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Spelling Mississippi: a novel
By Marnie Woodrow. 2002
Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night…
when a woman clad in full evening dress takes a running leap off the wharf into the river. When the woman, whom Cleo has assumed was dead by suicide, reappears a few nights later on the late evening news, Cleo is determined to find her. Both women make some startling self-discoveries and even find romance when Cleo finds the mysterious woman at last. 2002.Shameless
By Paul Burston. 2001
Martin is not a happy bunny. His boyfriend has left him for a male prostitute, his best friend is too…
busy looking for sex on the internet to offer much in the way of support and his gal pal is convinced that her own boyfriend is also gay. How's a boy to find Mr Right rather than Mr Right Now? Descriptions of sex. 2001.Seven moves
By Carol Anshaw. 1996
When her lover, Taylor Hayes, disappears without a trace, psychotherapist Christine Snow is at first unconcerned. But after a while,…
a disturbing clue sends Snow to Morocco. Her search reveals that Hayes is a different woman than Snow thought she knew. Descriptions of sex. c1996.Running: a novel
By Cara Hoffman. 2017
Brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners"--hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small…
commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive. Jasper's madness and consequent death frame a narrative of emotional intensity. In its midst this trio become linked to an act of terrorism. The group then splinters, taking us from Athens to the cliffs of the Mediterranean, and to modern-day New York. 2017.Sacrament
By Clive Barker. 1996
Wildlife photographer Will Rabjohns is attacked by a six-hundred-pound female bear and slips into a coma. While he's unconscious, long-buried…
memories from his childhood return, including the evil perpetrated by Jacob Steep and Rosa McGee. Will recovers to explore unresolved issues. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1996.Rust on the razor: a Tom and Scott mystery
By Mark Richard Zubro. 1996
After Chicago baseball player Scott Carpenter comes out of the closet, he and his lover, Tom Mason, travel to rural…
Georgia to comfort Scott's ill father, only to find themselves suspects in the murder of the local sheriff. 1996.Rose of no man's land
By Michelle Tea. 2005
With a hypochondriac mother, an older sister who dreams of being on reality TV, and Mom's live-in, unemployed slacker boyfriend…
passing for a family, it's no wonder Trisha is a loner. Tiring of never leaving her bedroom, the 14-year-old makes a plan for the summer: meet someone and make a friend. That friend turns out to be chain-smoking Rose, the classic dangerous friend, who introduces Trisha to life on the edge. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. 2005.Release
By Patrick Ness. 2017
Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum…
from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. The bindings of his world are coming untied one by one, throwing Adam's life into chaos; yet in spite of everything, he may also find freedom in the release. For senior high readers. 2017.Rat Bohemia
By Sarah Schulman. 1997
Set in New York City, Rita Mae Weems, a woman from Queens, works as a rat exterminator for the NYC…
Department of Health's Pest Control Division. Meanwhile Rita's best friend Killer is falling in love with the rakish and enigmatic Troy Ruby, and there is David, a writer who is HIV-positive, who is struggling to be truthful about the AIDS experience even as his family averts their eyes from his day-to-day efforts to stay alive. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1997.Queer (Classics library)
By William S Burroughs. 2013
Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American…
expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton. 2013.Openly straight
By Bill Konigsberg. 2017
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east…
and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.One man's trash: stories
By Ivan E Coyote. 2002
A collection of stories about being gay and searching out new frontiers on the road and on the home front.…
Includes stories of Coyote's attempts to get married in Vegas with her girlfriend, her heroic horse-riding aunt, and a family of beaver-eating eccentrics. 2002.Obedience: a Dave Brandstetter mystery
By Joseph Hansen. 1988
Newly-retired insurance investigator David Brandstetter is pulled back into action with the murder of Lee Van Minh, owner of the…
Old Fleet Marina. Surly Vietnam vet Andy Flanagan has been arrested and Andy's half-sister, Tracy, is sure that he is innocent. 1988.Now is the hour
By Tom Spanbauer. 2006
Idaho, 1967. Rigby John Klusener, fresh out of high school, is hitchhiking to San Francisco. He is leaving behind a…
pregnant ex-girlfriend, a depressed mother, a distant father, and the haydust of his harsh small-town Catholic upbringing. As he stands by the side of the road desperately waiting for that one ride out, he reflects on the events that brought him there. Explicit descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2006.Not one day
By Emma Ramadan, Anne Garréta. 2017
An intimate, sensuous exploration of memory and desire, delving into loves and lusts past, by Oulipo member Anne Garreta. Winner…
of the Prix Médicis 2017. 2017. Uniform title: Pas un jour.Night town
By Cathi Bond. 2013
In the 1970s, Maddy Barnes's life is suddenly shattered and she finds herself on the mean streets of Toronto. Against…
a slew of undesirable characters and Toronto's emerging gay revolution, Maddy struggles to overcome her personal loss and come to terms with her own sexuality. Includes strong language and sex. Senior High and older. c2013.My little secret
By Anna J.. 2018
Tired of her cheating husband and fed up with being lonely, Midori Hunter takes a liking to sassy, sometimes cranky,…
bestselling author Jaydah B. They appear to be a match made in heaven, but when the lies both women have been spinning threaten to be exposed, who decides who stays and who goes? Midori and Jaydah have a lot on the line, and both could lose everything they've worked for--that's why their love affair has to remain their little secret. 2018.Money boy
By Paul Yee. 2011
Chinese immigrant Ray Liu is having a tough time getting grades that please his father, speaking English, and connecting to…
the other Chinese kids at his school who seem to have adjusted more easily. When his father discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, he’s kicked out and ends up in downtown Toronto, where he gets robbed, beaten up, and seduced. Soon Ray has to decide if, to survive, he could sell himself for sex. If no one gets hurt, why should anyone care? For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2011.Monoceros
By Suzette Mayr. 2011
A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself, and his suicide changes everyone around him: his parents are devastated, his…
secret boyfriend’s girlfriend is relieved, his unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate is shattered, his English teacher wishes she could remember his name, the school guidance counselor feels guilty, and Max, the principal, is worried about how it will reflect on the very Catholic school. And then Max meets a drag queen named Crêpe Suzette. And everything changes. Winner of the 2012 W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2011.Missed her
By Ivan E Coyote. 2010
Coyote's short stories look at the complexities of sexuality and gender, but also examine the various and often unacknowledged levels…
of power and privilege that exist in the contemporary world. These are a collection of anecdotes pulled from her life, often dealing with her common subjects of relationships, clothes, food, haircuts, little dogs and cab rides. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and some strong language. 2010.