Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: Review
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City
Developed by Lauren Morelli
Netflix
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Just when you thought his last book had finally closed the chapter,...
Exile Within Exiles: Review
Exile Within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
by James N. Green
Duke University Press
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Penning a biography about a widely known...
All We Know to Do: Christopher Hewitt Award Honorees
In one of the poems that Christopher Hewitt published in A&U, and reprinted in our anthology, Art and Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty...
Mapplethorpe: Review
Mapplethorpe
Directed by Ondi Timoner
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Reviewed by Hank Trout
Patti Smith: “What will become of the world when no trace of you remains?”
Robert Mapplethorpe: “I...
A Haven Before Heaven: Review
A Haven Before Heaven
by Stefanie Held
Amazon Digital Services
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
In A Haven Before Heaven, author Stefanie Held records yet another chapter of...
Don’t Call Us Dead: Review
Don't Call Us Dead
by Danez Smith
Graywolf Press
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Somewhere among a juxtaposition of race, gender, sexuality, and physicality lies the transformative poetry...
The Underground Woman: Review
The Underground Woman: From Prisoner to Freedom
by Asha Molock
CreateSpace
Reviewed by T.J. Banks
Alice isn’t the only one to tumble down a rabbit hole and find...
1980: Review
1980
by David Cornish, MD
BookBaby
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
It’s the dawn of the eighties and Dr. Arthur Noble, a young medical resident, is facing a...
Children’s Book Raises Funds for AIDS United, The Trevor Project
Children’s Book Raises Funds for AIDS United, The Trevor Project
Chronicle Books, of San Francisco, has teamed with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to...
Something for the Weekend: Review
Something for the Weekend: Life in the Chemsex Underworld
by James Wharton
Biteback Publishing
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
There’s a new epidemic that’s affecting the urban gay...
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