Short reviews of The Orange Spong; Let Them Eat Cake; and Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day.

Reviews of Female Husbands: A Trans History, and The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

Reviews of Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health, The Real World, The Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics: An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series, and A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America.

Reviews of Lot, The Animals at Lockwood Manor, Becoming Man, and Hollywood Chinese.

Noted back-country climber David Oates is perhaps best known for Paradise Wild, his manifesto on the way humans fit into the natural world. In that book and in The Mountains of Paris, a recurring theme is his upbringing in a conservative religious household (“I am the gay son they never wanted”).

Short reviews of the books: Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989; In the Valley of Tears, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement; and Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church.

In this new volume, [Peter Ackroyd has] written a concise history of “gay London” over two millennia. He begins with Londonium, the Roman city at the northern extreme of the Empire, and continues chronologically up to recent times.

Book reviews of Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel, The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, The Parting Gift, and Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody.