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In the s, even avant garde trade paperback publishers rejected manuscripts with non-pornographic homosexual themes. The situation was so dire that writers of gay fiction formed writing collectives to lend one another support. Felice Picano, the prolific author of The Lure, Like People in History and twenty-three other books, was also a founding member of the Violet Quill Club, whose members went on to become famous after helping to give birth to modern gay literature.

Examples abound, but in True Stories: Portraits from My Past , he shares references that other writers might choose to suppress. They can be as staid as a memoir by James Lord but then seem to talk about topics that wind up getting discussed around the kitchen table. Auden is an entertaining piece that begins with the old bard knocking over a flower pot on his New York window sill and almost killing Picano and a friend on the street below.

Do they ingest large amounts of hallucinogenics? Do they mind being called beatniks? Leather contest. Both Ferro and Grumley combined forces as Ferro-Grumley and produced Atlantis: Autobiography of a Search , a first person account of a trip the two made in search of the lost continent of Atlantis. In True Stories , Picano moves easily among literary and writer friends to memories of childhood relatives.

Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes is a revolutionary collection of fiction featuring stories by established authors as well as emerging.

I would have done it because TBM excited me; whenever I was with him I was in a constant state of mental and probably physical arousal. March Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies. A Poem by Malcolm Tariq. Poetry Editor Poetry Spotlight.