License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples by Kimberly D. Richman New York University Press.  271 pages, $39. “License” can mean official permission to do…More

Tiger Heron by Robin Becker University of Pittsburgh Press.  80 pages, $15.95 ROBIN BECKER is a well-established American poet and literary critic and professor at Penn State. Her…More

Queer Zines and Queer Zines 2 Edited by AA Bronson and Philip Aarons Printed Matter, Incorporated 271 pages, $25. (vol. 1) 264 pages, $25. (vol. 2) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED…More

See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad Cleis Press. 403 pages, $16.95 See a Little Light, titled after one of…More

The title Hold Tight Gently comes from the section of poems about AIDS from [Essex] Hemphill’s unpublished manuscript Domestic Life.

In Cinema of Sergei Parajanov Steffen makes great use of the documentation surrounding Parajanov’s work, which includes all sorts of scripts and literary treatments, original texts that served as the basis for his films, official Communist Party letters and memos, and Parajanov’s speeches and interviews.

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography By Richard Rodriguez Viking. 235 pages, $26.95 WHAT MANY LISTENERS remember about the commentaries that Richard Rodriguez delivered for years on the PBS Newshour…More