te Best
ooks of ’05
« Jesse Monteagudo
Contributing Writer
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_ > 2005 was not a good year for
*<- queer books. Four major GLBT
it book stores — Key .West's
^Flaming : Maggie's,
^Sacramento's Hie Open Book,
||§euti!e's Be yond the Closet and .
npa's Tomes & Treasures — -:
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Even worse,
Lambda Book ReporffqS
which reviewed GU3T£|||
literature with distintHl
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, non since
• ceased to exist.
; On. the other hand, i
| the Lambda Literary |
I Foundation (LBS's pais)
eat) is curresgjji
regrouping;
■ InsightOut book ck
continues to,;,
erve
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mem
■ here;
.Books' T
I^Vatch Out For! (biwof.com)
promises to continue in the LBR
^gjtadition with e-newsletters
devoted, to lesbian, gay male,
and women's literature.
Vo-i t'O
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No single book dominated the ?!
sBiGay and Trans literary soeneS
is year, with the possible except
in of the late Dr. C. A. Tripp's
thmte y&rtd. of Abrgham Utwohf
Holiday Gift
By Jesse Monteagudo
Contributing Writer
. Books make great gifts. With
that in mind, "Ihe Book Nook"
offers this list of books
that we ttiink would make
great gifts for die lesbian,
gay, bisexual or transgen
dered person(s) in your
life. As we did last year, we
list the books by price
range. Please note that
these are list prices, which
do not take into account the
discounts that various out
lets might offer.
Under 10 Dollars: There
many good bodes
list The Bear
Essentials
Postcard
Book The
Best cf Barn/
G o l l o p
(Bruno
Gmunder;
$8.99); Homo Art by Gilles N4ret
. (Taschen; $8.99); and The
V Essential Gay Mystics, edited
\ with an introduction by
V Andrew Harvey (Harper
\ Collins;$8.99), Also priced
, \ under $10 are The Only Bush
' \ I Trust Is My Own, humorous
essays Dy
P e r i e 1
Aschenbrand
(Tarcher; $9.95)
and Shut Up!
and Listen' to
Yourself, . an
insightful - self
help book by
Joshua Estrin
(Angel Mind).
Thoughts Press; $15.99) and/or
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually
Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback
Novels 1950-1965 (Qeis; $18.95).
Gay men who like their comics hot
$10-19.99:
One of this year's
sad stories is the
breakup of Silo
and Roy, two male
chin-strap pen
guins at New York
City's Central
Park Zoo (Silo has
since moved in
with a female pen
guin). This
shouldn't stop you
from, buying the
iTHE/lNTIMAtm?
WORLD OB
ABRAHAM
LINCOWNS
•ftu- i.
and sexy will devour two
new collections by
Canada's own Patrick
Fillion — The Incredibly
Hung Adventures of the
Mighty Males and Heroes
(Bruno Gmunder; $17.95
each) — which feature
the erotic adventures of
Camili-Cat, Naked
Justice, GhostBo^^^^
other muscl^^fWn^cm!^
frequently nude super
heroes. Finally, these
charming Ana lango M«Ke&x lhret
(Simon- Sc' Sdtuster; $13.99).
Written by Peter Parnell and
Justin Richardson, and illustrat
ed by Henry
Cole, it tells
the story of
Silo and Roy
— and their
a d op ted
chick. Tango
— back
when they
were one
big happy
family. Gay history buns will
appreciate last year's Stonewall:
The Riots that Sparked the Gay
Revolution by David Carter,
now in paperback (St Martin's
Press;
$14.95). The
lesbian m
your life
might enjoy
Rock Hard,
Put ' Away
Wet: Lesbian
Cow boy
Erotica [cow
girl erotica?]
edited by Sacchi Green and
Valencia ‘ Roxelle (Suspect
>r. books in the White Crane / Lethe
spirituality series win make great
gifts: Two Flutes Playing by Andre
Ramer ($123.95); Gay Spirituality
by Toby Johnson ($16.95) and the
classic anthology Gay Spirit edit
ed by Mark
Thompson
($19.95).
$20
29.99: We all
, 1 Kh A
remember
the moment
when we
KNEW that
we were G,
L, B or T.
Famous
"people of the
Rainbow"
recall that
moment in
their lives in
When I Knew, edited by Robert
Trachtenberg (Regan Books;
$22.95). Humorist Margaret Cho,
who defies categories, is back with
: continued page 7
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