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Jeremy Hooper tips us that anti-gay crackpot Linda Harvey has published a new book which (surprise) endorses the torture of LGBT youth. From the book’s description on Amazon: “I’m gay.” As more and more young people decide this is their identity, it’s time to take a closer look. It’s a profound declaration, a new civil right (they are told) and …

Morrissey’s autobiography was launched stateside on Tuesday, but minus the part about his love affair with a man. The former The Smiths star published his hotly-anticipated autobiography in the U.K. in October (13), and the book hit headlines over a section in which the rocker confirms long-running rumours he had a relationship with snapper Jake Walters in the mid-1990s. The …

The theme of the book is that Jesus will turn America back into a Christian nation if everybody prays at 7:14am and 7:14pm every day. Or something. Vander Plaats, you might recall, was last year accused of offering to sell his presidential endorsement to Frothy Mix for a sweet million dollars.

Courtesy of Oxford University Press, our second Swag Tuesday prize this week is The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience by Dr. Perry Halkitis, which is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and …

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Time for our quarterly book report. What are you reading?

From the press release about a new book on bible prophecy: This new book claims that Bible prophecy describes missiles and rockets with such detail that it even calls the warhead a “head that kills” with fire, smoke and sulfur. This is not just another book on Bible prophecy, he shows by examining information in the biblical text in detail, …

John Rechy’s landmark novel, City Of Night, was published 50 years ago this week.  From the Los Angeles Times: The book is a landmark not only of gay literature — it tells the story of a street hustler as he moves through the shadow world of the 1950s — but also of American literature. “City of Night” was not the …

The “Jesus never existed” folks might find this interesting. Atwill asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a sophisticated government project, a kind of propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire. “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent …

Time for our quarterly book report. What are you reading?

From Christopher Doyle’s outfit, Voice Of The Voiceless. In celebration of Ex-Gay Awareness Month, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) and Voice of the Voiceless (VoV) are urging the American Library Association (ALA) to include ex-gay books in advance of its “Banned Books Week,” September 22-28, when the ALA publicizes unpopular books censored by libraries and schools. ALA …

Here’s the trailer for the coming novel by Christopher Rice, the openly gay son of Anne Rice. “In a city fighting for its future, a dark truth will be revealed and a power will be unleashed…” This suspenseful and cinematic trailer gives you a peek inside THE HEAVENS RISE, the first supernatural thriller from CHRISTOPHER RICE, author of multiple New …

Philadelphia’s Giovanni’s Room, the nation’s oldest LGBT bookstore, is for sale. Ed Hermance, 73, has owned the independently run LGBT bookstore, nestled on the corner of Pine and 12th streets, since 1976. The Powelton resident plans to step down this winter and is exploring options for keeping the business running under a new owner, but will have to sell to …

Over at the Friendly Atheist, they’re having some fun with the cover of a new e-book about about beating the Jesus into your kids (so to speak), which features a photo of the cast of that godless pro-gay show, Modern Family. Readers at Friendly Atheist found the author on Twitter to happily clue him in and he’s just responded at …

Time for our quarterly book report. What are you reading?

Two years after being damaged in a fire, San Diego’s gay bookshop will reopen just in time for this weekend’s pride events. (Tipped by JMG reader David)

The Atlantic has the story: In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately. Retired SEAL Kristin Beck’s new memoir, published on Tuesday and titled Warrior Princess, is a bit different, though. In it, Beck describes how, over the course of her 20 year military career, including thirteen deployments over the globe, she slowly became more and more aware …

Courtesy of the publisher, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is American Savage, the new book by Dan Savage which goes on sale today at retailers and online. Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinions on controversial topics—political or otherwise. He launched the global phenomenon of “It Gets Better,” an inspirational anti-bullying campaign to help LGBT youth, he’s the …

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