Posted on November 13, 2009 by Leslie
The “American hunk” is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in America but throughout the world.
American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full color) [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2009 by Erastes
Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Erastes
Lambda Award finalist Josh Lanyon takes you step-by-step through the writing process: from how to find fresh ideas and strong hooks, to how to submit your carefully edited manuscript. With help from the genre’s top publishers, editors, reviewers, and writers – experts in the field of M/M and gay romantic fiction – Lanyon offers insight [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by Erastes
The Private Pictures of Montague Glover.
A Class Apart is a selection of photographs and letters culled from the archive of Montague Glover (1898-1983) documenting the intimate, rarely recorded lives of gay men in Britain from the First World War to the 1950s. The book features Glover’s three obsessions: the Armed Forces, working-class men, and his [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009 by Erastes
As the judge is Sarah Waters – I think it might be worth having a go submitting a GLBT story…
ETA: Check the rules: The competition is open to writers of any nationality who have not had a work of
full‐length fiction published
Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009
…the competition that celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by Erastes
When her father dies, Cordelia Brownlow’s future looks bleak. She has no money and must sell Ashworth, the family house, in order to pay the debts of honor that her father ran up. The offer her cousin, Lady Dennyson, makes to buy Ashworth and keep Cordelia on as a companion seems like the answer to [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by Erastes
1. The Historical Novel Society has two competitions:
a. Win copies of Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome Fire in the East
b. Tony Pollard’s The Minutes of the Lazarus Club, both from Michael Joseph/Penguin UK. Deadline 31 Aug.
You need to be a member of the HNS to enter.
2.Fish Publishing, in cooperation with the HNS, announces Short Histories [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2008 by Erastes
Many thanks to Sedonia Guillone for pointing this out, and to Alex Beecroft for the graphic.
Can you believe it? I’m amazed – and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
HISTORICAL NOVEL SUBMISSION CALL
Historically-based Single Author Erotic Novel or Anthology
Deadline: December 30, 2008
STARbooks Press is looking for an historically-based single author novel or anthology to fill out our [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2007 by Hayden
Reviewed by Hayden Thorne
FROM THE AUTHOR’S BOOK PAGE:
My Dear Boy is an anthology of gay love letters documenting the heartbreak and joy of love between men for almost two thousand years. Emperor Marcus Arelius, Bo Juyi, Saint Anselm, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Mashida Toyonoshin, Thomas Gray, William Beckford, Walt Whitman, Tchaikovsky, Henry James, Countee Cullen, William Burroughs [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2007 by Erastes
Review by Alex Beecroft
First published in 1992 by GMP Books. A Second, Revised and Enlarged edition published in October 2006 by Chalfont Press (Tempus Publishing, UK).
Available through Amazon, or via Rictor Norton’s site HERE which is a great place to go for a more detailed run down of the contents. It’s also a fascinating site [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2007 by Erastes
$12.95
A Gay in the Life: A Compilation of Saints and Sinners in Gay History (Portable Queer) (Hardcover)
Erin McHugh • Alyson Publications • Release date: October 2007 • 142 pages • Hardcover • ISBN-10: 1593500335; ISBN-13: 978-1593500337
Those who have changed the face of homosexuality over the centuries are not completely heroic. Learn about [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2007 by Erastes
$12.95
Homo History: A Compilation of Events That Shook and Shaped the Gay World (Portable Queer) (Hardcover)
Erin McHugh • Alyson Publications • Release date: October 2007 • 126 pages • Hardcover • ISBN-10: 1593500319; ISBN-13: 978-1593500313
From the Old Testament to the New World Order, the centuries have not always championed homosexuality. But the [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2007 by speakitsname
I’d like to make this a permanent page, and add to the resources as we go along, using information given by others I hope! Gynocrat sent me a wonderful link to Sodomy across the world so that sparked off the idea of having a reference sheet where writers can run to to search for [...]
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