Category: Author Interviews & Reviews

Every issue of most gay and lesbian publications is something of a miracle. A small staff with a low budget and a tight deadline manages to pull together a good publication — often at the very last minute. But have you ever wondered where it all began? Who came up with the idea of publication especially for lesbian women or […]

Marc Adams grew up in a household where Jerry Falwell was considered a liberal, but this preacher’s son is now on a two-person crusade to expose discrimination against lesbian and gay youth in this country’s fundamentalist schools and try to help the victims. “I must speak for the gay and lesbian youth whose lives are being damaged, ruined and sometimes […]

While AIDS is far from over, its stranglehold on the gay and lesbian community is loosening. After two decades of HIV and the illness it causes, Peter Nardi says it’s time to look at the impact the virus has had on the evolution of the gay community — and the world. “Consider, for example, how the media — from newspapers […]

Mark Jordan is the author of The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology — available on Amazon. As the title suggests, Jordan tackles a controversial and weighty task — trying to discount the term “sodomy” as a category people use to condemn gay and lesbian people by unmasking it as a late-in-coming invention. As Jordan and I sat on the […]

Bit by bit, the bonds of homophobia and oppression are being broken. Gay men lurking in parks hoping for a secret encounter are giving way to glossy magazines like Out that make “gay” look glamorous. The gay community is going mainstream, and it’s about time. But listen closely. A faint, witty-but-serious voice can be heard in the background — asking […]

Lesbian and gay people are just beginning to find role models, and very few good examples of healthy relationships with partners and families of choice exist. Now, the senior pastor of the world’s largest predominately lesbian and gay church has written a book that fills this void with stories and practical advice. Rev. Michael Piazza, whose church serves a congregation […]

Do gays exist? In A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self — available from Amazon — Frank Browning begins chapter one by asking that question. Actually, Browning doesn’t doubt that homosexuals — people attracted to others of the same sex — exist; in fact, he doesn’t really doubt that gay people exist. He does question, though, how ‘gay’ is […]

There’s more to being a gay man than AIDS and coming out. But those issues are the primary focus of many gay men’s self-help books. Regardless of how much time and emotional turmoil was involved in revealing your sexual orientation to others and whether or not you carry the HIV virus, we face other situations daily that are uniquely gay […]

It was the Russian equivalent of Stonewall. A dozen men and women held a press conference in Moscow to announce the beginning of Russia’s first major gay and lesbian organization. Only two of the people there would reveal their names. Stonewall, the riot by drag queens at a Greenwich Village bar that gained visibility for the gay and lesbian movement […]