and experience in the modern age. Published in 2007, ...

Fist of the Spider Woman

Edited by Amber Dawn
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even ...

The Dictionary of Homophobia

Edited by Louis-Georges Tin
Translated by Marek Redburn
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, History, Lesbian Literature, Cultural Studies

Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various cultural responses to ...

Peter Flinsch

By Ross Higgins
Categories: Cultural Studies, Biography & Memoir, Visual Arts, History, Erotica, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Peter Flinsch, who passed away in March 2010 at the age of eighty-nine, was one of the art world's unsung heroes; for more than 60 years, he produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures which ...

The Slow Fix

By Ivan Coyote
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award (lesbian fiction)

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's most acclaimed storytellers; their first three collections were insightful, deeply personal stories about gender, ...