"In a wide-ranging group of essays by some of today's novelists, writers, and critics, Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read insists on the importance of these fifty titles to all readers but also challenges our own bookshelves to make room for new arrivals. Some familiar names - Melville, Plato, Sappho, Rimbaud - are seen afresh, while others will be unfamiliar and waiting to be discovered."--BOOK JACKET.

"Emmy Award-winner John Scagliotti, producer of the landmark films "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", guides us in a wondrous tour of erotic history, poetry and visual art in this point-of-view documentary on same-sex desire from ancient times to Victorian crimes. He explores how the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the growth of LGBT political power in the 1990s cleared the path for artists and scholars to re-discover pre-20th century same-sex...