The Full Monty
Nigel Hamilton, Field Marshall Montgomery's official biographer, claims that the hero of the Battle of Alamein "felt passionately about fellow soldiers and boys, some not yet in their teens". This revelation is ironic in view of the fact that Monty urged the House of Lords not to legalise gay sex and warned that the 1967 homosexuality bill would be a "charter for buggery".
Three boys naked from the waist down
Bruno Gmünder, the same publishers that brings you the travel bible Spartacus International every year, have Three wise boys that will make someone very happy this Christmas.
A modern classic
Black Beauty , photographs taken by nine international artists on display in this collection. Published by Janssen Publishers.
Bookmarks
Books this month include queer marriages in From This Day Forward, gay men write about their mommies in Mama's Boy, some lesbian Pillow Talk II and a few classics like Gore Vidal's drag queer who sodomises a straight man, Myra Breckinridge.
See more on the latest releases.
Penis and bumscapes
What started as just playing around with some photos at his home in Simonstown one afternoon has become a very successful photobook series for Volker Janssen. Gay erotic art photography
Sex, lies and candyfloss
"Are you a homosexual?" "No," Liberace replied. "Have you ever indulged in homosexual practices?" "No, sir, never in my life." Larry Adler reviews Liberace.
Catholic homos
The Catholic church "in a number of countries... represents the most powerful voice in favor of the repression and persecution of lesbians and gays", but no such country is named. Like many Catholics, Professor Jordan has a blessed naivety about political realities; he probably imagines the Swiss Guard possesses a terrifying strike power. Eric Griffiths reviews The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism.
Jackie, oh!
"Before Jacqueline Susann, the only place you could find any decent stuff about lesbians was in the Bible. She took the vice to a more sophisticated level" - Stephanie Theobald on the woman who could turn out to be the muse for a whole new generation of literary swingers.
Was Emily Dickinson a lesbian?
Many literary critics have painted Emily Dickinson as a passionless, reclusive spinster who pined away for an unidentified man, but feminist scholars suggest that her friendship with her sister-in-law may have been the most significant relationship of her life.
David Bianco writes.
The gore of Vidal
He scandalised the literary world in 1968 with his experimental satire, Myra Breckinridge, the first American novel with a transsexual protagonist, wrote another in 1948 with a gay love affair causing prominent critics to refuse reviewing his next five novels. David Bianco looks at the queer life of Gore Vidal [23/05/00]
Looking for Marcel Proust
He was of France's greatest writers and had a sharp sense of humour, but what he would have made of the news that his novel was enjoying a revival in 2000. Proud, no doubt - but he would also, surely, have found it very, very funny. [17/01/00]
February releases
Hot off the press: An American in Paris, The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities, Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the
Present Day,The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists,Gay and Lesbian Online,Kosher Meat,The Night Listener.
September releases
Hot off the press: mercy mercy me, One Mykonos: Being Ancient, Being Islands, Being Giants, Being Gay, The Salt Point, The Front Runner, Aquamarine and Breaking the Silence.
June releases
Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher
Isherwood, Tyler Jones feminist mystery writer now tries her pen at a big, old-fashioned family saga and a memoir on the difficulty of gay male fatherhood a reality.
May releases
Just out: Best Lesbian Erotica 2000, edited by Tristan Taormino, Delancey's Way by James McCourt, Smart Spending: Socially Responsible Shopping and Investing by Grant Lukenbill, Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend by Yvonne Zipter and The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt. [02/05/00]
March releases
A lesbian doctor being assigned to an Aids ward in 1985 tells her moving story of the first gay men dying; Plato's Garage is the personal history of a gay man who grew up in the Southern California car culture of the 1970s and 1980s; celebrate Women's History Month with five new titles. [20/03/00]
February releases
Maguire's novel on the Oz story, this time from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. There is also the Kansas Centennial Edition of the original story of the Wizard of Oz. Other releases include books on sex, on Aids and biographies of famous queers. [09/02/00]
American in Paris
Edmund White has always trawled his own intensely sexual life in his novels, and since that sexual life has charted the course of gay liberation, his books have been beautifully candid political acts. Its narrator calculated that he had taken more than 3 000 lovers during the golden age of gay sex that began with Stonewall and ended with the onset of Aids. [20/04/00]
Alpha centaur
Adam, the central character in Smile Please, has a favourite gay sleaze pit where you can take a break from the business of grapple and groan to "discuss early Antonioni or the Shostakovich cello sonata". As in Alan Hollinghurst and Edmund White, Jonathan Keates's novel ripples with gay men who combine dizzy aesthetic discrimination with unremitting goatishness, romping through the metropolis like centaurs. [20/04/00]
Style queen
The Abomination is the story of Santiago Moore Zamora, half-Spanish and half-English, and the burgeoning of his troublesome sexuality; how, in rebellion against hypocrisy, repression and betrayal by loved ones, he becomes what one might call a militant aesthete - and a sexual gourmand. And the legacy of this intimate treachery is a deep, lasting self-loathing that permeates the novel, making even its sensuality sinister. [20/04/00]
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