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Review: Lavender Boys by S.E. Taylor
Brock Evans heads for Hollywood in 1935, hoping to be the next Clark Gable, and meets another would-be star in Randy Pearce, who works as a soda jerk while awaiting his big break. It’s love at first...
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Last Gasp by Erastes, Chris Smith, Charlie Cochrane and Jordan Taylor
Last Gasp, a series of four short novellas wherein we discover: four gay couples who struggle to find happiness during historical periods on the brink of change. Take a trip back to 1840s Hong Kong,...
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Review: The Berlin Novels (Mr Norris Changes Trains, Goodbye to Berlin)...
We apologise for the break in reviews being posted. Personal reasons, real life, yadda yadda. We will back to normal as soon as possible! Collection of two previously published novels written by...
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Review: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a...
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Review: Farewell my Concubine by Lilian Lee
A sweeping saga, Farewell my Concubine runs the gamut of China’s modern history, from 1924 to the 1980′s, and takes the revered Peking Opera as its centre stage. Xiao Douzi and Xiao Shitou become...
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Review: Sal Mineo: a biography by Michael Gregg Michaud
Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this...
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Film Review: Christopher and his Kind (BBC)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1651062/ (from imdb) In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city....
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Review: This Rough Magic by Josh Lanyon
Wealthy San Francisco playboy Brett Sheridan thinks he knows the score when he hires tough guy private eye Neil Patrick Rafferty to find a priceless stolen folio of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Brett’s...
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Review: The Painting by FK Wallace
Stefan, a naive young Pole, meets Gunter, an artist in 1930s Berlin. Their passionate love affair is overshadowed by the rise of the Third Reich. Denounced to the Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz as...
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Review: Placing Out by P.A. Brown
At the age of ten, Dylan Daniels was a placed-out kid sent from New York’s Five Points to a family in Nebraska. But Dylan ran away at the age of eighteen when he realized he preferred boys and didn’t...
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Review: If It Ain’t Love by Tamara Allen (short story)
In the darkest days of the Great Depression, New York Times reporter Whit Stoddard has lost the heart to do his job and lives a lonely hand-to-mouth existence with little hope of recovery, until he...
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Review: Butterfly Dream by Dave Lara and Bud Gundy
At 6 years old, long before he discovers that he is gay, Banat Frantz learns that being Jewish in Hitler’s Germany is a bewildering crime for which he and his family must pay. Fire and loathing greet...
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Review: When Love Walked In by Charlie Cochet (short story)
Bruce Shannon is a Private Investigator dealing with case after case of missing persons and infidelity. None of which inspire warm, fuzzy feelings during the week of Valentine’s Day. Then again, Bruce...
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Review: The Forgotten Man by Ryan Loveless
In 1932, after Captain Joshua Pascal’s family loses its fortune, the Great War veteran’s sense of duty compels him to help his mother convert his childhood home into a Jewish boarding house. He’s lived...
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Film Review: Victor/Victoria dir. Blake Edwards
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can’t get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn’t even have enough money for the basics of food...
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Review: The Amethyst Cat Caper by Charlie Cochet
Two years ago, Remington Trueblood left England and everything he held dear for the chance at a new life. Now the successful owner of The Purple Rose Tea House in Manhattan, Remi has come across the...
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Review: Protection by S.A. Reid
When Gabriel MacKenna enters Wentworth Prison in 1931, he promises himself two things: never to be buggered and never to turn prison queer. Tough, smart, and ruthless in a fight, he quickly makes a...
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Review: Undefeated Love by John Simpson
Can love survive the horrors of a dictatorship and a concentration camp? Two young men fall in love just as the Nazi Party is coming into power in Germany. One man is talked into becoming involved with...
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Review: The Auspicious Troubles of Chance by Charlie Cochet
Chance Irving is a young man with a gift for getting into trouble—not surprising, as trouble is all he’s ever known. After losing everything he held dear one fateful night, he decides to leave New York...
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Review: Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of...
Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town’s stars and...
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