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Polari First Book Prize Seeks Nominations

Posted on: February 15th, 2012 by History Month
The Polari First Book Prize; the UK’s prestigious queer literature award is open for nominations from publishers. The prize winning novel will be announced at the South Bank in July. To enter, you must be a publisher and the nominated book must have been written by a UK resident...

Book Review: Let’s Get This Straight

Posted on: September 13th, 2011 by History Month
Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents by Tina Fakhrid-Deen is a book focused on supporting, helping and empowering children whose parents identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or/and queer (abbreviated LGBTQ). Fakhrid-Deen first of all sets out to explain that LGBTQ families do...

Rory’s Boys, by Alan Clark

Posted on: August 18th, 2011 by History Month
Rory’s Boys by Alan Clark- Published by Arcadia Books- ISBN 978-1-906413-88-0   An excellent novel that humorously explores the implications of age for gay men. Basically, a rich gay orphan gets told he looks old by a would-be one night stand,  inherits his fascist granny’s mansion and turns it...

What Love Is- edited by Peter Burton

Posted on: July 17th, 2011 by History Month
          Book Review: by Stephen Boyce I must admit that I am not a fan of the genre of short stories but this collection is a stirring and thoughtful exploration of the form. No single story stands out above the other and none fully encapsulate...

Beyond the Capes- by Richard de la Haye

Posted on: July 17th, 2011 by History Month
                  Book Review, by Stephen Boyce This novel is excellent, well crafted, transporting the readers through the Canadian Wilderness to the Transport Colonies of the New World. It is an epic, a gay love story that defies the forces of history....

Q: Is it a Boy or a Girl? A: It’s a Baby!

Posted on: May 29th, 2011 by History Month
A Toronto couple have hit the headlines after refusing to announce the birth sex of their child. Named Storm, the baby will remain gender neutral until it is old enough to declare its own gender identity. Parents David Stocker and Kathy Witterick were inspired by a 1978 book, X: A Fabulous...

Queers Built America

Posted on: May 24th, 2011 by History Month
Queers had a role in the making of America, both as native Americans and settlers according to a new book published in the US. For those who thought the so-called gay community started in 1969 with the Stonewall riots, cultural critic Michael Bronski has a few surprises. In his...

Queer Poetry Evening at Gays the Word

Posted on: May 15th, 2011 by History Month
Gays the Word hosts a Queer Poetry Evening on May 23rd which will include the launch of The Frost Fairs by John McCullough and The Private Parts of Girls by Sophie Mayer (both from Salt Publishing, 2011).  Chroma’s Andra Simons will round off the evening with a lyrical extravaganza....

General

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Against the Law , Peter Wildeblood, 1955. Re-published in 1999 as part of Weidenfeld and Nicolson’s 50th anniversary, with a new preface by Matthew Parris. ISBN 0 297 64382 7 A Way of Life , Peter Wildeblood, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1956 Love In A Dark Time and Other...

Bisexual

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Getting Bi is an anthology of essays and articles from people around the world.  Over 30 countries are represented in this truly global book that is a must-have for anyone wanting to understand more about bisexuality. ISBN: 096538814X More info from www.biresource.org

Arts

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Brief encounters Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971 Stephen BourneCassell 1996 ISBN 0 304 33283 The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies , Vitto Russo, 1981 (revised edition 1987). (also a 1996 documentary film)

History

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Becomining Visible A reader in gay and lesbian history for high school students Kevin Jenning, editor Alyson 1994 1-55583-254-7 Hidden Histories:20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in the Visual Arts (ISBN:1-902889-10-X) by Michael Petry. It accompanied the exhibition of the same name for The New Art Gallery Walsall last...

Women

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Lesbian Feminist Bibliography 1960s and 70s (OutHistory.org) A comprehensive list of books and writers can be found here. Lesbian Lists A look at lesbian culture, history and personalities Dell Richards Alyson 1990 Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them Spender RKP 1982 0-7100-9353-5

Transgender

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Christine Jorgensen – A Personal Autobiography – An intimate memoir of the world’s first heavily publicised sex-change operation in 1953 (Cleis Press, Oct 2000, ISBN 1-573-44100-7 Conundrum – 1974 autobiographical classic by the author Jan Morris, charting her 1960′s transition from man to woman. The original (Faber) edition is...

Education

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities: Exploring children’s gender and sexual relations in the primary school. Renold, Emma (2005) London: RoutledgeFalmer. An academic book just out which describes the pressures of ‘compulsory heterosexuality’ for primary school pupils as they learn to be ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ and also to have ‘boyfriends’...

Children

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Wikipedia’s list of children’s books with LGBT Themes Gus and Waldo’s Book of Love and Gus & Waldo’s Book of Fame, Massimo Fenati, Orion Gus and Waldo And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole King and King, Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland

Book Resources

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
You can find many more books listed at the Bibliography of Queer History http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/bibhist.htm The BFI have compiled an excellent guide to books on LGBT cinema. Chrysalis Diversity Awareness team have an excellent booklist of LGBT interest which can be downloaded here Kings Heath Library Birmingham have compiled a...

Booksellers

Posted on: January 22nd, 2011 by History Month
Gay’s the Word, 66, Marchmont Street, London WC7N 9AB www.gaystheword.co.uk Some books may now be out of print, Abe Books may be able to help. www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk also has many of the books on your list, and could order any that are in print. For postcards and gifts: The Women’s...

Could You Survive a 25% Rent Increase?

Posted on: February 22nd, 2010 by History Month
>Could you afford to stay in your home if your rent or mortgage went up 25%? At a time of recession, when everyone is feeling the pinch in some way or other, few pockets or bank balances could support such a hike. Yet that is precisely the proposal facing...

JFK and His Gay Best Friend of 30 Years

Posted on: September 6th, 2009 by History Month
>John F. Kennedy is one of the most studied and written-about presidents of the 20th century. Aside from the remaining mysteries surrounding his assassination, there is little that is unknown about the life of the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Or so we thought. In Jack and Lem,...

Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform

Posted on: June 18th, 2009 by History Month
>Gay rights activist and author, Larry Kramer, reviews a new book by Charles Upchurch, an assistant professor of history at Florida State University. This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality....

Bi-Novelists Talk About Their Love for Each Other

Posted on: April 19th, 2009 by History Month
>A lesbian novelist who used to attack bisexuals and a bisexual author have talked about their relationship four years on. To coincide with his new novel, Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm, tells the Guardian about his relationship with Stephanie Theobold, whilst Theobold herself explains how she had...
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A Gay Childhood in Derbyshire

Posted on: April 1st, 2009 by History Month
>On 25 March 2009, Narvel Annable, a local author, spoke to an audience in Derby about growing up gay in the 50s and 60s. He has kindly donated notes from his speech. This is a fine moment for me! Here we are – gathered here this afternoon in Derby...

Lorca Was Censored to Hide His Sexuality, Biographer Reveals

Posted on: March 20th, 2009 by History Month
>Many recognised his homosexuality from the start, but for decades Spain’s literary establishment, and even his own family, refused to acknowledge that the country’s best loved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was gay. Now his biographer, Ian Gibson, has conclusive evidence that Lorca’s poetic achievements sprang from his lifelong frustration...

New York’s Oldest Gay Bookstore to Close

Posted on: February 16th, 2009 by History Month
>New York City’s only remaining gay and lesbian bookstore says it’s closing after 41 years. Oscar Wilde Bookshop owner Kim Brinster says “tough times” are the reason for the Manhattan store’s closing on March 29. She says the city once supported three gay and lesbian bookstores. Read the full...

Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by HG Cocks

Posted on: February 2nd, 2009 by History Month
> in 1915, while other men fought the battles of Loos and Ypres, a comic novelist called Alfred Barrett, the former editor of Family Circle, spotted a gap in the market for a new magazine. He called it Link, and advertised it as “the only monthly practically devoted to...

Gay’s the Word to Mark 30th Anniversary

Posted on: January 23rd, 2009 by History Month
>In February Gay’s the Word, the first and now last surviving British gay bookshop, will be celebrating its 30th birthday with a month of special events and promotions. Having pioneered access to gay books in the early 80′s and surviving raids, high court battles and financial scares, it is...

Of Course Tintin Is Gay. Ask Snowy

Posted on: January 12th, 2009 by History Month
>His adventures have sold more than 200 million copies and been translated into 50 languages, and this weekend he celebrates his 80th birthday. But how well do we really know Tintin? For Matthew Parris, one thing’s for certain, he is one of the boys… Read the full article from...

Edward Carpenter: A Man Before His Time

Posted on: November 4th, 2008 by History Month
>Edward Carpenter was a radical socialist activist throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his writings, he tore into the decadent middle classes and capitalism with fervour. He supported feminism, vegetarianism and the environment, among other things. But he was an active, open, campaigning homosexual, with a...

Alan Bennett Gives Papers to Bodleian Library

Posted on: November 1st, 2008 by History Month
>Alan Bennett is to give a wealth of written work from nearly 50 years as an author and playwright to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Notes, drafts and scripts for all of his stage and TV plays were among the collection, the library said. There are also manuscripts...

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

Posted on: October 8th, 2008 by History Month
>Edward Carpenter was the Victorian Morrissey, the English Walt Whitman – and the original vegetarian, sandal-wearing socialist. So why is this gloriously eccentric figure almost forgotten today? We could hazard the hypothesis that it is because he was gay and that gay lives have a habit of getting swept...

From the Ban to the Booker

Posted on: August 11th, 2008 by History Month
>Two programmes in which best-selling author Val McDermid examines the development of the lesbian novel. She looks at the furore surrounding Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, banned in 1928 because of its lesbian content. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was published in the same year but escaped the censor. The...

Dirk Bogarde’s Letters – Part Two

Posted on: August 10th, 2008 by History Month
>In public, Dirk Bogarde was shy, reserved, polite to a fault. But in private, he was far more entertaining. These extracts published in the Daily Telegraph from a new collection of his most intimate, wickedly funny personal letters, reveal Bogarde as he really was. Read the first selection of...

Dirk Bogarde’s Letters – Part One

Posted on: August 5th, 2008 by History Month
>In public, Dirk Bogarde was shy, reserved, polite to a fault. But in private, he was far more entertaining. In the first of two extracts published in the Daily Telegraph from a new collection of his most intimate, wickedly funny personal letters, we reveal Dirk as he really was....

brokeback mountain

Posted on: July 1st, 2008 by History Month
>The London Literature Festival brings together words, stories, ideas and laughter to the city’s original festival site. Be inspired, entertained, dream and debate, with a packed programme of events that reflect the dynamism and globalism of the city. Specially commissioned performances, readings from prize-winning authors, comedy, music, debate and...

Brokeback Mountain, the Opera

Posted on: June 12th, 2008 by History Month
>The American composer Charles Wuorinen has been commissioned by the New York City Opera to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx’s renowned short story Brokeback Mountain. The story made into a popular and controversial award winning film by Taiwanese director Ang Lee in 2005, famously tracks the complex...

Hidden Gay Hip-Hop Scene Revealed

Posted on: May 14th, 2008 by History Month 1 Comment
>Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man. It is an explosive exposé of a thriving gay subculture in an aggressively male business, where anti-gay lyrics and public homophobia are...

Broken Voices: ‘Untouchable’ Women Speak Out

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by History Month
>The Launch of Broken Voices: ‘Untouchable’ Women Speak Out, the new book by Valerie Mason-John, will take place on Thursday 17 April at the Borders Bookstore on Charing Cross Road, London at 6.30pm For the occasion, a panel discussion hosted by Producer and film maker Pratibha Parmar will bring...

Dumbledore’s Outing a Mixed Blessing

Posted on: October 25th, 2007 by History Month
>While crowds cheered last week at the announcement by JK Rowling that her character Dumbledore was gay, Time Magazine’s John Cloud feels a little more reserved about the news. After a quick overview of suggested gay characters in Sci-fi. Cloud wonders what the late outing means in his article...

Dumbledore Outed

Posted on: October 20th, 2007 by History Month
>During a recent Q&A session at the Carnegie Hall in New York, JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, answered a question about one of her characters’ love life by stating that he is gay. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is, for the majority of the series, the...

LGBT Books on Google

Posted on: September 26th, 2007 by History Month
>Google, the much used search engine also offer a book search facility. Publishers can make available online sections of books or even complete books for Google users to search. There is also a Library Project which makes available and searchable the catalogues of major libraries. There are of course...

Bugger the High Seas!

Posted on: September 19th, 2007 by History Month
>Avast, me hearties! Arrr! Today of all days be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. If we hear any complain’ from ye scallywags, ye’ll be walkin’ the plank! Here’s a coupla nice pieces of booty for ye, lubbers: We, Gentlemen o’ fortune be among the most romanticised and fabled...

Tomboys and Bachelor Girls

Posted on: August 17th, 2007 by History Month
>In the late 1950’s Josie Pickering was leading a double life. By day she was a ‘proper’ 1950’s housewife – married and looking after her young children. But at night she visited the lesbian bars and clubs of Manchester. Eventually she left her husband for another woman. As the...
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