September 06 2011 4:00 AM ET
's Bookshelf
This week we're reading a feminist history of Broadway and a look at New York City through Andy Warhol's eyes, and we've even found some gay vampires you might fall for.
September 01 2011 4:00 AM ET
Perez Hilton: Pink on the Inside
Now releasing a children’s book, The Boy With Pink Hair, the new man behind the controversial brand explains why he’s a great role model for kids — even if he’ll never be Neil Patrick Harris.
July 25 2011 4:55 PM ET
Gay Pakistani Muslim Writer Ifti Nasim Dead at 64
Ifti Nasim, the gay Pakistani Muslim poet who authored Myrmecophile (in English) and Narman (mostly in Urdu), died Friday following a heart attack.
July 21 2011 3:55 PM ET
Literary Losses: Cheryl Burke and Taylor Siluwé
The LGBT literary world experienced two cancer-related losses this summer: Cheryl Burke and Taylor Siluwé both passed away in June.
July 18 2011 6:40 PM ET
The Professor on the Dance Floor
There's more to the disco era than platform shoes, polyester shirts, and cocaine spoons. Hot Stuff, a new book about the phenomenon by Alice Echols, explores how the dance music genre that blossomed in the '70s shattered gender, racial, and sexual conventions.
June 27 2011 2:05 PM ET
Book Excerpt: Mind Your Manners in the Bedroom
Know how to satisfy your partner and what not to say in the heat of the moment — with his Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners for Every Occasion (written with Sally Chew), the author offers wise and witty advice for every occasion.
June 21 2011 6:00 AM ET
Book Excerpt: The Restored Edition
James Jones's classic 1951 novel chronicled life on an Army base in Hawaii just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor as realistically as the era would allow. Now the censored passages that honestly depict homosexuality in the military have been restored.
June 16 2011 6:55 AM ET
Book Excerpt:
BOOK EXCERPT: The author who once wrote about his own affairs with hip-hop's titans is taking a creative look at one man's rise to money and power as he falls in love.
May 29 2011 11:50 AM ET
Walt Whitman, Poet-Shaman
In his new book Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul, Jungian writer Steven B. Herrmann delves into the inner development, the bi-erotic imagination, and the shamanism of America’s seminal bard.
May 27 2011 2:15 PM ET
Writers Honored at Lammys
With comedian Lea DeLaria as master of ceremonies, leading LGBT writers including Edward Albee and Val McDermid were honored at the Lambda Literary Awards Thursday night.
May 19 2011 1:55 PM ET
David Levithan's New Read
With Will Grayson, Will Grayson, David Levithan scores the first teen book with a gay main character to hit the New York Times bestseller list — something he says ten years ago was exhibit #1 of the world falling apart.
May 18 2011 4:00 AM ET
Deep Focus
It’s a Vito Russo renaissance as the late activist and author of The Celluloid Closet is explored in a comprehensive new biography and documentary.
May 17 2011 4:00 AM ET
Reading is Fundamental
While gay literature thrives in some quarters, another venerable gay bookstore closes; is it as simple as blaming Amazon?
