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Gay vampire novel reprinted in 2019 (originally published 1991). One of the few gay-themed novels of the horror publishing boom of the ’80s and ’90s.

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Nov 30, 2024

Reclaiming Edgar Pangborn, Queer Science Fiction Pioneer 🌈 🚀 👽 🛸

Edgar Pangborn’s queerness has been acknowledged in the SF/F community but never fully celebrated

Images features several paperback editions of the science fiction novels of Edgar Pangborn.

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Jun 24, 2024

4 Brilliant Gay Novels by 3 Authors Who Left Us Too Soon 🌈

HIV/AIDS ended the lives of these talented writers, but it didn’t stop them from giving us some astonishingly fierce novels first

Spines of four novels by Oscar Moore, David B. Feinberg, and James Robert Baker stacked on top of one another.

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May 1, 2024

5 Great Novels by Women About Gay and Bisexual Men

Some of my favorite novels about gay men grew from the imaginations of some incredibly talented women

5 Great Novels by Women About Gay and Bisexual Men

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Apr 6, 2024

5 Huge Novels I Read Last Year

I’m a slow reader, and I read every word. Here are the longest (and some of the best) novels I read in 2023.

5 *Huge* Novels I Read Last Year

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Nov 1

How I Ended Up Writing a Gay Vampire Novel (Way Back When)

Gay vampires are common enough now — in 1991, not so much

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Feb 4

Who Needed a Badboy Book in Chelsea in the Gay Nineties? Me.

Before the internet, before e-books, the early 1990s blessed us with quality gay erotica in the form of Badboy paperbacks

Image featuring the cover art for 4 paperback books, each featuring a man on the cover, with the following text: Slaves of the Empire, Aaron Travis; Beast of Burden; Aaron Travis; Exposed, Aaron Travis; and The Slave Prince, Vince Gilman.

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Feb 3

“More, More, More”— Don’t Make This Trendy Grammatical Error

Why are people adding “more” to their adjectives these days, when there may be a proper comparative word

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Jan 25

3 Queer-Friendly Novels About Jesus and Christianity

“Love Thy Neighbor” is a common theme, contrasting with the everyday brutality of the first century A.D.

Image of three books, showing their spines, with their authors and titles. ‘The Gospel According to Lazarus” by Richard Zimler. “The Gospel of Corax” by Paul Park. “Damascus” by Christos Tsiolkas.

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Jan 14

10 Iconic Novels That Entered Public Domain in 2026

Books first published in 1930 lost copyright in the US on January 1, 2026, including classic novels and some neglected gems

Image features the book cover illustrations of 10 novels. Full text descriptions of each book cover are provided on individual illustrations found below in this article.

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Jan 3

Blake Edwards’ ‘10’ goes to 11, even if it may not quite be an ‘8-1/2’

Returning to ‘10’ at 58 was a revelation — nothing like the film I first saw at 13 — and something of a minor masterpiece

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Author of several novels and short stories, most with gay protagonists. TORSOS was a Lambda Literary Award finalist (Best Gay Men’s Mystery).

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