Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. REBEL YELL continues the tradition of Southern literature with the work of contemporary gay men. Includes work by such contemporary Southern gay authors as Robin Lippincott, Jameson Currier, Walter Holland, John Trumbo, Andrew Beirele, George Singer, Jeff Mann, and editor Jay Quinn, whose own story, 465 Acres, examines one man's rebellion against the long-held expectations of farm and family. The rotting plantations of Faulkner and Williams have long been bulldozed to accommodate the spread of tract housing and shopping malls, but the tales of the South, now told by a current generation, still spring from the hearts, groins, and minds of its sons. REBEL YELL is a singular collection of those stories, told in the soft accents of the gay men who know both the horror and tenderness that is their heritage.

Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors (Gay Men's Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Quinn, Jay

United States

Southern Tier Editions/Haworth Press

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. A second novel by Bay Area writer Paul Reidinger, whose first novel, The Best Man, was named one of the best novels of 1986 by the American Library Association. In THE CITY KID, he presents Guy Griffith -- gay, 40, and less than satisfied with the current state of his life. He comes to San Francisco like many before him - as a refugee from some intimacy gone disastrously wrong in the huge nation east of the bay. When he meets sixteen-year-old Doug Whitmore on a ridge overlooking a nude beach, he surrenders with pleasure to the boy's radiant adolescent energy. Guy doesn't yet understand how deeply rooted Doug's hurts and confusions are, nor how dangerous they might come to be, and he is not entirely willing to admit, even to himself, how susceptible he is to the fugitive attraction that he and Doug both feel.

The City Kid (Gay Men's Fiction)

Reidinger, Paul

In this unusual coming-of-age novel, author Jay Quinn surveys the expanding emotional and sexual boundaries of Matt, an eighteen-year-old surfer in coastal North Carolina. Set against the broad skies and beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Matt's story of claiming his place as a surfer and as a gay man in the small and large worlds of construction sites, fishing piers, and surf breaks, is a triumph of storytelling. 
As Matt's dedication to surfing and learning the nuances of the technical aspects of his job join seamlessly, he also learns of his own capacity for erotic adventure and need for emotional connection. Matt's many layers of learning to be a man are the stuff of hard-earned experience and a textured reading experience that is rare in the coming-of-age genre.

Metes and Bounds: A Novel

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. In this unusual coming-of-age novel, author Jay Quinn surveys the expanding emotional and sexual boundaries of Matt, and eighteen-year-old surfer in coastal North Carolina's Outer Banks. The novel follows Matt as he leaves home after his high school graduation to work for his uncle, a land surveyor. Matt's story of claiming his place as a surfer and as a gay man in the small and large world of construction sites, fishing piers, and surf breaks is a triumph of storytelling.

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Jewish Studies. Even during scorching sexual encounters with strangers in public parks and gay baths, Dave Miller is haunted by images-some perverse, some downright homey-of his dead family. In two intertwined chronologies, this remarkable novel follows Dave, a 40-year-old Jewish man who was raised by his Orthodox, Holocaust-survivor grandmother. From the cruising spots of Boston to the gay tourist scene in Amsterdam, Dave trysts dangerously with every available man. "We've heard of survivors' guilt, but Daniel Jaffe brings us a visceral understanding of its less understood concomitant, survivors' rage, in this extraordinarily fearless novel."--Diane Lefer.

The Limits of Pleasure

Jaffe, Daniel M.

Cultural Writing. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. Here is a revealing look into male effeminacy: why some gay men are swishy, why other gay men are more masculine, and why effeminate men arouse anger, disgust, and disdain in both gay and straight men. SISSYPHOBIA explores those negative feelings that are aimed at people termed fairies, faggots, flamers, and queens; men who, as the author puts it, run more toward what we could term the `Quentin Crisp school of homosexuality.' The focus of SISSYPHOBIA is the author's search of the roots of the rage toward effeminate or flamboyant men experienced by men of every sexual persuasion, even themselves. Visit the book's Web site at www.sissyphobia.com.

Sissyphobia

Bergling, Tim

History & Criticism

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies.New to SPD. In April of 1997, Tristan Broder, gay, widowed, and balding, makes a pilgrimage of sorts from San Francisco to the prickly desert and scalped mountains around Tucson, Arizona, the place where he helped bury his partner Joe five years before. Guided by a comet that crossed the spring sky that year, he wanders toward renewal and resurrection, memory and mystery, deadly secrets and dark intentions. Set in a swift, single weekend against the stark backdrop of the Sonoran desert amid the Easter ceremonies of the Yaqui Nation - a Native American tribe that mingles their own customs with Western Catholicism to create a passion play of rejuvenation - LOVE, THE MAGICIAN is a tale of a broken-hearted soul who will, in order to live, break more hearts.

Love, the Magician (Gay Men's Fiction)

Bouldrey, Brian

Distortion (Gay Men's Fiction)

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. After exchanging his least favorite sexual act for ticket money, a young hustler named Reggie (gay, racially mixed, and currently flat broke) finds himself crossing the desert on a Greyhound bus. Unfortunately, Reggie is on speed and believes that sinister cosmic forces are in play and that they're focused on him. Even worse, he may be right. DISTORTION follows Reggie's dark journey from indigent hustler to MTV star and back, across the country and through the twists of his own mind and the minds of the equally dysfunctional people who know him. I like you you were great I mean I really love you I gotta go...

Beachy, Stephen

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Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors (Gay Men's Fiction)

The City Kid (Gay Men's Fiction)

Metes and Bounds: A Novel

Metes and Bounds: A Novel

The Limits of Pleasure

Sissyphobia

Love, the Magician (Gay Men's Fiction)

Distortion (Gay Men's Fiction)