Ed. note: The following book review comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Margaret MacMillan’s book Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles), follows.
My previous reviews (Gay Marriage: Why it is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, and a short collection of military porn) sharply [...]

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Ed. note: The following book review comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (U. of Wisconsin Press), by Philip Gambone, follows.
Mr. Gambone’s spare writing prompts me to wonder if he, an observer of our community, missed the riches of a Liberal Arts education. Why [...]

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The cover of the latest issue of Veronica, released in stores today, premieres Kevin Keller into the world of Archie Comics. Kevin is romantically pursued by Veronica, but…
“It’s nothing against her,” he tells Jughead when he refuses her advances. “I’m gay.”
The news was first announced in April, when Archie co-CEO John Goldwater told The Washington [...]

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Ed. note: The well-read staff at In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources is back with another recommendation. This time around, Krista Houstoun — also a Just Out columnist — reviews an acclaimed “sexuality bible” that’s worth digging into.

Despite humanity’s collective knack for infidelity, we’ve more or less bought the story that sexual monogamy [...]

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Star columnist Nick Mattos pontificated grandly in the latest issue of Just Out on transgender author and artist Shannon Belthor’s impending reading tonight at In Other Words Books and Resources, as did he herald the book from which she’ll be reading, Shape-shifter: An Awakening on the Paths of Art and Gender.
“Over the course of 25 [...]

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Ed. note: The following book review comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Special Forces: Gay Military Erotica (Cleis Press), edited by Phillip Mackenzie, Jr. follows.
In these 15 short, somewhat stupid essays, we get oral and anal sex in preposterious plots by absolutely unbelievable characters. For example, in “Oasis,” the narrator, named Paul, reveals his height (6′), [...]

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Ed. note: The well-read staff at In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources is back with another recommendation. This time around, Krista Houstoun — also a Just Out columnist — discusses a soon-to-be published book authored with children of LGBTQ parents in mind.
Most of us are familiar with the strange and awkward event of coming [...]

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Ed. note: The following book review (submitted prior to last week’s Prop. 8 ruling) comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Jonathan Rauch’s Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America (Times Books) follows.
Mr. Rauch, who has a gay marriage in Washington D.C. where he works, [...]

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Before there was Stephenie Meyer, there was Anne Rice, the Vampire Chronicles matriarch who years back quit being a blood-sucking, homoerotic-espousing scribe to focus on her newfound faith.
The author revealed yesterday via Facebook that she was abandoning Christianity because of several personal conflicts with the church’s doctrine.
She wrote:
“For those who care, and I understand if [...]

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Ed. note: The well-read staff at In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources is back with another recommendation. This time around, Krista Houstoun — also a Just Out columnist — discusses a not-quite-published book that’s sure to be on your must-get list.
Dear John letters—notes that women leave their boyfriends or husbands informing them that their [...]

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