Gay & Lesbian Books

The Tin Star is an outstanding story of two cowboys finding love and finally acceptance in a typically hostile environment. The novel is well written -- not just "beach trash".
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I found this story boring. I only bought it because I'm a fan of the authors other stories. It was lacking in so many ways. The storyline was pretty boring, and the characters were bland. The only thing I liked about the...
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This play is by far one of the most fascinating, dark, and yet refreshing views of contemporary American society. It deals with homosexuality, AIDS, and all other sorts of social issues that have plagued America throughout the recent decades....
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I was a freshman at CCM when we put on a first-rate production of this play. I had read it years before when it became the 'phenomenon' it has been labeled since its opening. But unless you see it onstage with all the magic played out in front of...
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Despite this play's dealing with late-twentieth-century issues, it seemed to me to come out a tradition from the first half of the twentieth century--derived largely from psychoanaltic thought--that one's motivations and behavior have little to do...
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This is a wonderful book...it gives great inside "tips" for tickets and it gives a great insight into the "goings on" on the broadway scene....Seth's personality and fun comes shining through....throughout this book....he makes Broadway fun, he...
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An extremely thin and empty read. If you are a Broadway fan there's nothing in Rudetsky's book that you don't already know or haven't already heard time and time again. An good example of how elementary the book is can be found in Chapter 2...
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I received this book as a Chanukah present. My wife and I are fans of Seth's column and appreciate his knowledge and wit. Nevertheless, this book contains glaring misspellings, typos, and errors. Besides misspelling "Pygmalion" mentioned in...
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Fingersmith is, quite simply, one of the best books I have read in a long time. Sarah Waters is the newest British author to capture my attention. Fingersmith, her newest book, is set very evocatively in a den of pickpockets and thieves in...
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Although the writer's craft is well done, with some surprising twists to the plot,overall the book was dull. The characters are all low life petty thieves, who have no honor even among themselves. By the end, I felt that they all got what the...
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Fingersmith is Victorian street slang for pickpocket, and in this story, it's not just purses that are being purloined. The double entendre of the title is but a hint of the trickery that Waters has up her sleeve. Just when you think you know...
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Cleverly done, THE BACK PASSAGE explores relations between upstairs and downstairs at Drekeham Hall, a British country estate near Norfolk in the year 1925, on the eve of the General Strike that solidified labor and brought globalism to a halt for...
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The fact that this book averages 4.5 stars is an indication of either the sad state of gay light lit or low expectations of the genre. The book is competently written and inadvertently amusing, but at a list price of $[...] for 176 pages, I expect...
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I'm only about a three chapters in...after five months. Maybe it's just not my type of novel, but I find it hard to "get in to." Erotica? Probably. Literature? No.
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There are certain stories that are repeated in literature, told again and again by different writers. What is it about one version that makes it stand out? Makes it more than the pat retelling of something that the reader is already familiar...
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I betcha my Memorial Day weekend was freakier than yours! Well, if you're in a conversation with the Whitfield sisters, be prepared to lose that bet!

Shame On It All (SOIA) introduces us to the wildly eclectic Whitfield sisters: Harmony, the...
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After reading Addicted and Heat Seekers, I was expecting a book that gave more insight into the characters. The only character I could partially relate to was Harmony and only because I own a business as well. I thought Bryce and Lucky were just...
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I thought the book was at best entertaining, but masterpiece, as described in an editorial review, was a little too strong for me. I read Addicted a month ago and was disappointed after reading Shame on it All. The last few chapters attempted to...
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All of Jeanette Winterson's novels are intelligent and worth reading, yet none of her later works have ever quite equalled this, her famous first novel that created a sensation in the UK in the mid 1980s. For one thing, almost none of her later...
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You can see the author finding her voice in this one. It's jumpy with moments of sparking fire that characterize her later works. She dips a toe into the magic realism and fairy tale, and seeing these tentative steps should give all writers faith...
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Before I sensitivity-trained my two little boys with this book, they were just unbearable little monsters. They would go out into the neighborhood and savagely beat any other little boys they saw who showed any signs of being gay: earring on the...
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The book's appearance and story line are both lighthearted and gentle with the underlying message that acceptance is the highest of all virtues. This approach will probably work for a typical 5 year old child in a Lesbian led household -...
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First off all, this book deserves some credit for being one of-if not the very first- books for kids dealing with gay parents. This book has a sweet story and is appropriate for small children- not too gritty or 'adult' or anything.

However...
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Good stories work on several levels; they are multi-dimensional views of the same event. To honor the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, I reread Randy Shilts's groundbreaking work, which was published a mere six years after...
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In this world of hyper-activity and noise, Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood is a call back to Center. It is a friend standing at the gate of the "narrow way", saying with calm confidence: "This is the Way...Walk ye in it." I have entered...
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