Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&N=3+7496+4294941196 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687489 Despite being a successful book editor with a wife and two children, Walter Samson finds himself risking everything for a relationship with another man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682417 Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post-World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe hes leading the good American life--until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor. Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samsons three-story house on the Upper East Side, where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret. Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era fear, with its doleful consequences and with societys pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much but gaining more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1361896 Ethan Poe, sixteen and gay, struggles for balance while his life conspires to pull him in many different directions. His parents are divorcing; his older brother Kyle is damaging his right hand in the name of purity; his best friend is a Jesus freak who prays for him to be straight; hes desperate to get his drivers license, but he cant seem to get enough supervised driving time. Hes just starting to see light in the form of Max Modine, a boy he wants to know much better than he does, when his rural Maine town begins to explode around him. Against his intentions he gets pulled into a pitched and sometimes violent conflict about whether to introduce Intelligent Design into science classrooms. Friendships end, families are torn apart, and the school becomes a battleground. Always seeking elusive balance, Ethan finds his way through a maze of lost friends, new love, and the mysteries of tattoos and power animals, with help from quarters where he never expected to find it. And he gains something better than balance.--from authors website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=961184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653686 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93365 From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the poems of Allen Ginsberg and gay literature of the 1980s and 90s, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature draws together hundreds of texts from Western literary history that describe experiences of love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex among men. Spanning more than two millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the late twentieth century, this anthology brings together the best-known texts of gay male writing such as the poetry of Martial and Walt Whitman, and excerpts from E. M. Forsters Maurice, as well as from lesser known works such as nineteenth-century English homoerotic poetry and selections from two early American novels of homosexual love - Joseph and His Friend and Imre. In The Columbia Anthology readers become acquainted with the early bonds of male companionship found in Homers writings on Zeus and Ganymede, and with the homoerotic poetry of Catullus and Juvenal. From Shakespeares Sonnets to the philosophy of de Sade, to the political writings of Edmund White, this anthology traces a multifaceted tradition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=118490 There are no more profound influences on our lives than those we choose to love and those who choose to love us. Doris Grumbachs frank and moving new novel, The Book of Knowledge, illustrates this truth as it plays out in the lives of four characters whose departures from the sexual norm will alter their fates in the deepest ways. The four are Caleb and Kate Flowers, brother and sister; Lionel Schwartz; and Roslyn Hellman. They meet in the placid seaside town of Far Rockaway, New York, in the summer of 1929, as the country stands on the brink of great financial disaster and they are about to enter puberty. Raised by their widowed mother, Emma, in self-sufficient isolation, Kate and Calebs mutual absorption with each other will by subtle degrees turn incestuous and mark their lives indelibly. Roslyn will discover during a long and finally traumatic stay at summer camp that her intellectual hauteur is no defense against disappointment and sudden self-discovery. And years later, at Cornell, Lionel and Caleb will begin a passionate affair in which their homosexuality is acknowledged by themselves for the first time. Meanwhile Kate will pine away in Far Rockaway for Caleb, her lost and only love. Decades before coming out was even thinkable, let alone doable, these four characters must wrestle in the shadows with their deepest feelings and fears. With a skill that has made her one of the countrys most admired novelists, Doris Grumbach takes material that not very long ago would have been considered shocking, even perverse, and shows us the human costs, in loneliness and despair, that our restrictive sexual mores exacted on those who were different. The Book of Knowledge is her most accomplished and, in its devastatingly quiet way, most tragic novel yet.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=121163 It would be hard to imagine parents more perfect than Claire and Theo. In a rambling apartment overlooking Central Park West, they raise their son Willy with enthusiasm, encouragement, and what might now be called unconditional love. It might also be called unconventional love, for Claire and Theo are both women; they are Willys mothers. As a young boy, Willy knows only the warm, supportive, slightly offbeat world of Claire, a respected photographer, and Theo, a successful caterer. Together they fill Willys life with laughter, fun, and an extended circle of friends and relatives. Sunday dinners at Theos table are legendary, trips to Uncle Peters Long Island farm are any boys delight, and visits to Uncle Baxter and Aunt Jessicas Greenwich Village brownstone are an exotic adventure. But Willy soon learns of another world, one in which his mothers are viewed with hatred and mistrust. When that world intrudes and forces Claire and Theo to reexamine their lives and their relationship, Willy is the only person who can prove to them and to the courts that normal is in the eye of the beholder, and that life with his mothers is the best life a boy could have.--BOOK JACKET.