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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"A ground-breaking achievement, Freedom in the Village charts the innovative course of black gay male literature from 1979 forward. Starting with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel, Just Above My Head - the book that marked the end of the pre-Stonewall era of black literature - then on to the breakthrough works of the 1990s and up to the present day, editor E. Lynn Harris collects forty-seven works."--BOOK JACKET
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
A collection of erotic confessions by homosexuals. Poet Michael Lassell writes of his unrequited love for a younger man, James Baker, son of a minister recounts forbidden encounters in a meat-packing plant, and Darieck Scott explains Why I Need to Be Gang-Banged to Be Turned On
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"There have been several recent anthologies of twentieth-century gay fiction, but Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt's book is the first to explore the texts that circulated before the genre of "gay fiction" came into being, and before greater tolerance allowed writers to treat homosexual themes directly. The result is both an entertaining and a revelatory anthology, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the literary treatment of homosexuality."--BOOK...
Pub. Date
1993
Description
In this landmark collection of Australian writing spanning well over a century, an Australia emerges that is radically different from the cliched land of bronzed lifesavers and long-suffering sheepfarmers' wives. Robert Dessaix's anthology reflects the diversity, non-conformity and ambiguity that have always been features of Australian society. Remarkably, it confirms that few of the country's most celebrated writers, regardless of their sexuality,...