Book Review
Folsom Street Blues
by Patty Comeau
In 1976, San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood was a hub for gay men who were into leather, public sex, head shaving, boot licking, and bondage. It was also home to Jim Stewart, a man at the intersection of the...
Book Review
The Fear Within
by Patty Comeau
Seasoned journalist Scott Martelle returns with an excellent analysis of perhaps the most important American political trial of the twentieth century, at least with regard to the rights of everyday citizens. In The Fear Within: Spies,...
Book Review
Looking Up at the Bottom Line
by Patty Comeau
Richard R. Troxell brings new life to discussions of wage labor and unemployment in America in "Looking Up at the Bottom Line". A longtime anti-poverty activist who has lived through the marginalization familiar to war veterans (in his...
Book Review
Torn from Our Midst
by Patty Comeau
It is evident that editors Brenda A. Anderson, Wendee Kubik, and Mary Rucklos Hampton took a great deal of care in compiling and editing Torn from Our Midst: Voices of Grief, Healing and Action from the Missing Indigenous Women...
Book Review
Wanderlust
by Patty Comeau
With "Wanderlust", the masters in art book production at Porcupine’s Quill have trained a spotlight on another talented craftsperson. In this third in their series of wordless novels edited by the notable George A. Walker,...
Book Review
Traveling Blind
by Patty Comeau
Susan Krieger’s insightful new memoir, "Traveling Blind", is a gentle interrogation into the borderlands of sight. Here, readers will find questions often left unasked courageously answered—and many new paths of query opened....
Book Review
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
by Patty Comeau
Frank Meeink once fit the American neo-Nazi archetype perfectly: he had the convictions, the clothes, the swastika tattoo, and the knack for perpetrating violence that have made this underground culture infamous. Surprisingly, today...
Book Review
The Lost Library
by Patty Comeau
"The Lost Library" is a celebratory and poetic collection written for passionate readers by some of today’s emerging gay literati. In his own contribution, a reminiscence on Douglas Sadownick’s 1994 novel, Sacred Lips of the Bronx,...