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Sold outI am the Whore and the Holy One
A priest learns that to serve both his God and mankind, he must betray his faith. In 1995, the gruesome death of Father Alex Shipman, a young Catholic priest who was also the scion of a wealthy, internationally (in)famous political family, leads an investigator to truths the priest uncovered that could shatter-or redeem-the faith of millions. Father Alex Shipman's fall to his gruesome death in a grand, old LA cathedral creates an instant sensation--the talk of every morning news shows coast-to-coast. To fight the suspiciously immediate rumors of suicide from Church officials, Amanda, the Shipman family matriarch, hires a high-profile investigator to find the truth. Sam Youngblood is a Harvard educated black lawyer facing his own crisis of faith as he recovers from the death of his partner. Sam soon discovers that Father Alex Shipman was an uncommon priest. Gay and not celibate, he was devoted to the Faith, while his views on Church doctrine skirted the what many considered the blasphemous. Shipman immersed himself in the discovery and study of ancient biblical texts. Across decades and continents, he had tracked a trove that astounded him. They purported to be the original text of the Book of Mark, to tell the true life of Christ--a blasphemer who played the role of Messiah, though just a man, in a desperate attempt herald the Kingdom on earth as foretold in scripture. It was a Kingdom in which he fervently believed, and one that, having damned his soul to impersonate a God and so do God's will, he would never enter. Alex Shipman believed this new Christ could lead men to a deeper faith, despite smashing to dust all that most Christians held dear. The Church is equally determined that the facts of Shipman's death, and knowledge he searched from Cairo to the Netherlands to uncover, stay buried forever. Sam must discover if they went to ungodly lengths to make that happen.Sold out -
A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom
A modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman that uses everything from personal memoir, a fugue-like structure, poetry, images, lyrics, and diaries to paint a vivid, eloquent and human portrait of gay, black, Jessie Vincent Grandier and the striving African American middle class that spawned him in the late 1950s.
Born to a high-yellow, upper-crust New Orleans Creole mother and a lowborn, Louisiana bayou-bred, military father, Jessie steadfastly battles to reconcile his existence with expectations and preconceptions of those around him -- black and white. He shoulders the weight of his black bourgeois family's hopes through the '60s and '70s, his mother's death, and the resulting familial melodrama that tears him and his family apart. If not broken, then seemingly irreparably bent, he wends his way through Harvard in the '70s and drinks his way through the Reagan '80s in gay bars from the LA barrio to Beverly Hills. When Jessie's grandiose ambitions have abandoned him when he's almost beaten, and when it's a breath away from too late, he looks back, regards the jagged shards of his life and pieces them into a remarkable whole.
The post-modern writing careens from pure ribaldry, to brutal honesty, to deeply tender, to "gonzoesque," but at the intelligent heart of the novel is the internal struggle of dislocation, and the deconstruction of an African-American family. It is a completely unique look at race, sex, and finding redemption the hard way.
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Sold outOut in the South
Gays and lesbians from the Deep South of America turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. They examine the power of traditional southern attitudes toward race and religion and consider the public secret of homosexuality in some communities and show how gay culture is thriving.Sold out -
Sold outOut in the South
In this book gays anda lesbian from the Deep South to East Texas and Appalachia speak from vivid personal experience and turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. Some contributors examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the don't ask, don't tell attitude about homosexuality in some communities (the public secret). Other contributors show how gay culture is thriving in the form of women's festivals, gay bars, and unusual networks such as that of Asian and Pacific Islanders in Atlanta.
"Out in the South" is organized into sections that focus on a central metaphor of space and location. This grounds the book in the sense of the South as a special region and in the inside/outside dilemma faced by many gay and lesbian Southerners as they negotiate their place in an often-inhospitable homeland."Sold out -
Desert Run
Palm Springs, 1973. On the lam after killing a mobster's son in a bar fight, Don Harris hides out as a piano player in a Palm Springs restaurant until he's accidentally found out. Broke and desperate, he walks into an unfamiliar bar where he meets...Harlan, the secret lover of a well-known movie star. Stashed away in the sleepy resort, Harlan is bored and often alone which is why he's spending the afternoon in his favorite gay bar.When the two meet, Don thinks he's using Harlan for a place to hide out but slowly realizes he's falling for the kid. Don knows he shouldn't get involved but can't help but step in when Harlan gets into trouble. To save himself, Don's got to save Harlan. -
My Favorite Uncle
Martin Dixon's carefully-constructed, peaceful life is turned upside down when his super Christian eighteen-year-old nephew Carter shows up unexpectedly on his doorstep and announces he's gay. Martin's first impulse is to send him back to his parents. But when he discovers that Carter has been in a mental hospital to cure his gayness he realizes he's stuck with the boy. Unfortunately, the two get on each other's nerves, each driving the other to distraction. Independently, however, they each arrive at the same conclusion. The other would be much less annoying if he only had... a boyfriend.2014 Rainbow Award Runner Up Gay Contemporary Fiction -
Boystown 9: Lucky Days
In the ninth book of the bestselling mystery series, a young man wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of the previous night. When hypnotism doesn't help, he turns to private investigator Nick Nowak. Meanwhile, the trial of Outfit kingpin Jimmy English begins. Just as the case begins to unravel an important witness goes missing and Nick must put his other cases, and his home life, on hold while he goes to Las Vegas to find him. -
Boystown 12: Broken Cord
In the latest installment of the Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mysteries, it's summer 1985.As Nick's personal life begins to unravel, Nick throws himself headlong into investigating the murder of a woman married to a much older, wealthy man. It appears that only her husband could have killed her, but Nick is sure that's not what happened. Meanwhile, Rita Lundquist makes her presence known, posing a continuing threat to Nick and those around him. -
Boystown 10: Gifts Given
In the tenth installment of the award-winning Boystown Mysteries. It's Christmas 1984, and Nick is busy juggling a couple of cases with the busy holiday season. Sugar Pilson has decided to marry and has asked Nick to check up on her fiancé. Meanwhile, he's hired to investigate a shady financial planner at Peterson-Palmer. When the two cases start to have too much in common, Nick searches for the link. Only to find out that he might be the link. -
Boystown 4: A Time For Secrets
In the first full-length novel of the Boystown series, it's late summer 1982 and private detective Nick Nowak is asked to find a retired gentleman's long lost lover. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a decades old murder connected to the man who wants tobe Chicago's next mayor. Meanwhile, an ambitious young reporter develops a friendship with Nick's lover Bert, making Nick wonder exactly where their relationship may be heading. -
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Lionel and Dog are back in this follow-up to the Lambda finalist, Femme. Almost six months have passed and, after taking an online quiz, Lionel believes their relationship is doomed because they have nothing in common. To save their relationship, the pair joins a gay bowling league and discovers that Lionel is an excellent, if somewhat eccentric bowler. Meanwhile, Dog gets profiled in a work newsletter. He's excited that he's out at work but doesn't immediately see that by fawning over Dog's masculine nature he was also putting down all femme guys. Lionel takes it personally which leads to a crisis in their relationship. Attempting to make it up to Lionel, Dog attempts to make a grand gesture which backfires spectacularly. Will the two manage to put things right? And will a night in jail, a morning of drag bingo, an afternoon of day drinking, and a month of moping make things better or worse? -
Femme
Queeny cocktail waiter, Lionel, wakes up to find himself in bed with Dog, a straight-acting softball player and the two embark on a rocky road to romance. A journey that requires coming out of the closet, going into the closet, a pair of red high heels, many pairs of red high heels, a failed intervention, a couple of aborted dates, and homemade pom-poms. Mostly, Lionel and Dog learn what it means to be a man. -
Code Name: Liberty
In the summer of 1980, the news is full of the upcoming election and the hostage crisis in Iran but Patrick Henry Burke is not paying any attention. He's met a Persian prince and his head is full of romance. All of that changes though when a sexy CIA agent, Gary Walker, approaches him and asks that he spy on the prince and his father. They're attempting to prevent the hostages from being released to guarantee Carter won't win the presidency in hopes that the Reagan administration will be grateful enough to assist the prince's father in becoming the new Shah of Iran. As Patrick gathers information about an impending illegal weapons deal, he struggles to understand who might be lying to him and who might be telling the truth."...a riveting read..." Nathan Bay, author Young Forever -
Late Fees: A Pinx Video Mystery
It's Thanksgiving, 1992 and Noah Valentine is late picking his mother up from the airport. When he arrives he discovers that she's made a friend on the flight whose also waiting for her son. When the woman's son doesn't show up, they eventually take her home for breakfast with neighbor's Marc and Louis. Soon after, they learn that her son has overdosed-or has he? Noah and his motley crew investigate over the holiday weekend; which includes a fabulous dinner, a chat with a male stripper, a tiny little burglary and some help from Detective Tall, Dark, and Delicious. -
Aunt Belle's Time Travel & Collectibles
Where would you go if you could travel to any part of your past? That's the question Terrance faces on his 45th birthday-and right away, he knows. He wants to go back to 1992 and not meet Mr. Wrong. But what begins as a journey to change the past becomes a trip to find the future. From the writer of Femme comes a story of best friends, time travel and falling in love. -
Sentenced to Christmas
A charming and wacky enemies-to-lovers rom-com from the two-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance.
When gay activist Gage Hammond is accused of burning down a patriotic Christmas tree that stands in front of a conservative radio station, the judge sentences him to learn the true meaning of Christmas: Hammond must join buttoned-up prosecutor Cal Cutler and his family for the holiday. There's just one problem-okay, maybe a lot of problems. But at the top of the list: Cal's in the closet and it's not even his family!
If you loved the author's previous comedies The Ghost Slept Over, Femme or Fathers of the Bride, you'll want to grab this in time for the holiday!
