Author: MR Ryan Heath
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519791009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Before sobriety. Before stability. Before Madonna went brunette again. As a closeted, suburbs-bred grad student by day, hummus-slinging, hard-partying twentysomething by night in turn-of-the-millennium New York, Ryan Heath is in a state of arrested development. Grappling with his sense of self after a series of soul-searing events - discovering a live-in boyfriend's sordid double life, a decadent weekend binge, the OD of a loved one - Ryan turns to these pages to confess his extreme clubbing, blackout drinking, reckless substance abuse, hooking up with guys and girls ... and how this cocktail of crazy leads to both embracing his sexuality and achieving sobriety. This humorous, poignant memoir touches upon the universal mission for self-respect and joy and stars a cast of colorful personalities as they bounce around legendary NYC nightlife venues like Limelight, Twilo, and Roxy in a post-AIDS, pre-9/11 sliver of time littered with designer drugs and soundtracked by classic house club anthems.
Author: Darryl W. Bullock
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468316257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
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LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community’s struggle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today.
Author: Klea Terricotta Kurtis
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491892234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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This is an amazing story of a strong woman who has battled drugs up until now, as even when I stopped using drugs, I've been harassed to affect me in a way, so when I told my story, they hoped I'd be off key. This is one of the three books. My first one is just the worst big stories I've been through, but there's so much more. I want to inspire as many people to tell their story. Lift the weight off your shoulders just as mine went light as soon as I told my family, who have supported me and been brilliant, especially my cousin, Lola, Thank you! And so to the public, let me be that voice for you, as you can even write to me. I care, and if I can help you, rich or poor, I don't care. Tell me, and if I can help, I will. I have abilities that can be useful, and remember, I turned my life around. You can too. Enjoy!
Author: Dan Savage
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110111813X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them: Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune. Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it. Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, gun control, and the Second Amendment. Combine a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bill Bennett, Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Dr. Laura, and Bill O'Reilly bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall.
Author: Barry McCauley
Publisher: Barry McCauley
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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'I am a serial killer. You don't know me. You may know of my work, my accomplishments, my deeds and my triumphs. You will not, however, know of my mistakes, my near misses or what made and inspired me to be the person I am today.' Gary Robinson has an ordinary name, but not an ordinary life. He's a man who takes a great amount of care, and derives a great amount pleasure from his work. He is a mass murderer, a monster. He kills for the pleasure of it. This is his story, written as only he can tell it. It is not for the faint-hearted.
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643755471
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Author: Parker Avrile
Publisher: Paris April Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2729
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It is a deep tragedy that same-sex love was long seen as an anomaly. Luckily, the times are changing and there is a wide acceptance of LGBTQ+ community. Thanks to our cherished but at the time - controversial authors, who created the space for some of the most iconic gay and lesbian characters, we know have classics that were always claiming that love knows no boundaries. So come and indulge in the magic of these queer classics with our special edition that celebrates love and the freedom to love. Contents: Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens This Finer Shadow by Harlan Cozad McIntosh Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet
Author: William Leap
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106917
Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters.
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374099
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
