Clik here to view.
Review: The Bad and the Beautiful by Jamie Craig
It’s 1955, Las Vegas is swinging, and David Lonergan has the chance of a lifetime when he accompanies his cousin to be the headlining act at the Thunderbird Casino. A pianist who cut his teeth in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Star Attraction by Jamie Craig
In 1955, Sam Coles is Hollywood’s newest rising star, and his latest role in Gordon Palmer’s movie, The Devil Inside, promises to send his popularity into the stratosphere. But Sam is less interested...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Farewell my Concubine by Lilian Lee
A sweeping saga, Farewell my Concubine runs the gamut of China’s modern history, from 1924 to the 1980′s, and takes the revered Peking Opera as its centre stage. Xiao Douzi and Xiao Shitou become...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Sal Mineo: a biography by Michael Gregg Michaud
Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me
In the 1950s Frankie Howerd, the famous radio and film comedian, meets a young waiter Dennis Heymer, who,like himself,is a closet homosexual. Their relationship blossoms into a partnership, rather than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Infamous
On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Silver-Silver Lining by Lucius Parhelion
In 1958 meteorologist Dr. Rob Lanard is in Las Vegas to observe the effects of the first nuclear test explosions on the weather. His boss on this job is Dr. Phillip Argent. The two men share more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Baldwin’s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Painting by FK Wallace
Stefan, a naive young Pole, meets Gunter, an artist in 1930s Berlin. Their passionate love affair is overshadowed by the rise of the Third Reich. Denounced to the Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Pioneers by Lynn Lorenz
When Matt films a documentary of gay men living in New Orleans over the last fifty years, his first subject is none other than Sebastian LaGrange, his very own landlord. The elderly gentleman has lived...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Summer Song by Louise Blaydon
Billy Bronner is, to all appearances, every inch the 1950s American dream: handsome, clever, captain of the high school football team, looks good enough in tight jeans that people can even forget he’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Haji’s Exile by Alan Chin
Nathan has cared for horses all his life, but Haji is the first he’ll train on his own. When the Arabian stallion arrives at Bitter Coffee Ranch, Nathan thinks he is the most beautiful thing he’s ever...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Shooting Gallery by Kate Roman
Mick Reese is a Korean War veteran turned private eye, making a living sifting through the seedy underbelly of 1953 Cincinnati. But the night he busts into the Shooting Gallery, a casino cum criminal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Home Fires Burning by Charlie Cochrane
Two stories, two couples, two eras, timeless emotions. “This Ground Which Was Secured At Great Expense” It is 1914 and The Great War is underway. When the call to arms comes, Nicholas Southwell won’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Whistle Pass by KevaD
On the battlefields of WWII Europe, Charlie Harris fell in love with Roger Black, and after the war, Roger marched home without a glance back. Ten years later, Charlie receives a cryptic summons and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Virgin Airmen by Michael Gouda
After a short hiatus we are back and I’m kicking off with a short story set during the early 50′s in England. It’s a bitterly cold Saturday evening when Michael Duggan, RAF aircraftsman second class,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of...
Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town’s stars and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Life Begins at 40 by Jessie Blackwood
After months of physiotherapy, Group Captain Jack Ratigan has regained some of the mobility lost in plane crash at the end of World War II. But six years later, he still requires the care of his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Secret Light by Z.A. Maxfield
Rafe Colman likes his life. He has a nice home, a good job, and a wonderful dog. But he’s exhausted by living a lie. When his home is vandalized because of his perceived German ancestry, he can’t even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Low Between by Vivien Dean
It was supposed to be simple. All struggling actor Carlo Baresi had to do was pick up a man in a taxi, drive him to the location he specified, then report where he’d taken him. The only problem is, the...
View Article
