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New century, a new June, a new celebration of National Lesbian and Gay Book Month.

Compiled and edited by Robert Dahlin and Charles Hix -- 5/22/00

One biting issue hounding queer publishing is not new. As Keith Kahla at St. Martin's Press laments, "Beautifully written books with gay and lesbian themes are bought almost exclusively by gays and lesbians. I get stunningly bitter. There is no indication that the audience has changed."

Charles Flowers, chair of The Publishing Triangle, recounts, "More gay books are being published, but agents report that it's harder than it was five or six years ago to sell gay books to New York mainstream houses. We're no longer the newest niche on the block. We're now relying even more on small presses and university presses."

On the brighter side, there is consensus that the quality of today's gay, lesbian and bisexual books is indeed higher than ever. Fewer works this millennial year have as their sole focus coming out or AIDS, while significant numbers of new titles probe the cultural interplay, and at times the tension, between sexuality and ethnicity.

Click the publisher names below to view a select titles appearing in the coming year.

Please Note: Publishers marked with * indicates distribution by LPC,
while** indicates distribution byAntique Collectors' Club.

ALYSON
Fabulous Hell (Apr., $12.95 paper) by Craig Curtis is an alcohol-soaked, crystal meth-fueled novel journeying through self-destruction to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Trailblazing: The True Story of America's First Openly Gay Track Coach (Apr., $13.95 paper) by Eric Anderson recounts a triumph over homophobia.
The Silk Road (May, $12.95 paper) by Jane Summer is a first novel dealing with first love in a small town in the early 1970s.
Coming Out: A Handbook for Men (June, $13.95 paper) by Orland Outland is an up-to-date guide.

ARSENAL PULP PRESS (dist. by LPC)
Close to Spider Man (Oct., $13.95 paper) by Ivan Coyote contains connected stories about being a young queer woman in the Yukon.
Queer Fear (Oct., $16.95 paper) is an anthology of gay horror stories.

SHERMAN ASHER
Kosher Meat (Sept., $14.95 paper), ed. by Lawrence Schimel, compiles explicit short fiction portraying the intersection of sacred and secular Jewish identity with gay culture and sexuality.

ATTAGIRL PRESS
See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Ian Philips is a debut title described as "literate filth" for "anyone who's queer in the head."

AVON
Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife (Feb., $14 paper) by Harold Kooden with Charles Flowers explores the impact of aging on gay life.
The Wedding: A Family's Coming Out Story (Mar., $23) by Douglas Wythe, Andrew Merling, Roslyn Merling and Sheldon Merling depicts family prejudices and concerns as two gay men plan their wedding.

BALLANTINE
Men Like Us: The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being (Apr.; $39.95, paper $24.95) by Daniel Wolfe is touted as the gay counterpart to Our Bodies, Ourselves.
The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood (May, $14 paper) by Jesse Green is a memoir about a gay man becoming an adoptive father. In June, Ballantine reissues Green's first novel, O Beautiful ($14 paper), about a gay fellow who discovers his dream man is straight.
Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television: 1930s to the Present (June, $18 paper original) by Stephen Capsuto charts the evolution of gay characterization in the media.

BANTAM
Night Work (Feb., $23.95) by Laurie R. King is the fourth in the mystery series featuring lesbian San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli and her heterosexual partner, Al Hawkin.
Loose Lips (May, $13.95 paper) by Rita Mae Brown is set on the home front during World War II.
Brave Journeys: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage (June, $24.95) by David Mixner and Dennis Bailey contains eight portraits of gay and lesbian participants in the battle for gay rights.

BELLA BOOKS (dist. by LPC)
Calm Before the Storm (Sept., $11.95 paper) by Peggy J. Herring gives a fictional take on closeted lesbian love in today's Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell military.
Off Season (Sept., $11.95 paper) by Jackie Calhoun. Two grieving women find solace in each other's company until a seductive third party arrives.
Bold Coast Love (Oct., $11.95 paper) by Diana Tremain Braund. In rural Maine, a female physician's fidelity to her absent lover is tested when two provocative nurses arrive.
When Evil Changes Face (Oct., $11.95 paper) by Therese Szymanski. Lesbian lovers masquerade as brother and sister to uncover unthinkable evil at Alma High School.
The Wild One (Nov., $11.95 paper) by Lyn Denison. A widow with a landscaping business employs a female hired hand on parole.
Sweet Fire (Nov., $11.95 paper) by Saxon Bennett is fiction set in an Arizona town with more lesbians per capita than any other place on the planet.

BYR BOOKS
Pedro & Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned (Sept., $15 paper) by Judd Winick is a memoir told in sequential art about the cartoonist's friendship with Pedro Zamora, the HIV-positive activist who appeared on MTV's Real World: San Francisco.

CALYX
Undertow (Sept.; $29.95, paper $14.95) by Amy Schutzer. In this fictional love story of two women, an accident brings together a nurse and a patient.

CATBIRD PRESS

A Double Life (May, $24) by Frederic Raphael is a novel about a French diplomat who confronts long-repressed truths about himself.

CIRCLET PRESS (dist. by LPC)
Stars Inside Her: Lesbian Erotic Fantasy (Mar., $14.95 paper), ed. by Cecilia Tan, is an anthology that explores the meanings of the word "fantasy."
Best Bisexual Erotica (June, $16 paper), ed. by Bill Brent and Carol Queen, pulls together two dozen offerings with a bi-flavored tingle.
Wired Hard 3: Even More Erotica for a Gay Universe (Oct., $15.95 paper), ed. by Cecilia Tan, is the third volume in this steamy series.

CLEIS PRESS
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us (Jan., $21.95 paper) by Felice Newman is a comprehensive sex guide.
Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica, ed. by Tristan Taormino, and ...Gay Erotica, ed. by Richard Labonte (June, $14.95 each paper), gather compelling and sexually charged stories.
Ceremonies: Prose and P try (June, $14.95 paper) by Essex Hemphill, intro. by Charles I. Nero. The late p t and activist chronicles African-American gay life.
Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography (Sept., $16.95 paper) by Christine Jorgensen includes previously unpublished photos.
American in Paris (Sept., $14.95 paper) by Margaret Vandenburg is a novel set in the sapphic salons of Gertrude Stein and Natalie Barney.
Miniplanner (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Abha Dawesar. A young executive-in-waiting seeks corporate success by sleeping with his handsome supervisor.
Brothers of New Essex (Nov., $24.95 paper) by Belasco is a sexually explicit novel exploring the gay life of African-Americans.

CODEX PRESS (dist. by LPC)
Charlene's Angels (Nov., $12.95 paper) by Colin Ginks is a gay thriller set in Liverpool with a cast of speed urchins, transsexuals and a Bosnian nymphomaniac.

CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years (June, $35) by Herbert Marder pays special attention to Woolf's relationship with her doctor and distant cousin, Octavia Wilberforce.
Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (July; $39.95, paper $16.95) by Valerie Rohy considers representations of lesbian sexuality in 19th- and 20th-century writings, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Elizabeth Bishop.

COUNTERPOINT
Lies: The Diary 1986-1999 (Nov., $30) by Ned Rorem, foreword by Edmund White. The latest volume touches on many subjects, including the decline and death of Jim Holmes, Rorem's longtime companion.
The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth (Nov., $25) by Carole Maso recalls the experiences of the author and her female partner.

IVAN R. DEE
Resident Aliens (Sept., $19.95) by J Ashby Porter is a novel about a household of four adults from France and Canada living in fluid relationships in Virginia during the mid-1970s.

DELL
Lea's Book of Rules for the World (May, $12.95 paper original) by Lea DeLaria. The lesbian actor/singer/comic sends forth a collection of essays.

DELL/DELTA
Innuendo (Nov., $11.95 paper) by R.D. Zimmerman. In the latest entry in the Todd Mills mystery series, one persistent question stalks a famous married actor: "Is he gay?" What do you think?
In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Susan Brownmiller acknowledges the contributions of early lesbian activists in the women's liberation movement.

DOUBLEDAY
The Limits of Justice (July, $22.95) by John Morgan Wilson is the fourth installment in the mystery series featuring gay detective Benjamin Justice.
Not a Day G s By (July, $18.95) by E. Lynn Harris brings back ex-football star John Basil Henderson and promising Broadway star Yancey Harrington Braxton, who encounter obstacles while planning to marry.

DOWN THERE PRESS
Good Vibrations: The New Complete Guide to Vibrators (July, $8.50 paper) by Joani Blank with Ann Whidden. First published in 1977, this newly revised edition discusses sexual uses of vibrators by both women and men.

DUKE UNIV. PRESS
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Apr., $17.95 paper) by Siobhan B. Somerville contends that race has historically proved to be a major cultural factor in homosexuality. A Series Q book.
The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (May, $17.95 paper) by Thomas Waugh anthologizes the gay film critic's writings.
Virtuous Vice: Hom roticism and the Public Sphere (May, $17.95 paper) by Eric O. Clarke maintains that mainstream depictions of queer life fall short of full democratic enfranchisement. A Series Q book.
Queer Diasporas (June, $18.95 paper), ed. by Cindy Patton and Benigno Sanchez-Eppler, probes the impact of geographical and figurative boundaries on queer identity. A Series Q book.
Solitaire of Love (Aug., $13.95 paper) by Cristina Peri Rossi is the first English translation of the lesbian writer's novel about an obsessive relationship.
Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships (Oct., $17.95 paper) by Brett Farmer utilizes films and stars to investigate gay "spectatorship" at the cinema.
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Nov., $17.95 paper) by Esther Newton is a collection of writings from a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies.
My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Nov., $17.95 paper) by Amber L. Hollibaugh, preface by Dorothy Allison, gathers essays by the "poor-white-trash, high-femme dyke." A Series Q book.
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Dec., $17.95 paper) by Lisa Duggan reconstructs a scandalous 1892 lesbian murder involving an interplay of sex and race.
Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance (Dec., $17.95 paper) by Kathryn Schwarz is centered on the role of the Amazon in early modern English texts. A Series Q book.

DUTTON
The Virus Within: A Coming Epidemic (Mar., $24.95) by Nicholas Regush posits that an understanding of HHV-6 (Human Herpes Virus-6), which infects huge numbers of the population, may bring us closer to the truth about AIDS and other illnesses.

FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Leaps of Faith (Mar., $25) by Rachel Kranz is a first novel involved with union organizing, political theater, gay rights and personal struggles with racism, gender and class.

Boss Cupid (Apr., $22) by Thom Gunn is his twelfth book of p ms, treating subjects from Rimbaud's diet to the tastes of Jeffrey Dahmer.

FEMINIST PRESS
The Chinese Garden (June; $29, paper $12.95) by Rosemary Manning, afterword by Patricia Juliana Smith. First published in 1962, this novel is set in an English girls' boarding school of the late 1920s.

FIREBRAND
Bleeding Out (June, $13.95 paper) by Baxter Clare is a new mystery series introducing Lt. L.A. "Frank" Franco, said to possess Dirty Harry's personality stuffed into Martina Navratilova's body.
Women on the Row: Revelations from Both Sides of the Bars (July, $12.95 paper) by Kathleen O'Shea. The author, an ex-nun who claims to be in contact with every woman currently on death row, intersperses writings about her life with composite portraits of 10 women under death sentences.
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For (Aug., $11.95 paper) by Alison Bechdel is a new collection of cartoons.

GRAYWOLF PRESS
My Lesbian Husband (Oct., $15 paper) by Barrie Jean Borich. This memoir about the author's lesbian marriage received the 2000 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Award from the ALA.

GREENERY PRESS (dist. by LPC)
Love, Sal (Sept., $13.95 paper) by Sal Iacopelli presents three years of correspondence to a friend back home from the sometime actor on an extended sojourn among San Francisco leather bars and drag shows. A Grass Stain Press book.
Flogging (Oct., $11.95 paper) by Joseph Bean. The longtime leatherman explains how to choose a flogger and other insider how-tos pertaining to this perennial activity. A Grass Stain Press book.

GROVE/ATLANTIC
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (Feb., $25), ed. by James Grauerholz, spans the last nine months of the writer's life.
Period (Mar., $21) by Dennis Cooper is a new novel dealing with passion that crosses into murder, completing the author's five-book cycle.
Faggots (June, $14 paper) by Larry Kramer is a new edition of the 1978 novel that predated the AIDS epidemic. The same month brings a two-play collection by Kramer, containing The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me ($14 paper).

HARPER SAN FRANCISCO
Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist (Apr., $26) by Cleve Jones with Jeff Dawson. The founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt weaves together a cultural history of AIDS with his own efforts to restore hope within the devastated gay community.
Full Exposure: Opening Up to Your Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression (Sept., $14 paper) by Susie Bright is an updated edition celebrating an expansive variety of sensual pleasures.

HAWORTH PRESS
Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values (Feb.; $39.95, paper $18.95), ed. by Thomas Richard Sullivan, contrasts attitudes and legal approaches in the U.S. and Canada.
Out of the Twilight: Fathers of Gay Men Speak (May; $39.95, paper $19.95) by Andrew R. Gottlieb delves into the difficulties and joys of the father/gay son relationship.
The Bear Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Those Who Are Husky, Hairy, and Homosexual and Those Who Love 'Em (June; $39.95, paper $14.95) by Ray Kampf and The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture (June; $49.95, paper $24.95) by Les Wright offer insider views.
Midlife Lesbian Relationships: Friends, Lovers, Children, and Parents (June; $49.95, paper $19.95) by Marcy R. Adelman and Gay Men at Mid-Life: Age Before Beauty (Oct.; $49.95, paper $17.95), ed. by Alan L. Ellis, provide insights into the aging process.
"Romancing the Margins"?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s (July; $39.95, paper $16.95), ed. by Gabriele Griffin, reviews critical responses to work addressing issues of gender, sexuality and identity.
Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade (July; $69.95, paper $29.95), ed. by Andrew David Grossman, is cited as the first full-length book in English on the subject.
Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country Life (Sept.; $39.95, paper $14.95) by Hawk Madrone is her personal portrait of living in the Oregon hills.
A Night in the Barracks: Authentic Accounts of Sex in the Armed Forces (Nov.; $39.95, paper $12.95), ed. by Alex Buchman, gathers steamy stories of real-life, same-sex experiences.

HERETIC BOOKS (dist. by LPC)
California Dreamtime: The Secret Nudes of Dennie Denfield (Oct., $25 paper) showcases images of muscular, nude men taken in the 1950s by physique photographer Denfield.

HENRY HOLT
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Nov., $45), ed. by Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson) and Rupert Hart-Davis, includes more than 200 previously unpublished letters.

Henry Holt/METROPOLITAN BOOKS
Homophobia: A History (Aug., $32.50) by Byrne Fone charges that homophobia remains a central tenet of law, science, faith and literature.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
The Tender Land: A Family Love Story (June, $24) by Kathleen Finneran. The lesbian writer's memoir addresses the suicide of her teenage brother.
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--A History (June, $15 paper) by Lillian Faderman focuses on historical women whose lives can be described as lesbian.
Martin Bauman (Sept., $26) by David Leavitt. A novel set at the dawn of the Reagan era follows its eponymous hero from college through his entrance into New York's literary and gay circles.

IPSO FACTO
Flesh & Stone (Oct., $44.95) by Edward Lucie-Smith juxtaposes the art critic's own contemporary gay erotic photography with classical sculpture.

JOSSEY-BASS
Gay Fathers: Encouraging the Hearts of Gay Dads and Their Families (July, $25.95) by Robert L. Barret and Bryan E. Robinson is a revised edition that both reviews recent studies of gay fathering and provides new information on adoption.

JUSTICE HOUSE
Tropical Storm (Feb., $16.99 paper, 2nd edition), Hurricane Watch (June, $18.99 paper) and Eye of the Storm (Nov., $18.99 paper) by Melissa Good. The lesbian romance series features corporate raider Dar Roberts and her merger match, Kerry Stuart.Silent Legacy (June, $16.99 paper) by CÃarÃ¡n Llachlan Leavitt offers an insider tribute to author Melissa Good. (A plot development entails a film adaptation of Good's Tropical Storm, which in real life has actually been optioned for a motion picture.)Tristaine (Dec., $16.99 paper) by Klancy is postapocalyptic fiction featuring a clan of strong women who resist a totalitarian regime's mind-control efforts.

KENSINGTON
Body Language (May, $13 paper) by Michael Craft is the third in the mystery series featuring gay newspaperman Mark Manning.Every Man for Himself (May, $13) by Orland Outland is a gay comedy of manners and morals in which a man on trial separation from his mate explores his inner Boy Toy.
My Best Man (May, $23) by Andy Schell. A disinherited blue blood will regain big bucks if he marries a wife, but he really wants a husband.
The Principles: The Gay Man's Guide to Getting (and Keeping) Mr. Right (May, $12 paper) by Orland Outland promises romantic success.
The Biograph Girl (June, $23) by William J. Mann is a bittersweet blend of fact and fiction in its presentation of 107-year-old Florence Lawrence, the world's very first movie star.
The World of Normal Boys (Sept., $22) by K.M. S hnlein is a first novel of sexual discovery set in late-1970s suburban New Jersey.

KNOPF
Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood (Mar., $30) by Arthur Laurents. The director, playwright and screenwriter with such credits as The Way We Were, Gypsy and West Side Story writes candidly about his work and his homosexuality.
Burt Lancaster: An American Life (Mar., $27.50) by Kate Buford profiles the actor's lengthy career and reveals his liaisons with both men and women.
The Married Man (May, $25) by Edmund White. When an American scholar living in Paris meets a younger, married Frenchman, the two fall deeply in love.
The Power Book (Nov., $24) by Jeanette Winterson. London, Paris and cyberspace provide settings for a novel about an e-mail writer who composes transformative messages for others.

MORROW
The Boy with a Thorn in His Side (Apr., $24) by Keith Fleming. In this memoir, a 12-year-old discovers, when his parents divorce, that both his mother and uncle are gay; he subsequently lives with Uncle Ed, the gay literary icon Edmund White.

NAIAD PRESS (dist. by LPC)
Treasured Past (Oct., $11.95 paper) by Linda Hill. Attorney Kate and shopkeeper Annie share a passion for antiques--and more.
Death Understood (Nov., $11.95 paper) by Claire McNab. Secrets abound inside an ultraconservative think tank headed by a brother and sister team.

NEW VICTORIA PRESS (dist. by LPC)
Mommy Deadest: A Meg Darcy Mystery (Oct., $11.95 paper) by Jean Marcy. PI Darcy agrees to help a friend whose nephew has been arrested for murdering a beloved school principal who was called "Mom" by her students.
Day Stripper (Oct., $10.95 paper) by Jenny Scholten. A transvestite co-worker at the Naughtyland Club in San Francisco's Tenderloin District enlists a stripper to determine whether a new girl is an undercover cop.
Nine Nights on the Windy Tree (Oct., $10.95 paper) by Martha Miller. Struggling African-American lawyer Bertha is solicited for legal counsel concerning a murder not yet committed.
Circles of Power: Shifting Dynamics in a Lesbian-Centered Community (Nov., $16.95 paper) by LaVerne Gagehabib analyzes an alternative community founded in the 1970s along the I-5 corridor from the border of Northern California north to Eugene, Ore.

W.W. NORTON
The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane (Apr., $15.95 paper) by Paul Mariani is a biography of the gay p t who killed himself in 1932 at age 32. The Complete P ms of Hart Crane (May, $29.95), ed. by Marc Simon, is a centennial tribute with a new intro. by Harold Bloom.
Rimbaud: A Biography (Oct., $35) by Graham Robb documents how the p t's life as a gay pioneer was stranger than fiction.
Saturday's Child: A Memoir (Nov., $27.95) by Robin Morgan tells the whole story of how the feminist activist and former child star has reinvented herself in multiple guises.

OVERLOOK PRESS
Stop Kiss (Jan., $12.95 paper) by Diana Son. In this play, when two young women kiss, a savage gay-bashing results.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (May, $19.95 paper) by John Cameron Mitchell, lyrics by Stephen Trask, intro. by John Guare. The heroine of this play with music has undergone a not totally successful sex change.
Zombie 00 (Aug., $24.95) by Brad Gooch is a fictional look into the life and mind of an avowed "zombie."

PAINTED LEAF PRESS (dist. by LPC)
The Villagers (Nov., $18.95 paper) by Edward Field is a generational saga from the Civil War through Gay Liberation, played out against the backdrop of Greenwich Village.

PENGUIN
The Spell (May, $12.95 paper) by Alan Hollinghurst is a novel about the interlocking affairs of four men in England.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: 1933- 1938 (June, $17.95 paper) by Blanche Wiesen Cook probes the first lady's psychological state to explain her complex relationships.

PERENNIAL
Open Secret: Gay Hollywood--1928- 2000 (June, $15 paper) by David Ehrenstein mixes social history with Tinseltown exposÃ©.
A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories (Nov., $14 paper) by Joan Larkin collects the reminiscences of 31 authors.

PLUME
The Kid (Aug., $12.95 paper) by Dan Savage. The syndicated sex advice columnist tells how he and his boyfriend sought to adopt a baby.

POWERHOUSE (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Absolutely Mardi Gras: Costume and Design of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras (Jan., $30) by Glynis Jones et al. focuses on the glitzy costumes fashioned for the fabulous Aussie pride parade.

PRICE STERN SLOAN
What If Someone I Know Is Gay?: Answers to Questions About Gay and Lesbian People (Oct., $4.99 paper) by Eric Marcus. Written for young people and adults, the guide offers answers to such questions as "D s a person just decide to be gay?" and "D s God love gay people?"

PROWLER-MILLIVRES (dist. by LPC)
Lemon Gulch (Jan. $14.95 paper) by Donovan O'Malley is a comic novel starring a 12-year-old love-starved homosexual protagonist who looks 16. A Gay Men's Press book.
Aquarius (Oct., $14.95) by Mel Keegan is a SF thriller set in the late-21st century featuring a love affair between a hydrologist and a member of a new subspecies capable of breathing under water. A Gay Men's Press book.
Attrition (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Simon Lovat is a novel exploring difficult relationships, including one between a father and son. A Gay Men's Press book.
The Butterfly Boy (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Richard Cawley is a first novel about a man who turns 40 soon after the death of his lover. A Gay Men's Press book.
The Gay Times Book of Short Stories: New Century, New Writing (Oct., $12.95 paper), ed. by P.P. Hartnett, is an anthology presenting gay and bisexual voices from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Gladiators (Oct., $9.95 paper) by Keith Gordon. Stories about how beefy, greased-up warriors carry on in Roman saunas. A Zipper book.
The Linguist (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Sebastian Beaumont. The novel's plot encompasses a fair share of sexual complications. A Gay Men's Press book.
Night Time (Oct., $9.95 paper) by Edmund Miller is a grouping of erotic stories centering around men who meet after dark. A Zipper book.
Sweating It Out (Oct., $9.95 paper) by Bob Condron imagines a mÃ©nage Ã trois between a gay couple and a sexy Turk that begins in a local sauna. A Zipper book.

QUILL
Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey (May, $14 paper) by Betty DeGeneres offers a mother's perspective on her famous daughter's life and coming out.

RANDOM HOUSE
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Apr., $29.95) by Gerald Clarke touches upon the entertainer's affairs with women as well as men.
Present Laughter: The World of Oscar Wilde (Oct., $34.95) by Barbara Belford seeks to debunk the mythology of Wilde as a tragic figure.

RIVERHEAD
The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father (Mar., $23.95) by Mark Matousek recounts how the author hired a private detective to search for the father who abandoned him.
Affinity (June, $24.95) by Sarah Waters. The author of Tipping the Velvet presents an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, who visits a prison, meets an enigmatic spiritualist and is drawn into a world of unseemly passions in 19th-century London.

ROUTLEDGE
Flaming Classics (June; $75, paper $18.95) by Alexander Doty locates the queer content in such perennial films as The Wizard of Oz, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Citizen Kane.
The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (July; $100, paper $29.95) by Laurence Senelick demonstrates that Boy George and RuPaul are not the only cross-dressers on stage.

RUBICON MEDIA
Please Don't Come Out While We're Eating! (Apr., $8.95 paper) by Julian Lake is a second volume of cartoons.
The Closing Argument (June, $10 paper) by Charles Ortleb is a novel featuring an African-American lawyer who puts the government on trial to defend a client accused of spreading AIDS.
Did You Have to Come Out on Christmas? (Nov. $8.95 paper) by Julian Lake completes the cartoonist's coming-out trilogy.
Then and There: A Trilogy from Dark Times (Dec., $20 paper) by Charles Ortleb collects his fiction about dissent and resistance.

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
Pussy's Bow (Feb., $23.95) by Neal Drinnan is a novel in which a gay-bashing incident escalates to an accidental killing and other complications. A Stonewall Inn Edition.
Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality (Mar., $27.95) by Micha Ramakers studies the artist's hom rotic images and their impact upon gay culture.
And the Band Played On (Apr., $16.95 paper) by Randy Shilts. The 1987 bestseller is now a Stonewall Inn Edition.
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (Apr., $21.95 paper) by Bruce Bagemihl submits a surprising angle on sexual orientation in the natural world. A Griffin/Stonewall Inn Edition.
Selling Out: The Gay & Lesbian Movement G s to Market (Apr., $27.95) by Alexandra Chasin indicts the marketing of sanitized queerness.
The Struggle for Happiness (Apr., $22.95) by Ruthann Robson is a collection of short fiction from the Lambda Literary Award finalist.
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay P try of the Next Wave (Apr., $29.95), ed. by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, collects the work of 46 living, working p ts.
Briefly Told Lives (June, $22.95) by C. Bard Cole combines short stories and vignettes that portray life on the margin of both straight society and the gay mainstream.
Gay Planet: All Things for All (Gay) Men (June, $24.95) by Eric Chaline is the first U.S. edition of this illustrated celebration of gay male communities around the globe.
Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle (June, $29.95) reveals a world of interconnecting careers and loves.
Name Games: A Mark Manning Mystery (June, $23.95) by Michael Craft. In the fourth in this mystery series featuring a gay newspaperman, a closeted local sheriff is suspected of murder. A Minotaur book.One Mykonos: Being Ancient, Being Islands, Being Giants, Being Gay (July, $19.95) by James Davidson uses the island's history to demonstrate how certain attitudes have altered over 2,500 years. A Thomas Dunne book.
Half-Moon Scar (Aug., $22.95) by Allison Green is a novel in which a 30-something lesbian returns to her small-town home where two old friends are leading unresolved lives.

SEAL PRESS
Valencia (May, $13 paper) by Michelle Tea is an account of one girl's experiences in San Francisco's Mission District.
Margins (June, $12.95 paper) by Terri de la PeÃ±a concerns a young Chicana lesbian's coming to terms with the aftermath of a tragic car accident.
Sex and Single Girls: Women Write on Sexuality (June, $16.95 paper), ed. by Lee Damsky, collects essays written by women in their 20s and 30s.
Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships (Aug., $15.95 paper) by D. Merilee Clunis and G. Dorsey Green is an updated guide for lesbian partners.
The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Barbara Wilson is a mystery starring detective Cassandra Reilly on the trail of a missing antique bassoon.
Coming Out of Cancer: Writings from the Lesbian Cancer Epidemic (Oct., $14.95 paper), ed. by Victoria Brownworth, examines the impact of cancer on the lesbian community.
Shy Girl (Nov., $12.95 paper) by Elizabeth Stark is a novel following a teenage romance between a body-piercer and her shy next-door neighbor to their reunion years later.

SIMON & SCHUSTER
Janet, My Mother & Me (Feb., $24) by William Murray is a memoir about being raised by his mother and her longtime lover, New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner.
Guess Again (Nov., $20) by Bernard Cooper is a collection of short stories from the O. Henry Prize recipient for his memoir, Truth Serum.

SOHO PRESS
Pagan's Father (Feb., $14 paper) and The Celibate (Feb., $13 paper) by Michael Arditti. In the first, after the death of a friend, a gay man fights for the custody of the girl he helped raise. In the second, a young man faces the reality of his physical passion after a breakdown while serving at the altar.
Moab Is My Washpot (May, $13 paper) by Stephen Fry. A gay coming-of-age memoir covers the same adolescent experiences that the actor fictionalized earlier in his novel The Liar, about first love and thievery in an English public school.

SPINSTERS INK
Booked for Murder (May, $12 paper) by Val McDermid is the fifth novel in the Lindsay Gordon mystery series set in the world of London publishing.
Those Jordan Girls (June, $12 paper) by Joan M. Drury is an epic novel about a family of four generations of women living in small-town Minnesota.
Deadly Embrace (Oct., $12 paper) by Trudy Labovitz is the second Z Kergulin feminist mystery, in which Z investigates an attempt on the life of her cousin, a gay sheriff in West Virginia.

STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK PRESS
Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson (Mar.; $47.50, paper $15.95) by Andrea L. Harris explores gender alternatives in the works of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Hauser and Jeanette Winterson.
Sexing the Text: The Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in British Literature, 1700-1750 (Apr.; $54.50, paper $17.95) by Todd C. Parker provides a reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major literary genres.
Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (May; $71.50, paper $23.95) by Susan Talburt challenges the way "lesbian academics" have been socially constructed.
Outspeak: Narrating Identities That Matter (Dec.; $57.50, $18.95 paper) by Sean P. O'Connell scrutinizes the sometimes unspecified significance of professing sexual identity.

TALK MIRAMAX
Bosie: A Life of Alfred Douglas (May, $30) by Douglas Murray follows the life of Oscar Wilde's lover through his renunciation of homosexuality to his death in 1945.
A Density of Souls (Aug., $23.95) by Christopher Rice is a novel about four male high school friends, one a target of vicious homophobia.

TASCHEN
Natacha Merritt: Digital Diaries (Mar., $29.99) presents her extraordinarily intimate work taken with a digital camera, including scenes of masturbation with and without accessories.
George Platt Lynes (Apr., $39.99) by David Leddick breaks down the photographer's work into sections: portraits, ballet and fashion images, and extensive nudes including his hom rotic homage to Greek mythology.

TEMPLE UNIV. PRESS
Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America (Aug.; $69.50, paper $22.95), ed. by Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara with Timothy Liu, resists summary in that it tackles a variety of topics from fairy tales to Asia itself.
A Genealogy of Queer Theory (Sept.; $69.50, paper $22.95) by William Turner suggests that few people precisely fit standard categories of sexual and gender identity.
Out in the South (Dec.; $69.50, paper $22.95), ed. by Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Law, targets the experiences of gays and lesbians from East Texas to Appalachia.

TIMBER PRESS
Beverley Nichols: A Life (Feb., $29.95) by Bryan Connon is a biography of the mid-century gay British author best known for his gardening and cat books.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Chicken Out (Feb., $13.95 paper original) by Alma Fritchley is the third installment in the Letty Campbell lesbian mystery series set in England. A Women's Press book.
Spinsters' Rock (Mar., $13.95 paper original) by Caeia March is a lesbian novel infused with spirituality. A Women's Press book.
Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition (Mar., $24.95 paper original), ed. by Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson), commemorates the writer's death with new revisions, introductions and illustrations for a work that has continuously been in print since 1948.
The Art of Duncan Grant (July, $29.95 paper) by Simon Watney is an illustrated overview of the life and work of Grant, a member of the Bloomsbury Group noted for his hom rotic paintings and drawings. A John Murray book.
Vanitas (July, $12 paper) by Joseph Olshan is a novel that includes an erotic drawing and a dying gay art dealer. A Bloomsbury UK book.
Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (July, $15.95 paper original) by Hermione Lee assesses the writer's life and work. A Little, Brown UK book.
Siegfried Sassoon (Aug., $16.95 paper original) by John Stuart Roberts employs previously unpublished material to examine the p t's homosexuality and his quest for religious faith. A Richard Cohen book.
The Servant (Aug., $12 paper) by Robin Maugham is a Film Ink Series title in which a man comes under the influence of his new butler. A Prion book.

UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck (Apr.; $50, paper $19.95) by John W.M. Hallock traces the rise and eventual fall of this early American p t.
The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood (Apr. $34.95), ed. by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, foreword by Armistead Maupin, brings together 24 essays and interviews examining Isherwood's legacy.
Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations (Apr.; $59.95, paper $24.95), ed. by Joseph A. Boone et al., argues that queer theory is poised to transform society's perception of gender.
Bryher: Two Novels (Sept.; $50, paper $19.95), intro. by Joanne Winning, reprints two novels from the 1920s, Development and Two Selves, that together constitute a fictionalized autobiography of the modernist writer Bryher, who was the p t H.D.'s partner.
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Sept., $16.95 paper) by Gad Beck with Frank Heibert is a memoir proving that gay romantic relationships and underground resistance efforts are not incompatible.
Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea (Oct., $24.95) by Tobias Schneebaum. The gay adventurer/writer/ painter juxtaposes his two worlds.
The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson (Nov.; $57.95, paper $22.95) by Joanne Winning critiques the 13-volume work of autobiographical fiction in terms of its subtext of lesbian identity.
Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture (Nov.; $69.95, paper $24.95), ed. by Susana Chavez-Silverman and Librada Hernandez, tracks literary and cultural texts from the 17th century to the present.
Stars in My Eyes (Nov., $34.95) by Don Bachardy mixes the portraitist's ink drawings with his own prose sketches of celebrities, many of whom have passed on, as has Bachardy's longtime partner, Christopher Isherwood.

VIKING
The Danish Girl (Feb., $24.95) by David Ebershoff is a novel inspired by the true story of the marriage between American-born Gerda Wegener and her Danish husband, the painter Einar Wegener, who became the first person to undergo a sex-change operation.

VINTAGE
A Boy's Own Story (June, $12 paper) by Edmund White is a reissue of the classic autobiographical novel about a nameless narrator's coming of age in the 1950s and his struggles with the guilt and shame of his yearning to be loved by men.
The World and Other Places (June, $12 paper) by Jeanette Winterson is the writer's first collection of short stories (in one, women give birth to their lovers).

WARNER
Traveling Light (Apr., $18.95) by Katrina Kittle is a debut novel in which a sister learns lessons about love and acceptance from a brother dying of AIDS.

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