Queer Little Nightmares

Queer Little Nightmares
Author: David Ly
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551529025

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons. In Queer Little Nightmares, creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems—the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past—relish their new sparkle in the spotlight. Pushing against tropes that have historically been used to demonize, the queer creators of this collection instead ask: What does it mean to be (and to love) a monster? Contributors include Amber Dawn, David Demchuk, Hiromi Goto, jaye simpson, Eddy Boudel Tan, and Kai Cheng Thom. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Queer Fear II

Queer Fear II
Author: Michael Rowe
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Building on the success of its groundbreaking predecessor, winner of the Queer Horror Award and a finalist for a Spectrum Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, this second volume includes new work by the stars of the first volume. Featured are International Horror Guild Award-winners Gemma Files and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award-winners David Nickle and Edo van Belkom, screenwriter Ron Oliver, and Aurora and Nebula Award-winner Robert J. Sawyer alongside fresh new talent and a new story by internationally acclaimed horror writer Poppy Z. Brite.

Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person

Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
Author: Daniel Zomparelli
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 155152676X

In these quirky interconnected stories of first-person narratives, text messages, and Facebook posts, gay men look for love, bake pies, hook up on Grindr, use Botox, have threesomes with ghosts, and fear happiness: a deadpan, tragicomic exploration of love, desire, and dysfunction in the twenty-first century.

Mythical Man

Mythical Man
Author: David Ly
Publisher: Anstruther
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2020-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781989287354

In Mythical Man, David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of race and identity mix in Ly's poetry, casting a spell that enters like ?a warm tongue on a first date.? Mythical Man is an authentic and accomplished debut.

The Other Side of the Closet: a Queer Horror Collection

The Other Side of the Closet: a Queer Horror Collection
Author: Patrick Kane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-10-03
Genre:
ISBN:

8 STORIES. 8 QUEERS. 8 FEARS. The Other Side of the Closet explores the real life nightmares of the LGBTQIA+ community through a bloody and morally twisted lens. A random hookup gone wrong. A gay bar haunted by a dead drag queen. A demented family reunion. A couple who can't let go. In his first collection, Patrick Kane transports you to a dimension where your darkest insecurities are magnified beyond your control. Where the horrors in your mind have taken shape in front of your very eyes. That dimension is here. That dimension is now. No queer is safe from the terror that resides on: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOSET

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Author:
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 140005446X

Five men from the hit show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" offer advice for making lifestyle changes in the categories of decorating, grooming, culinary, fashion, and culture.

Our Work Is Everywhere

Our Work Is Everywhere
Author: Syan Rose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781551528151

A visually stunning collection of illustrated narratives on queer and trans resistance.

Lot Six

Lot Six
Author: David Adjmi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062097016

“David Adjmi has written one of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic reinventions, this touching, coruscating joy of a book is an answer to that perennial question: how should a person be?” — Olivia Laing, author of Crudo and The Lonely City In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art. Brooklyn, 1970s. Born into the ruins of a Syrian Jewish family that once had it all, David is painfully displaced. Trapped in an insular religious community that excludes him and a family coming apart at the seams, he is plunged into suicidal depression. Through adolescence, David tries to suppress his homosexual feelings and fit in, but when pushed to the breaking point, he makes the bold decision to cut off his family, erase his past, and leave everything he knows behind. There's only one problem: who should he be? Bouncing between identities he steals from the pages of fashion magazines, tomes of philosophy, sitcoms and foreign films, and practically everyone he meets—from Rastafarians to French preppies—David begins to piece together an entirely new adult self. But is this the foundation for a life, or just a kind of quicksand? Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagan’s 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmi’s memoir is a genre bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the artist in the throes of a life and death crisis of identity. Raw and lyrical, and written in gleaming prose that veers effortlessly between hilarity and heartbreak, Lot Six charts Adjmi’s search for belonging, identity, and what it takes to be an artist in America.

Dirty River

Dirty River
Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1551526018

Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.