Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750–1918 by Rudi C. Bleys Published by…
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When Andrew Holleran was at A Different Light, he said that The Beauty of Men grew out of a diary…
Continuing to fill in lacunae in my classical education, I read Achilles Tatius’s Cleitophon and Leucippe (not just the famed…
I find Donald Webster Cory’s 1953 collection of 21 Variations on a Theme depressing, aside from the contents of many…
In reviewing the movie “Brokeback Mountain” I looked forward to the DVD release so I could find out what some…
Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy’s novel No Past, No Present, No Future (Heinemann African Writers Series, 1973) begins and ends with…
“Anthony Burgess [1917-93] was a novelist of indisputable genius who never published an indisputably great novel,” according to Dana Gioia…
Though clearly not a gay writer, the prolific Anthony Burgess (1917-93) recurrently focused on gay characters and/or Brits who struck…
Herman Melville began writing Billy Budd in 1888, leaving it unfinished when he died in 1891. It was discovered and…
I was pretty irritated by the sympathy for his assailant that Édouard Louis produced in History of Violence (published in…
