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echolalia echolalia
by Jane ShiRelentlessly inventive poetry that proclaims a diasporic, queer, and disabled self-hood.In Jane Shi's echolalia echolalia, commitment and comedy work together to critique ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies, and the body politic. Here are playful and transformative narratives of friendship and estrangement, survival and self-forgiveness. Writing against inherited violence and scarcity-producing colonial projects, Shi expresses a deep belief in one's chosen family, love and justice."Shi extends her poetics in all directions with silky skill. Language flourishes in the realm of a poet like this." - T. Liem, author of Slows: Twice and Obits.
elseship: an unrequited affair
by Tree Abraham&“elseship is a kaleidoscopic exploration of all that can exist between two people caught in the middle of friendship and unrequited love. It&’s a gorgeous and delicately rendered tapestry of desires—and a bracing examination of what happens when feelings break the boxes and labels meant to neatly contain them.&” —Angela Chen, author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of SexWhen Tree Abraham falls in love with her housemate who does not reciprocate the feeling, instead of breaking up, they keep going. This story begins where most end. elseship deftly and courageously recounts the starts and stops of a transitioning relationship. Having recorded the experience in real time, Abraham combines personal entries with illustrations, photos, and mind maps all organized within eight ancient Greek categories of love.For readers of Maggie Nelson, Sheila Heti, and Carmen Maria Machado, elseship deconstructs the heteronormative canon to explore the bittersweet, lonely, uncharted territories of the heart. It is a deeply specific yet universal story of modern love that will accompany and enlighten anyone who&’s been in any kind of complicated &“ship".
elseship: an unrequited affair
by Tree AbrahamWhen Tree Abraham falls in love with her housemate, who does not reciprocate the feeling, instead of breaking up, they keep going. This story begins where most end.elseship deftly and compassionately recounts the year that followed a friendship confronted by unrequited love. Abraham details the beauty and mania of this experience, mapping thought pathways, confessing ugly truths, and treading the edges of eroding territory.?In these pages, Abraham interweaves personal entries and research with illustrations, photos, and diagrams, all organized within the eight ancient Greek categories of love. Written with reverence and searching honesty, elseship deconstructs the heteronormative canon to explore the bittersweet, lonely, uncharted archipelago of the heart. This is a deeply specific yet universal story of modern love that will accompany and enlighten anyone who’s been in any kind of complicated “ship.”
gods with a little g: A Novel
by Tupelo Hassman"Triumphant . . . as heartwarming as it is beautifully written." —Michael Schaub, NPRFrom the acclaimed author of Girlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hopeUnsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a pack of friends who are all just helping each other get by. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the internet is blocked (never mind traffic in and out), Rosary, California, is run by evangelicals but was named by Catholics. It’s a town on very formal relations with its neighbors, one that boasts an oil refinery as well as a fairly sizable population of teenagers. For Helen and her gang of misfits, the tire yard, sex, and beer help pass the days until they turn eighteen and leave town. Her best friends, Win and Rainbolene, late arrivals to Rosary, are particularly keen to depart—Rain because she’ll finally be able to get the hormones she needs to fully become herself. Watching over them is Aunt Bev, an outcast like the kids, who runs the barely tolerated Psychic Encounter Shoppe and tries to keep Helen connected to her own psychic talents—a gift passed down from her mother. Tensions are building, though, in every way. Threats against the Psychic Encounter Shoppe become serious actions. One of the kids gets in trouble, and then another. And Helen can see some things before they happen, but somehow can't see the most important things happening right in front of her. Tupelo Hassman's gods with a little g bursts and splinters with flawed, lovable characters whose haphazard investigations into each others's hearts will reshape your understanding of trust, how to build a family, and how to make a future you can see.
grl2grl: Short fictions
by Julie Anne PetersIn this honest, emotionally captivating short story collection, renowned author and National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters offers a stunning portrayal of young women as they navigate the hurdles of relationships and sexual identity. From the young lesbian taking her first steps toward coming out to the two strangers who lock eyes across a crowded train, from the transgender teen longing for a sense of self to the girl whose abusive father has turned her to stone, Peters is the master of creating characters whose own vulnerability resonates with readers and stays with them long after the last page is turned. Grl2grl shows the rawness of teenage emotion as young girls become women and begin to discover the intricacies of love, dating and sexuality.
inside/out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories
by Diana FussIn the space of a decade, lesbians and gays have gone from coming out to acting up to outing. In the process, they have radically redefined the way society views sex, sexuality and gender. <P><P>But what does it mean to say one is gay? A dyke? A queen? Queer? Are these descriptions of sexual preference or cries of political protest? <P>The first collection to specifically feature the new theoretical work in lesbian and gay studies, Inside / out challenges the heterocentric foundations of critical scholarship and theories of sexual difference. <P>Written by lesbian and gay thinkers, the essays investigate the complex relations between desires and identifications, libidinal economies and social configurations, political representations and sexual symbolizations. <P>The authors employ a variety of theoretical approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics and discourse theories) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music and photography. Looking at divas, dykes, vampires and queens, these analyses address issues of AIDS, pornography, pedagogy, authorship and activism.
like a woman
by Debra BusmanLike Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busman's like a woman is a vivid coming-of-age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their sense of humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism, and violence. Debra Busman is co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. Her work has been published in Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, Social Justice: New Pedagogies for Social Change, and the Los Angeles Review. This is her first novel.
little reef and other stories
by Michael Carroll"Little Reef and Other Stories" announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll's debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are "B-listers" of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can't envision a future.
ll caso dello studioso seducente (Middlemark Mysteries #1)
by Tara LainIl dottor Llewellyn Lewis ha una doppia vita: è allo stesso tempo un impacciato ma stimato professore di storia e l’appariscente Ramon Rondell, famigerato autore di sensazionalistiche teorie storiche. Ramon è il primo a mettere gli occhi su un irresistibile ballerino in un club, ma tocca a Llewellyn incontrare l’assistente universitario Blaise Arthur in un’occasione formale: la cena in onore di Anne de Vere, una discendente di Edward de Vere, diciassettesimo Conte di Oxford, sospettato da alcuni di essere il vero Shakespeare. Anne vuole che Llewellyn dimostri questa teoria, sebbene molti abbiano già tentato di farlo senza risultato, ed è pronta a fare una generosa donazione alla Middlemark University in caso di successo. Per Llewellyn questa potrebbe anche essere l’occasione giusta per conoscere meglio Blaise. Non tutti pensano che Llewellyn debba accettare l’incarico o il denaro. Tra fratelli in lite, mecenati rivali, colleghi gelosi e avidi amministratori, chiunque potrebbe tentare di sabotare la sua ricerca… e qualcuno è anche disposto a uccidere per riuscirci. Quando Anne de Vere viene trovata morta, la polizia sospetta che sia Blaise l’assassino, e soltanto il timido, balbuziente professore che ha conquistato il suo cuore potrà provare il contrario…
once upon a twin: poems
by Raymond LuczakWhen Raymond Luczak was growing up deaf in a hearing Catholic family of nine children, his mother shared conflicting stories about having had a miscarriage after—or possibly around—the time he was conceived. As an elegy to his lost twin, this book asks: If he had a twin, just how different would his life have been?
precious_boy
by K. Z. SnowIt was just an amateur porn video, like thousands of others on the Internet. Like hundreds Jonathan Wright had seen and hundreds more he'd ignored. He hadn't intended to watch it, but he gives in to his curiosity. When he sees the lithe, blond young man who's doing naughty things with a bearish, older man, he's seduced... and feels like a pervert afterward. The youth in the video seems a little too young, despite the fact he runs his own escort service. Worse yet, Jon gets the nagging feeling he's seen "Justin Time," aka precious_boy, before. When Jon takes a chance and meets Justin in a Chicago hotel room, Jon's past, present, and possibly his future begin to converge in alarming and confusing ways. There's no escaping the resulting dilemma: Jon must decide just how involved he wants to get with a sweet kid whose life has turned sour... a decision made more complex by a surprising connection to a lover from Jon's past.
queersexlife
by Terry GoldieEvocative of Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, this frank and personal collection of essays explores the politics of gender, identity, race, and queer sex imbued with the author's own experiences. Terry Goldie delves into subjects that are both varied and explicit, including drag queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex, and the homosexual child, all with a perceptive and provocative eye, the result of which expands and deepens our understanding of the parameters and ramifi cations of queer sexuality, in all its forms.Terry Goldie is the author of three previous books and is an English professor at York University in Toronto.
the space between men (Penguin Poets)
by Mia S. WillisA poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker"Willis&’ poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is philosophical, and the space between men is a formidable debut.&” —Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro and There Are More Beautiful Things than BeyoncéThese piercing, surprising poems look to familial history, rituals of faith, and the natural world to explore how the intersecting cultures of Blackness and queerness relate to each other. As the collection evolves, the reader is challenged and empowered to seek expansiveness in spaces that have not previously been excavated, reckon with the complexities of interpersonal relationships, and explore memory as a catalyst for self-determination. Mia S. Willis weaves together intergenerational knowledge and personal discovery—not only to define themselves but to articulate a communal identity that transcends language.
thirteen, fourteen, fifteen o'clock
by David GerroldThe legendary science fiction writer&’s controversial, groundbreaking novel—one gay man&’s raw and wild ride through the 1960s and &’70s. From an adolescent being bullied to the muddy wetlands of Vietnam to an Arizona desert commune, a man known only as Chase traces his quest for identity, meaning, and love in prose both beautiful and brutal. Thirteen fourteen fifteen o&’clockis a coming-of-age and then coming-to-terms novel of a life lived looking for answers from gurus and whores, dopers and soldiers, men and women. Returning from Vietnam missing a leg and saddled with fear, rage, and grief, Chase takes to his Harley never able to outrun the trauma that resurfaces every time he is threatened because of his sexuality. Yet, though scarred and battered—inside and out—he constantly seeks those fleeting moments of connection with another soul, an awareness of a universe where he is not alone in his hurt and hunger. A searingly powerful story of survival, thirteen fourteen fifteen o&’clock is what happens when life stares you down, daring you to blink first, and you meet its gaze—with eyes wide open. Praise for The Man Who Folded Himself &“Most impressive.&” —The Times Literary Supplement &“Wildly imaginative and mindbending.&” —Publishers Weekly
transister: Raising Twins in a Gender-bending World
by Kate BrookesTransister is the story of a family in transition. Not a prescriptive narrative but an affirming one. A raw, honest, sometimes humorous account of author Kate Brookes&’s journey as her young child grapples with gender identity and becomes her authentic self. Brookes has longed to become a mother for as long as she can remember. And for almost as long, she has harbored a fierce determination to parent her children differently—better—than her own mentally ill mom parented her. To create the &“normal&” family she&’s always wished for. And when she gives birth to twins after two years of fertility struggles, she is, admittedly, hugely relieved that she&’s found herself with two boys. There will be no need for her, a decidedly un-girly girl, to braid hair, buy Barbie dolls, or pick out party dresses for her kids. Boys. Easy. Right?But by the time her twins are eight, Brookes has had two realizations: 1) her obstetrician&’s &“it&’s another boy&” announcement was flat-out wrong, and 2) there is no such thing as a &“normal&” family—and that&’s a beautiful thing.
Will's Surreal Period: A Novel
by Robert Steven GoldsteinA novel about a family even more dysfunctional than the one you grew up in. Will’s Surreal Period is a richly satisfying tale—at times laugh-out-loud hilarious and at times deeply moving—that features a rollickingly dysfunctional family, a seemingly endless array of succulent foodstuffs, and a brain tumor that transforms a mediocre painter into a virtuoso. Now toss in a smidgen of BDSM and a few beguiling tidbits exploring brain chemistry and human evolution, and you have a story that will hook you fast and captivate you till the end. “Will’s Surreal Period proves why works of fiction are high art. . . . Robert Steven Goldstein deftly converts our raw human foibles into emotive entertainment and, as he does, reminds us, sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously, who we are.” —MICHAEL J. COFFINO, award-winning author of Truth Is in the House
¡Ay, Mija! (A Graphic Novel): My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
by Christine Suggs"An absolutely heartwarming and vibrant story of belonging, family, and the meaning of home. This book is a treasure." – Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin&’ In this bilingual, inventive, and heartfelt debut, graphic novel talent Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, embracing and rebelling against their heritage and finding a sense of belonging. Sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and tía. At first, Christine struggles to connect with family they don&’t yet share a language with. Seeing the places their mom grew up—the school she went to, the café where she had her first date with their father—Christine becomes more and more aware of the generational differences in their family. Soon Christine settles into life in Mexico, eating pan dulce, drawing what they see, and growing more comfortable with Spanish. But when Mom joins their trip, Christine&’s two worlds collide. They feel homesick for Texas, struggle against traditions, and miss being able to speak to their mom without translating. Eventually, through exploring the impacts of colonialism in both Mexico and themselves, they find their place in their family and start to feel comfortable with their mixed identity.
¡Cuéntamelo!: Testimonios de Inmigrantes Latinos LGBT / Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants
by Juliana Delgado Lopera Laura Cerón Melo Eva Seifert Virginia Benavidez Shadia Savo Santiago Acosta Adela Vázquez Alexandra Cruz Manuel Rodríguez Cruz Marlen Hernández Carlos Sayán Wong Mahogany Sánchez Nelson D’Alerta¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants. ¡Cuéntamelo! began as a cover story for SF Weekly, and, eventually in 2014 with local grant support, Juliana Delgado Lopera was able to publish a limited first edition of 300. Aunt Lute is pleased to bring this title back into circulation. In addition to beautiful black and white drawings of the contributors by artist Laura Cerón Melo, this edition features a number of candid earlier photographs of several of the contributors, as well as a new introduction from Juliana. ¡Cuéntamelo! is “[a] stunning collection of bilingual oral histories and illustrations by LGBT Latinx immigrants who arrived in the U.S. during the 80s and 90s. Stories of repression in underground Havana in the 60s; coming out trans in Catholic Puerto Rico in the 80s; Scarface, female impersonators, Miami and the 'boat people'; San Francisco’s underground Latinx scene during the 90s and more.”¡Cuéntamelo! is bilingual. All stories in this book have both an English and Spanish version.
¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba
by Jafari S. AllenPromoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the prejudice against sexual minorities, and gender inequities. Venceremos? is a groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among blacks in early-twenty-first-century Cuba, as the nation opens its economy to global capital. Expanding on Audre Lorde's vision of embodied, even "useful," desire, Jafari S. Allen shows how black Cubans engage in acts of "erotic self-making," reinterpreting, transgressing, and potentially transforming racialized and sexualized interpellations of their identities. He illuminates intimate spaces of autonomy created by people whose multiply subaltern identities have rendered them illegible to state functionaries, and to most scholars. In everyday practices in Havana and Santiago de Cuba--including Santeria rituals, gay men's parties, hip hop concerts, the tourist-oriented sex trade, lesbian organizing, HIV education, and just hanging out--Allen highlights small but significant acts of struggle for autonomy and dignity.
¿Cómo se llama esta canción de amor?
by LichiUna novela en la que Lichi, youtuber y músico, narra su historia, que es la historia de tantxs. Lichi es un chico bueno. Se porta bien en la escuela, acata las órdenes de los mayores y no le cuenta a nadie que le gustan los varones. Está decidido a dejar de pensar en eso. Aunque todo el tiempo vuelve y vuelve. ¿Existirán otros chicos gay como él en la escuela? Un día como cualquier otro, decide confesarle a una amiga sus fantasías secretas. Y allí comienza un camino de autodescubrimiento en el que Lichi busca la mejor forma para su identidad: ¿gay?, ¿bisexual?, ¿demisexual? Cada etiqueta tiene algo lindo para ofrecer. Pero a la vez... "¿Cómo se llama gustar de vos?", le pregunta años más tarde a Dani, su novia trans. La pregunta es nueva, pero se enlaza con muchas otras que él acumula en su mente desde siempre. ¿Cómo se define el amor?, ¿qué tiene que ver eso con nuestra identidad?, ¿cuántas palabras más habría que inventar para encapsular el deseo? "La adolescencia está llena de primeras veces", piensa. Y, en el intento por encontrar respuestas, juega con los nombres y las categorías, hasta descubrir que siempre hay algo que se escapa, que siempre habrá notas que su guitarra no llegará a entonar.
¿Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings
by Paul Julian Smith Emilie L. Bergmann"¿Entiendes?" is literally translated as "Do you understand? Do you get it?" But those who do "get it" will also hear within this question a subtler meaning: "Are you queer? Are you one of us?" The issues of gay and lesbian identity represented by this question are explored for the first time in the context of Spanish and Hispanic literature in this groundbreaking anthology.Combining intimate knowledge of Spanish-speaking cultures with contemporary queer theory, these essays address texts that share both a common language and a concern with lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities. Using a variety of approaches, the contributors tease the homoerotic messages out of a wide range of works, from chronicles of colonization in the Caribbean to recent Puerto Rican writing, from the work of Cervantes to that of the most outrageous contemporary Latina performance artists. This volume offers a methodology for examining work by authors and artists whose sexuality is not so much open as "an open secret," respecting, for example, the biographical privacy of writers like Gabriela Mistral while responding to the voices that speak in their writing. Contributing to an archeology of queer discourses, ¿Entiendes? also includes important studies of terminology and encoded homosexuality in Argentine literature and Caribbean journalism of the late nineteenth century.Whether considering homosexual panic in the stories of Borges, performances by Latino AIDS activists in Los Angeles, queer lives in turn-of-the-century Havana and Buenos Aires, or the mapping of homosexual geographies of 1930s New York in Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman," ¿Entiendes? is certain to stir interest at the crossroads of sexual and national identities while proving to be an invaluable resource.
¿Mi compañero de cuarto es un atleta? ¡Maldita sea! (The JOCK Series #1)
by Anne Cain Saura García Wade KellyEs fácil ser cínico cuando la vida no está de tu lado. Cole Reid ha sido un excluido social desde los quince años, cuando el equipo de béisbol del instituto lo sacó del armario. Desde entonces, su comportamiento obsesivo-compulsivo y su naturaleza sarcástica lo han llevado a distanciarse de la mayoría de las personas, además todo el mundo lo odia por ser gay. Tal y como él lo ve, está destinado a repeler a cualquier amigo potencial y, por supuesto, a cualquier novio, así que, ¿para qué molestarse? Cuando Cole entra en la universidad, ya es un solitario en su fase anal-retentiva más dura, pero eso no es un problema hasta que su compañero de piso se gradúa y el departamento de alojamiento le asigna otro, Ellis Montgomery. Ellis es desordenado, atractivo, heterosexual y lo peor de todo: ¡un atleta! Durante un semestre lleno de compañeros de fraternidad, acampadas y padres entrometidos, Cole y Ellis desarrollarán una amistad que volverá del revés el vaso medio vacío de la cabeza de Cole. Tiene que haber algo más en Ellis que un divertido atleta; y quizá la renovada libido de Cole pueda reavivar su esperanza por algo más que una simple camaradería.
¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?
by Jeanette WintersonUn libro de memorias destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la literatura contemporánea. ¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?, preguntó la señora Winterson a su hija Jeanette cuando ella, recién cumplidos los dieciséis años, le confesó haberse enamorado de otra chica. Extraña pregunta, pero poco más podía esperarse de una mujer que había adoptado a una niña para hacer de ella una aliada en su misión religiosa, y en cambio se las tuvo que ver con un ser extraño que pedía a gritos su porción de felicidad. Armada con dos juegos de dentadura postiza y una pistola escondida bajo los trapos de cocina, la señora Winterson hizo lo que pudo para disciplinar a Jeanette: en casa los libros estaban prohibidos, las amistades eran mal vistas, los besos y abrazos eran gestos extravagantes, y cualquier falta se castigaba con noches enteras al raso, pero de nada sirvió. Esa chica pelirroja que parecía hija del mismo diablo se rebeló, buscando el placer en la piel de otras mujeres y encontrando en la biblioteca del barrio novelas y poemas que la ayudaran a crecer. Eso y mucho más es lo que ofrecen estas páginas excepcionales, donde alegría y rabia andan de la mano: un libro de memorias destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la literatura contemporánea. «Necesitaba palabras porque todas las familias infelices sellan unpacto de silencio. Quien rompa ese silencio jamás será perdonado. Él o ella tendrá que aprender a perdonarse a sí mismo.»Jeanette Winterson La autora ha dicho:«He escrito muchas obras de ficción, pero ¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?... ¿qué es en realidad? ¿Unas memorias? Tal vez. ¿Una autobiografía? Quizá. Para mí es un experimento con las vivencias. Un relato de mi vida aunque deje de lado los veinticinco años del medio. La historia de cómo fui a caer con unos padres evangélicos pentecostales, que me adoptaron y se empeñaron en que fuera misionera y salvara almas en países tropicales, y de lo que sucedió cuando me enamoré de una chica, cuando los libros entraron en mi vida, cuando me marché a Oxford, cómo me convertí en escritora y cómo sobreviví a todas las cosas extrañas que han constituido mi vida. No son unas memorias tristes: es un libro sobre la esperanza, sobre los cambios, sobre la buena suerte y las oportunidades, y te reconfortará.» La crítica ha dicho sobre el libro...«¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal? se envuelve con el celofán del humor, que disfraza su vida dickensiana de digerible aventura literaria. Winterson ha escrito su autobiografía como la más subyugante de sus novelas.»Tereixa Constenla, El País «El libro más conmovedor de Winterson. Y además, de un humor vibrante. Deslumbrante en muchos sentidos, pero lo que más impresiona es la profunda simpatía que nos inspiran quienes lo protagonizan.»Zoe Williams, The Guardian Y sobre la autora...«Winterson [...] a través de la heterodoxia de sus textos, dinamita categorías, vocabularios y convenciones tristes. Una escritora maravillosa.»Marta Sanz, Babelia «Jeanette Winterson es una fuerza desatada de la naturaleza. Ella sola es el cambio climático entero.»Carmen Morán Breña, El País «Mientras la mayoría de autores y autoras se limitan a regurgitar la imaginación de sus antecesores, [...] esta inglesa rebelde se pone la literatura por montera y la reinventa.»M. Ángeles Cabré, Babelia «Una autora de extraordinaria sensibilidad cuya obra es devota de Virginia Woolf.»Jacinto Antón, El País «Una escritora outsider de referencia en Inglaterra.»Esther L. Calderón, Divinity «Lo que es seguro es que Jeanette Winterson siempre podrá seguir evolucionando; evocar nuevos paisajes, nuevos cuerpos, nuevas personalidades, es pa
À chacun sa romance (À chacun son histoire)
by Lane HayesÀ chacun son histoire, numéro hors sérieZeke Gulden est un cadre impitoyable de Wall Street. Son attitude à la fois dure et sensée lui a bien servi dans le monde cruel des affaires, mais moins dans sa vie personnelle. Lorsqu’il découvre que son ex-petit ami l’a trompé avec un collègue, Zeke ne peut laisser passer cela ; pas avant d’avoir trouvé un moyen de se venger. Cependant, son géniteur a d’autres idées. La nouvelle recrue du magasin de bagels est assez colorée, mais le père de Zeke est persuadé qu’il est l’homme parfait pour son fils. Benny Ruggieri, New-Yorkais extrêmement fier, rêve de devenir un grand créateur de costumes de théâtre. En attendant, il cumule deux emplois à temps partiel dans l’industrie alimentaire. Benny ne nourrit aucun espoir lorsque son patron le met en contact avec son fils couronné de succès. Il se dit qu’au moins, il peut s’amuser un peu en faisant se tortiller l’homme d’affaires coincé. Au lieu de cela, les deux hommes deviennent d’improbables amis soumis à une attirance inexplicable qu’ils ne peuvent pas ignorer. Benny est peut-être celui qui aidera Zeke à mettre de côté sa quête de vengeance, si celui-ci est prêt à lâcher prise et à pardonner ce qu’il ne peut pas oublier… et à céder à une romance inattendue.
À Sunset Park
by Santino Hassell Black JaxLes quartiers de New York, numéro hors sérieSi Raymond Rodriguez a passé sa jeunesse à esquiver les responsabilités, ce n’est plus possible. Son frère aîné souhaite s’installer avec son compagnon. Raymond doit s’assumer et se trouver un appartement. Quand David Butler, gay et fier de l’être, lui propose une colocation, Raymond accepte, à défaut d’autre chose. Sur presque tous les points, ils sont différents – David est un caucasien BCBG du Connecticut, Raymond, un docker latino du Queens – ils partagent néanmoins une solide amitié qui surprend tout le monde. Pourtant, leur relation paraît sans ambivalence, car Raymond a toujours caché sa curiosité bisexuelle. Une fois sous le même toit, les deux hommes passent à l’acte, mettant vite en péril leur entente jusque-là sans nuages. Peu à peu, leurs différences fondamentales, exacerbées par la tension sexuelle et la frustration, finissent par les séparer. En plus de sa nouvelle indépendance, Raymond doit accepter ses sentiments. Dans le cas contraire, il risque de perdre David.