Strangers on a Train

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

Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one is a man of high social standing ...

One Thousand Mustaches

By Allan Peterkin
Categories: History, Popular Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

The 'stache is back! After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the mustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (the international campaign in ...

The Lava in My Bones

By Barry Webster
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction Finalist

A frustrated Canadian geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex ...

Basement of Wolves

By Daniel Allen Cox
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

In this taut, beautifully layered novel by Lambda Literary, ReLit, and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist Cox (Shuck, Krakow Melt), Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. When ...

Death in Venice

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

A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who ...

Word Is Out

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

A Queer Film Classic on the groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiles the lives of ordinary gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds. Word Is Out found a wide audience theatrically ...

Zero Patience

By Susan Knabe, Wendy Gay Pearson
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, and Matthew Hays
Categories: Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient ...

The Inverted Gaze

By Francois Cusset
Translated by David Homel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Cultural Studies, Gay Literature

François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey ...

Farewell My Concubine

By Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic
is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman ...

Montreal Main

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

Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic considers the brilliant yet
neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's
bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailed
at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of
American ...