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Best Gay Stories 2008

Best Gay Stories 2008 Review



Berman, Steve, editor. "Best Gay Stories, 2008". Lethe Press, 2008.

Some of the Best

Amos Lassen

Sometimes it is easier to read "the best" when they are all assembled in one volume and that is just what Steve Berman has done in what he hopes will become the first of a series that takes into the best writing that the gay world has to offer.
The stories in "Best Gay Stories, 2008" touch on all of the issues in gay life and include selections from the very finest gay authors including Jameson Currier, Erastes, Greg Herren, David Leviathan, Jeff Mann and Ethan Mordden among others. There are twenty stories and each has something valuable to sat. The selections are varied giving us a cross-section of gay life and I found the stories to be enlightening, entertaining and though provoking.
Berman's new baby, Lethe Press, is a wonderful addition to gay literature and he brings us quite a group of writers. It is so good to have him reprinting some of the best of gay literature by authors who lost their publishing houses when they were closed or sold. If this book is a glimpse at what is to come, we are very lucky.



Best Gay Stories 2008 Feature





Best Gay Stories 2008 Overview


Editor Steve Berman (Charmed Lives, So Fey, Wilde Stories) has selected twenty stories--some moving essays, some splendid works of fiction--from the prior year that best feature the lives, loves and losses of gay men. With tales by fresh voices and established writers, Best Gay Stories offers readers indiscretions, poignant trysts, and reminiscences that are as evocative as they are imaginative.

The contributors to this year's volume are: M. S. Allen, Holly Black, Richard Bowes, Tom Cardamone, Jameson Currier, Peter Dube, Erastes, Greg Herren, James Klise, David Levithan, Raymond Luczak, Joseph Manera, Jeff Mann, Billy Merrell, Ethan Mordden, Paul Reidinger, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Paul Russell, Aaron Shurin, and Robert Warwick.


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Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present

Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present Review



It wasn't "Don't ask, don't tell" in ancient Greece. Same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture.
Learn about Samarai sex, American Civil War, WW I and II, the contemporary U.S. military as well as sailors and pirates.




Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present Overview


In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achelleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns. But recent debates over the legality of gay service in the military and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy have obscured this rich aspect of military history. Richard Burg has recovered important documents and assembled an anthology on these often invisible gay and lesbian warriors.

Burg shows us that the Amazons of legend weren't just fictional. We learn about the richness and variety of their culture in documents from Plato, Seneca and Suetonius. The sexual culture of the samurai is explored along with its relationship to warmaking. From courts-martial proceedings we discover women warriors in seventeenth century England who passed as men in order to serve, and army officers whose underground culture fostered long-term romantic friendships.

There are also sections on the American Civil War, World War I and II, the contemporary U.S. military as well as sailors and pirates. This anthology will forever change the way we think about "gays in the military."


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