Bookshelf
This week we’re reading about lady cops in Georgia, a brilliant feminist playwright, freak photographer Diane Arbus, and a sci-fi world where people with a rare mutation can instantly switch genders.
The Advocate's Bookshelf: Memoirs
A roundup of what to read.
Michael Musto: Dish Warmed Over
As he celebrates the release of his new book Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back, the bridge-burning blogger and baron of blind items blabs about his hard-earned position as both historian and spokesman for the gay community.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.









