Nicholas Greer has immersed himself for years in researching and writing a biography of controversial British painter Frank Spira, but his task becomes even more complicated when he meets with one of Spira's ex-lovers and receives news that Spira's definitive work--believed to have been destroyed--may still exist and someone is willing to kill to possess it.
In 1980 Sri Lanka, fourteen-year-old Amrith's uneventful summer, filled with typing lessons and hopes of a part in his school's production of "Othello," is turned upside down when he falls in love with a boy.
Shuichi Shindou, lead singer of the popular band Bad Luck, returns home to visit his boyfriend, romance novelist Eiri Yuki, and finds an alarming note and no sign of Eiri, sending Shiuchi on a wild search for answers.
The author remembers his youth in mental hospitals, his disfiguring acne, his love affair with another hospital patient named Laura, and his time, at age sixteen, spent living in the 1970s Manhattan gay scene with his uncle, writer Edmund White.
life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder
Loffreda, Beth
2000
Explores why the murder of twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matt Shepard ignited a media frenzy and struck a cord with American society.
Presents the text of Tony Kushner's stage drama "Angels in America," including part one, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Millennium Approaches," which follows the thread of AIDS through the lives of several gay men; and part two "Perestroika," which continues the story after one of the characters has been declared a prophet.