Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Spirituality/Religion. Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love is a passionate exploration of the history of Western religion as seen through the queer eye of one of the most widely acclaimed authors in gay spirituality. Drawing on recently discovered ancient sources, Will Roscoe offers a striking new view of Jesus as a charismatic mystic, whose teachings on love and the kingdom of heaven were complemented by a secret rite that served to impart the experience of entering heaven. After meticulously reconstructing this rite, Roscoe seeks its ultimate origins--an odyssey that eventually leads him to the margins of the inhabited world, where the ancient practices of shamanism survive to today. Whether discussing early Christianity, Plato's Symposium, the rites of shamans, or the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, Roscoe uncovers fresh insights at every turn. He builds a persuasive argument that mysticism and gay love are powerfully connected, and that this connection forms a hidden tradition in the history of Western religion.

Jesus And The Shamanic Tradition Of Same-Sex Love

Politics & Social Sciences

Will Roscoe

Social Sciences

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Brotherhood is going to the dogs. You're your own man, Jake Barnes tells himself upon arrival at his father's isolated cabin in the Oregon woods. You are yourself. But in the strange world of One of These Things Is Not Like the Other, manhood and self are not so easily understood. Or trusted. Quadruplet brothers. Raised in rural seclusion by their identical, namesake father. Now in their twenties, the Jake Barnes brothers are shocked by their father s sudden suicide. More surprises come in the video he leaves behind, announcing that one of them is an unrelated outsider, and daring his sons to uncover the truth of their birth. From across the U.S. the brothers converge to find a woman who may be their mother, but twisted lust, murderous secrets, and shifting identities threaten their lives along the way. One of These Things Is Not Like the Other is the winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction.

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

Scott, D. Travers

Literature & Fiction

No, it's not The L Word goes cowgirl. Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica has gathered realistic lesbian cowboy stories. No urban cowboy c**p. No wannabe Yahoos. This is authentic, get-real, can smell and feel the leather and taste the grit, working cowboy lore, nowadays or historical, and totally erotic. While some of the tales have moments of easy ridin', most of them have a decided kink to their gallop, and even the occasional burr under the saddle. Harlequin romance, this ain't. Contributors include Crystal Barela, Cheyenne Blue, C.B. Calsing, M. Christian, Amie M. Evans, Chuck Fellows, Shanna Germain, Nipper Godwin, Sacchi Green, Bryn Haniver, Jay Lake, Caralee Levy, C.A. Matthews, Skian McGuire, Val Murphy, No Name, Jake Rich, Toby Rider, Stephen D. Rogers, Julia Talbot, Rakelle Valencia, Fargo Wellington, and Connie Wilkins.

Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica

Sacchi Green

United States

The Wild Creatures brings together all the stories of Sam D'Allesandro, a young voice whose life was tragically snuffed out at age 31 at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1988. This new collection includes all of D'Allesandro's published stories (including those first collected in the out-of-print cult classic The Zombie Pit) as well as unpublished stories found among D'Allesandro's papers years after his death by his editor, the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, who worked with the literary estate to create this extended edition of his writing. The Wild Creatures explores a strange terrain of urban legend, the power of sexual obsession, and the thin line where the too-cool becomes the too-hot. Sam D'Allesandro's focused, vivid writing is the stuff of legend: writing so powerful it drags the reader in by the neck.

The Wild Creatures

Killian, Kevin

D'Allesandro, Sam

Short Stories & Anthologies

In a house trailer in rural Mississippi, Gary, a married Vietnam veteran, addicted to drugs, haunted by memories of the past, is on the brink of collapse. Just when he thinks the dream of another life is over, the unspeakable happens. He falls in love with a frail, ghostly younger man who reminds him of youth, beauty, and the possibility of a life beyond the prison he has created for himself. A Scarecrow s Bible is about what happens when love occurs at the most unexpected moment. It is the story of how working-class men and women in a small town adapt to changes that somehow seem impossible. It is a novel of hope and transformation that challenges our ideas about diversity and social change, breaking your heart all the way. Winner of the 2007 Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2006 Violet Quill Award, the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction, the 2007 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Men's Fiction, and an Honor Book in Literature for the 2007 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award.

A Scarecrow's Bible

Hyatt, Martin

Literary

Sodom & Me: Queers on Fundamentalism

Philips, Ian

Religion & Spirituality

For Lack of a Better Word

LGBTQ+ Books

Hillman, Thea

In intense, lyrical language, Jeff Mann's short stories give us an array of tormented characters: adulterous lovers, a kidnapper and his handsome victim, the sadistic ghost of a Confederate soldier, a yearning forestry student, an eager masochist, and a hairy biker. These tales explore the sex and psychology of BDSM and of bear culture, and most are set in Mann's native Appalachia, an area often mythologized as a place where the wilderness within converges with the wilderness without.

A History of Barbed Wire

Mann, Jeff

Written by award-winning playwright and inveterate storyteller S. Bear Bergman, Butch Is a Noun picks up where gender theory leaves off. It makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home--if home is a place where everyone understands you and approves of your haircut. From girls' clothes to men's underwear and what lies beyond, Butch Is a Noun chronicles the pleasures and dangers of living life outside the gender binary.

Butch Is a Noun

BERGMAN, S. BEAR

Corridors of Nostalgia is the fifth collection of poetry by prominent outspoken African-American lesbian feminist poet Cheryl Clarke, and her first since 1993. Appropriately, the volume opens with "Living as a Lesbian Fin de Siecle," whose speaker condemns the atrocities of the late 20th century—"burning Indochine flesh." With her characteristic deprecating and self-deprecating vigor, Clarke drives the reader over the landscape of remembrances and losses: from the loss of pubic hair ("bald woman") to the loss of life in the World Trade Center disaster in New York City on September 11, 2001 ("Urban Epitaphs"). Corridors of Nostalgia is indeed a hard ride through the late 20th century, as the poet drops the anxious reader on the stoop of the early 21st. Poems like "Women in Uniform" and "A Sister’s Lament" reprise Clarke’s concern for black women who enter the formerly all-male preserves of the police and armed forces. The impact of popular culture icons on odd and ordinary life and perceptions play out in poems like "james dean longing," "Billie Holiday," and "Black Men." "The Letter" and "Please read" add to Clarke’s repertoire of poems that memorialize the period of African enslavement in the U.S. "Brooklyn," "taking head," and "reprise (for Ginsberg)" make us engage the poet’s acquiescence to sexual imagining, once again, in the realm of popular culture. Corridors is rich and wry with the varied themes of the pleasures and dangers in everyday life. Cheryl Clarke’s new volume challenges, probes, and picks at the reader. She remains committed to lesbian poetics and politics, tough and tight writing, songs of blackness, and the complicit you-I.

Corridors of Nostalgia: Poetry by Cheryl Clarke

Clarke, Cheryl

Poetry

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