Positively Literary

All that Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark Griffin HarperCollins Reviewed by Hank Trout The title of Mark Griffin’s biography of Rock Hudson—All that...

Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell, PhD Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Reviewed by Hank...

How Online Dating Empowers Women Living with HIV by Claire Gasamagera By the time we decided to meet in person, I had no idea how beautiful...

The Test by Paul A. Aguilar This past October was the thirtieth anniversary of discovering I had acquired the human immunodeficiency virus, aka HIV. I was...

Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming? by Jameson Currier Chelsea Station Edition Reviewed by John Francis Leonard In Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince...

1988—A Footnote The kingdom of calculated silence has fallen, my children, my lovelies The unholy ramparts sundered under the strain of the Great Experiment An eight-year reign...

Men Touching by Henry Alley Chelsea Station Editions Reviewed by John Francis Leonard In this beautifully wrought new novel, Henry Alley explores the complexities of a flawed leading...

HIV on TV: Popular Culture's Epidemic by Malynnda A. Johnson Lexington Books Reviewed by John Francis Leonard From the alarming news stories of the eighties, those “very special...

Life of David Hockney: A Novel by Catherine Cusset Translation by Teresa Lavender Fagan Other Press Reviewed by John Francis Leonard In Life of David Hockney, French author Catherine...