Sean Devlin, at twenty - boyish, innocent, both fervent and controlled - drops out of Columbia University to pursue the downtown life of an avant-garde filmmaker. A variety of hustlers, an urbane, older, blue-blood mentor, and a charismatic performance artist on her way up are among his companions on his voyage of discovery. With them, Devlin is repeatedly drawn to the excitement of the clubs - to Studio 54, and to the Flamingo, the Ramrod, the Anvil,...

In Branch Creek, North Carolina, a homosexual announces to his family that a year earlier he buried his lover in the family plot in secret. At that, the father reaches for his shotgun. By the author of Where She Was.

A novel on an expatriate's solitude. He is a Colombian homosexual who moves first to Spain, then to the U.S. All the while he pines for his homeland, having forgotten the bad things that made him leave. A return visit reminds him and he is cured of his melancholy

What's a boy to do? An only child, a little chubby (and carrying it low). By age six already a regular in the Sears Husky Boys Department. Young Frankie is also gay, and he's trapped in the aluminum-sidinged, lawn-sprinklered, what-exit? wilds of New Jersey suburbia. Imagine Elton John born to an Italian-American Edith and Archie Bunker and you've got the picture. A Boy Named Phyllis is Frank DeCaro's witty gem of a memoir about growing up among working-class...

"This is as close to the truth as I can get," writes David B. Feinberg in this stunning nonfiction debut - a collection of autobiographical essays, gonzo journalism, and demented Feinbergian lists about AIDS activism and living, writing, and dying with AIDS. With the startling blend of satiric wit and pathos, black humor and heroism, found in his widely acclaimed and iconoclastic novels, he charts a harrowing personal journey down that "HIV highway...

Eight stories featuring homosexual protagonists. The story, Pyrography, is on the discomfort of a gay boy camping with two straight boys, Running on Empty describes a man's emotions on learning he is HIV-positive, and Palace Days is on the adventures of two American homosexuals in Paris.

Offers a portrait of the rugged beauty and rich historical significance of Provincetown, Massachusetts, as well as the impressive array of artists and writers that made the seaside town an artistic mecca.