ABRAMS
Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls and Other Renegades (June, $35) by Catherine Smith and Cynthia Greig is a collection of photographs, with commentary, depicting unconventional women in men's attire from the 1850s to 1920s.
Roman Sex: 100 B.C. to A.D. 250 (June, $35) by John R. Clarke, photos by Michael Larvy, revisits a time when sex was uninhibited by law, religious guilt or societal pressures.
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present (Nov., $60) contains an extended essay by Tony Kushner that chronicles Sendak's life and explores how the illustrator's homosexuality affected his work.
AKASHIC BOOKS
Headless (Feb., $12.95 paper) by Benjamin Weissman. The second entry in the Little House on the Bowery series, edited by gay novelist Dennis Cooper, is a collection of stories involving such figures as identical twin porn stars.
ALGONQUIN
Reprint: Comfort and Joy (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Jim Grimsley.
ALYSON
Chelsea Boys (Sept., $13.95 paper) by Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth anthologizes the syndicated gay comic strip about three very different men sharing an apartment in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. Advertising.
My Big Fat Queer Life: The Best of Michael Thomas Ford (Sept., $13.95 paper) by Michael Thomas Ford assembles 44 essays. Advertising.
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For (Oct., $13.95 paper) by Alison Bechdel. This 10th collection of the syndicated comic strip is set post—9/11. Advertising.
The Secret Lives of Married Men (Oct., $15.95 paper) by David Leddick depicts the hidden activities of gay men married to women. Advertising.
They Say She Tastes Like Honey (Oct., $13.95 paper) by Michelle Sawyer is a first novel about a New York lesbian with a penchant for sex and tequila. Advertising.
Kinkorama: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Perversion (Dec., $13.95) by Simon Sheppard is a journalistic excursion into kinky sex. Advertising.
The Wrestling Party (Dec., $12.95 paper) by Bett Williams probes desire. Advertising.
Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (Feb., $15.95 paper), edited by Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea. Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles and others celebrate the avant-garde. Advertising.
Reprints: Letters to Montgomery Clift (Sept., $13.95) by Noel Alumit; Monster: Gay Adventures in American Machismo (Jan., $13.95) by Brian Bouldrey.
APPLAUSE
Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century (Oct., $23.95 paper), edited by Ben Hodges, is a 10-play anthology spanning the century, from The God of Vengeance (1918) by Sholom Ash to Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994) by Terrence McNally. Ad/promo.Publicity.
ARSENAL PULP PRESS
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Quixotic Erotic (Sept., $15.95) by Tamai Kobayashi is her new collection of lesbian erotica.
Hot & Bothered 4: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire (Nov., $15.95), edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky, gathers stories of 1,000 words or less.
Outbursts! A Queer Erotic Thesaurus (Nov., $16.95) by A.D. Peterkin compiles coded slang terms from the English-speaking nations that describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians.
Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire (Nov., $15.95), edited by James C. Johnstone, is comprised of tales no longer than 1,000 words.
ATRIA
Kevyn Aucoin: A Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Make-up Artist (Oct., $30) by Kevyn Aucoin and Kerry Diamond presents the late makeover artist's life in a diary format with many candid photos and annotations.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love (Jan., $23) by bell hooks promotes an emotional wholeness.
BEACON PRESS
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality (Jan., $25) by Patrick Moore recasts the gay male sexual culture of the 1970s by comparing sex to art. Advertising.
Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Jan., $25 paper) by Richard Meyer demonstrates how gay artists have both resisted and responded to the threat of censorship. Advertising.
BELLA BOOKS
Maybe Next Time (July) and One Degree of Separation (Sept., each $12.95 paper) are new lesbian romances by Karin Kallmaker.
Blood Link: A Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery (July, $12.95 paper) by Claire McNab is #15 in the series.
Cry Havoc: A Detective Franco Mystery (Oct., $12.95 paper) by Baxter Clare is the second installment in the series about LAPD Lieutenant L.A. Franco and her squad.
Death by Death: A Denise Cleever Thriller (Nov., $12.95 paper) by Claire McNab pits the Australian Security Intelligence Organization agent against a terrorist mastermind.
BRIDGE WORKS
The Beginning of Calamities (June, $24.95) by Tom House centers around an 11-year-old whose emerging gay sexuality and spiritual doubt complicate his theatrical attempts at his Catholic school. Insight/Out and QPB selections. Author tour.
BROADWAY BOOKS
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Sept., $24.95) by Jennifer Finney Boylan is the memoir of both James Finney Boylan and the woman he became, plus the enduring love story of James's wife Grace, who remains constant. Ad/promo. Author tour.
BULFINCH PRESS
Judy Garland: A Portrait in Art and Anecdote (Oct., $50) by John Fricke is heavily illustrated and has a foreword by the star's daughter, Lorna Luft.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS
Gay Rights and American Law (Sept.; $65, paper $19) by Daniel R. Pinello is a comprehensive study that includes case narratives and statistical analyses.
Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution (Oct.; $60, paper $22) by Evan Gerstmann considers the issue of whether a fundamental right to marry exists.
CIRCLET PRESS
Erotic Fantastic: The Best of Circlet Press 1992—2002 (Sept., $19.95 paper), edited by Cecilia Tan, culls 23 erotic SF stories from a decade of anthologies.
Dyke the Halls: Lesbian Erotic Christmas Stories (Nov., $12 paper), edited by Linda Alvarez, offers a dozen Yuletide tales.
The Erotic Writer's Market Guide (Jan., $19.95 paper) by Lawrence Schimel and Rachel Bussel. Market listings accompany advice about breaking into the erotica field.
CLEIS PRESS
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s: A Memoir (June, $14.95 paper) by Marijane Meaker reveals the author's two-year romance with Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
A Restricted Country, Second Edition (July, $14.95 paper) by Joan Nestle is a collection of essays from the lesbian activist.
Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (Aug., $16.95 paper), edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise, showcases the varied output of the openly gay African-American organizer who advised Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, Second Edition (Aug., $16.95 paper) by Patrick Califia is a history of transsexuality with an updated resource section.
Betty & Pansy's Severe Queer Review of San Francisco, Seventh Edition (Nov.) and ...New York, Third Edition (Nov., each $12.95 paper) by Betty Pearl and Pansy are travel guides that include "Favorite Places to See and Be Seen After 2 a.m."
Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 (Dec., $14.95 paper), edited by Tristan Taormino, is a gritty anthology of lust.
Best Gay Erotica 2004 (Dec., $14.95 paper), edited by Richard Labonte, glorifies man-on-man desire.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (Aug., $45), edited by Terry Castle, is a comprehensive compendium that explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism" over the centuries.
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Dec.; $69.50, paper $24.50), edited by Daniel Boyarin et al., maps the intersections between Jewishness and queerness, homophobia and anti-Semitism.
Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists (Feb.; $62.50, paper $24.95) by Richard Canning interviews a dozen gay writers of the last decade, including Michael Cunningham, Christopher Bram and Stephen McCauley.
The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Feb.; $62.50, paper $24.50) by David Bergman is a social history of the literary circle whose members have included Robert Ferro, Andrew Holleran and Edmund White.
DBA UNLIMITED
Cooking Is Not a Drag! (June, $24.95) by Miss Tweety serves up 60 recipes with 30 "candid" photographs of the "authoress," aka Lawrence Pfeil Jr.
DOWN THERE PRESS
(dist. by Words)
The Leather Daddy & The Femme (July, $13.50 paper) by Carol Queen is back with a new introduction and three new chapters for redefinitions of sex and gender.
DOWNTOWN PRESS
Bite (Sept., $22) by C.J. Tosh is named for a fictional magazine started by a straight woman and a gay male. C.J. Tosh is a pseudonym for the coauthors, two magazine editors who happen to fit the same description.
DUKE UNIV. PRESS
The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (Sept.; $79.95, paper $22.95) by Michael Lucey examines the range of erotic behaviors in Balzac's fiction.
Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Oct.; $74.95, paper $21.95) probes the contexts—including cinema studies and feminist theory—within which "the lesbian" is rendered visible.
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Dec.; $74.95, paper $21.95) by Martin F. Manalansan IV is an ethnography of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City.
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970—1979 (Dec.; $84.95, paper $23.95) by Tim Lawrence reports on the polymorphous sexuality at the core of the hotspots.
ECCO
Fanny: A Fiction (Oct., $24.95) by Edmund White. In this novel based on the life of 19th-century Scottish gentlewoman Fanny Wright, love appears in all forms: within the family, between races and generations, and within the same gender.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties (Sept., $23) by Felicia Luna Lemus. A university honors graduate immerses herself in L.A.'s post-punk, post-queer hipster scene. Author publicity.
FEMINIST PRESS
The Girls in 3-B (Nov., $14.95 paper) by Valerie Taylor. The 1950s pulp depiction of a lesbian relationship is reprinted as part of a new Femmes Fatales series.
Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies, from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY (Dec., $17.95 paper) gathers interdisciplinary essays prepared during the first decade of CLAG.
FIREBRAND BOOKS
And Then They Were Nuns (June, $14.95 paper) by Susan J. Leonardi is a novel featuring a priest named Karen. Publicity. Author tour.
Dish It Up, Baby! (Oct., $14.95 paper) by Kristie Helms is touted as a cross between Bastard out of Carolina and Bridget Jones' Diary. Publicity. Author tour.
FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS
The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers (Sept., $19) by Rick Whitaker. The ex-hustler muses on his personal reading list.
FOURTH ESTATE
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde vs. John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry (Nov., $27.95) arrives with an introduction and commentary by Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson and the executor of his estate.
GRAYWOLF PRESS
Cocktails (Mar., $14 paper) by D.A. Powell is a poetry collection that completes the writer's trilogy that began with Tea, followed by Lunch.
HAIDUK PRESS
(dist. by Biblio)
Lovers' Legends Unbound (Sept., $25 book and CD) by Andrew Calimach and Agnes Lev restores nine "lost" Greek myths that integrate human sexuality with spiritual teachings and uphold same-sex love alongside heterosexual love.
HARPERCOLLINS
Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (Mar., $24.95) by Abigail Garner. The family rights activist and daughter of a straight mom and two gay dads blends advice with first person accounts of children who grew up in non-traditional families.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
Homosexuality and Civilization (Oct., $35) by Louis Crompton delves into the ways in which major civilizations in the last two millennia treated those attracted to their own sex.
HAWORTH PRESS
Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad (June; $29.95, paper $19.95) by Kevin McGarry follows a single gay man's struggle to adopt.
Through It Came Bright Colors (July; $34.95, paper $19.95) by Trebor Healey is a novel about a gay man's continued search for honesty and love in spite of loss.
Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Life Curves (July; $34.95, paper $17.95) by Andrew R. Gottlieb examines how sons react to the disclosure that their fathers are gay.
Elf Child (Oct., $19.95 paper) by David M. Pierce concerns a gay man with magical abilities.
A Taste for Blood (Nov., $19.95 paper) by Diana Lee is a romantic novel in which Ryan Wolf, an 800-year-old Scottish vampire, takes Carissa as her new lover.
Huddle (Nov., $16.95 paper) by Dan Boyle limns the season-long struggles, on the field and off, of gay flag football teammates.
Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual (Feb., $16.95 paper), edited by Greg Herren, is an anthology of gay and lesbian horror stories.
Girls with Hammers (Mar., $19.95 paper) by Cynn Chadwick. A lesbian carpenter suffers a midlife crisis.
An Inexpressible State of Grace (Mar., $17.95 paper) by Cameron Abbott is a novel that mixes intrigue, lesbian eroticism and a dysfunctional family.
INDIANA UNIV. PRESS
Coming Out in Christianity (Sept., $22.95 paper) by Melissa M. Wilcox focuses on two churches in California with principally GLBT congregations to characterize the internal conflicts of individuals who identify themselves both as Christians and gay.
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (Jan., $24.95 paper), edited by Jim Elledge, is an expansive anthology that integrates voodoo chants and cowboy songs with more traditional works by famous and little-known GLBT poets.
INSOMNIAC PRESS
Amuse Bouche (June, $16.95 paper) by Anthony Bidulka. A cute, gay rookie detective is off to Paris on his first big case.
The Pleasures of Time: Two Men, A Life (June, $16.95 paper) by Stephen Harold Riggins is the story of the American-born author's relationship of more than 30 years with his French-born partner Paul Bouissac, a writer and circus authority. John Cage, Allan Bloom, Michel Foucault and Claude Levi-Strauss appear.
The Lover's Tongue: An Erotic Odyssey Through the Language of Love and Sex (Oct., $16.95 paper) by Mark Morton. Chockful of more than 100 essays pertaining to the linguistics of love and sex, this different sort of dictionary has an entire chapter devoted to gay and lesbian terms.
KENSINGTON
Daytime Drama (June, $23) by Dave Benbow. Acting as an extra on daytime TV's hottest soap, Clay has his eyes opened.
Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire (June, $14 paper) by Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann collects four erotic novellas about gay vampires.
Between Girlfriends (July, $23) by Elizabeth Dean. Being a freelance writer and also a lesbian has some consolations when the dating gets ugly.
Gay Blades (July, $23) by Ben Tyler. Gay figure skaters touring in Gold on Ice scorch the sheets with their amorous male fans.
Becoming Bobbie (Aug., $14 paper) by R.J. Stevens. Tomboy Bobbie finds herself drawn to Agatha Claraday, her sympathetic English teacher.
Last Summer (Aug., $23) by Michael Thomas Ford. When he learns of his lover's affair, Josh heads for the windswept dunes of Provincetown.
Wearing Black to the White Party (Aug., $22) by David Stukas reunites accidental sleuths Michael, Robert and Monette in murderous Palm Springs.
P-Town Summer (Sept., $23) by Lisa Stocker situates four lesbians among the temptations of a week in Provincetown.
The Way Things Ought to Be (Sept., $23) by Gregory Hinton is set in the 1970s in Boulder, Colo., where young and handsome James is looking for love.
Another Kind of Love (Nov., $15 paper) by Paula Christian mates two lesbian pulp romances from the '50s and '60s in one volume.
The Actor's Guide to Murder (Nov., $23) by Rick Copp. A former child star lives quietly in the Hollywood Hills with his policeman mate until a friend is found dead.
Man of My Dreams (Feb., $14 paper) by Ben Tyler, Dave Benbow, Jon Jeffrey and Sean Wolfe contains four novellas whose protagonists are all searching for Mr. Right.
The Trouble Boy (Mar., $23) by Tom Dolby. A 22-year-old in New York wants fame and fortune, and one tragic night changes his future forever.
Reprints: It's in Her Kiss (June, $14) by Elizabeth Dean; My Lush Life (Nov., $14) by Douglas McEwan; Boyfriend Material (Jan., $14) by Jon Jeffrey.
KNOPF
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and Their Circle (Sept., $30) by Lois W. Banner. The two met at Barnard College in 1922, where Benedict was a teacher and Mead a student, and became sexual partners before each married. Author tour.Advertising.
The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970—1980 (Oct., $35), intro. by Hugo Vickers, includes pen-portraits of numerous celebrities, from the Queen Mother and Truman Capote to Marlene Dietrich and assorted Rothschilds. Advertising.
LITTLE, BROWN/BACK BAY
You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival (Jan., $13.95 paper) by Wesley Gibson recounts his efforts to find a place for himself in the Big Apple. Author publicity.Advertising.
MORROW
Lives of the Circus Animals (Oct., $24.95) by Christopher Bram parades an array of motley characters involved in the contemporary New York theater world.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
Pathways of Diversity and Enlightenment (Aug., $18.95 paper) by Keith Armstrong cites sexual orientation as one issue in its discussion of oppression and diversity.
W.W. NORTON
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Sept., $14.95 paper) by Adrienne Rich reflects on the ways poetry and politics affect American life.
Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947—1985 (Nov., $27.95) by James McCourt documents gay culture in New York during the second half of the 20th century. Author tour.
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (Jan., $27.95) by Graham Robb reports that there was a surprising social tolerance of homosexuality during this time.
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde (Mar., $29.95) by Alexis de Veaux traces the life and emergence of the black feminist lesbian poet.
PETER OWEN
(dist. by Dufour)
Lorca: Living in the Theatre (Oct., $44.95) by Gwynne Edwards considers his homosexuality as well as his plays in the context of the politics and culture of Spain in the 1920s and '30s.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
The Sappho History (Sept., $27.95) by Margaret Reynolds. Responses to her poetry and her shifting reputation from the Romantic period to today provide insights into Western culture.
PARTHIAN BOOKS
(dist. by Dufour)
Fishboys of Vernazza (Sept., $13.95 paper) by John Sam Jones is a new collection of short stories with gay characters from the author of Welsh Boys Too.
PERENNIAL
Reprint: Dear First Love (Nov., $12.95) by Cuban-born Zoé Valdés.
PERMANENT PRESS
A Good Divorce (Sept., $26) by John Keegan includes issues of sexual identity among the twists and turns in a novel about a disintegrating household.
Mt. Monadnock Blues (Nov., $26) by Larry Duberstein. A gay uncle is pitted against a surviving sister and brother-in-law over custody of their orphaned niece and nephew.
POCKET BOOKS
Queer As Folk: The Book (Nov.; $40, paper $20) by Paul Ruditis mingles season-by-season synopses with interviews, profiles and backstage bits and includes a DVD of unaired footage.
ROUTLEDGE
Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality and Self-Invention (Oct., $18.95 paper) by Martha Gever questions whether the visibility of lesbian celebrities has helped or hindered the acceptance of same-sex relationships. Ad/promo.
When AIDS Began: San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic (Dec., $21.95 paper) by Michelle Cochrane challenges the standard line on the transmission of AIDS.
Sexuality (Jan., $19.95 paper) by Jeffrey Weeks is an updated second edition containing new material on AIDS and queer theory.
The Transgender Reader (Feb., $29.95 paper), edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, gathers some 50 texts and articles in the fields of queer studies and the evolution of transgender studies.
ST. MARTIN'S
Do Everything in the Dark (June, $23.95) by Gary Indiana ends on September 9, 2001, with a variety of individuals at difficult crossroads.
Lust (Sept., $25.95) by Geoff Ryman is a novel in which wish fulfillment becomes an actuality for a gay man with a gift to conjure up such fantasies and partners as Picasso, Lawrence of Arabia and Billie Holiday.
ST. MARTIN'S/GRIFFIN
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead (Nov., $12.95 paper) by James Kirkwood. The darkly comic novel, with a hapless protagonist tied up in his kitchen by a bisexual burglar, returns to print.
Reprint: Godspeed (June, $12.95) by Lynn Breedlove.
SILVER DAGGER MYSTERIES
Death by Dissertation (Feb.; $23.95, paper $13.95) by Dean James. The real-life manager of Murder by the Book in Houston has written a novel about Andy, who stumbles across a dead body while trying to unravel the mystery of his feelings for Rob.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Dating the Greek Gods: Empowering Spiritual Messages on Sex and Love, Creativity and Wisdom (June, $21) by Brad Gooch is a self-help tome for gay men in search of spiritual fulfillment, from the author of Finding the Boyfriend Within.
The Funny Thing Is... (Oct., $23) by Ellen DeGeneres is a new collection of humorous essays coinciding with the launch of the comic's syndicated talk show. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The Peninsula of Lies: A Case of Sex Reassignment, Taboo Love and a Mysterious Birth (Mar., $25) by Edward Ball chronicles the life of Charleston socialite Dawn Langley Simmons, born Gregory Langley Hall, who was adopted by the English actress Margaret Rutherford and raised as a boy, before having a sex-change operation, marrying a black man and giving birth to their daughter.
STREBOR BOOKS
(dist. by Atria)
Passion Marks (Oct., $13 paper) by Lee A. Hayes is a debut novel about a gay black man confronting the death of a twin brother while dealing with a hellish lover.
TEN SPEED PRESS
Lavender Road to Success: The Career Guide for the Gay Community (Sept., $14.95 paper) by Kirk Snyder advises on such matters as finding a perfect employer and why gays make more money out of the closet.
THAMES & HUDSON
Art: A Sex Book (Oct., $29.95 paper) by John Waters and Bruce Hailey. The noted film director and art critic team up to interpret sex and sexuality within contemporary art and society.
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (June, $27.50) by Nan Alamilla Boyd theorizes that the city's early bar culture laid the foundation for its strong gay communities and social activism.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with AIDS and HIV (Aug.; $50, paper $24.95), with photographs and interviews by Roslyn Banish, joins 40 portraits with first-person testimony from her subjects.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
The Dirt She Ate: New and Selected Poems (July, $12.95 paper) by Minnie Bruce Pratt is a collection with several themes, including romantic relationships among women.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels Through Syria (Sept., $24.95) by Robert Tewdwr Moss is a memoir of travel, adventure and romance from an author who was subsequently murdered. A Living Out book.
The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life (Sept., $24.95) by Brian Bouldrey is a novel about what was to have been the final decade of the HIV-positive protagonist's life—until medical breakthroughs prolonged it.
The End of Being Known: A Memoir (Nov., $19.95) by Michael Klein. The Lambda Award—winning poet digs deeply into sexual desire in a series of autobiographical essays. A Living Out book.
Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories (Nov., $26.95 paper), edited by Lynda Hall, collects stories by two dozen lesbian writers.
The Women in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier (Nov.; $65, paper $26.95) by Loreta Janeta Velazquez is an account of a woman who cross-dressed as a man to organize an Arkansas regiment, to romance men and women, and to spy on the North by working as a double agent.
Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS and Theater in Brazil (Dec., $29.95 paper) by Severino J. Albuquerque critiques the threads of homosexuality in Brazilian theater.
Queer in America: Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power, Third Edition (Jan., $24.95 paper) by Michelangelo Signorile is updated with a new preface and a new chapter about America's current attitudes toward the gay and lesbian community.
Reprints: Body, Remember: A Memoir (Sept., $22.95) by Kenny Fries; Mr. Bluebird (Oct., $15.95) by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg; In Thrall (Oct., $22.95) by Jane Delynn.
VENDOME PRESS
(dist. by Abrams)
Checkered Past: A Visual Diary of the '60s and '70s (Oct., $27.95) by Peter Schlesinger combines reminiscences with 180 photographs of "Swinging London" taken over a decade by the one-time companion of David Hockney.
VINTAGE
The Charioteer (June, $14 paper) and The Friendly Young Ladies (June, $13 paper) by Mary Renault are two classics reprinted in the Rediscoveries series. Publicity.
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude (Oct., $12 paper) by Amy Bloom reports on lives of people considered outside the parameters of "normal." Advertising. Author tour.
The City and the Pillar (Dec., $13 paper) by Gore Vidal is a re-publication of the early novel of gay experience, with an introduction by the author.
WEISER BOOKS
Gay Witchcraft: Empowering the Tribe (June, $19.95 paper) by Christopher Penczak centers on Wicca from a gay practitioner's viewpoint.
