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	Love and Death on Long Island	A wealthy and renowned author in his middle fifties becomes obsessed with a young American star. One afternoon, a series of seemingly unrelated and insignificant irritants contrives to destroy his cool, Olympian existence and he is forced to confront a long dormant truth about his nature.
	Gilbert Adair
	1991
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF001
	Amsterdam Angel	Brothers Jason and Joe grow up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, within a magical backyard of safety, comfort, and love. But when Joe is killed in a car accident just before Jason graduates from college, his idyllic world suddenly crumbles around him. As Jason and his family rely on their Catholic faith to help them through the unfathomable loss, no one has any idea that for years, Jason has been harboring a secret: he is gay. With his youthful sense of immortality deeply shaken with Joe's death, Jason embarks on a journey of self-discovery after college graduation that leads him across Europe with the hope he can discover a new perspective on life, death, and living with loss. Even as he battles a seemingly endless internal struggle between the strict teachings from his Catholic faith and his overwhelming desire to live his life as a gay man, Jason continues to press on, realizing that his happiness depends on his determination to find the answers. Amsterdam Angel is the compelling tale of o...
	Jason Anthony
	2012
	Death, Fiction, Gay, Religion, Travel
	Book#: GF002
	Book#: GF002
	The Celibate	The unnamed narrator in this sensitive story is a young man with his mind full of God and his heart closed to love. An ordinand, he has had a breakdown while serving at the altar. The Church has sent him to a London therapist, rather than a priest, for confession. During the course of his cure, while living in an unfamiliar world of outcasts, fundamentalists, and AIDS sufferers, he is forced to face the reality of his own physical passion: first for a humble rent boy, then for a sadomasochistic pimp, and, finally, for a priest. The healing begins as he gradually comes to terms with his own history.
	Michael Arditti
	1997
	AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Psychology, Religion
	Book#: GF003
	Mr. Clive and Mr. Page	In this novel, Mr Page takes the reader from the brittle glamour of the 20s to the violent repression of the 50s; from Mayfair dining rooms to the steam room of a Turkish bath; from the ordinary world of Mr Page to the strange and unsettling world of Mr Clive.
	Neil Bartlett
	1996
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF004

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	Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall	Set in contemporary London, this celebration of gay love follows the rites and ceremonies of a love affair and happy marriage between two men, and describes the bar which is the scene of their courtship.
	Neil Bartlett
	1990
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF005
	The Jackal Awakens	In The Jackal Awakens, the self-contained sequel to Jackal in the Dark, Beavers has written a gritty contemporary love story, the action of which is set in the early 80s, a decade after that of the earlier novel. The anonymous hero has moved from Los Angeles to New York, kicked his drug habit and joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Yet although the externals of his life have been smoothed into almost conformity, he is deeply dissatisfied. When he meets and invites home a straight model called Jeremy, his life changes once again - not necessarily for the better.
	David Patrick Beavers
	1995
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF006
	The Man on the Bridge	In London in the 1950s, aspiring young writer John Wilmot meets successful painter Oliver Cambourne and agrees to model for him. Oliver is older, sophisticated, elegant, and wealthy, and he introduces John to another world. For the first time in his life, John has love and money—more than he ever imagined. While the relationship opens many doors for John, it is also dangerous and must be kept a secret. Oliver’s commitment to John is absolute and deeper than John initially realizes, but John is confused by his own feelings. He worries about the changes his affair with Oliver are causing in him and about his future security. One night, he makes a fateful decision that will have repercussions not just for him, but on the lives of everyone around him. His choice and its consequences affect not merely the future but send him looking into himself for answers. Only through time and careful introspection can he grow and move past the pain of the choice that has changed everything.
	Stephen Benatar
	1985
	Art/Photography, Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF007
	Book#: GF007
	In Memory of Angel Clare	A group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend’s last lover. A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.
	Christopher Bram
	1991
	AIDS/HIV, Death, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance
	Book#: GF008

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Outhouse East Library			3 / 24

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	Queer	For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" - brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch - yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.
	William Burroughs
	1986
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sex
	Book#: GF009
	The Case Against Colonel Sutton	Lieutenant Colonel David Sutton is apprehended in Paris by Army Intelligence, his elopement with a General's daughter interrupted, to undergo an investigation stemming from the charge that he is a homosexual. Actually until the investigation is completed no specific charge can be made against Sutton; he is not on trial, but neither can be confront his accusers nor have access to the testimony against him. It happens that Sutton is a strikingly handsome man -- too good looking, it is thought, for a soldier, and more damaging still, from some points of view, he paints.
	Bruce Cameron
	1964
	Art/Photography, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF010
	The Weekend	On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends gather on the anniversary of the death of a man related to them all by blood or love. Their idyll is disturbed by the presence of two outsiders: a faux Italian dinner guest and a young gay man now involved with the dead man's lover. As the weekend unfolds, with its walks in the woods, its swims in the river, its wine sipped by moonlight, and its sparkling conversation, each character's heart and soul is stripped bare, as old memories and new desires create a chemistry that will leave none of them untouched or unchanged.
	Peter Cameron
	1996
	Death, Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF011
	Book#: GF011
	Lord Dismiss Us	Mr Crabtree has just arrived to take over as headmaster at Weatherhill, an English public school whose reputation is on the decline, and with the help of his meddlesome wife and odious daughter, he is determined to turn things around. But Crabtree is totally devoid of either sympathy or understanding and his misguided efforts lead to hilarious disasters, such as when he invites a girls' school for tea to try to woo the boys from their 'unnatural ways'. Meanwhile, Mrs Crabtree is infatuated with the chaplain, whose sermons about 'the burning fire' are a source of constant merriment to the boys, and Dr Kingsly is arranging the annual school play, not thinking of how the homophobic Crabtree will react to seeing the boys dressed as girls. Yet mixed with the comedy are two private tragedies: Eric Ashley, a brilliant young teacher, is struggling to come to grips with his homosexuality, and Carleton, a senior boy, finds himself strangely drawn to Allen, a fellow member of the cricket team. It...
	Michael Campbell
	1984
	Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Humour/Comedy, Romance
	Book#: GF012
	Book#: GF012
	Dance on my Grave	In this revelatory, groundbreaking novel, the love of sixteen-year-old Hal Robinson for self-confident Barry Gorman is revealed through Hal’s own observations, press clippings, and the scattered notes of a social worker. These various perspectives contribute to an extraordinarily sensitive portrait of the intensity of first love.
	AIDAN CHAMBERS
	1995
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Teen
	Book#: GF013

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Outhouse East Library			4 / 24

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	Such Times	In this glitteringly stylish, haunting novel, Christopher Coe evokes both the charmed era of the 1970s and early 80s--when it seems possible for men to love each other without demands and with Dionysian abandon--and the years of loss that followed. Through the story of Timothy and Jasper's twenty-year relationship, Coe creates an inexpressibly moving portrait of people living on the razor's edge of desire, from the bathhouses of San Fracisco to the waterfronts of New York and the streets of Paris, and offers a rapturous, bittersweet homage to those who now face death for having lived so exuberantly in such times.
	Christopher Coe
	1993
	AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF014
	Pricksongs & Descants	Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnan...
	Robert Coover
	1971
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF015
	Book#: GF015
	A Home at the End of the World	From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
	Michael Cunningham
	1990
	Family, Fiction, Gay, Queer, Romance
	Book#: GF015.01
	Book#: GF015.01
	Something You Do in the Dark	This book was the first gay protest novel, orginally published in 1971. A revenge novel with a social protest theme. While it is a protest novel, it is also the story of one gay man's fight to survive and stay whole. Survive in a physical sense the threats he encounters and survive in an emotional sense in a society that has branded him a criminal and a deviant.
	Daniel Curzon
	1979
	Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Law
	Book#: GF016

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Outhouse East Library			5 / 24

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	Hallelujah Now	This novel is in three integrated parts - a contemporary gay classic and tragic tale of Catholic gloom and sexual guilt. Terence Davies skillfully follows Robert's life, from his birth into a Liverpool, Catholic family, to his death in a geriatric ward. Davies' description of a life tangled with religion and gay sadomasochistic fantasy will thrill and stun you.
	Terence Davies
	1984
	Fiction, Gay, Religion, Sadomasochism
	Book#: GF017
	The Mad Man	For his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hasler--a philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade earlier. Marr encounters numerous obstacles as other researchers turn up evidence of Hasler's personal life that is deemed simply too unpleasant and disillusioning for the rarified air of academe. On another front, Marr finds himself increasingly drawn toward more shocking, depraved sexual entanglements with the homeless men of his neighborhood, until it begins to seem that Hasler's death might hold some key to his own life as a gay man in the age of AIDS. As John Marr learns more about the enigma that was Timothy Hasler, his own increasing sexual debasement leads him to a point where his and the philosopher's lives collide violently...
	Samuel R. Delany
	1994
	AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Philosophy
	Book#: GF018
	Book#: GF018
	Alienation	Intelligent... disturbing... deep. A highly emotive novel from the gay movement. Alienation talks of relationships, the individual, and the ups and downs of a gay group struggling in a homophobic society. Like their friends, lovers Peter and Jon try to make a better life for themselves; yet the real and ideal worlds rarely collide.
	Ian Everton
	1982
	Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Relationships, Romance
	Book#: GF019
	Eighty-Sixed	This is the story of two years in the life of B.J. Rosenthal: pre-AIDS 1980, when his only mission is to find himself a boyfriend; and in 1986, when a deadly virus pervades his world and attacks his friends and ex-tricks. Combing high-wire wit with genuine emotional resonance, "Eighty-Sixed" explores the pressing matters of life in contemporary America: maintaining a long-term relationship with a person of suitable gender and appropriate species; staying cool in the face of bad haircuts, appalling sex, and mortal illness; and other issues like life, death, truth, despair, therapy, sex, God, more sex, Jewish guilt, abstinance, phone calls in the middle of the night, safe sex, alchoholics, the meaning of life, and AIDS. Shockingly frank, bitingly satirical, and ultimately moving, "Eighty-Sixed" is a classic in the literature of AIDS.
	David B. Feinberg
	1991
	AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Religion, Romance, Sex
	Book#: GF020
	Book#: GF020
	Second Son	This novel explores the romance between Matthew and Mark, two young men who are both suffering from AIDS, and the tensions that this illness creates between Mark and his family. It is an uncompromising study of family life and the place of gay men within the family institution.
	Robert Ferro
	1988
	AIDS/HIV, Family, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF021

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Outhouse East Library			6 / 24

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	The Family of Max Desir	Max Desir loved his Italian-American family--even after his iron-willed father exiled him from its intimate innner circle. Max Desir loved his lover, Nick, with whom he openly took up life first amid the enchantment of Rome, then amid the realities of New York. Two loves so deeply felt--in a man so painfully divided...
	Robert Ferro
	1987
	Family, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF022
	The Blue Star	Two heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase's ancestor, Orvil Starkweather, is revealed -- the secrets of his life sounding a counterpoint to Chase's. New York City's Central Park and the imposing figure of designer Frederick Law Olmsted provide a mysterious connection to Chase's life. The story of the two men unfolds in Florence and New York exposing the unimagined and startling connection with the past, and taking them finally on a fateful cruise up the Nile aboard the luxury yacht, "The Blue Star."
	Robert Ferro
	1991
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF023
	Book#: GF023
	Last Summer	Michael Thomas Ford delivers a triumphant first novel about a group of gay men looking for love, losing the past, and finding themselves in the bars and on the beaches of Provincetown. Josh Felling has always been a romantic--up until the moment his lover Doug announced that he'd had an affair with a guy from their gym. Now, with his life playing out like a very bad movie of the week, Josh impulsively heads to the Cape for a few days--long enough to figure out where his relationship--what's left of it--might be going. But the summer has other plans for Josh, and his trip to P-town will bring bigger changes than he ever imagined. With its windswept dunes, lazy summer days, and starry nights filled with possibilities, Provincetown holds special appeal for those who call it home. . .and for those who come seeking its open welcome. People like Reilly Brennan, son of an old P-town family, whose days are caught up in wedding plans, even as his nights are increasingly taken over by he...
	Michael Thomas Ford
	2003
	Drag, Fiction, Gay, Romance, Transgender
	Book#: GF024
	Book#: GF024
	Rough Music	A subtle and entertaining tragicomic love story. Julian as a small boy is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly swell the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control. Though he has been brought up in the forbidding shadow of the prison his father runs, though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julian's world view is the sunnily selfish, accepting one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man -- seemingly at ease with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts -- that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his defiant assertion that he is happy and always has been.
	Patrick Gale
	2001
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF025

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Outhouse East Library			7 / 24

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	The Thief's Journal	Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslovakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams.
	Jean Genet
	1987
	Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Romance, Travel
	Book#: GF026
	The Immoralist	First published in 1902 and immediately assailed for its themes of omnisexual abandon and perverse aestheticism, The Immoralist is the novel that launched André Gide¬s reputation as one of France¬s most audacious literary stylists, a groundbreaking work that opens the door onto a universe of unfettered impulse whose possibilities still seem exhilarating and shocking. Gide¬s protagonist is the frail, scholarly Michel, who, shortly after his wedding, nearly dies of tuberculosis. He recovers only through the ministrations of his wife, Marceline, and his sudden, ruthless determination to live a life unencumbered by God or values. What ensues is a wild flight into the realm of the senses that culminates in a remote outpost in the Sahara - where Michel¬s hunger for new experiences at any cost bears lethal consequences. The Immoralist is a book with the power of an erotic fever dream-lush, prophetic, and eerily seductive.
	Andre Gide
	1960
	Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Religion
	Book#: GF027
	Book#: GF027
	Coming Out	Roger Thornton was a vital, handsome, successful man in his forties, newly divorced, the father of two teenage daughters, the lover of many women, when he invited Michael to his hotel room. He told himself he was simply curious about this extraordinarily good-looking, frankly gay young man.
	Wallace Hamilton
	1977
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF028
	Smile in His Lifetime	Powerful and affecting in its honesty, A Smile in His Lifetime traces Whit Miller's course from the bewildering break-up of a marriage he never understood, through a series of homosexual relationships, to a kind of resolution.
	Joseph Hansen
	1982
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF029
	Call Me	When Liam decides to begin answering the personal ads of London's gay papers, he is at first bemused and fascinated. After all, it is simply a way to entertain himself and pass the time. What Liam doesn't bargain for, however, is his growing reliance on the ads and the men who answer them. What at first was a form of distraction is quickly becoming an obsession, and Liam is discovering just who finds him so alluring.
	P.-P. Hartnett
	1996
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF030

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Outhouse East Library			8 / 24

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	Raptures of the Deep	Reaptures of the Deep is an astonishing journey into the life of a young, Northern, working class homosexual man. Written in a style that is both original and approachable, Peter Hazeldine has created a moving and deeply honest novel. A remarkable first in modern English writing, this is a book about growing up gay in Manchester by a man who has lived it all and has nothing to hide.
	Peter Hazeldine
	1983
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF031
	Almost One	Through the pages of an old diary a young man recaptures key moments in his personal odyssey, and in so doing makes a provocative appraisal of the fantasies and realities of gay men today. A revealing exploration of contemporary gay life from a fresh and original talent.
	Alex Hirst
	1985
	Diary, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF032
	Consenting Adult	In the shifting social landscape of America in the 1960s, a mother struggles to understand--and accept--her son's homosexuality. Tessa Lynn considers herself independent and progressive, a liberated woman of the 1960s. And yet, when she receives a letter from her youngest son, Jeff, informing her that he is gay, Tessa is distraught. At a time when homosexuality is regarded as a mental illness, she struggles with how best to be a parent to a gay son--and how to protect her family from the prejudices of the era. Elegant and subtly drawn, "Consenting Adult" is a stunning tribute to familial bonds, and a sympathetic portrait of a mother whose best intentions are often clouded by the stereotypes of her time.
	Laura Z. Hobson
	1975
	Coming Out, Family, Fiction, Gay, Homophobia
	Book#: GF033
	Book#: GF033
	Nights in Aruba	This groundbreaking novel of gay life centers around Paul, an uneasy commuter between two parallel worlds. He is the dutiful son of aging, upper-middle-class parents living in Florida, and a homosexual man plunged deliriously into the world of New York City's bars, baths, and one-night stands. With wry humor and subtle lyricism, Holleran reveals the tragedy and comedy of one man's struggle to come to terms with middle age, homosexuality, truth, love, and life itself.
	Andrew Holleran
	1983
	Coming Out, Family, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Book#: GF034
	Dancer from the Dance	One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fiction. Hilarious, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking, Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.
	Andrew Holleran
	1980
	Drag, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance
	Book#: GF035

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Outhouse East Library			9 / 24

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	The Spell	Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old son Danny; and Justin's former boyfriend Alex, whose life is unexpectedly transformed by a night of house music and a tab of ecstasy. As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love, and of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life: the hunger for contact and the fear of commitment, the need for permanence and the continual disruptions of sex. Ultimately, The Spell details the restlessness of every human heart.
	Alan Hollinghurst
	1998
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sex
	Book#: GF036
	Book#: GF036
	The Folding Star	Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected 33-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city. Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his pupils, but can only console himself with other, illicit affairs. With this novel, Hollinghurst exposes us fearlessly to the consequences of unfulfillable, annihilating desire.
	Alan Hollinghurst
	1994
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF037
	The Swimming-Pool Library	This work centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young, gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich who is searching for someone to write his biography.
	Alan Hollinghurst
	1998
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF038
	Line of Beauty	One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings alive Thatcher's London. Nick Guest has moved in with the Feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative member of Parliament. An innocent in matters of politics and money, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world of parties and excess, as well as in his own private pursuit of beauty. Framed by the two general elections that return Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.
	Alan Hollinghurst
	2005
	Fiction, Gay, Politics
	Book#: GF039
	Bruiser	Elegiac and lyrical, Bruiser is the story of a love between two men wary of emotional commitment. Adrian fends for himself as a waiter, boxer and hustler until he meets Paul, a lonely British expatriate old enough to be his father. Rejecting their lives in Chicago, they embark together on a road trip to Brazil. On the journey, they both find that they cannot abandon the fear of intimacy. Richard House's first novel is a sensual portrayal of lives lived on the margins.
	Richard House
	1997
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sports, Travel
	Book#: GF040

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Outhouse East Library			10 / 24

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	The Novice	Donovan Crowther at twenty three decides it's time to leave home and Andover where he had been living a closeted life with his parents and move to London. A graduate he has arranged a job transfer to Hammersmith. His first task, to find somewhere to live, his next, to find a man to love. He falls in love with the first man who takes in home, David Davies an older Welshman. But while Donovan wants a faithful lover, David does not want to be tied down. Can the two men make a go of it, and if they can will Donovan be enough for David, and will David be the only one for Donovan?
	Timothy Ireland
	1988
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF041
	The Berlin Novels	MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable. GOODBYE TO BERLIN The inspiration for the stage and screen musical Cabaret and for the play I Am a Camera, this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin - a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.
	Christopher Isherwood
	1999
	Fiction, Gay, History
	Book#: GF042
	Book#: GF042
	A Single Man	When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
	Christopher Isherwood
	1986
	Death, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Book#: GF043
	Book#: GF043
	Down There on a Visit	Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha? Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.
	Christopher Isherwood
	1979
	Fiction, Gay, Travel
	Book#: GF044
	No End to the Way	The loving and tragic relationship between Ray, the narrator, and Cor, the young Dutchman he meets in a bar. At first the attraction between them is purely physical but as their knowledge of each other grows their relationship develops into a permanent and caring 'marriage' - despite the efforts of Cor's ex-lover to destroy it.
	Neville Jackson
	1965
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF045

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Outhouse East Library			11 / 24

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	Faggots	Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today is a fascinating look at how much, and how little, has changed.
	Larry Kramer
	1980
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF046
	Martin Bauman	Leavitt's sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead 80s. Talented freshman Martin Bauman, 19, wins a place under the tutelage of the legendary Stanley Flint, a man who makes or breaks careers with the flick of a weary hand.
	David Leavitt
	2000
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF047
	Equal Affections	The story of Walter and Danny who live together in a quiet domestic "marriage". Walter is a lawyer, Danny is training for the law. Just as Danny's life appears to be settling down to something approaching calmness, Walter announces that he feels his life is going nowhere and he wants to leave.
	David Leavitt
	1989
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF048
	Lost Language of Cranes	Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own problems: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to the family is Philip's father's own struggle with his suppressed homosexuality, realized only in Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's revelation to his parents leads his father to a point of crisis and provokes changes that forever alter the landscape of the family's lives.
	David Leavitt
	1987
	Coming Out, Family, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF049
	Book#: GF049
	Jigsaw	Gay Odyssey. Steven. Get born. Be confused. Fight with father, and mother, and brother. Go to camp, school. Dress right. Speak right. Live right. Love. Get hurt. Go to shrink. Have sex. Talk to diary. Love. Girls, boys, girls, boys, boys, girls, boys, boys, boys... Cruise. Love. Life in pieces. Put together. Jigsaw. Steven.
	Geoffrey Linden
	1974
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF050

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	Jackarandy	Miracolously surviving an explosion in the South China Sea, Merchant Seaman Keiron Dorrity comes to London to take things easy for a while. While convalescing, he writes an account of a bizarre incident he heard about at sea. When this is snapped up by the editor of a homophile magazine, Keiron finds himself drawn into the murky, lucrative underworld of the professional homosexual. He enters it for kicks, for giggles, for the attention which fans his ego; and in return, it brings him money and an easy life. Then he falls in love with a young American called Rufus; and with subsequent events comes the realisation that the world he lightheartedly entered cannot be so easily discharged.
	Leo Madigan
	1973
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF051
	Book#: GF051
	Strange Boy	As the lurid excesses of the swirling 1970s give way to the neutral pastal shades of the early 1980s, David is ten years old but growing-up fast in a broken home in the north-east of England. Life for him and his brother is a constant whirl of interrogating parents, would-be step-families and over-bearing relatives. David lives with his mam, except at weekends when he sees his dad and his gran, who's always off impersonating Shirley Bassey down the working-men's clubs. The big women in his family talk to him like a grown-up, like he's one of the girls. They tell him he's bright, that he's sensitive, special. But such a strange boy...Afraid to trust his instincts and with his loyalties torn in two, David must face up to his childhood's end, his feuding family and his own burgeoning sexuality. And when everything around you is just take, take, take something's got to give...no matter who gets hurt in the process. Warm and funny, evocative and true, Paul Magrs' characters come so alive on...
	Paul Magrs
	2002
	Family, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF052
	Book#: GF052
	All American Boy	"Would you come home, Walter? Please?" With these desperate words from the mysterious, distant mother he hasn’t seen in ten years, Wally Day finds his carefully constructed world falling in on itself. For years, the handsome actor has made denial his own particular art form — from his stalled career to his emotionless embrace of the hard-edged boys who regularly traipse through his bedroom. But now, faced with this sudden intrusion from his past, Wally must confront the reasons he left his hometown of Brown's Mill in a cloud of anger, shame, and guilt. He must look face-to-face upon the ghosts of his past: his mother, who he once loved more than anyone else in the world; his abusive father, who never looked at Wally without contempt and suspicion; the life-affirming Miss Aletha, whose love had given Wally refuge; and most of all, Zandy — the man whose memory still haunts him, whose love for Wally had been called a crime. A crime that sent Zandy to jail. But Wally isn’t the only one...
	William J. Mann
	2005
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF053
	Book#: GF053
	The Waters of Thirst	William and Terry chanced upon monogamy before it became the symbol of a world ruled by illness and denial. The author--an acclaimed voice in the gay community--offers a brilliant, hilarious, and touching novel about love and desire in the plague years.
	Adam Mars-Jones
	1993
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships, Romance
	Book#: GF054

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Outhouse East Library			13 / 24

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	Faith & Fidelity	New York City Vice Detective Evan Cerelli has lost his wife, the only person he ever loved and slept with. He's trying to get on with his life, build a life for his children. Former Homicide Detective Matt Haight is a ladies’ man, all sex/no commitment. He's depressed, having a midlife crisis, and not sure where his life is headed. The two find friendship in the bottom of a shared bottle. When the friendship turns to love, it shakes two straight men to the core and flips their lives inside out. Kids, families, careers that are not gay-friendly -- can all the love in the world overcome the obstacles to faith and fidelity?
	Tere Michaels
	2009
	Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF054.01
	The Pole and Whistle	All his adolescent and young adult life, John Anselm carried with him the burden of his guilt. Unable to confide in his family, afraid to make friendships with girls, he was forced to conform to the frustrating standards of his surroundings. When he meets Frank Jeffers in the bar of The Pole and Whistle, he finds a new liberation, a freedom both physical and mental. Frank has no shame or inhibition, and through him John creates a happy vigorous life. But society cannot understand their strange attraction or tolerate the conditions they set up for themselves. Their relationship is climaxed by a scene of unbelievable brutality. Never before has a novel treated the contentious subject of homosexuality with such honesty and insight.
	George Moor
	1966
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF055
	A Matter of Life and Sex	Explores the experience of desire and practices of gay sex from the inside track. The material is, at times, lurid, but it isn't handled with a pornographer's leer - rather we hear through the text what the person inside the body doing these things is thinking and feeling.
	Oscar Moore
	1992
	Fiction, Gay, Sex
	Book#: GF056
	The Surprising Rise of Luke Vanner	Everyone was surprised by the spectacular social rise of Luke Vanner...everybody except Luke, that is, who took it as a given. He liked people and people liked him. What was not to like? Luke was nineteen and gorgeous; people couldn't seem to do enough for him. People like Willis Byers, wealthy industrialist, plus assorted princes, ambassadors, governors, senators, sheiks, socialites and, of course, Luke's "swell friends," Donald and David and Cricket and the Hon. Pam. Luke finds friends everywhere: in the lobby of the Hotel Carlyle ("Neat"), on an ocean-going yacht ("Nifty"), in his Fifth Avenue penthouse ("A Gem of a Gym"), and at The Asphalt Plant, (the year's "In" disco.) Contrary to popular rumor, Like did NOT make it with all the above friends...only with the ones who asked him, and then only because he wanted to make everyone as happy as he was. This is a life as lived in the stratosphere, among the outrageously wealthy. It's fun! Ask Luke Vanner.
	Robert McCartney Moore
	1986
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF057
	Book#: GF057

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Outhouse East Library			14 / 24

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	That Other Realm of Freedom First Edition Edition	Simon Palmer, hopelessly romantic and idealistic, escapes his bleak and unfulfilled existence in Glasgow, attracted by news of a growing gay movement in early 1970s London. But once there, he finds the heady optimism of gay liberation has already evaporated; and as he moves from meeting to bar to disco to bed across the city, his new relationships seem as problematic as those he left behind. He has to journey across the globe, to New Zealand, before he can eventually come to terms with his hopes and needs, and begin to understand the part they are to play in his future...
	Barry Nonweiler
	1983
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF058
	Night Swimmer	Ten years ago, Will's lover disappeared on a night swim in the Pacific. Was Will's emptiness a feeling of mourning or rejection? He now meets Sean, who is himself the object of a passionate fatal obsession. As they dodge one another, they move in a network of self-conscious, gym-obsessed men.
	Joseph Olshan
	1994
	Death, Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sports
	Book#: GF059
	A Sense of Touch	As a young pianist makes his debut and the music fills the hall, his thoughts and the thoughts of his parents, friends and lovers in the audience, recall the events and feelings that bind them together. An exploration of a mother's love for her son and the world of homosexual encounters.
	Christopher Osborn
	1990
	Family, Fiction, Gay, Music, Relationships
	Book#: GF060
	Fucking Martin	A first novel which explores homosexuality, AIDS, child abuse and sado-masochism. It is 1982 and John, the 19-year-old narrator, flees his abusive father to become a hustler on the streets of New York. He falls in love with Martin, who soon becomes ill with AIDS.
	Dale Peck
	1993
	AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sadomasochism
	Book#: GF061

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Outhouse East Library			15 / 24

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	The Bitterweed Path	This novel tells the story of two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950, the novel's unique contribution lies in its subtle engagement of homosexuality and cross-class love. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Part of a very small body of gay literature of the period, The Bitterweed Path does not sensationalize homosexual love but instead portrays sexuality as a continuum of human behavior. The result is a book that challenges many assumptions about gay representation in the first half of the twentieth century.
	Thomas Hal Phillips
	1966
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF062
	Book#: GF062
	The Catholic	Daniel Francoeur is a young man uneasily aware of his gay sexuality - a sexuality both nurtured and tormented by his passionate religious feelings.
	David Plante
	1985
	Fiction, Gay, Religion
	Book#: GF063
	Unreal City	One week in a hot August, towards the end of the 20th century, the lives of four men overlap and entangle, leaving three of them permanently uprooted and changed. Unreal City is their story, told at different times and from their various points of view. Set partly in a London nourished by its cultural past but oppressed by its political present, and partly in coastal East Anglia, it is also the story of two older men - an elderly, long-silent, novelist and his retired publisher - whose past friendship and subsequent bitterness cast unexpected shadows over the four main characters.
	Neil Powell
	1992
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF064
	Narrow Rooms	Gore Vidal’s recent feature profile of James Purdy in the Sunday New York Times Book Review signaled the long overdue arrival of a major literary cult hero into the American canon. Purdy’s exquisitely surreal fiction has been populated for more than 40 years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. However, Purdy was also among the first novelists to incorporate transgressive renderings of gay life into his work, including unapologetic, sexually explicit material. Narrow Rooms—his 1978 classic that ranks among his most masterful novels—is a passionate and sometimes bloody love story about adolescent obsession and revenge.
	James Purdy
	1985
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sex
	Book#: GF065
	Book#: GF065

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Outhouse East Library			16 / 24

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	City of Night	When John Rechy’s explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling “youngman” and his search for self-knowledge within the neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and the denizens of their world, as he moves from El Paso to Times Square, from Pershing Square to the French Quarter. Rechy’s portrait of the edges of America has lost none of its power to move and exhilarate.
	John Rechy
	1969
	Drag, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF066
	Book#: GF066
	Numbers	Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who will confirm his desirability, and with the hungry focus of a man on borrowed time, he stalks the dark balconies of all-night theaters, the hot sands of gay beaches, and shady glens of city parks, attempting to attract shadowy sex-hunters in an obsessive battle against the passing of his youth.
	John Rechy
	1968
	Erotica, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF067
	Watershed	It was a dark and stormy night--fog rolled around every lamp post. It was, in fact, a typical London evening in 1956. But inside the warm pub, David and his friends were snug and celebrating Dominic's marriage on the coming morrow. As toasts were raised, David is uncomfortable, knowing that his friends do not suspect that his idea of "Happily ever after" will be with another man. His cousin, Nick, unknowingly is on the brink of being discovered by his homophobic mother. As David moves on to a raucous party, Nick goes to a concert with a some-time lover, hoping to meet Mr. Right. For Nick and David, this one evening marks a change of direction for both their lives. How these cousins resolve their relationships with their respective mothers, their friends and with each other makes this one evening a watershed of emotions and an evening of change. Watershed is a quiet story--humorous, touching, sexy, very realistic. And one in which every gay man will recognize his own watershed evenin...
	David Rees
	1986
	Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Romance
	Book#: GF068
	Book#: GF068
	Twos and Threes	Vic, established teacher of English in a successful Exeter school, is approaching fifty, but he still has it all going for him, hunky good looks, well built body thanks to the gym, and he can still attract many a young man, but they never seem to stay; all he wants is someone to enjoy life and grow old together with. His only real solace is in his friendship with the older Maurice, also gay, flower shop owner and successful writer of straight romances. When Vic meets Derek, a young American writer in his twenties he thinks he may have found that special person, but there is a problem: Lawrence, Derek's best friend and other lover. Even after living with Vic for a year Derek cannot forget Lawrence. The solution, at least for Derek is obvious, they must share him! But will the arrangement work?
	David Rees
	1987
	Fiction, Gay, Polyamorous
	Book#: GF069
	Book#: GF069

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Outhouse East Library			17 / 24

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	Sex with Strangers	When Thomas Hobart boards a train and heads west to attend college in Chicago, he leaves behind a world of unspoken feeling. On the train he meets Dennis, a conductor, and every Thursday evening for the next year they meet in a downtown hotel for a series of passionate, next-to-wordless encounters. "Love without lust, lust without love" becomes Thomas's motto, and, true to it, he keeps his liaisons with Dennis a secret from his newfound college friends Michael and Jane. When Dennis ventures to break the pattern of their affair and enter Thomas's world, their relationship fails. But everything Thomas has come to believe in is called into question when he visits New York City and meets Stuart, a handsome, enigmatic painter. Thomas quickly becomes immersed in Stuart's artistic life, and just as quickly becomes lost in the complications of love. Not until his own life has fallen apart does Thomas begin to locate the sources of his feelings, to recognize his need to join love and sex, desir...
	Geoffrey Rees
	1994
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sex
	Book#: GF070
	Book#: GF070
	Whispers	Doctor Simon Gatward is popular with staff and patients alike, he always makes time to listen to personal problems as well as physical ones. But he has a tragedy in his past and when a new patient comes home to die, his past comes back to haunt him.
	Pam Rhodes
	2000
	AIDS/HIV, Death, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF071
	Between Trash and Tramp	He was a beautiful man, a professional boxer, and father, but it also became common knowledge that he made much of his living by hustling with both men and women. In that conservative southern town, that was enough to start tongues wagging, political wars breaking out, even murder.
	Byrd Roberts
	1999
	Bisexual, Fiction, Gay, Sports
	Book#: GF072
	Stony Glances	Harry Plimsoll, schoolboy hero of Peter Robins' highly acclaimed novel 'Touching Harry,' is now forty. Too old, he feels, and a bit too proud, to join the new gay movements in London. Harry prefers to cruise the riverside by night. It's a carefree routine until he meets a self-assured young guy scarcely out of his teens.
	Peter Robins
	1991
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF073

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Outhouse East Library			18 / 24

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	A Cage of Bones 1st Edition	First published in England to international acclaim in 1997, Jeffrey Round's classic novel, A Cage of Bones, now appears in a new edition. At the beginning of the '90s, an ingenuous young Torontonian named Warden Fields is persuaded to work as a model in Europe's fashion capitals. Italy revels in the opulent splendour of designers like Versace and Ferré, while England is still reeling from the anarchic punk revolution of a decade before. In Italy, Warden is introduced to a world of sensuality and passion, while his relationship with an underground British rock star draws him into illegal political intrigue. Sensitive and subtle, this finely crafted novel weaves together tragic and comic themes in a moving story as its protagonist goes from pop culture icon, through pariah to liberated spirit.
	Jeffrey Round
	1997
	Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Book#: GF074
	Lust	What if you could have sex with anyone in the world? The ultimate fantasy? Or a nightmare of self-discovery? Michael Blasco, a young scientist investigating what happens to the brain during the process of learning, suddenly finds himself on the other end of experimentation. On the way home from his lab one night he runs into Tony, a fitness instructor from his gym who he harbors a crush for, on the same platform waiting for the subway. When Michael imagines Tony naked, a pleasant fantasy to spice up a dull journey home, an extraordinary thing happens: Tony strips then and there on the platform and offers himself to Michael in front of all onlookers. Horrified, Michael flees. But back at his apartment, Tony reappears, as if by magic. And disappears again, when Michael wishes him away. Being a scientist, Michael recognizes an experiment when he sees one, and sets out to test the parameters of his newfound gift. In quick succession he conjures up Billie Holliday, Johnny Weismuller, Daffy...
	Geoff Ryman
	2002
	Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Sex
	Book#: GF075
	Book#: GF075
	Ernesto	Ernesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an educated family who lives with his mother in Trieste. His mother is eager for him to get ahead and has asked a local businessman to give him some workplace experience in his warehouse. One day a workingman makes advances to Ernesto, who responds with willing curiosity. A month of trysts ensues before the boy begins to tire of the relationship, finally escaping it altogether by engineering his own dismissal. And yet his experience has changed him, and as Umberto Saba’s unfinished, autobiographical story breaks off, Ernesto has struck up a new, oddly romantic attachment to a boy his own age.
	Umberto Saba
	1989
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF076
	Book#: GF076
	Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing	May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies, is talking with Mar, an intense young man who has sought her out and whose passionate despair reminds her of herself when young. Mar has had an unhappy love affair with a man. Bewildered by both his sexuality and his writing talent, he flings his anguish against Hilary’s brusque, sympathetic intelligence.
	May Sarton
	1993
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF077

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Outhouse East Library			19 / 24

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	Two Halves Of New Haven	As Paul Levinson, a student at Yale Medical School, fights his way through the relentless pressure that the program presents, he struggles to come to terms with his identity as a homosexual who does not really want to become a doctor.
	Martin Schecter
	1992
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF078
	Keep the River on Your Right	In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep the river on his right, Brooklyn-born artist Tobias Schneebaum set off into the jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. Forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with the Akaramas –– shaving and painting his body, hunting with Stone Age weapons, sleeping in the warmth of the body-pile.
	Tobias Schneebaum
	1970
	Art/Photography, Fiction, Gay, Travel
	Book#: GF079
	Growing Pains	Mike Seabrook's many fans will remember Stephen Hill, the dashing young cricketer from Out of Bounds, his teacher and lover Graham, and his clever schoolfriend Richard. Two years after Stephen was forced to leave home, Graham dies in a plane crash, and Steven comes into an unexpected legacy, including a large country hotel. But as well as the strains this new fortune places on his relationship with Richard, the pair have to confront the homophobia of their cricketing friends, which comes to a head when a young boy is brutally murdered.
	Mike Seabrook
	1999
	Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Sports
	Book#: GF080
	Conduct Unbecoming	After he has been assigned to an importuning squad in the Metropolitan Police, a conflict of loyalties is soon stirred up for a young policeman. As the truth of his own gayness dawns, Bob's career and his most basic values are called into question.
	Mike Seabrook
	1992
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF081
	Boychick	In Boychick, Mr. Skir gives us a novel of emotional self-destruction - the story of Leo, a graduate student and homosexual, who solicits with astonishing enthusiasm his own emotional defeat. In his totally infeasible attempt to win and hold "Boychick" - a teenage tergiversator without name, morals, or emotions - Leo structures for himself a world in which the only reality is fantasy and self-obstruction is the norm. He lives secure in the knowledge that even the worst of dreams, too, can come true. Mr. Skir's style is precise and his hand is accurate as he describes what it means to be human and therefore vulnerable - not only to the designs of others but to one's own self. Boychick is a novel about those who have never grown up - but it is not for children.
	Leo Skir
	1972
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF082
	Book#: GF082

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Outhouse East Library			20 / 24

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	Man's World 2nd Edition	London today: a world of sex and drugs and designer clothes, where Robert searches for fulfilment in gay clubs and chat rooms. London 50 years ago: fresh out of National Service, Michael enters a secret queer underworld, negotiating the dangers of the law and the closet, longing for liberation and love. Past and present collide when Robert moves into a new flat, and discovers that history is alive and kicking on his doorstep. Their two worlds barely recognize each other; but do Robert and Michael have more in common than they think? Man's World is a funny, sexy, and moving story about friendship and desire; about how much the world has changed - and how little.
	Rupert Smith
	2011
	2011
	Fiction, Gay, History
	Book#: GF083
	The Temple	The story behind this novel by one of twentieth-century Britain's greatest poets and men of letters is nearly as remarkable as the book itself. Not long ago, a friend just returned from America told the author that he had read in the Spender manuscript collection of the University of Texas a novel called The Temple and dated 1929. Stephen Spender immediately obtained a copy of his old draft manuscript – admired in the early thirties by his London publisher, but remaining unpublished because of the sensitivity of the contents and fear of libel actions – and read it with astonished pleasure. He then rewrote it in part, taking care not to diminish its ardent youthfulness, its innocence and cynicism, in the immediacy of its view of the last days of Weimar Germany, on the eve of Hitler's rise to power. It is, as one might expect, and autobiographical novel. Vividly present along with the protagonist, and not much disguised, are the two other members of the famous triumvirate Auden-Spender-...
	Stephen Spender
	1989
	Autobiography, Fiction, Gay, History
	Book#: GF084
	Book#: GF084
	Allan Stein	Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the teacher travels to Paris under an assumed name -- that of his best friend, Herbert. In Paris, "Herbert" becomes enchanted by Stephane, a fifteen-year-old boy. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, "Herbert" is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity.
	Matthew Stadler
	1999
	Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Book#: GF085
	Book#: GF085
	Ever Fallen in Love	Richard fell for Luke at university. Luke was handsome, dissolute, dangerous; together they did things that Richard has spent the last decade trying to forget. Now his career is on the brink of success, but his younger sister Stephie's life is in pieces. Her invasion of Richard's remote west coast sanctuary forces Richard to confront the tragedy and betrayal of his past, and face up to his own role in what happened back then. In this compelling, visceral tale of how not to fit in, Zoe Strachan takes us on a journey through hedonistic student days to the lives we didn't expect to end up living, and the hopes and fears that never quite leave us.
	Zoe Strachan
	2011
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF086

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Outhouse East Library			21 / 24

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	Danny	As a new school year begins, high school teacher Tom York is frustrated when the Board of Education tries to censor certain books that he believes his students should be reading. He resolves to fight for his right to teach about the best literature he can find, regardless of the controversial ideas it may contain. But the battle is not to be that simple. Tom realizes that Danny Talbott, the most talented writing student he has ever taught, is in love with him. Soon he is fighting against censorship of feelings as vigorously as he was figthing censorship of books.
	Margaret Sturgis
	1984
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF087
	The Story of the Night	Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world. The Story of the Night is, in the end, a love story of the most serious and difficult kind. Toibin has told it with profound artistry and truth.
	Colm Toibin
	1996
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF088
	Separate Rooms	Fleeing from the image of his dead lover, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his mind continually turns to the reality of Thomas' death and their experiences together. The central themes of this novel are the strength of love and the trauma of sudden death.
	Pier Vittorio Tondelli
	1989
	Death, Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF089
	All Is Well	The theme of All Is Well is liberation, played with deceptive simplicity and not a trace of political bombast. Yet it is political, in that it is a paean to a way of life that is counter-culture all the way. Robert Thorne, who has been receiving illiterate anonymous letters threatening him with death and accusing him of making his son “queer,” returns home from a business trip to San Francisco, hoping to catch his son “in the act.” A spine-chilling yet very positive story of a man’s slow acceptance of himself as a homosexual, and the extraordinary enemy he has to overcome before he can achieve his liberation.
	Dirk Vanden
	1972
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Psychology
	Book#: GF090
	Book#: GF090
	The City and the Pillar	A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in "awful kid stuff", the experience forms Jim's ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillar remains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men.
	Gore Vidal
	1972
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sports
	Book#: GF091
	Book#: GF091

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Outhouse East Library			22 / 24

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	A Comfortable Corner	Terence Strange and Christopher More had been lovers for many years, but at last Terence could take no more of the mess alcoholism was making of their lives. Where could he find counsel? Surely not in Judith and Gerald, whose once-happy marriage was crumbling, nor in Dominic Perrugio and William More, Christopher's father, whose doomed relationship seemed a portent of Terence's future. All their lives were bound together, but Terence had to disentangle himself from the web of hatred and find a way free to love.
	Vincent Virga
	1982
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships, Romance
	Book#: GF092
	Drifters	Tom Wakefield's latest book tells the interlocking stories of a group of gay men each in his own way isolated and adrift in a heterosexual world. Continuing the exploration begun in Mates, he now turns his quizzical gaze to another dimension of gay existence, with the same combination of gentle irony, sympathetic insight and quiet anger for which he is so widely admired.
	Tom Wakefield
	1984
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF093
	Mates	Cyril and Len meet up doing National Service in the 1950s. So begins their life together, reflecting the ups and downs, changes and continuities in the position of gay men over a quarter of a century. Comic and sad, tender and fierce by turns, Mates affirms just how extraordinary the lives of ordinary gays can be A story of survival, sensitively told by a novelist with a well established reputation.
	TOM WAKEFIELD
	1983
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF094
	The Fancy Dancer	Father Tom Meeker must choose between his sacred vows and a secret attraction to a proud, gay half-breed with a criminal record and unlawful desires.
	Patricia Nell Warren
	1980
	Fiction, Gay, Religion, Romance
	Book#: GF095
	The Front Runner	Harlan Brown is a tough, conservative track coach hiding from his past at a small college. Billy Sive is a brilliant young runner who is homosexual and doesn't mind who knows it. When they fall in love, they enter a race against hate and prejudice which takes them to the '76 Olympics and a shattering, shocking conclusion. With 10 million copies in 7 languages, this landmark classic is the most popular gay love story of all time.
	Patricia Nell Warren
	1978
	Fiction, Gay, Romance, Sports
	Book#: GF096

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	Forgetting Elena and Nocturnes for the King of Naples	FORGETTING ELENA Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions. NOCTURNES FOR THE KING OF NAPLES A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real people we know, thought they remain phantoms. Each chapter, each nocturne, is set in a different emotio...
	Edmund White
	1984
	Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Book#: GF097
	Book#: GF097
	The Beautiful Room Is Empty	When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink - The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
	Edmund White
	1988
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	Book#: GF098
	The Farewell Symphony	Named after Haydn's work, in which the players leave the stage one by one, this completes the story of a gay man in his adult years, through Stonewall riots, the hedonism of the 70s and the ravages of AIDS in the 80s and 90s. It follows A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty.
	Edmund White
	1998
	AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, History
	Book#: GF099
	A Boy's Own Story	Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace - and to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality. Lyrical and poignant, with powerful evocations of shame and yearning, this is an American literary treasure.
	Edmund White
	1982
	Art/Photography, Autobiography, Coming Out, Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF100

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	The Married Man	In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
	Edmund White
	2000
	Fiction, Gay, Romance
	Book#: GF101
	Book#: GF101
	The Gay Decameron	Ten gay men gather for a dinner party, but the conversation leaves a lot unsaid. Into the gaps, the author weaves the untold stories of the guests—Gavin's trip to Ireland to find the place where Colin died, and how Nicholas' ad in the classifieds led him to the hairiest body in Edinburgh.
	Christopher Whyte
	1999
	Fiction, Gay
	Book#: GF102
	Moise and the World of Reason	What’s not to like about Tennessee Williams’s most forthright work about homosexual love, with its gay figure skaters, runaways, and sex? An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people for each other: Lance, the beautiful black figure skater full of love and lust for young men as well as a craving for drugs; the nameless gay young narrator, a runaway writer from Alabama who lives near the piers of New York City’s West Village, c. 1975, frantically filling notebooks with his observations; and Moise, a young woman who speaks in riddles and can never finish her paintings or consummate her affairs. The long unavailable Moise and the World of Reason represents a kind of uncensored Williams, radically frank, fully articulated, and deeply tender: a true gem.
	Tennessee Williams
	1984
	BEM, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance, Sex, Sports
	Book#: GF103
	Book#: GF103
	Treasures on Earth	Two discoveries--the uncovering of the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu by an archeological team and Willie Hickler's liberating revelation in his love for Ernesto, a young Peruvian--unfold in the mountains of Peru in 1911.
	Carter Wilson
	1981
	Coming Out, Fiction, Gay, History, Romance
	Book#: GF104
	Stranger Than Love	A winter morning in the backstreets of a small English town; in these grayest of circumstances Eddie and Rick first become aware of each other. Eddie is soon fascinated by this young heterosexual, an obsession which threatens to drag him ever deeper into self-doubt and uncertainty. But his discovery of the secret of Rick's past forces both to re-examine their deepest feelings and beliefs, as they find themselves developing a bond just as powerful, yet somehow stranger than love.
	Graeme Woolaston
	1985
	Fiction, Gay, Relationships
	Book#: GF105

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