“What the writings in this book demonstrate is the variety and inventiveness of strategies, genres, and other textual devices developed to talk about same-sex desire.” – Chris White, Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook I ACQUIRED this bright yellow beauty during one of my many “book hunts” at the World’s Biggest Book Store—sadly, no longer […]
BOY, DID I love this! A fantastic nod to 80s slasher movies, Long Night at Lake Never is about a small group of queer youth forced to endure treatment at a cult-like Conversion Therapy camp nestled deep in the woods of buttf#ck nowhere by “ex-gay” religious cretins. Oh ya, and a killer is stalking everyone–a killer […]
“All the inherent beauty of the male body has once again become familiar and desirable. In art and commerce we have long enjoyed the images of naked women, but now we have the freedom to enjoy the images of naked men, too!” – David Leddick, Naked Men Too: Liberating the Male Nude, 1950–2000 I PICKED […]
IN 2025, I reached a momentous milestone with the release of my second Haunted Hearts Own-Voices Gay Paranormal Romance novel, I Will Always Find You. While the first series revolved around ghosts, this installment immerses readers in the spellbinding world of witchcraft in the collection we named Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch. This multi-author […]
“How do we define the question ‘What makes a man?’ and why are we compelled to define the term at all?” – Angus McLaren, The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930 Angus McLaren’s The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870–1930 (University of Chicago Press, 1997) provides a compelling historical analysis of how masculinity […]
“No image in our culture invokes a more power taboo than the male nude.” – Edward Lucie-Smith, Adam: The Male Figure in Art ADAM: The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith (Rizzoli, 1998) explores the history of the male figure in art across a wide range of media, including statuary, fine art, photography, pen-and-ink […]
“… this volume is not a glimpse at activities on the margins or in the shadows, but works to redefine the centre…” – Jonathan Goldberg, Queering the Renaissance EDITOR Jonathan Goldberg’s Queering the Renaissance (Duke University Press, 1993) occupies a seminal, perhaps even radical, place in queer literary and historical studies, particularly for readers interested […]
“It took two wars and a lot of determined men and women photographers to get men out of their duds and back to the Classical and Renaissance view of what a man was: beautiful, on a par with women.” – David Leddick, The Male Nude This book takes me right back to the late 90s […]
DURING my time at the University of Guelph, while pursuing my English degree with a focus on nineteenth-century literature and Queer Theory, particularly Victorian Gothic, I came across this book while looking for texts to aid with my studies in the field. I still have my original copy, which I picked up at the now-closed […]
LOUIS Crompton’s Byron and Greek Love (University of California Press, 1985), also known as Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th Century England, offers an insightful reevaluation of the complex life, sexuality, and societal context of the renowned poet Lord Byron. I first came across this book during my time at the University of Guelph, […]
