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"House of Sable Locks is a powerful, sexy exploration of slavery, submission, and humanity from an author who wields both plot and prose with accuracy and total confidence. The book lives up to its early promise, with a satisfying backstory and a plot that continues to twist and develop right up to the magnificently tense ending. The tension really ratchets up in the final quarter, and I found myself riveted, unable to stop reading, even when I wished I could look away."- BDSM Book Reviews 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the now-classic steampunk erotic romance of dark passion, House of Sable Locks, by Passionate Plume award finalist Elizabeth Schechter.In a respectable neighbourhood, on the top floor of a beautiful house, crouches the Succubus; by design, and by temperament, she is all that men crave and fear. To the wealthy and privileged men of London, the Succubus is a test they must pass to gain access to the House of Sable Locks, the most exclusive brothel in town. However, to William, a wealthy young man born and raised in India, she is the very essence of his desires.William is recovering from the loss of everything he knows and loves when he first meets the Succubus. With great care she tears him apart... and he falls in love again. But their idyll cannot last: there is a killer loose in London, and the darkness of William's past is about to collide with the terror of his present.Based on the short story "The Succubus" from the acclaimed Like Clockwork erotic steampunk anthology, House of Sable Locks lets us enter the mysterious brothel readers had previously only had a glimpse of.

A chronicle of the author's life-changing journey from a lonely and suppressed gay boy in 1950s Wisconsin to his eye-popping 1971 arrival in San Fracisco's Castro.

Gus and Bob, met fighting in one of the United States' open-ended wars, fell in love, and sanctified their passion with marriage. Afterfive years working in New York City, they realized a dream, and bought a year-round, weekend country house. Just as they settled into urbandecompression on tranquil rural weekends, the fates intervened to made them accidental parents.Through circumstances beyond anyone's control, sixteen-year-old Joey Hall, who had been fighting homelessness since birth, came tolive in Bob and Gus's second home. A year later, due to gun violence, fifteen-year-old, transsexual Frances McDermott became a homelessorphan. The gay married men refused to say no to an additional foster teenager to parent.Counterpoint, running in the background throughout this book is home and homelessness. While doing research for changing apartments, Frances learns the history of modern homelessness and the contribution gentrification made to it. Accidental Parents is a look atcontemporary gay family life and how we live today.

Sebastian Stuart's quest for self-discovery leads to a sad and shocking understanding of his family history and the price of grief denied.

From the author of Fairyswatter comes Improbable, Peter Mellilo's follow up collection of gay short stories. At once intimate, heartfelt, candid, and bracing, Improbable is a penetrating look at present day gay life among friends, lovers, and family.

Fairy Swatter is a collection of six short gay fictions with murder often added to the mix. The stories range from contemporary settings about where we live now to historical events from the past that were often ignored or marginalized by the dominant society. Bold and outspoken the book depicts gay life in candid and unsparing terms.

The powerful story of a closeted Republican politician from Arizona battling blackmail to the point of coming out publicly and finding self-acceptance as one of the nation's chief spokespeople on LGBT equality.

"A tremendous debut...full of heart and courage and a ferocious honesty."-Junot Diaz, author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the queer youth culture of Manhattan's piers, Chulito is a coming-of-age, coming out love story of a sexy, tough, hip hop-loving, young Latino man and the colorful characters who populate his block. Chulito, which means "cutie," is one of the boys, and everyone in his neighborhood has seen him grow up--the owner of the local bodega, the Lees from the Chinese restaurant, his buddies from the corner, and all of his neighbors and friends, including Carlos, who was Chulito's best friend until they hit puberty and people started calling Carlos a pato...a faggot. Culito rejects Carlos, buries his feelings for him, and becomes best friends with Kamikaze, a local drug dealer. When Carlos comes home from his first year away from college and they share a secret kiss, Chulito's worlds collide as his ideas of being a young man, being macho, and being in love are challenged. Vivid, sexy, funny, heartbreaking, and fearless, this knock out novel is destined to become a gay classic. Praise "Hilarious, unique, heartfelt and sharp. A wonderful read."-Sandra Cisneros, author of the acclaimed The House on Mango Street and Caramelo "Chulito introduces a fresh, engaging, and stirring voice. Rice-Gonzalez's memorable characters live on the page with a force and verve and vulnerability that touches our heart. This is a beautiful debut."-Jaime Manrique, author of Latin Moon in Manhattan and Eminent Maricones About the Author Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received a B.A. in Communications from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Rice-Gonzalez attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Lambda Literary Foundation Writers' Conference in 2008 and Sandra Cisnero's Macondo Writers' Conference in 2009. He has worked with writers David Leavitt, Sarah Schulman, Rebecca Brown, Percival Everett, Helena Maria Viramontes, Elana Dykewomon and Stacey D'Erasmo. Rice-Gonzalez is a public relations and marketing specialist in the area if Latino arts and culture. He worked for nearly twenty years in the publicity and public relations field at Universal Pictures in New York, for Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and Repertorio Español - Spanish Theatre Repertory before forming Rice-González Public Relations in 1997. He has worked with every major Latino theater company in New York and was the Latino Marketing specialist with the Broadway production of Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics. He lives in the Bronx, NY.

"Denny, long before he surfaced in my cove, was a legend well-known to me, a myth entitled: Best-Kept Boy in the World."-Truman CapoteDenham (Denny) Fouts, the twentieth century's most famous male prostitute, was a socialite and literary muse whose extraordinary life started off humbly in Jacksonville, Florida. But in short order he befriended (and bedded) the rich and celebrated and in the process conquered the world.No less an august figure than the young Gore Vidal was enchanted by Denny's special charms. He twice modeled characters on Denny in his fiction, saying it was a pity that Denny never wrote a memoir. To Vidal he was "un homme fatal." Truman Capote, who devoted a third of Answered Prayers to Denny's life story, found that "to watch him walk into a room was an experience. He was beyond being good-looking; he was the single most charming-looking person I've ever seen." Writer Christopher Isherwood was more to the point: he called Denny "the most expensive male prostitute in the world."In his short life, Denny achieved a mythic status, and Best-Kept Boy in the World for the first time follows him into his rarefied world of barons and shipping tycoons, lords, princes, heirs of great fortunes, artists, and authors. Here is the story of an American original, a story with an amazing cast of unforgettable characters and extraordinary settings, the book Gore Vidal wished Denny had written.Arthur Vanderbilt is the author of many books of history, biography, memoirs, and essays. He lives in New Jersey and Massachusetts.