35 Cents is the story of a straight, young, white boy growing up and coming of age as he hustles his way both through the gay community and the juvenile-detention system of South Florida in the late 1980s. It’s also the amount he made when he turned his first trick at 13.
James Gardiner£14.00 paperback Montague Glover was an architect, an army officer, a talented amateur photographer, and a homosexual. When he died in 1983 he left behind thousands of photographs spanning the period 1918 to the 1950s. They document his three great obsessions: the search for "rough trade"; men in uniform, and the handsome
By John Rechy. The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City of Night, is a modern classic. Now, for the first time, he writes about his life, in a volume that is a testament to the power of pride and self-acceptance. Rechy was raised Mexican-American in Texas, at a time when Latino children were routinely discriminated against.
That a Jew living in Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing.
Charles Winecoff £10.99 paperback
Paramount groomed him to replace the late James Dean and become Hollywood’s hottest heartthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Hitchcock’s Psycho killed that – and spawned an image of Anthony Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life
By Jeffrey Weeks & Kevin Porter. From 1885 until 1967 all homosexual acts in Britain were illegal and those bold enough to test the limits of the law were either imprisoned or ostracized. This book chronicles the lives of 15 men during this time and whose stories are drawn from extensive interviews conducted in the late 1970s
BRUTAL UNCUT by Aiden Shaw. paperback. Adult film superstar Aiden Shaw follows up his bestselling memoir, My Undoing, with a no-holds-barred look at sexual excess. Out of control on drink and drugs, Paul seeks out men who will abuse him. He rents them his body, snorts their coke, and wakes from nightmares barely knowing what is real.
The Life & Career of George Michael by Robert Steele. George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide. This revealing new biography, tells his story from the formation of Wham! in the early 1980s. His success as a solo artist with albums including Faith and Listen Without Prejudice. His legal battle with Sony. His personal life including his secret boyfriend Anselmo Feleppo who died in 1993, his former muse Kathy Jeung and art dealer Kenny Goss. The drug and sex scandals that eventually led him to be sent to prison in 2010 following a car crash. Includes commentary by those best placed to observe his career – such as former Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell.
My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. By Edmund White. 1970s New York was a dangerous, vibrant city. Capote, Burroughs, Mapplethorpe - Edmund White knew them all. They lived, breathed and created art in a city where boundaries were pushed and anything seemed possible. White writes with wit and insight about this bohemian time in his life, and through it all sparkles fleeting and carefree associations with a fascinating melting pot of people.
Steven Fales £8.99 paperback
Behind the Scenes of the off-Broadway Hit
A hit at New York’s Fringe Festival, Steven Fales’ true-life story has become a smash across the America. Now playing off-Broadway
