I am grateful to have experienced, firsthand, the Lavender Literary Revolution of the late 1980s into the early 1990s. During this time, as book reviewer for the Gay & Lesbian Times, I had the great fortune to read and review some some of the key titles from that era.
Review of LA MARAVILLA, by Alfredo Véa Jr. |
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Illuminating Year of Childhood |
Review of A YEAR OF RHYMES, by Bernard Cooper |
In Search of 'The Culture of Desire' |
Review of THE CULTURE OF DESIRE, by Frank Browning |
Avuncular Splendor |
Review of THE UNCLE FROM ROME, by Joseph Caldwell |
Golden Boys and Bayous |
Review of THE GOLDEN BOY, by James Kenneth Melson, and HEARTLANDS, by Darrell Yates Rist |
An Otherwise Ideal Candidate |
Review of HONOR BOUND, by Joseph Steffan |
Review of THE NEW JOY OF GAY SEX, by Dr. Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano |
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'Kill Hole': Departure, Initiation and Return |
Review of KILL HOLE, by Jamake Highwater |
Men on Men, and on Family |
Review of MEN ON MEN 4, Ed. George Stambolian, and A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, Ed. John Preston |
Some Funky Kinda Shelter |
Review of SHELTER, by Wesley Gibson |
Family Values: Round One |
Review of FAMILY FICTIONS, by Richard Hall |
Schecter Scores in New Haven |
Review of TWO HALVES OF NEW HAVEN, by Martin Schecter |
The Dangerous Literature of the Body |
Review of HIGH RISK, Ed. Amy Scholder and Ira Silverbers |
Review of CLOSE TO THE KNIVES: A MEMOIR OF DISINTEGRATION, by David Wojnarowicz |
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Decades and Dirty Underwear |
Review of THE GAY DECADES, by Leigh W. Rutledge, and LOVE JUNKIE, by Robert Plunkett |
Living Well after 'Goodbye' |
Review of AFTER YOU SAY GOODBYE: WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE DIES OF AIDS, by Paul Kent Froman |
Unified Voices in the Never Ending March |
Review of MAKING HISTORY: THE STRUGGLE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS, 1945-1990, by Eric Marcus |
'Tooning' in to Gay Humor |
Review of B.B. AND THE DIVA, by Rupert Kinnard, and WHAT I LOVE ABOUT LESBIAN POLITICS..., by Kris Kovick |
Review of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, by Dorothy Allison |
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A Beginning Place |
Review of MAURICE, by E.M. Forster, and GIOVANNI'S ROOM, by James Baldwin |