Dare Speak Its Name

The Big Gay Read in Britain. I wonder if Posh will... Nah.


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The history of the death of the gay bookstore

What's killing gay bookstores? Big box stores. Hey, aren't they killing every bookstore?


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It's the tuxes that attracts them

Father penguin loves Daddy penguin. The gay penguin book. I laugh, because penguins are always to be laughed at in a very loving way, but I know we'll have this book in the house in about a week. (From Bourgeois Nerd)


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Thanks, Brad.

A look at Mute - sexy (not just the cow...)!

Anyone read MUTE by Brad Steel? Probably the first mainstream novel to have a gay novel prominent to the storyline. The main character is a lesbian, though the reader only finds this out about halfway through the story. Highly recommend it as a summer read - or whenever!

Undiscovered country

The gay romance novel is in full bloom. [Insert joke about page count here.]

''Are these books targeted to the person who spends 90 percent of his time in Manhattan, 5 percent in Europe and 5 percent on Fire Island?'' he asked. ''Maybe. I am convinced that most bitter gay men are deep sentimentalists and rarely let that come out. They are filled with yearning for Mr. Right and want to refer to someone as 'my husband.' What's erotic about gay erotica is the stranger and the strangeness, a complete lack of affection. In our books, the two people know each other. There's a tenderness to it. If you don't want that, then it isn't for you.''

Anyone want to review one of these for us? Knowledge of romance genre and queerdom essential. Or not.


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Sappho comes

To Ottawa.



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Lambda award finalists announced

Ninja favourite Derek McCormack's The Haunted Hillbilly is up for Gay Men's Fiction against some pretty tough competition, including GAY NOVELIST Alan Hollinghurst. Rock on, Derek! (Um, note to world: we told you first.)



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Newsflash: Gay teen novel raises ire of closeted right-wing gays

And their allied trades people in the clergy. Sigh. Will it never end?



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what should gay readers be reading right now?

eileen myles. 'nuff said. she ran for u.s. presidency a few years back and she's a remarkable poet. what more could a girl ask for?