Like a wet dream hitchhiking through a nightmare -Circles is the phenomenal sequel to Perry Brass' groundbreaking gay science fiction thriller Mirage. Consider this: You're closeted Nick Lawrence, happily married to a wealthy woman in Beverly Hills. Suddenly your life has been taken over by an alien force--and the secret you've worked so hard to maintain is exploding in your face. Your only ally is a strange old man from a distant planet, who threatens to kill you. What's next?You're the young, blue-eyed Republican vice president of the United States secretly trying to win over the hidden wealth and power of gay America, while promoting your own agenda of "family values." Whom will you enlist for help?You're a gay Russian mathematician who's discovered an organic substance that can pass through time, space, and other beings. What do you do when you discover that this substance has taken over you?Circles returns to tiny Ki, a primitive, violent planet where Same-Sex love is a part of the balance of life. There Enkidu, once the promised mate of the ambitious hunter Greeland, has become the most hunted man on the planet. His only way out is to escape to Earth, alone, and there in a riot-scarred Los Angeles, take on the identity and body of another man. There he will find a partner who will do anything for him, including kill--and there he will attempt to save the lives of those he loves, including the tortured, handsome man whose body and fate he now owns.Circles is both graphic and mystical. It brings to life some of the most unforgettable characters ever put into a contemporary novel. Advancing the chronicles of the extraordinary planet Ki, Circles will also advance the cause of gay fiction out of its narrow focus and into the world-embracing landscape of our era. Circles will become a powerful key to the evolution of gender studies and the expanding gay consciousness of the 21st Century, whose effects are already being seen, culturally and politically, today.  Says author Perry Brass, "Circles is one of my favorite books, and one of the favorite books of all of my readers. In it, gay men are seen for the first time in the heroic, brave role they will later take in life, when the challenges of the AIDS crisis, the romantic will toward gay marriage, and world-wide appeal of lgbt equality have crystalized into focus. Circles was a groundbreaking book when it appeared in 1993, but its real story, that of two men in passionate love, is seen every day in our lives. Belhue Press is pleased to be able to bring Circles back to the book-buying public after it disappeared for several years."

Circles: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Perry Brass

United States

Belhue Press

Attractive, intelligent novel seeking . . . adventurous readers of any sexual taste and persuasion. From Perry Brass, author of The Substance of God, The Manly Art of Seduction, and King of Angels, among other books. I was just thinking, sometimes you have an idea that grabs you by the throat and won t let go. I m sure Tim Cook of Apple has those all the time, just like Steve Jobs did. My idea: Does cloning actually occur in Nature? And if it does, what happens when you find the original substance of God that thing that just keeps cloning itself infinitely, and when it becomes attached to you, or part of you, immortality itself is here to stay. Being a novelist, of course, the idea gave birth to a novel a whole premise, thing, and idea around it. I wanted to talk about God, about spirituality, and theology (which is basically the study of God, as well as religious beliefs, and how these beliefs shape our lives, for better or for worse), and I wanted to talk about sex and how sex and theology intersect. Because they do, no matter how you handle it. Every novel (and human life) starts out with a quest, and The Substance of God starts out with the quest of Dr. Leonard Miller, a brilliant bio-scientist, to understand, rationally, how he was able to come back to life again after he had been ruthlessly murdered by a group of religious terrorists because he has acquired this strange substance in his lab and has been scientifically investigating it. The substance dates back to the time of Jesus, and maybe even before. But who alerted these terrorists that Miller had it, and how it allowed him to come back to life to experience Resurrection itself and how long will this new lease on life last? These were wild ideas to work with, but I, and many of my readers, have felt that The Substance of God is more than worth the time and energy to explore them. I can just guarantee you this once you start this strange ride into Immortality, you won t want it to finish until the very last page.

The Substance of God: A Spiritual Thriller

Genre Fiction

Futurist Faustian pact: 2075. Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-raised design superstar in Americanized Germany, is 78 but looks 40 years younger due to the perks of his stressful job. Meeting an impulsive, gifted man will destroy the life he has painfully built for himself, but allow him to reclaim his own soul.

Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future

Contemporary

One half hour can change your life! The first half hour of meeting a guy can make the whole difference. The Manly Art of Seduction tells you how how to approach men (even when you're nervous, shy, or unsure of yourself), how to judge what he's feeling by looking at his personal body language, how to overcome his own male meeting problems, and how to obtain personal, emotional, and sexual satisfaction. 
 If you feel you re always waiting for someone else to make the first move, if you're traumatized by fear of rejection and don't have a clue how to open a conversation or open up a relationship, The Manly Art of Seduction is a must-have. 
 Brass explains male territorialism, and how it keeps men locked inside themselves. He tells you exactly how to use an understanding of male insecurities to your own advantage, allowing other men to feel secure in those very insecure first moments of meeting and negotiating closeness. He talks about making decisions yourself, and how these decisions can be used to make seduction possible and often even easy. He deals with the alien monster of rejection, and how to use mind pictures, exercises, and self-knowledge to rejection-proof your psyche. 
 At the end of most chapters are questions you can use to tailor this book to your needs, seeing your own progress as you come to master this art. 
 Although seduction is a part of most advertising and marketing today, Perry Brass has brought it to a place where we can find spiritual and inner nourishment through it, and where the chronic aloneness of much of today's world can be changed into a state of genuine delight and deeper sexual and emotional connections. "Relationships between men can run the gamut from brief connections to long-lasting commitments. This book demonstrates how to break through fear and old patterns to increase your seduction skills and decrease missed opportunities. No matter what kind of connection you might be looking for, the advice offered here is helpful, sharp, and pulls no punches. But the tough love is served with style and humor." Dave Singleton, author of The Mandates: 25 Real Rules for Successful Gay Dating 
 The Manly Art of Seduction is for men who seek greater intimacy of the physical or emotional sort. Geared primarily for gay men, though extremely useful for straight and bi men and women, this primer provides step-by-step guidance targeted to a wide variety of potentially romantic situations, from the barroom, to the Internet chat room, to the bedroom.
 You will learn:How body language, your own and his, works. How to use the boundaries of male territorialism to your own advantage. How to build confidence and security in yourself to keep from being devastated by rejection and your fears of it. How to be confident, adult, in control, and seductive in a world that does not want you to be and why it doesn't. How to make the most of what you look like, and get results that prove it. How to groom, dress, and act for seduction. How to seduce a man in a crowded bar, a social situation, over dinner out, at home, or anyplace. How to deal, seductively, with disability, weight issues, penis size, erectile dysfunction, class, race and cultural differences, as well as with straight men, married men, monogamy, and threesomes. How to become the balanced, secure, sexually successful person you want to be. You'll learn all of this in The Manly Art of Seduction, by Perry Brass. Why waste another night? Why spend another weekend alone? Why feel powerless with handsome strangers? Why not have the erotic and emotional life you've dreamed about? The answer is in THE MANLY ART OF SEDUCTION

The Manly Art of Seduction, How to Meet, Talk To, and Become Intimate with Anyone

Parenting & Relationships

By Perry Brass, the acclaimed author of How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, Carnal Sacraments, The Substance of God, Warlock, and Ippy-Award Gold Medalist The Manly Art of Seduction comes a novel in the setting of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in the Man Men period. "Perry Brass is a literary polymath who enthralls readers no matter the genre." Richard Labonte, syndicated book columnist, Book Marks King of Angels is a novel about the difficult and often tragic relationship of fathers and sons, or about one particular father and his attachment to his son, and his son s own unwavering attachment to him, despite scandals, secrets, and problems, and everything that will hold them apart, and yet keep them together forever. It is a coming-of-age story not just of one boy, but of a culture and an emerging gay community. 
It is the story of Benjamin Rothberg, a 12-year-old master of shape-shifting, of changing identities while steadfastly grasping the unique features of his own. The child of a marriage between a handsome Northern Jewish father and a classic-WASP-beauty Southern mother, Benjamin must change identities from Jewish to non-Jewish, from being a smart, precocious self-aware kid to masquerading and passing as a regular boy, from growing into a sexually curious (and possibly gay) young man to experiencing a fragile adolescent innocence, almost in love with a pretty girl. Set in Savannah, Georgia, during the tumultuous Kennedy years, King of Angels explores the role of Southern Jews in the still-segregated South, the explosive race relations and racial consciousness of this era, and the emergence of a genuine gay community with its own honest, outsider viewpoint. It is also a realistic story of the underground world of boys who must fool their parents and each other in order to achieve any form of unguarded closeness. As a half-Jew attending Holy Nativity, a Catholic military school in Savannah, Benjy will form some of the most important friendships of his life, and experience the full brutality of boys bullying each other. He will also become aware of many forms of seduction and attraction: the seductions of a secret sexual life in the school, the seductions of his own heart taken with a quiet handsome Puerto Rican male student, and the attractions of the Spirit itself in all of its revealed forms. This is truly a novel about the mysterious origins of identity and belief, in a questioning heart and questioning time, while growing up in the changing South in the early 1960s.

King of Angels, A Novel About the Genesis of Identity and Belief

What happens when you re caught in the cross hairs of an all-seeing international government corporation? A perfect narrative for the age of Edward Snowden. "Layered with philosophical elements, fascinating descriptions, and a clear focus on character overall, Brass's . . . work is one of the most unusual novels I've read in years," Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco. 
"I would definitely recommend this book to readers who get tired of reading erotic homosexual stories, and would like to try this sensual book," Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society. 
Perry Brass has created a page-turning thriller that takes the reader on one helluva roller coaster ride, and oh, the places you ll go!" White Crane Journal. "Unusual and unpredictable," Mandate Magazine. 
 A white-knuckle suspense story set in the year 2075, the distant yet close-enough future, when constant corporate + government surveillance is Standard Operating Procedure. Endless war and endless security punch their way through individual lives. And your job level will determine exactly if and how you live and die. 
In a glittering city in a very internationalized Germany, Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-born design star, has made a pact with the Devil himself. No matter what age he is, the mega-Corporation running the world will keep him looking movie-star young and handsome. Cooper has left his past, his history and heart behind. But they will catch up with him when he meets a handsome young Dutchman who offers him his real soul back but with even a higher price than the Corporation is making him pay. 
 A perfect tale for the currrent age of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency, and a world business culture in which many gay men have taken key roles and given up so much of themselves in return. Carnal Sacraments is a book you won t put down until the very end. 
 This 2nd Edition edition features an arresting new cover with a painting by German Symbolist painter Sascha Schneider, a Foreword by the author, as well as a biographical note on Sascha Schneider, a long-lost gay artist from the more sexually-liberated German twilight between world wars.

Carnal Sacraments: A Historical Novel of the Future

Literary

In June of 1965, after a year of intimidation and persecution at the University of Georgia in Athens, seventeen-year-old Perry Brass hitchhiked from his native Savannah to San Francisco, beginning an adventures he called, "like Mark Twain with drag queens." Often dead broke, he met an underground of homeless gay kids like himself, boy hustlers and the men who frequented them, as well as tormented married men, female impersonators, and ruthless cops. A Real Life is a keyhole into being an openly gay teen, on his own, in the turbulent period before Stonewall, and Gay Liberation. Brass also gives an account of his abusive lesbian mother, the many jobs and "hustles" he encountered to stay alive, the beautiful teenage hustler he fell hopelessly in love with, and the older men who taught him how to live in the shadowy gay world. Perry Brass is the author of nineteen books of fiction and non-fiction, ranging from poetry to "pornography," and his famous "how to" books, like How to Survive Your Own Gay Life and The Manly Art of Seduction. An artist, poet, journalist, and long-time activist, here he has pulled back the mask covering so much of lgbtq history and culture. He writes about the grit, courage, and ultimately love so many gay kids showed, after leaving families and communities that rejected them. He talks about his friendships and crushes, as well as his need to find in a time that told so many lies about kids like himself, his own "real life."

A Real Life, “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens”: A Memoir “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens”

Brass, Perry

LOVE AGAINST HATE: A Daughter’s Startling Memoir of Her Glamorous Parisian Mother and German Father in the Hellfire of Nazi Berlin

Biographies & Memoirs

Germain, Christiane

Memoirs

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