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Author Jim Provenzano’s New Title Looks at Gay Life in Rural Ohio in the ’70s and ’80s

February 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

By David-Elijah Nahmod In his new novel Now I’m Here, author Jim Provenzano paints a vivid picture of gay life in small-town Ohio from the late 1970s to the early [...]

Between The Covers

February 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, March 2019 Issue. Siddharth Dube by Marguerite Heeb Even if everyone supported you and very little changed, you changed; still, though you had doubts [...]

Between The Covers

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, February 2019 Issue. The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew Reynolds c.2019, Oxford University Press $34.95 / [...]

Nevaeh McKenzie Hosts New Year, New Read: a Drag Queen Storytime at Changing Hands

December 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Laura Latzko Former Miss Gay Arizona America Nevaeh McKenzie is known for her glamorous gowns and big production numbers. The drag queen is going to break into a new [...]

The Sexual Liberation of Thom Bierdz: Soap Hunk Writes Revealing Sex Memoir

December 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

By David-Elijah Nahmod From 1986-89, Thom Bierdz was one of the best known and most popular hunks on daytime TV when he played Phillip Chancellor III on the mega-hit soap [...]

Book Review: 7 Miles a Second

December 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Judy McGuire, January 2019 Issue. 7 Miles a SecondBy David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger, and Marguerite Van Cook | Ground Zero Books If you were lucky enough to catch the [...]

TRANScripts

November 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, December 2018 Issue. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution It had to start somewhere. Someone had to make the first step, to pave [...]

Book Review: Would You Rather?

October 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, November 2018 Web Exclusive. You’re late! Oops, you overslept, got caught in traffic, the elevator was slow. Phone lines were down, email was down. [...]

Tinderbox

October 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Larry Nichols, November 2018 Web Exclusive. Courtesy of the LGBT History Project. Author Robert W. Fieseler’s new book, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs [...]

Book Review: And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove

September 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, October 2018 Issue. You can’t stop your feet. They need to move, to tap-tap-tap, to side step and do-si-do. The music’s on and you gotta move. [...]

Book Review: The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members

August 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, September 2018 Issue. You felt surprisingly safe. There you were, in a place that was certainly iffy, but you were totally comfortable there. No [...]

Book Review: Equally Wed

July 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, August 2018 Issue. Your beloved asked. And you said “yes.” That’s all it took: so simple, yet so momentous and now you’re getting married. [...]

Book Review: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

June 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, July 2018 Issue. You can’t look any longer. Whatever it is, it’s just too painful, too scary, so you hide your eyes and pretend that nothing’s [...]

Book Review: Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE

June 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, July 2018 Web Exclusive. You are the champion of all-time. Nobody can beat you; nobody can even tie your record. When it comes to thumb-wresting, you [...]

Book Review: Marilyn Forever

May 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, June 2018 Web Exclusive. People will talk. And that can be a bad thing: gossip is often mean, and its shelf-life is sometimes longer than we’d [...]