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October Books: Gay Fictions About Growing Up and Coming Out Gay

by
Jesse Monteagudo

October 8, 2008

Arcadia Publishing is best known for its Images of America, a series of photo histories that “celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today.”

Five titles (so far) in the Images of America series deal with the history of various lesbian and gay communities in the U.S.: Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia by Thom Nickels, Gay and Lesbian Washington, D.C. by Frank Muzzy, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco by Dr. William Lipsky, Gay and Lesbian Atlanta by Wesley Chenault and Stacy Braukman (an offshoot of an Atlanta History Center exhibition, The Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History, 1940–1970), and Lesbian and Gay Richmond by Beth Marschak and Alex Lorch.

Our GLBT American History comes alive in these fascinating volumes, which capture our communal past in rare and historic photographs of GLBT activists, celebrities, artists and ordinary men and women. Each volume in the series is 128 pages long and at $19.99, is well worth the price.

Jesse Monteagudo is a freelance writer and gay book buff who lives, works and plays in South Florida. He can be reached at jessemonteagudo@aol.com.

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Dennis Ayers
on Wed, 2008-10-08 21:10.
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Yeah for Boy Meets Hero

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AbqGWM (515 points) (109 posts)
on Thu, 2008-10-09 05:22.
I have been a fan for a while now and was excited when I saw the two authors selling the hardback copies of their comic at the Albuquerque Pride this year. Check out their work, it is great. http://www.boymeetshero.com/
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Marc Acito

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seanID22 (285 points) (57 posts)
on Thu, 2008-10-09 12:15.
If you should ever get a chance to see Marc read, do... they're hilarious. There's singing, stand up comedy... I just finished his novel and it was great. Besides being comedic, it's also a story about overcoming some internalized homophobia and fear of AIDS. Anyways, I recommend it.
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new gay novels

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Inukumaru (45 points) (9 posts)
on Fri, 2009-05-22 23:33.
this very nice novel called Sodom's x a song for the end by K.R.COLUMBUS . The author was almost beaten to death when he first published this book a few years back in another country. Mind you the books has in it more than 3 main gay characters in it and they are all unique oh and it has great sex scenes check the plot - As predicted by Isaac Newton the second coming happened and as the world waited to see what was about to happen an appointed man was sent to meet God, hours later God had vanished and the man came out immortal; no apocalypse, no destruction and no salvation. This gave birth to a chain of holy wars that almost chattered Earth's civilizations and so giving birth to a mass colonization of planets to ensure peace by separation. Thousands of years later all was at peace by until Endings were born; humans connected to their planets in such a way that they are capable of destroying them should they wish it. Now Earth's Ending has been born and the day to pass judgment draws near. it can be found here http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sodoms-x--a-song-for-the-end-/7182389 Apart from that it is very hard to find if you think this important please pass it on
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