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Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film

By Phil Hall | Jul 30
A biography on the beautiful yet elusive film star.


Book Features

Anne Rice

Anne Rice Won’t Be Anti-Gay, Leaves Christianity

By Hillel Italie
Anne Rice has had a religious conversion: She’s no longer a Christian.

Amazon snags exclusive deal for e-editions

Amazon.com Inc. says it has struck a deal that will give it exclusive rights to sell some of the great works of 20th century literature in electronic form.

John McCain’s Gay-Friendly Daughter Writes a Campaign Memoir: ’Dirty Sexy Politics’ Hits Shelves Aug. 31

By Kilian Melloy
When Barack Obama bested John McCain in 2008, GLBT Americans thought they had gained their best-ever White House ally. Obama, after all, had sworn that he would be a "fierce advocate" for the needs of gay and lesbian Americans and their families.
Reads that speak to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning teens, all parts of who they are, have exploded over the last decade

Books with gay themes for young readers take off

By LeAnne Italie
At his Kentucky elementary school, kids taunted Brent on the playground about being gay, whatever that was. By eighth grade, he realized what they meant and came out to a friend - and vice versa.

Promiscuous reading

By Roberto Friedman
If reading one book at a time is, metaphorically speaking, monogamous, then Out There cops to being a polygamist bookworm. The stack of books on our rustic nightstand does ever overflow with new releases and art tomes. We thought we’d share a few of them with you, and we’ve arranged them by weight, heaviest first.
 IT’S YOU GIRL AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT | Buchmeyer moved to the big city just like his hero Mary Richards - and escaped the shadow of his father, the Texas judge who was a hero to the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Jamie Beck)

Jerry’s Kid Jon Paul Buchmeyer

By Arnold Wayne Jones
Jon Paul Buchmeyer grew up with a hero of the gay rights movement. But all he ever wanted was to turn the world on with a smile
 IT’S YOU GIRL AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT | Buchmeyer moved to the big city just like his hero Mary Richards - and escaped the shadow of his father, the Texas judge who was a hero to the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Jamie Beck)

Hot Summer Reads

By EDGE
Hot summer reads to pop in that beach bag!
 IT’S YOU GIRL AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT | Buchmeyer moved to the big city just like his hero Mary Richards - and escaped the shadow of his father, the Texas judge who was a hero to the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Jamie Beck)

Gays in the Ancient World: Steven Saylor’s ’Empire’ Out in Sept.

By Kilian Melloy
The best stories have something to say to us now, whether they are set in the far future or in days of antiquity. Openly gay author Steven Saylor’s forthcoming novel Empire is timely on several fronts.
 IT’S YOU GIRL AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT | Buchmeyer moved to the big city just like his hero Mary Richards - and escaped the shadow of his father, the Texas judge who was a hero to the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Jamie Beck)

Highways and Byways: Philip Gambone on His ’Travels in a Gay Nation’

By Kilian Melloy
Boston based writer Philip Gambone chats with EDGE about his powerful collection of interviews with some of America’s most fascinating GLBTs.
 IT’S YOU GIRL AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT | Buchmeyer moved to the big city just like his hero Mary Richards - and escaped the shadow of his father, the Texas judge who was a hero to the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Jamie Beck)

Jon Paul Buchmeyer :: his life as a sit-com

By M. M. Adjarian
What if your life was like a sit-com? Specifically one very popular one: the Mary Tyler Moore Show. That’s what writer Jon Paul Buchmeyer envisioned when he set out to put stories from his life in Manhattan on paper and in cyberspace. The transplanted Texan moved to New York in 1996 with no job and his personal life in tatters. What followed became the basis of his writing, first on his blog, then in manuscript form. Recently his memoir - Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom Life - was named a 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist. Now Buchmeyer has set out on a book tour that will keep him busy through October. EDGE’s Maude Adjarian spoke to the writer recently about his book, his tour and why he calls himself a "writer-preneur."
 IT’S YOU GIRL AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT | Buchmeyer moved to the big city just like his hero Mary Richards - and escaped the shadow of his father, the Texas judge who was a hero to the gay rights movement. Photo courtesy of Jamie Beck)

Michael Thomas Ford Takes ’The Road Home’

By Kilian Melloy
Acclaimed gay novelist Michael Thomas Ford chats with EDGE about love, family, and his new novel, The Road Home.

The best new gay travel guides

By Hannah Clay Wareham
Don’t go it alone! These LGBT travel guides will help you plan your perfect getaway.
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Fiction

The Thieves Of Manhattan

By Kyle Thomas Smith
A failing writer agrees to a plot to prank the publishing industry, only to see his own life transform into something out of a hardboiled gumshoe novel in Adam Langer’s satirical The Thieves of Manhattan.
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Non-Fiction

FIFTH AVENUE, 5 A.M. Audrey Hepburn, ’Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

By Steve Weinstein
A movie as delightful as Breakfast at Tiffany’s (if not quite as innovative as the author believes) deserves a thicker, richer tribute essay than this slim volume.
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Health/Fitness

The Manly Art Of Seduction

By Kevin Taft
Author Perry Brass navigates the scary waters of dating in the gay world, offering refreshing tips on how to approach a man, as well as taking it to the stages of emotional and physical intimacy.
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Biography

Madre & I

By Adela M. Brito
Guillermo Reyes, a playwright and a theater professor at the University of Arizona, tells this story and that of his mother Maria in Madre & I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives. It begins with their life in their native Chile and continues with their new life as immigrants in America.
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Coffee Table

The Big Butt Book

By Brian Callaghan
A little behind in your reading? You’ll find plenty of it in this enormous new coffee table book that celebrates the female posterior. It’s guaranteed to have you crack a smile.
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