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Me
by Elton John
Henry Holt and Company
Reviewed by Hank Trout
The scene is Ryan White’s funeral in 1990. After performing “Skyline Pigeon” at the service, Elton...
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Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel
by Michael Nava
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Six-time Lambda Literary award winning author Michael Nava returns with another...
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Mechanical Fantasy Box: The Homoerotic Journals of Patrick Cowley
by Patrick Cowley, Gwenaël Rattke
Dark Entries Editions
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Patrick Cowley embodied urban gay life...
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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...
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Life of David Hockney: A Novel
by Catherine Cusset
Translation by Teresa Lavender Fagan
Other Press
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In Life of David Hockney, French author Catherine...
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Chelsea Station Edition
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In Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince...
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Nurses on the Inside: The New York City Frontline of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
by Ellen Matzer, Valery Hughes
Tree District Books, LLC
Reviewed by Hank Trout
Everything...
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Benjamin Heim Shepard
ibidem Press
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In many ways, Illuminations on Market Street is, as its subtitle suggests, (a story about...
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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...
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The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts
by Andrew E. Stoner
University of Illinois Press
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