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In National Anthem, Photographer Luke Gilford Captures the Radical Inclusivity of the Queer Rodeo

In National Anthem, Photographer Luke Gilford Captures the Radical Inclusivity of the Queer Rodeo | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The book, which is comprised of dozens of images, as well as poignant essays, renders queer resilience, survival, and joy.

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Howard Cruse’s Queer Classic ‘Stuck Rubber Baby’ Marks 25 Years

Howard Cruse’s Queer Classic ‘Stuck Rubber Baby’ Marks 25 Years | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Pioneering gay cartoonist Howard Cruse died last November while working on a new edition of his acclaimed queer/civil rights graphic novel 'Stuck Rubber Baby'. The book will be published by First Second Books in July in celebration of the book’s 25th anniversary.

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For This Lesbian Romance, World War II Is Just One Complication

For This Lesbian Romance, World War II Is Just One Complication | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Dola de Jong’s 1954 novel “The Tree and the Vine” is a portrait of two women dogged by issues too personal to be defined by political catastrophe.

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Exile, addiction and racism: what it means to be a gay, Muslim immigrant 

Exile, addiction and racism: what it means to be a gay, Muslim immigrant  | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Written from a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto, Mohammed Abdulkarim Ali’s coming-of-age memoir interweaves his story of being a migrant with world history and sociopolitical commentary on Somalia, Europe and Canada.

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Tommy Pico’s ‘Feed’: A Book-Length Meditation on Modern Appetites

Tommy Pico’s ‘Feed’: A Book-Length Meditation on Modern Appetites | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Pico’s latest volume concludes what he has described as a four-book project about pretty much everything, mixing verse and prose, diary, comedy and accusation.

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Searching for 'Real Queer America' in Red States' LGBTQ+ Enclaves

Searching for 'Real Queer America' in Red States' LGBTQ+ Enclaves | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

While rural voters occupy media attention, journalist Samantha Allen explores how LGBTQ+ niches thrive in red states.

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BOYSTOWN Season Nine arrives in bookstores nationwide

BOYSTOWN Season Nine arrives in bookstores nationwide | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The latest installment in Jake Biondi’s BOYSTOWNseries already has five-star rating on Amazon “Perhaps the best bookin the series.”“Your wait is over,” BOYSTOWN creator Jake Biondi told fans of his…

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Featuring The Ice Princess by Emmy Morgan

Featuring The Ice Princess by Emmy Morgan | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

If statistics were correct black post-operative transwoman Desiré Andersen should be homeless, disowned by her family, raped, jobless, beaten up, or murdered. Instead her life takes one unexpected turn after another leading her to a role on a popular East Coast soap opera. In trying to keep her heart locked away she ends up falling for more guys than the heart should allow. Will she ever meet the man who'll thaw her frozen heart? Or is she meant to walk her journey on Earth alone?

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'Semi Queer' book reveals lives and struggles of gay, trans truck drivers

'Semi Queer' book reveals lives and struggles of gay, trans truck drivers | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Anne Balay, a former IUN professor of gender and sexuality studies who authored the book, “Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers," has written a new book, “Semi Queer: Inside the Lives of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers.”
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Harvey Milk: Putting the Jew Back in the Queer

Harvey Milk: Putting the Jew Back in the Queer | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
Harvey Milk, whose dramatic political career was cut tragically short by an assassin’s bullets, was born on May 22, 1930. Lillian Faderman’s new biography Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (a volume in Yale’s Jewish Lives series) is not a hagiography but nonetheless celebrates the complex gay man who didn’t get to see his 50th …
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Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Transitioning and His New Book

Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Transitioning and His New Book | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

The beloved internet writer talks to Heather Havrilesky about his new identity.

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Alan Hollinghurst sketches the evolution of gay rights in latest historical novel, 'The Sparsholt Affair'

Alan Hollinghurst sketches the evolution of gay rights in latest historical novel, 'The Sparsholt Affair' | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
'The Sparsholt Affair' by Alan Hollinghurst is an assured work of historical fiction tracing the evolution of gay rights, but it never quite coheres.
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“A Queerly Joyful Noise”: LGBT choruses in theory and practice

“A Queerly Joyful Noise”: LGBT choruses in theory and practice | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
I sang bass with the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus for about a decade, from its founding in 1979 until I moved away in 1990, with a couple of breaks to concentrate on work and writing.
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Groundbreaking Book Details When Mafia Controlled Gay Bars

Groundbreaking Book Details When Mafia Controlled Gay Bars | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In celebrating LGBTQ Pride this June when so much of the world has embraced equality it's difficult to imagine that illicit bars run by the Mafia once were one of the few gathering places for gays and lesbians.

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In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist

In ‘Exciting Times,’ Echoes of Sally Rooney, but With a Queer Twist | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Naoise Dolan’s debut follows a young Irishwoman as she becomes involved in the lives of Hong Kong’s upper crust.

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Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones review – a sparky yet sad vision of gay subculture

Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones review – a sparky yet sad vision of gay subculture | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

This slim portrayal of an abusive gay relationship in the 1970s is the biggest small book of the year

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Anchors To Dusk Publishing to Release New Book, “Voudou Juice Origins: Cody’s Story,” Summer 2020

Anchors To Dusk Publishing to Release New Book, “Voudou Juice Origins: Cody’s Story,” Summer 2020 | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Anchors To Dusk Publishing and Author Joseph A. Federico release a second novella, “Voudou Juice Origins: Cody’s Story,” a sequel to the breakout novella, “Voudou Juice,” which launched in 2017. This book is set in 1920s New Orleans, and follows Cody Shrine, III, a well-to-do young man that’s not yet comfortable with himself. He meets unsavory creatures in the French Quarter and gets caught between worlds for all eternity.

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LGBT Author Releases Children’s Book OM THE ENCHANTED: Big World, Little Om

LGBT Author Releases Children’s Book OM THE ENCHANTED: Big World, Little Om | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Author Mera Malik has released her first children’s book titled Om The Enchanted: Big World, Little Om, which talks about living in non-traditional households. There remains a lack of positive representation for LGBTQ families and children. The team behind Om the Enchanted: Big World, Little Om wants to change that by showing children what it is like to live in an LGBTQ family or to be different than other children you go to school with.

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The Queer Love Story That You Deserve

The Queer Love Story That You Deserve | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

A journey of sweet romance and second chances -  Fandom-renowned “Fairy Gaymother” Dana Piccoli is championing a new generation of queer, trans and non-binary writers with her debut novel Savor the Moment. In this modern queer romance, Dana explores the LGBTQ community in all its diverse beauty.

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Jenny Hval’s Queer Eden

Jenny Hval’s Queer Eden | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In her debut novel, Paradise Rot, the Norwegian musician plays with themes that run throughout her rewarding discography.

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Black, Gay and Becoming Visible

Black, Gay and Becoming Visible | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

In Darnell L. Moore’s memoir, “No Ashes in the Fire,” he describes a brutal childhood in Camden, N.J., and the struggle to fully accept his identity.

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In 1973, an Arsonist Killed 32 People at a Gay Club. Why Has History Shrugged? 

In 1973, an Arsonist Killed 32 People at a Gay Club. Why Has History Shrugged?  | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
In “Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation,” Robert W. Fieseler reports on an all but forgotten tragedy in New Orleans.
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Seeking A More Inclusive Church, Austen Hartke Advocates for Transgender Persons of Faith

Seeking A More Inclusive Church, Austen Hartke Advocates for Transgender Persons of Faith | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it

Austen Hartke Invites Honest, Scripture-based Conversation About Transgender Christians

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Black, Gay and Losing Faith - The New York Times

Black, Gay and Losing Faith - The New York Times | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
In Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel, “Speak No Evil,” a young man’s journey of self-discovery runs into opposition from his parents and their church.
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A painful coming-of-age debut novel of a gay teen whose family is sundered by suicide

A painful coming-of-age debut novel of a gay teen whose family is sundered by suicide | LGBTQ+ Movies, Theatre, FIlm & Music | Scoop.it
The debut novel from Patrick Nathan tackles difficult issues and ends with a road trip to Los Angeles, swinging between successful and not.
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