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readable work. /fitly groJm another mother tongue jane rate the young in on another's arms arrnistead ma.upin tales of the city tee cow in Women who loved women scan julty men s pontes men > senk rosemary curt- nann y niunuhcin lasohm nuns orccurmg alienee rn far slot the life to come and other stones eliana gu out grow in the pain gale Wilhelm we too are drifting loin; rnaroiia the. politic o f homosexuality dinar lunger Josephine herbst the story sb r. ould not tell dent-id. leaoitt family dancing lee lynch the sweisr buckler lisa alt her other women echnund white nocturnes for U. , • S ' - ' Favorites old and new W hat better tim e to start a good book than at this year’s fam ily Christm as get-together? You d id n ’t really want to talk to A unt Lucille anyway, and maybe you’ll be able to raise som eone’s consciousness, if only your own! W hile this list, com piled by Jim Hunger, Jay Brown and Joel Redon, is neither defini tive nor exhaustive, it is a list o f som e favo rites, old and new. Men’s Bodies, Men’s Selves. Sam Julty. Dell Publishing Company, Inc. 1979. The subtitle, The Complete Guide to the H ealth and W ell-Being o f Men s Bodies. M inds and Spirits, says it all. And the head ing o f the first section, "Mew Choices,” adds an extra tw is t In his forw ard to Men’s Bodies, Men’s Selves, Ju lty says " . . . we are at a point in history when m ore and m ore men are realiz ing that our culture has reduced the broad path on w hich our lives should travel to a catw alk lined with rules and roles o f approved m asculine behavior.” Society and the Healthy Homosexual. G eorge W einberg. Anchor, 1972. George W einberg coined the word "h o m o p h o b ia ” and was an early supporter of the idea that hom osexuality is neither aberra tio n nor illness. His book is a critique, by a th e ra p ist o f the horrors that psychology and psychiatry have inflicted on gay people. The Joy of Gay Sex. Dr. Charles Silverstein and E dm und W hite. Crown Publishing Co. 1978. Even in the age o f AIDS, The Joy o f Gay Sex is still the best book on the sub ject Its authors’ attitude o f caring and concern for others and ourselves has yet to be surpassed; we could do w ith a post— AIDS edition, though. The Life to Come and O ther Stories, by E.M. Forster. W.W. Morton & Company. 1972. A collection o f previously unpublished stories by one o f the m ost respected novelists and critics o f the twentieth century. Forster published no fiction between A Passage to In d ia (1925) and his death fifty years later. T his collection includes stories whose hom osexual content deterred Forster from publishing them . The stories were written be tween 1903 and 1958 and represent every phase o f Forster's career as a writer. The Politics of Homosexuality. Toby Marotta. Houghton, Mifflin. If you want to know, as a gay person, why you th in k the way you do, this book w ill help give an historical perspective. A political sci entist, M arotta relates the full im pact o f gay and lesbian organizations, from the Matta- chine Society and the Daughters o f B ilitis to the Gay Activists Alliance and beyond. Josephine Herbst: The Story She Could Mot Tell. Elinor Langer. Warner Books. 1984. Portlander E linor Langer's biography o f a 1930s radical fem inist was the best o f the year. Herbst was an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary tim e. Jti I ^51 l roobtns silence run mmger teen queen seott swcniep two a oh . carols dana buekendahl just out billy wsso good lanes bad turn young in one another s arms armistead rnaupin tides oj the cu tee corirme women who loved women scan julty men s oodn I I (g | ■■ OiiiRTOWuik me ¡xun. aaie wuneun wt ino an... unjuaii .o-, marotta the politics of homosexuality etirior longer tosephu no UiC om. COuiu FlOt t€U ucu/Ju ¿ a lynch Inc swashbuckler lisa aiiner other women comma wra nocturnes for the king ot naples John reeky the sexual ouiia i>s/iith n, lyttino >Vs V nn nernnsi u'HX'non u' r- bic^iie 0?I0 fan to own too jam robkins silence jirn hunger teen queen sec swentep (Wo xrnas conns dana huckenaahi last out may nis: good times had limes joe! radon i am a good typist jean net v C > i i ;■ { . } . i i ' , v > > i > . v r J Y t • 5* • i ( , v . } .* • J , H .. < i/\r> 'li> s > ;.(/< ¿..v, L Y / •-.* ? i v - . > riitf* t J v? C V firm* dead mannm hues v • • V B a cktra ck. Joseph Hansen. Penguin. 1983. Feisty Alan Tarr sets out to attend his father’s funeral but finds adventure. He sur vives a car crash, breaks both legs, and ends up w ith his late father’s boyfriend. Job’s Year. Joseph Hansen. H o lt Rinehart and W inston. 1984. A year o f adversity in the life o f a thoroughly good m an w ho happens to be gay. Surviving a year o f hard tim es, Hansen’s hero emerges w ith integrity in ta ct Joseph Hansen is also author o f a series of m ystery novels about gay Los Angeles detec tive David Brandstetter. Cities o f the Red Might W illiam S. Burroughs. H o lt Rinehart and W inston. 1981. Cities is B urroug hs apocalyptic vision of plague and pleasure, often to the accom pan im ent o f hangings. Parallel Lives. Peter Burton. GMP publishers, Inc. 1985. \ - - j T T T A S A a *- 4 - . , . _ I ♦ | ^ - / ; J n t ' J i, A ? /irf;-' s v> f , , i ,,L ,’ v > •* o O / j y j ^ ; . the rilit fee eormne f do men iCho *oh-i Fam ily D ancing. David Leavitt. Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. This collection o f stories com es form the perspective o f a new generation that recog nizes the existence o f gays as a valid part of the natural order. Leavitt’s stories have ap peared in The Hew Yorker and Harper s, as well as in the 1984 O. Henry Prize Stories. ,V h y ' ! ' . > S , f 5 > V '/v ih i> v / •• i < / i ’ This m em oir surveys twenty years of rapid change in the gay world. Parallel Hues cov ers m any themes, including: mods clubs of the 1960s; a teenage literary apprenticeship w ith Robin Maugham; and touring with Rod S tew art Kiss of the Spider Woman. Manuel Puig. Vintage. 1978. Puig weaves a fantasy tale w ithin a grim reality, and portrays the influence o f a Latin Am erican dictatorship on the already deso late life o f a Latin gay. Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Edm und W hite, Penguin. W hite’s vividly m etaphoric Hoctumes is a circuito usly plotted elegy for a lost lover. A Boy’s Own Stoiy. Edm und W hite. EP. D utton. 1982. Susan Sontag has said o f W hite’s tale of grow ing up gay, “This novel about America and about a ‘homosexual fate’ is a large and happy accom plishm ent” Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. John Boswell. University of C hicago Press. 1980. Young award-winning Yale Historian John Boswell examines western civilization’s attitude toward hom osexuality in particular and m inorities in general in this scholarly but Quiet Fire; Memoirs of Older Gay Men. Keith Vacha (ed. by Cassie Dam ewood). The Crossing Press. 1985. Vacha is a social services adm inistrator to the elderly on the West C oast Q uiet Fire contains in-depth interviews with older gay m en from all walks o f life w ho recall both bad and good times. Are You Still My Mother? Are You Still My Fam ily? Gloria Guss Back. W arner Books. 1985. A guide fo r parents o f gays: how to handle feelings, how to deal with the world, and how to accept the gay child. The Sexual Outlaw. John Rechy. Dell. 1977. In this L A hustler docudram a, Rechy highlights the outlaw status o f gays in Am erica in a raunchy, no-nonsense style. Aphrodisiac, A Collection of Short Fiction from Christopher Street. Perigee. 1980. Som e o f the best gay and lesbian writers, past and present are represented in this col lection from Am erica's m ainline gay maga zine. Despite its inflam m atory title, A phrodisiac is a literate sam plng o f Am eri can lesbian and gay w riting. Several authors are w orth m entioning for th e ir works in general. Mary Renault’s series on Alexander the G reat including: The King M ust Die, The M ask o f A pollo, The Persian Bog, and The Praise Singer, is worthwhile for its historical authenticity as well as its natural portrayal o f an ancient hom oerotic relationship. Arm istead M aupin’s Tales o f The City, etc., take a tragi-com ic look at the Guppie envi ro n m e n t O riginally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, M aupin’s Mouse adventures have becom e a m ajor industry. Winter Reading List by Lee Lynch Ah, another w inter along the Oregon Trail. W oodstove fat w ith heat freezer stuffed with fall applesauce, shelves full o f new preserves eager to be spread on hot bread cooked in a cozy kitchen. The cats watch devotedly as I make catnip m ice for holiday gifts, the dog rolls delightedly in the first snowfall. And every chance I g e t I settle in w ith a cuppa Red Zinger and a book. It’s been a good reading year for me and Just O ut's editors have asked me to share m y harvest A W om an’s Place in Portland, M other K ali’s in Eugene and Bloom sbury Books in Ashland are all gearing up to supply you w ith your stack o f books — and ideas for Solstice, Hanukkah and Christm as presents. Another Mother Tongue, Judy Grahn. 1985. Beacon. A classic, eye-opening book o f riches. W hy is purple the gay color? W hy do we recognize one another by our pinky rings? W hat is a cerem onial dyke? Sex Variant Women in Literature. Jeannette Foster. 1985. Naiad Press. $8.95. The late author devoted her life to this volum e. A highly readable survey o f lesbian characters in w orld literature. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeannette W interson. 1985. Pandora. $8.95. A laugh- aloud story o f a young dyke grow ing up in a fundam entalist Christian hom e. Loveable ec centric characters. A Hot-eyed Moderate; The Young in One Another’s Arms; Desert of the Heart (see the m ovie!). Jane Rule. 1985. Maiad Press. $7.95. A collection o f insightful fiction by our best novelist and m y tw o favorites o f her novels, all re-released in one year! Just Out, December, 1985 ^ * vr -