Michael Nava has published a thoughtful article in LARB about the author Joseph Hansen Gay Noir Pioneer
I recommend reading the Dave Brandsetter mystery novels if you can get your hands on them. They feature an openly gay detective and offer a fascinating window onto the lives of gay men and, to some extent, lesbians in the 1960s and 70s. Hansen also has a really interesting writing style.
Queer Bible, U.A. Fanthorpe
LGBTQ Nation, Meet the Harlem Renaissance dancer who made sure lesbian history wasn’t forgotten
Queer Bible, Natalie Barney
Autostraddle, All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer
Quill and Quire, The 88-year-old creator of mystery’s first lesbian detective reflects on the character’s return
Lambda Literary, review of My Butch Career by Esther Newton
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton
Great article from Dazed about the 40th birthday of London’s fabulous LGBT bookshop Gay’s the Word
It’s a special place and we always pay a visit whenever we’re in London.
14/03/2019 – Updated the picture after a trip at the weekend!
Well, this is fabulous – The Queer Bible
Ransom Centre Magazine, The Ransom Center will digitize the papers of British author Radclyffe Hall and partner, artist Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge
Autostraddle, Revisiting “Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist” in a World Needing Her More Than Ever
Terri Windling, Hen Wives, Spinsters and Lolly Willows
iNews, The lesbian ‘blood sisters’ who cared for gay men when doctors were too scared to
What a lovely story.
Glasgow’s LGBT book shop a ‘wonderful success’
The owners of an LGBT book shop in Glasgow say they could not have imagined how successful it has been.
Category Is Books, on the city’s Allison Street, opened three months ago and is Scotland’s first LGBT bookshop in more than 20 years
For World Aids Day on the 1st December, the Act Up Oral History Project
A collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.
The purpose of this project is to present comprehensive, complex, human, collective, and individual pictures of the people who have made up ACT UP/New York. These men and women of all races and classes have transformed entrenched cultural ideas about homosexuality, sexuality, illness, health care, civil rights, art, media, and the rights of patients. They have achieved concrete changes in medical and scientific research, insurance, law, health care delivery, graphic design, and introduced new and effective methods for political organizing. These interviews reveal what has motivated them to action and how they have organized complex endeavors. We hope that this information will de-mystify the process of making social change, remind us that change can be made, and help us understand how to do it.
