Autumn’s
gray
days
and
impending
cold
have
a
way
of
making
the
lure
of
a
good
book,
a
fire
and
a
warm
drink
all
the
more
appealing.
This
fall’s
gay
literature
tableau
includes
the
usual
handful
of
memoirs,
but
also
delves
into
deeper
political
waters.
This
month,
lesbian
film
producer
Christine
Vachon’s
book
,
“A
Killer
Life:
How
an
Independent
Film
Producer
Survives
Deals
&
Disasters
in
Hollywood
&
Beyond”
comes
out.
Vachon,
who
worked
on
films
like
“Boys
Don’t
Cry”
and
“Hedwig
&
the
Angry
Inch,”
discusses,
among
other
subjects,
how
sexual
orientation
affects
the
production
of
a
film.
The
editors
of
“From
Boys
to
Men:
Gay
Men
Write
About
Growing
Up”
promise
that
their
collection
of
autobiographical
vignettes
will
not
be
all
coming-out
stories.
With
hot
writers
like
Aaron
Hamburger,
K.
M.
Soehnlein
and
Alexander
Chee,
the
book
will
hopefuly
reach
beyond
the
trite.
Mel
White,
author
of
“Stranger
at
the
Gate:
To
Be
Gay
&
Christian
in
America,”
has
crafted
a
new
book,
“Religion
Gone
Bad:
The
Hidden
Dangers
of
the
Christian
Right,”
about
the
threat
he
thinks
fundamentalist
Christians
pose
to
gays.
“The
History
of
Swimming,”
a
memoir
by
Kim
Powers,
and
“Wide
Awake,”
a
teen
novel
by
David
Levithan
about
the
turmoil
that
ensues
when
a
gay
Jew
wins
the
presidential
election,
round
out
September’s
publications.
A
gay
man,
Robert
Rave,
and
his
mother,
Jane
Rave,
collaborated
to
write
“Conversations
&
Cosmopolitans:
How
to
Give
Your
Mother
A
Hangover.”
This
non-fiction
work
uses
reproductions
of
letters
and
conversations
between
mother
and
son
to
show
how
their
forged
their
adult
relationship.
October
brings
a
book
by
gay
blogger
Andrew
Sullivan.
“The
Conservative
Soul:
How
We
Lost
It,
How
to
Get
it
Back”
examines
current
contradictions
within
conservatism
and
suggests
a
return
to
a
conservative
agenda
focused
on
small
government.
Reichen
Lehmkuhl,
star
of
CBS
reality
show
“The
Amazing
Race”
and
boyfriend
of
Lance
Bass,
has
written
an
autobiography,
“Here’s
What
We’ll
Say:
A
Memoir
of
Growing
Up,
Coming
Out
&
the
U.S.
Air
Force”
“The
House
Beautiful”
is
what
gay
curmudgeon
B.K.
Troop
names
his
haven
for
young
artists
in
Allison
Burnett’s
new
novel
by
the
same
name.
Gay
actor
John
Carlyle,
an
occasional
lover
of
Judy
Garland’s,
has
produced
a
novel
named,
no
joke,
“Under
the
Rainbow:
An
Intimate
Memoir
of
Judy
Garland,
Rock
Hudson
&
My
Life
in
Old
Hollywood.”
Carlyle
spills
his
guts
about
his
relationships
with
Garland
and
trysts
with
hot
Hollywood
men,
including
Rock
Hudson,
Marlon
Brando
and
James
Dean.
Lesbians
dominate
November’s
gay
offerings.
Ali
Liebegott
unsheathes
her
first
attempt
at
fiction,
“The
IHOP
Papers.”
The
protagonist
has
fled
her
hometown
for
San
Francisco
and
works
at
a
pancake
house
while
coming
to
grips
with
her
sexual
identity.
Queer
writer
Michelle
Tea
has
edited
a
collection
of
writings
by
other
queer
women
in
“Baby
Remember
My
Name:
An
Anthology
of
New
Queer
Girl
Writing.”
The
anthology’s
contributions
include
fiction,
graphic
novel
excerpts
and
personal
essays
from
the
22
authors.
The
Daughters
of
Bilitis,
the
first
lesbian
rights
organization
in
the
world,
finally
has
a
book
devoted
solely
to
its
history
in
“Different
Daughters:
A
History
of
the
Daughters
of
Bilitis
&
the
Birth
of
the
Lesbian
Rights
Movement.”
Through
extensive
research
and
interviews,
author
Marcia
M.
Gallo
traces
the
DOB’s
role
in
founding
the
personal
and
public
lesbian
identity.
