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Firebird: A Memoir

by Mark Doty

Published: 2000-09-19

Paperback: 224 pages

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In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quit...

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Acqua Calda: A Novel

by Perseus

Published: 2006-04-19

Paperback: 315 pages

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For years Gerald lived for his twin passions, acting and sex. As a handsome young actor, he found plenty of opportunities to perform in both arenas. But that was years ago, long before AIDS hit the theater world hard — and gay circles even harder. No in demand, Gerald is waiting to die. ...

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Acqua Calda: A Novel

by Keith McDermott

Published: 2005-01-27

Hardcover: 300 pages

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Gerald has been preparing to die. During the last of his three hospital stays, he has drawn up a last will and testament, a living will, assigned a health care proxy, and arranged his own cremation. He has thrown out hundreds of photos accrued over his twenty-five years as an actor, boxes of gay porn,...

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Blue Boy

by Rakesh Satyal

Published: 2017-04-25

Paperback: 288 pages

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“Compassionate, moving, funny, and wise, Blue Boy is one of the best debut novels I have read in years.” —David Ebershoff, author of The Danish GirlMeet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn...

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Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City

by Choire Sicha

Published: 2014-08-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power—in search of love and connection.After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the richest man in town is the mayor. Bil...

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Jews Queers Germans: A Novel/History

by Martin Duberman

Published: 2017-03-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still matter...

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Ernesto (New York Review Books Classics)

by Umberto Saba

Published: 2017-03-28

Paperback: 160 pages

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A coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first time  An NYRB Classics OriginalErnesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an ed...

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Faggots

by Larry Kramer, Reynolds Price

Published: 2000-06-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today i...

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Numbers

by John Rechy

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who wil...

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Notes of a Desolate Man

by Chu T'ien-wen, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Lichun Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

Published: 2000-11-15

Paperback: 184 pages

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Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and l...