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Paul Monette (1945-1995) wrote this memoir about the tragic consequences of AIDS in his own life, particularly the death of his adored lover, Roger Horwitz, after two years of illness. Monette gives the details, even the unpleasant ones, about living with someone who is suffering from AIDS. He also depicts life on the "AIDS rollercoaster", describing the emotional ups and downs he and his lover encountered as the disease progressed. This is the first book in his AIDS trilogy.

Historians Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons provide a comprehensive view of two centuries of gay life in Los Angeles, revealing the rich and varied gay world that thrived in and contributed to the new, dynamic American city. This grand tour is based on their deep research into archives, as well as on hundreds of interviews as they explore fascinating eras of gay social and political history, from early encounters between Indians and settlers, through the taming of the West, and into the 20th century, including show biz, radical politics, and personal liberation. Faderman and Timmons show how the city's energy and optimism--and its boom economy--often provided a welcoming environment, even during the days of the 1950s blacklist and for those in the closet. In Los Angeles, gay men and women were able to find a home of their own making. Winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award in Arts & Culture.

An automobile accident in 1983 radically altered the lives of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson. This gripping story tells how Sharon become seriously disabled and placed into the guardianship of her father, against her wishes. It relates how Karen, a closeted university professor, quickly became an activist for disabled persons and lesbian rights. After years of legal battle, Sharon can now come home to Karen as her legal guardian.

Classic lesbian erotic poem by the mistress herself -- Gertrude Stein.

Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. 16 pages of photos. "Engaging . . . compelling . . . poignant and moving . . ".--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Examines the moral dilemmas facing the gay community, presenting an ethical argument for outing, a critique of ACT UP, and a discussion of such issues as homophobia, repression, and democracy.

Coleman Dowell came to New York City in 1950--a young gay man who resolved that he would try to make a name for himself in the frustrating world of show business. This memoir tells his story and includes devastating portraits of Tennessee Williams, David Merrick, Carl Van Vechten, and others.

The third volume of the Women on Women series features brilliant writing from a generation of women writers, including Kate Millett, Michelle Cliff, and Barbara Smith. From the traditional to the transgressive, this award-winning series presents the best short work by the best writers of the lesbian community.

The editor of Flesh and the Word commissioned essays from twenty-seven prominent writers in the gay community for an illuminating anthology dedicated to the family relationships of gay men. Winner of a 1993 Lambda Literary Award. Reprint.

Through interviews with lovers, friends, and publishers, and using new material drawn from letters, White explores the perverse extremes of Jean Genet's life as thief and literary celebrity, and examines the myths--many of them self-perpetuated--that evolved around him. Photos.

The first book by a doctor who works with AIDS victims daily offers a revealing look at the impact of AIDS on a small Tennessee town, as townspeople respond to the disease's presence in inspiring ways.

A biography of Tennessee Williams, by theater producer Lyle Leverich, this volume covers Williams's childhood and early writing years. Leverich was chosen by Williams himself to write his life story, but six years of legal battles with the Williams estate were necessary before this book could be released;

The course of growing up in just-this-side-of-segregation 1970s Cincinnati, Ohio, seems predictable if uninspiring for Cliffy Douglas. That is, until the deadbeat father of this gifted thirteen-year-old black kid from the Finlater Gardens Projects appears out of nowhere. The real fun and trouble begin when Noah, a Jewish boy he falls for in junior high school, takes him on a joyride to lust and love. Original.

Edmund White's sequel to A BOY'S OWN STORY follows the artistic young narrator from a claustrophobic Midwestern college town in the 1950s through the "turning point" of his life--the night of the Stonewall rebellion in Greenwich Village in 1969, an event at which White himself was present and which turned him into a gay activist.

Chronicles the experiences of the gay community as seen through the eyes of B.J. Rosenthal, whose life and world change drastically as AIDS has its impact on gays and nongays alike.

A gay narrator tells of his summers spent in Charleston, South Carolina, dreaming of love and grasping for his sexual identity.

Short stories set in North Carolina.

A coming-of-age novel about a gay man in 1940s Hollywood: Nathan Reed, an aspiring novelist, is drawn into the sophisticated but dangerous world of a charming Texan.

In Alan Hollinghurst's second novel, Edward Manners is 32 years old, gay, and disillusioned with his life in England. He arrives in an ancient Flemish city to work as a language tutor, also hoping to get some writing done. There, he becomes obsessed with one of his students, a 17-year-old boy named Luc Altidore. Their relationship quickly becomes a highly erotic one (and Hollinghurst's novel has accordingly been controversial), but Luc abruptly disappears. Edward is also obsessed with the story of a local painter whose love for an actress took over his life and his art. THE FOLDING STAR was a finalist for the Booker Prize when it was published.

A novel about a Sri Lankan boy who likes to wear a sari, play with girls, and avoid sports, and the difficulties he faces because of his differences. Winner of the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1994.

This collection of four novellas includes PRESERVATION NEWS, about the obituary of a beloved gay man in a small North Carolina town; HE'S ONE, TOO, about a respectable businessman whose life is shattered when he is caught molesting a teenager; SAINT MONSTER, about a black salesman who has always passed for white; and the title novella, about a memorable woman named Muriel who has her portrait painted by Sargent in the days before the family fortune disappears. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

In Chicago, a math teacher is murdered, and it is discovered the victim was involved in gambling, sadism, and kiddie porn.

Investigating the murder of pop guitarist Cricket Shales, Dave Brandsetter becomes entangled in a case involving child abuse, drugs, AIDS, and the victimization of the elderly. By the author of The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning. Reprint.

Henry Rios, a gay Chicano lawyer, investigates the death of a powerful Los Angeles politician while struggling against a young man falsely accused of the crime. By the author of How Town. National ad/promo.

While keeping watch on a radical populist senator for his mentor, Cicero, Gordianus finds a corpse in his stables without an explanation--or a head--in story of conspiracy and murder set in ancient Rome. By the author of Roman Blood.

This nonfiction novel about a celebrated murder case (an upper-crust antiques dealer was accused of shooting his male lover) is also a love song to the city of Savannah, Georgia.

Emmy Award-winning news reporter Todd Mills has risen to the top of his profession. However, his career is threatened when a series of brutal murders rock Minneapolis, and his double life is revealed as the lover of the first murder victim.

Henry Rios lost his lover, Joss, to another man who later died of AIDS. Now Joss has contracted the deadly virus, and Henry must cope with Joss's dying as well as the murder of his college friend Chris Chandler, who had not come out of the closet. Chris's secret lover, Zack--a porn star--is accused of Chris's murder.

Still reeling in the wake of his lover's death from AIDS, lawyer Henry Rios takes his niece and grand-nephew under his wing, defending the niece in a murder trial. It looks like Henry is finally going to be appointed to the judicial bench, but first, he has to see this emotionally grueling--and dangerous--case through to its outcome.

Surveys the experiences of gay soldiers during World War II, discusses military policy towards homosexuals, and looks at the effect of the war on the gay subculture.

Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a closeted homosexual, and of AIDS, which claimed the lives of many of his friends. Though the story follows the usual autobiography format, describing his early life, family, education, and later life, the writing is infused with a sense of the political, and the author's anger clearly comes through.

The definitive edition of an outstanding contemporary poet's work, the Collected Poems gathers together all of James Schuyler's published collections, including the long-out-of-print Freely Espousing (1969), The Crystal Lithium (1972), and Hymn to Life (1974), as well as poems from The Home Book (1977) and other small-press editions. It closes with a substantial group of previously uncollected poems. This compendium allows us to see the full range of Schuyler's achievement, confirming the widely held view that his is among this century's most vital and distinctive poetic careers.

In his (Collected Poems) Thom Gunn has assembled all the work he considers worthy from throughout his remarkable career. Gunn's first book, Fighting Terms (1954), was quickly identified in The Cambridge Review as "one of the few volumes of post-war verse that all serious readers of poetry need to possess and study", and in the four decades since, he has come to be recognized as one of the finest poets writing in English. Collected Poems establishes the breadth and formal catholicity of his work, from the classically inspired early poems to the stylistically exuberant poems of the 1960s to the elegiac rhymed verse of The Man with Night Sweats (1992), in which, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, "the tension of Gunn's famous earlier poems...has become muted and commemorative". Born in 1929 and raised in Britain, Gunn has lived in northern California since 1954, and he describes himself as an Anglo-American poet. His poetry is likewise a mixture of apparently discordant elements, and he has made a specialty of playing style against subject, dealing with the out-of-control through tightly controlled meters and with the systematized through open forms. Some of the contents of Collected Poems has been out of print for many years. This gathering together of the full range of Thom Gunn's work reveals the enormous extent of his creative achievement.

Exploring the themes begun in his first book, THE OTHER MAN WAS ME, Campo extends the search for identity into new realms of fantasy and physicality. He travels inwardly to the most intimate spaces of the imagination where sexuality and gender collide and where life crosses into death. Whether facing a frenetic hospital emergency room to assess a patient critically ill with AIDS, or breathing in the quiet of his mother's closet, Campo proposes with these poems an alternative means of healing and exposes the extent to which words themselves may be the most vital working parts of our bodies. The secret truths in What the Body Told, as the title implies, are already within each of us; in these vivid and provocative poems, Rafael Campo gives them a voice

Doty ponders how the self is defined in the public world, as his narratives navigate the summer crowds of Provincetown, sidewalk culture in New York City, and the byways of the imagination.

The final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price.

Only a teenaged technical assistant named Sparrow can reverse the course of the ailing starship Astron, headed for a one-hundred-generation-long journey through an uninhabited stretch of space.

A man, Will Rabjohns, is mauled by a polar bear while photographing wildlife on the Canadian terrain. He falls into a dream-filled coma and remembers his childhood, marked by the death of his brother and his memorable conversations with an eerie couple that lived nearby. When he awakens, Will resolves to reunite with the pair, and seek answers to his questions about the connection between the Aids epidemic and the slaughter of wildlife.

A look at the gay world of pre-war New York City, which was, in fact, not a hidden subculture, but was very out and very proud.

A study of Mexican homosexuality, written in Guadalajara, where homosexual behavior is widely reviled. Carrier discusses the entire range of homosexual self-identification, from men who consider themselves entirely homosexual to bisexuals, from men questioning their sexuality to those who identify themselves as completely heterosexual. Carrier explores the interactions of gay Mexican men with their families, friends, coworkers, and strangers.

Accounts from contributors including Edmund White, Philip Gambone, Christopher Bram, Michael Nava, Essex Hemphill, Tim Miller, and Ed Sikov. Also includes a bibliography of other books involving coming out.

This landmark work is the most complete compilation of its kind, offering an enlightened view of a diverse and long-neglected genre. Arranged in thematic sections are a generous and wide range of selections--fiction, poetry, and essays from writers past and present, including Emily Dickinson, Carson McCullers, Christina Rossetti, and Rita Mae Brown.

Avon has compiled a varied list of books that focus on issues and concerns for women everywhere -- from notable fiction to detailed healthcare guides.

Short stories about lesbian life.

Surveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy.

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader is the most comprehensive multidisciplinary anthology of critical work in lesbian/gay studies. Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--this collection provides a much-needed introduction to the current state of lesbian/gay studies, and illustrates the diversity and power of current work in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Douglas Crimp and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a multitude of sexual, ethnic, racial and socio-economic experiences. It also contains an extensive bibliographical essay that serves as an invaluable guide to further reading.

A collection of stories that pay tribute to the underestimated unity between lesbians and gay men. The 33 contributors to the anthology include Katherine Forrest, James Merrett, Cherrie Moraga, the recently deceased Paul Monette, among others.

A collection of five stories about kings, queens, and princes, dragons, ogres, and wizards.

Twelve-year-old Gary has always looked up to his handsome and athletic Uncle Rob, who has been like the father he doesn't have. When Gary's mother tells him that Rob is gay and is dying of AIDS, Gary's world comes crumbling down. Angered and confused about his uncle's homosexuality, Gary has to also deal with the prejudice, ignorance, and fears of others, as well as his own grief over Rob's impending death.

Seventeen-year-old Stevie has come under the influence of a teacher named Rik, a woman's ice hockey coach named Granite, and another teacher named Mic. Now Andrea, a new classmate, has entered her life. Stevie tells her story in her own voice, her own words.

Sixteen original short stories about growing up gay or lesbian or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. Covering a broad range of styles and tones, contributors include such prominent young adult authors as Marion Dane Bauer, Lois Lowry, Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane Yolen. A portion of the royalties is being donated to the Federation of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays to support their Respect All Youth program.

Bobby Framingham is a high school student who is best known for his skill as a football player. All that changes however, when the school newspaper outs him as gay. When the national press picks up the story, Bobby finds himself in the middle of media frenzy. As Bobby attempts to cope with his unwanted fame, he must also deal with the reactions of his family, friends, and teammates--as well as the feelings of the boy he has just started dating.

This first collection of the writings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angels in America" offers penetrating insight into the mind of one of the great writers of our time. Also includes the text to Kushner's latest play, the Obie Award-winning "Slavs!".

The Split Britches theater company has defined postmodern lesbian/feminism on stage in the U.S. for the past decade and is arguably the single most important experimental theater company to have emerged during this time. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long- awaited celebration of the theater and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deb Margolin, who make up the troupe and who have won two Obies and other distinguished awards for their performance skills, ensemble work, and textual innovation.

Their work addresses the central icons of high and popular culture from the perspective of lesbian and feminist gender twists and power inversions--from Weaver and Shaw's lip synching satires (Shaw's send-up of Perry Como, Weaver's Southern dish of Tammy Whynot), and their butch-femme seductions in Belle Reprieve, to Margolin's parodic stagings of a Jewish comedian in the vaudeville spectacle of Beauty and the Beast, to the

The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a suave magazine editor, in this deftly delicious comedy of bad manners, financial skullduggery, and romantic infighting.

Toni and Clarice are having a baby, and Alison Bechdel -- the lesbian community's premier visual archivist -- is right there to record the blessed event. Her fifth cartoon collection gives new meaning to rituals like baby showers, teething rings and the Mammo Pump!

This hilarious parody pokes fun both at Robert Waller's bestseller and at lesbian romance novels.

In this collection of witty essays, famous public radio personality David Rakoff amuses with his outrageous work experience. His previous assignments included his research at a New Age resort, a quest for Elves in Iceland, and a survival wilderness camp's grueling regimen.

Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the 'women of the Left Bank'. Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, poets H.D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss's lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a diferent kind of woman.

Dear Friends investigates the social conditions that made these photographs possible and examines both their abandonment and subsequent retrieval by those who cherish them as rare historical visual evidence of love between men.

In the twenty-first century, two diametrically opposed societies show the best and worst of possible futures.

The human race has been split into five sexes as a result of the effects of a drug developed to enable space travel.

During a performance of a wildly popular new play, a corpse turns up on the stage, and Nicholas Rath must investigate. The trouble is that, in this alternate universe, ghosts and other supernatural beings keep poking their heads into the proceedings, gumming things up.

A young boy struggles to come to terms with the AIDS-related death of his beloved uncle. Illustrations accompany the text.

Powerful, provocative, and deeply moving account of a he- she coming to terms with the complexities of a transgenderecl existence.

This anthology includes work by Sapphire, Joe Westmoreland, Cynthia Westland, and Lisa Beskin.

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was one of the most respected writers in the French language. Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, she was awarded countless literary honors, culminating in her election in 1980 to the Academie Francaise (she was the first woman to be so honored). Yourcenar described her writing as the "passionate reconstitution, at once detailed and free, of a moment or a man out of the past". As complex, erudite, and intriguing as her work, Yourcenar's own life has resisted its own passionate reconstitution until now, in part because of the writer's deliberate elusiveness, even in her autobiographical trilogy. Here, in its intricate and often contradictory detail, is Marguerite Yourcenar's story, one in which loss and learning intertwined almost from the first and in which love assumed a strangely paradoxical place. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews with Yourcenar's friends, colleagues, and lovers, Josyane Savigneau's biography paints an intimate portrait of an artist who lived according to her own, occasionally contrary, terms: a French woman ardently in love with her native tongue, yet who lived half her life in New England; an avid seductress of women, who spent nearly forty years with one woman, yet fell in love early and late in her life with two young men; a powerful female writer whose most memorable protagonists were male, from Alexis of her first novel to the later historical characters Hadrian and Zeno. Savigneau weaves these and other contraries of Yourcenar's life into a vibrant and engrossing pattern. Editor of "Le Monde des Livres", the literary pages of France's most influential newspaper, Savigneau first met MargueriteYourcenar on assignment in 1984. What began as a professional relationship gradually turned into a friendship. Savigneau's personal insights into that life enrich this exhaustively documented text. Following the lead set by Yourcenar in her memoir Dear Departed, the biographer found herself "searching for a truth that is multiple unstable, evasive, sometimes saddening, and at first glance scandalous but that one cannot approach without often feeling for human beings in all their frailty a certain measure of kinship and, always, a sense of pity". Yourcenar's profound intelligence and sympathy, her foibles and obsessions, her accomplishments and trials - all are revealed here in an uncompromising portrait of an incomparable artist.

The story of Felice, a young Jewish lesbian, and Elizabeth, a Gentile wife and mother, during the Holocaust. Elizabeth eventually divorced her husband, moved in with Felice, and the two of them attempted to establish a haven from the madness that surrounded them. But then Felice was deported--first to Czechoslovakia, then to a concentration camp. At the age of 80, Elizabeth finally tells her story to journalist Erica Fischer, who complements the saga with historical background, interviews with Elizabeth's and Felice's friends, and letters, diaries, and photos.

A memoir by novelist/critic Doris Grumbach that takes the form of one typical day, from her morning meditation, then into her garden, and through the workings of memory. Illustrated with images that have had meaning in Grumbach's life such as postcards and reproductions of paintings.

A teenage runaway who is also a lesbian ends up in a mental institution, where she becomes friends with a depressed deaf woman.

Poignant stories about our lives as women and as lesbians. Winner of 1990 Lambda Literary Award.

In Detroit, in the 1950s and '60s, African-American men and women came North to work in the assembly lines of the Ford Motors plant. Cherry Muhanji's novel examines the relationships of some of these women and men, and how they reflect on African-American womanhood in general.

Stories deal with human desire, unrequited love, pregnancy, AIDS, mothers and children, lovers and friends.

The adventures of a black lesbian vampire, from her experiences as a child slave in 17th-century Mississippi to her persecution in 21st-century Peru.

Jewish lesbian magic realism -- dynamic piece of writing.

The story of the love between the narrator--who is a writer--and a married woman who is terminally ill with cancer. The gender of the narrator, however, is never revealed. This book won the 1989 E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In this first-person account, Brown's unnamed female narrator works as a home care assistant who helps those besieged by AIDS. The narrator describes a diverse, ecclectic cast of characters--related only by their affliction--in strong, unsentimental language.

It is the Vietnam era, a time when men walk on the moon and families unravel. Brooklyn pulses with African--American and Latino life, a world separated by invisible barriers from the white world. Through the eyes and ears of the unnamed narrator, we come to know--in all its sensuality and brutality--a world that is held together by a young girl's fragile perceptions and cautiously emerging desires. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FAMILY PHOTO is coming-to-consciousness coming-of-age story of a young girl, told with passion and poetry, honesty and clear vision.

Born in Cuba but raised in Chicago, Juani Casas is a twenty-something lesbian who runs her family's laundromat. Aware of how much her sexuality would hurt her family, she keeps it from them but is out to everyone else. What she is obsessed with, though, is Cuba--she has memories of beaches and exotic plants--and continually digs to find the truth about her family's life there. Fact, however, has a way of continually melding with fiction, and Juani discovers that separating the two can be dangerous.

Born in 1959 Havana, Alejandra San José leads a life that includes to immigration to Chicago, a career as a translator, and a return to Cuba where she discovers that her Catholic family has its origins in Judaism.

When despised Hollywood director, Owen Sinclair, is found murdered and handcuffed to his bed, LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield finds herself attracted to Aimee Grant, the beautiful young niece of the woman who discovered the murdered man.

Caitlin is on the case when an animal rights activist is murdered.

A Robin Miller mystery from the author of bestseller I Left My Heart. This novel finds Robin home in New York City working to win her own detective agency, solving a murder or two, and meeting the devastating K.T.

The Narrator's lesbian lover, Marya, inherits a large, eerie Montana home, and the two women find a house full of unsolved mysteries.

Returning to Summer Green, Wisconsin for a reunion of college friends, Cordelia Thorn finds that broken marriages, alcoholism and personal hostilities are putting a strain on old friendships. When one of the group dies suddenly of an apparent heart attack, Cordelia summons her friend, Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless, to do some snooping. Together, Jane and Cordelia follow their hunches and clues into the murky past and back to the troubled present, where they find that a single match could blow up their lives.

In Jane Lawless's seventh adventure, the lesbian sleuth & restaurant owner investigates the mysterious death of the matriarch of a wealthy Minnesota family.

A legendary octogenarian film director is murdered on the eve of his wedding to a younger woman. Is the bride-to-be the killer, or is it someone with a vested interest in keeping a lid on the director's decades-old Hollywood secrets? Jane Lawless, who runs a restaurant when she's not sleuthing, investigates.

Provides an overview of lesbian fiction, and analyzes the ways in which it has both mirrored and shaped the lesbian movement and lesbian culture.

A close look at the enduring relationship between two lesbian women during a period of crisis, from the time one of them was diagnosed with breast cancer until her death three years later.

Feminist verse displays a command of poetic technique and structure as well as a richly ripening vision.

A collection of poems focuses on such topics as the land's hope and despair, people's dreams and nightmares, and love and anguish.

Features poems that affirm the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the poet in words conveying vision and courage.

This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by Audre Lorde, "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives", in the words of Adrienne Rich. Audre Lorde was a poet of the city of her birth, New York, as well as of other urban landscapes. She spoke of the Caribbean, Africa, Europe. She brought to all these places a true cosmopolitan vision, one dissatisfied with the usual description of things, one eager for truth-telling, for change. She spoke of her hopes for this, her final offering to the world she traveled: "Beyond the penchant for easy definitions, false exactitudes, we share a hunger for enduring value, relationship beyond hierarchy and outside reproach, a hunger for life measures, complex, direct, and flexible....I want this book to be filled with shards of light thrown off from the shifting tensions between the dissimilar, for that is the real stuff of creation and growth".

This volume of Marilyn Hacker's poetry was awarded the 1995 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

DARK FIELDS OF THE REPUBLIC continues and extends Adrienne Rich's exploration of history, democracy, and love.

Two long poems, "Veteran's Day" and "Terza Rima," join several others, along with the title poem, in this volume of work produced in the last breaths of the 20th century by a poet who helped establish the bounds of poetry during the second half of it. Here she further elucidates the themes of her career--history, the roles of art, the nature of gender, and the multifaceted meanings of humanity.

Centuries after a disastrous plague wiped out most of the original colonists, the Durallium Company returns to the planet GP to try and reclaim their investment, only to find that the disease hasn't died out. Arriving on the planet to test a new vaccine, an anthropologist learns that the natives have survived and flourished as an all-female society, and that she may have finally found a home. This novel won the 1993 Lambda Award for Lesbian Science Fiction and the 1994 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for Gender Bending Science Fiction, as well as receiving nominations for many other science fiction awards.

Tracing the roots of gay liberation to the creativity and resilience of lesbian communities such as the one in Buffalo, New York, the authors explore how these women paved the way for a better life for lesbians and gays, and provide a unique insider's perspective on everything from sex, relationships, and motherhood to aging, racism, and pride. Photos.

A collection of essays on the myriad facets of lesbian life, including families, sex, parenting, health issues, midlife, marriage, aging, race, outing, and gender roles.

Bernadette J. Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, from magical spells and medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women, and discusses the surgical procedure of clitoridectomy as a method of controlling female homoeroticism. She incontrovertible establishes the fact that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of sexual love between women. Contrary to the common scholarly notion that early Christian sexual ethics were fundamentally different from those of the surrounding culture, Brooten contends that early Christians and their Roman neighbors shared a view of the "natural" order of society, in which women were passive, submissive partners to men.

The minister of Memorial Church at Harvard University offers his interpretation of the Bible and explains how it can be relevant to modern life.

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