''It's so rare these days that we have the opportunity to celebrate LGBT literature,'' says David Mariner of The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center. ''We've...
At first glance, the upcoming OutWrite ''Pioneers'' event at The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is already substantial, celebrating re-releases of two powerful books:...
Miryam Kabakov's new anthology features first-person narratives from queer Orthodox Jewish women In his writings, the influential 12th century Jewish philosopher Maimonides speaks of a...
For the novice, mention of Canadian author Margaret Atwood likely conjures thoughts of The Handmaid's Tale, her 1985 novel of an America at war with...
For the first few months of her pregnancy, Andrea Askowitz didn't know what was wrong. ''I just felt really anxious and angry and just not...
In the early 1990s, long before taking on the role of Karen's sassy rival, Beverley Leslie, on Will & Grace, or Brother Boy in Sordid...
There are a lot of surprises in store for readers of Christopher Rice's new novel, Blind Fall, not the least of which is that it's...
Alex Sanchez, the former metro Washingtonian who has made a name for himself writing a number of novels dealing with gay teens coming of age,...
There are certain books I only buy when rushing to catch a plane. They're usually mystery/suspense thrillers featuring a persecuted main character, a sympathetic authority...
Maybe it was the tights, but something about superheroes fascinated me when I was a little boy. I certainly wasn't alone in this interest. My...
Oh, to be young again! That's the sentiment driving Robert Rodi's new comic novel, When You Were Me (). Jack Ackerly is 53. He spent...
Hello, old friend. If you're a fan of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, it's impossible to pick up his new book, Michael Tolliver...
A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...
James McGreevey's autobiography, The Confession, is as dismal as his approval ratings were in 2004 when he declared that he was a ''gay American'' and...
Reading Patti Frazee's Cirkus is like falling from the high wire knowing there is no net below. You know it's going to be painful, there's...