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“Incandescent angels of love ... an electric voyage” — The Advocate Robert FERRO THE BLUE STAR

A deeply moving novel of love – requited and unrequited – in Florence and . Two young Americans, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase’s ancestor, Orvil Starkweather, is revealed including secrets behind the building of ’s Central Park. The threads gather together taking them finally on a fateful cruise up the Nile aboard the luxury yacht the Blue Star. This new edition features a 2020 foreword by (Dancer from the Dance). “Shimmering … elegance, even if touched here and there by a measure of decadence, prevails … superb taste and style.” — Publisher’s Weekly Robert FERRO: THE BLUE STAR Trade Paperback, 256 pages • ISBN 978-1-951092-25-2 • Retail: US $16.95 / Canada $21.95 / UK ­£13.95 E-book available worldwide from Amazon, Kobo, Nook and Apple

Nikki BAKER THE LAVENDER HOUSE MURDER

By night – the bars, the music, the sexual energy. By day – the beaches, the bay … basking in the sun and the scent of suntan lotion. And everywhere the women of Provincetown. Among these women in the sun is Virginia Kelly, a woman of color, on vacation from the mostly white world of finance. Ginny has come to P-town with friend Naomi, and without lover Emily. They stay at Lavender House, a hotel for lesbians run by Sam, a woman with whom Naomi has had some dramatic history. WWThen … murder shatters the vacation bliss. Nominated for for Best Lesbian Mystery, this new edition features a 2020 foreword by Ann Aptaker (Criminal Gold).

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Robert FERRO THE FAMILY OF MAX DESIR

As he came of age, Max Desir found love in Italy. Now, at age 40, his American family is split: Max and Nick are accepted as a stable, long-term couple by mother and siblings, but his father John does not. When a needlepoint family tree is to be hung at Christmas, acceptance of family is re-examined. In this beautiful, haunting tale, told in a clear, impassioned narrative, Robert Ferro created a classic. His highly celebrated breakthrough novel is not to be missed. This new edition features a foreword by Felice Picano (Like People in History).

“An honest, eloquent and entirely original novel … at once realistic and mythological, intensely personal and public ... a triumph.” — (A Boy’s Own Story).

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Nikki BAKER IN THE GAME When businesswoman Virginia Kelly meets her old college chum Bev Johnson for drinks late one night, Bev confides that her lover, Kelsey, is seeing another woman. Ginny is shocked when the next morning’s papers report that Kelsey was found murdered behind the very bar where Ginny and Bev had met. Nikki Baker is the first African-American author in the lesbian mystery genre; Virginia Kelly is the first African-American lesbian detective. The narrative weaves in observations on being a woman, an African-American, and a lesbian in a “man’s” world of finance. “The auspicious debut of a black writer who brings us a sharp, funny and on-the-mark murder mystery.” — Northwest Gay & Lesbian Reader Nikki BAKER: IN THE GAME Trade Paperback, 172 pages • ISBN 978-1-951092-28-3 • US $16.95 / Canada $21.95 / UK ­£13.95 • E-book Worldwide

Jed A. BRYAN A CRY IN THE DESERT A story of the battle against tyranny that remains as relevant now as when it was written. A group of friends living in Las Vegas are happy and successful: doctors, lawyers, journalists, and decorators. However, their lives go from utopian to dystopian when a law passes to allow the quarantine of those suspected to have AIDS. The government, in a blatant overreach, closes the Nevada border. Those tagged as homosexuals disappear in the middle of the night. A group of resisters fight back in the halls of hospitals and in the halls of justice but are constantly outmaneuvered by others in high places that are loyal to Dr Alfred Botts, the “czar” government leader, or being blackmailed into supporting him

“An unforgettable and harrowing account” — Stan Leventhal

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25th Anniversary Edition Stan LEVENTHAL MOUNTAIN CLIMBING IN SHERIDAN SQUARE

A series of discrete episodes among friends provide snapshots of one gay man’s life. There are parties, concerts, dinners with everyday life – and death – interwoven in the rich story-telling. An actress, a painter, a set designer, a writer – all sweating and surviving in Manhattan, all scoring their first successes. Part autobiography and part documentary, artfully written, it details the lives of these creative people. Young and professional, they know there is more to life than money. There is trust and the sort of love that trades in deeds of kindness.

“Stan was a literary activist who always gave to, built and endorsed literature and writers. I can see still see Stan in his apartment window on Christopher Street, next door to the Stonewall Inn, overlooking Sheridan Square as he typed away.” — Michele Karlsberg, LGBTQ publicist and friend

Leventhal’s debut novel was a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1988. This new edition features a foreword by Christopher Bram (Gods and Monsters). Stan LEVENTHAL: MOUNTAIN CLIMBING IN SHERIDAN SQUARE Trade Paperback, 196 pages • ISBN 978-1-951092-21-4 • Retail: US $16.95 / Canada $21.95 / UK ­£13.95 • E-book Worldwide

Author, editor, and publisher, Stan Leventhal lived in New York City in the 1980s through 1995. He is fondly remembered as a generous, genuine and passionate advocate for social causes and other writers. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award three times: for he debut novel Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, Faultlines and The Black Marble Pool. He published a final nov- el, Skydiving on Christopher Street (ReQueered Tales, January 2021) and three collections of short stories. In addition, his work appeared in the anthologies: Gay Life, Shadows of Love, The Stiffest of the Corpse, and Sword of the Rainbow. The author was actively involved in the fight for literacy. Stan’s message to his readers: “Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun.”

Stan LEVENTHAL THE BLACK MARBLE POOL

When you first notice it, something seems a bit unusual. Then it occurs to you that most, if not all, of the pools you’ve ever seen before were painted blue or white. The Captain’s House pool is black. Not painted black. But constructed of black marble and black tile. The marble has streaks of white that look like lightning bolts in a black sky. There is a sexiness to this pool; a personality. It looks and feels like a warm, wet blanket, sur- rounding and protecting you like a dark, quiet womb. There’s a dead body at the bottom of a pool in the backyard of a guest house in Key West. Who is he? And what caused his untimely demise? Maybe it’s suicide. Or an accident. But more likely – murder! And who’s responsible? One of the guests, the people who run the guest house or one of those mysterious women in town?

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25th Anniversary Edition Felice PICANO LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY

Solid, cautious Roger Sansarc and flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine- year-old boys in 1954. Their lives constantly intersect at crucial moments in their personal histories as each discovers his own unique – and uniquely gay – identity. Through the lens of their complex, tumultuous, madcap, yet enduring relationship – and their involvement with the handsome model, poet, and decorated Vietnam vet Matt Loguidice, whom they both love – Picano chronicles and celebrates gay life and subculture over the last half of the twentieth century. In a book that could have been written only by one who lived it and survived to tell, Picano weaves a powerful saga of four decades in the lives of two men and their lovers, relatives, friends, and enemies. Tragic, comic, sexy, and romantic, filled with varied and colorful characters, Like People in History is both extraordinarily moving and supremely entertaining. Winner of the Ferro- Grumley Award for Best Novel, Gay Times Best Novel of the Year and Finalist for Lambda Literary Award Best Gay Fiction. This edition includes a new foreword by Richard Burnett and afterword by Felice Picano. Felice PICANO: LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY Trade Paperback, 512 pages • ISBN 978-1-951092-13-9 • Retail: US $21.95 / Canada $27.95 / UK ­£16.95 • E-book Worldwide

Felice Picano is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, memoirs, nonfiction, and plays. Several of his titles have been national and international bestsellers. He is consid- ered a founder of modern . His first novel was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He’s a five-time Lambda Literary Award nominee. Picano’s books include the best- selling novels The Book of Lies (ReQueered Tales, Oct 2020), Like People in History, Onyx, and The Lure. Along with Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Edmund White, and others, he founded the Violet Quill Club to promote and increase the visibility of gay authors and their works. Originally from New York, Picano now lives in .

Felice PICANO ONYX

Ray Henriques has success, love, friendship ... but lately it’s not enough. Jesse, Ray’s lover of ten years, is on a quest accelerated by his imminent death from AIDS. For Mike Tedesco, young married father of two, it’s a search for the heart of masculinity. Their sexual exploration awakens a restlessness in both men, which resoundingly alters their future paths. As Ray’s life is drawn into a future without Jesse, he attempts to tether himself to the here and now with frequent visits to a past where life’s answers seemed simpler and more meaningful. Marked by shifting points of view, humor, descriptive brilliance and unexpected revelation, Onyx is a multifaceted exploration of inner lives, motivation, love, and the sometimes hollow center beneath a polished surface. The Advocate raved: “a sensual work as well as a perceptive one.”

Felice PICANO: ONYX Trade Paperback, 358 pages • ISBN 978-1-951092-05-4 Retail: US $19.95 / Canada $24.95 / UK ­£15.95 / EU €17.95 • E-book Worldwide

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GRANT MICHAELS – Stan Kraychik in Boston

Every book in the six part series of Grant Michaels’ zany adventures starring Stan Kraychik garnered Lambda Literary Awards nominations including a 1991 for Best Gay Mystery for the debut novel, A Body to Dye For. Stan “Vannos” Kraychik isn’t your everyday Boston hairdresser. Manager of Snips Salon, which is owned by best bud (and occasional nemesis) Nicole. Stan has a habit of tripping over bodies ... enter Lieutenant Branco, dark, muscular, Italian, (straight) of Boston PD Homicide who immediately suspects everyone. From antics in Yosemite, to death by Valentine’s chocolate, to ballet in the city and opera in the country ... feisty Stan gets mixed up with the strangest people. Fabulously fun reads you won’t want to miss.

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JACK DICKSON – Jas Anderson in Glasgow

Twenty years ago, Jack Dickson was thrilling readers with his Gay Tartan Noir suspense series: a tough gay thriller set in the criminal underworld of Glasgow, Scotland. In the derelict inner-city of Glasgow’s Dennistoun, FreeForm introduces a tough gay cop, Detective-Sergeant Jas Anderson. A violent anti-hero, suspended from duty for assault, Jas is the natural suspect when his lover is found brutally murdered. Framed for the murder, the series progresses through time spent in notorious Barlinnie prison where Jas fights for his life behind bars. When the conviction is overturned, Jas reinvents himself as Private Investigator only to find corruption and deciet dogging his foot- steps. An acclaimed series you won’t want to miss.

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EDWARD O. PHILLIPS – Geoffry Chadwick

Geoffry Chadwick has recently turned 50, A successful, out gay corporate lawyer in Montreal, life should be good. But his love life ... pfffft. Feeling quite sorry for himself on New Year’s Eve, he picks up a hustler on Dominion Square. After an argument back in his home, the young man accidentally dies at the foot of the stairs. In a panic, Geoffry takes a series of actions which turn from worse to “complicated”. But luck, and Geoffry’s essentially good nature, win the day. Phillips’ urbane and witty prose provide a backdrop for this engaging series full of unexpected, and often cranky, characters. Buried on Sunday won the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction from the Crime Writers Assocaition of Canada. “A highly polished gem of a novel on Montreal mores and manners ... delightful reading on a wintry Sunday afternoon” — Ian Mayer, Toronto Star US $5.95 / Can $7.95 / UK £4.95 / EU €5.95 E-book available at Amazon, Kobo, Nook and Apple: search “geoffry chadwick”

LEV RAPHAEL – Nick Hoffman in Michigan

Nick Hoffman, in Let’s Get Criminal, has everything: a good teaching job, a nice house, and a solid relationship with his lover, Stefan Borowski, a brilliant novelist at the State University of Michigan. But when Perry Cross shows up, Nick’s peace of mind is shattered. Not only does he have to share his office with the nefarious Perry, who managed to weasel his way into a tenured position without the right qualifications, he also discovers that Perry played a destructive role in Stefan’s past. When Perry turns up dead, Nick wonders if Stefan might be involved, while the campus police force is wondering the same about Nick. “Is vulgar literary taste sufficient motive for murder? Actually, killing is too kind for the vindictive scholars in Lev Raphael’s maliciously funny campus mystery The Edith Wharton Murders.” — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

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Matt LUBBERS-MOORE MURDER AND MAYHEM An Annotated Bibliography of Gay and Queer Males in Mystery, 1909-2018.

Librarian and scholar Matt Lubbers-Moore collects and examines every mystery novel to include a gay or queer male in the English language starting with the 1909 Arthur Conan Doyle short story “The Man with the Watches,” which is included in its entirety. Authors, titles, dates published, publishers, book series, short blurbs, and a description of how involved the gay or queer male character is with the mystery are all included for a full bibliographic background. Murder and Mayhem will prove invaluable for mystery collectors, researchers, libraries, general readers, aficionados, bookstores, and devotees of LGBTQ studies. The bibliography is laid out in alphabetical order by author including the blurb and author notes, whether a hard boiled private eye, an amateur cozy, a suspenseful romance, or a police procedural. All subgenres within the mystery field are included: fantasy, science fiction, espionage, political intrigue, crime dramas, courtroom thrillers, and more with a definition guide of the subgenres for a better understanding of the genre as a whole. A ReQueered Tales Original Publication. Matt LUBBERS-MOORE: MURDER AND MAYHEM Trade Paperback, 670 pages • ISBN 978-1-951092-15-3 • Retail: US $39.95 / Canada $49.95 / UK ­£31.95 E-book available worldwide from Amazon, Kobo, Nook and Apple

Ian YOUNG Ian YOUNG THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL IN LITERATURE: IN LITERATURE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY SUPPLEMENT 2020

Ian Young’s bibliography has served as The present supplement includes titles a basic guide to English-language works overlooked in the Bibliography Second of fiction, drama, poetry and autobiogra- Edition, plus works written before the phy concerned with male homosexuality 1981 cut-off date but published later, or having male homosexual characters. including works published for the first Entries include titles published through time in book form such as the original text 1980. Works of primary importance (those of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian in which homosexuality is a major aspect or which are otherwise of Gray, posthumous works (the diaries of Christopher Isherwood and Joe particular relevance) are marked with an asterisk for the convenience of Orton), unexpurgated editions (James Jones’ From Here to Eternity), researchers and collectors. Works are identified by author, title, place of and newly translated classics (e.g. Marcilio Ficino’s Alcibiades the publication, publisher, and date. For easy reference, entries are numbered Schoolboy; the letters of Marcus Aurelius; John Henry Mackay’s novel and a title index is provided at the end of the main text. Five highly Fenny Skaller). The current study should be regarded not as a separate acclaimed essays on gay literature by lan Young, Graham Jackson and work but rather as a second, supplementary volume containing additional Dr. Rictor Norton, including essay on gay publishing, round out the material. The two volumes together constitute a preliminary guide to listings. A title index of gay anthologies completes the work. classic (i.e. pre-1980’s, pre-AIDS) gay and bisexual male literature.

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“Attentive, compassionate, witty — and a highly intriguing stylist“ —

Brian BOULDREY THE GENIUS OF DESIRE

Hopelessly drawn to the romantic notion of a double life, young Michael Bellman spends summers in Monsalvat, Michigan, coming of age in a loving tangle of highly eccentric relatives: Great Uncle Jimmy speaks to his dead wife during meals; Cousin Anne torments Michael beyond endurance; reckless Cousin Tommy secretly smokes cigars and can’t wait to “kick butt in ’Nam” – and Michael watches every magical move he makes. A few years and one driver’s license later, as family alliances change and long-silent desires surface, Michael begins to understand his attraction to the double life because he’s living one – at roadside rest stops, in library washrooms, and public parks. Coming out is the first step, coming to terms is the next....

“The Genius of Desire touches on oddities in life with a warm sense of reality.... Bouldrey’s style evokes a reverence for the small epiphanies of youth.” — Bay Area Reporter Brian BOULDREY: THE GENIUS OF DESIRE US $5.95 / Can $7.95 / UK £4.95 / EU €5.95 E-book available worldwide at Amazon, Kobo, Nook and Apple: search “bouldrey” + requeered

Jay B. LAWS Jay B. LAWS THE UNFINISHED STEAM

Jiggs, a hearing-impaired gay man tortured Winner of the Different Light Award for by the recent death of his parents, moves best first novel in 1991, this debut horror, into a long-vacant apartment. suspense novel set in San Francisco won But it’s haunted by the “Unfinished”, The Lambda Book Report praise: “Stephen spirits whose lives ended prematurely King would blush with appreciation.” through tragedy, violence or betrayal. In a backdrop of discos and bathhouses, Jiggs’s initially adversarial relationship with men are suddenly disappearing in an en- his spectral housemates soon becomes a croaching fog which seduces and destroys partnership when both parties see each with a promise of eternal life. Compelling, other as instrumental to ending their own suffering. The stories unfold evocative prose, word-perfect in building tension, as lovers fight to hold via visitations by three Dickensian ghosts recounting their deaths. In one on to life and each other.work as well as a perceptive one. story, a man dying from AIDS confronts the limits of his vanity when he Gary D. Laws, Jay’s brother, has written a powerful new foreword with realizes the terrible price of his wish to recapture his looks. In another, a extensive quotes in Law’s own words. Hal Bodner’s Introduction sets the car mechanic’s soul is left to ponder how his weakness led to his murder. context: Steam as an allegory of the early days of the epidemic.

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