Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Download or read book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude written by Ross Gay and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

Download or read book Be Holding written by Ross Gay and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers, as well as over his career in both the NBA and ABA. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.

Download or read book The Gay Past written by S. J. Licala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual people. Through narrative history as well as biography, these essays trace the legal, social, and physical consequences of this oppression.

Download or read book Queer Patterns written by Lilyan Brock and published by She Winked Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Digital Edition; Grier Rating: A** She folded Sheila into her arms and kissed her eyes, her soft fair hair, finally her lips. Nicoli’s short dark hair, gray eyes, and cameo cut features were somehow fascinating to Shelia. And Nicoli gave of them freely. Honey-haired, statuesque Sheila Case is the central character in a fascinating story about a young actress who is drawn to women and finds many women attracted to her. These attractions can be intriguing, even useful, as Sheila works to further her acting career in the harsh and competitive theater world. Sheila knew she had a crush on Nicoli from the first moment she met her. Cool and deliberately sensual, Nicoli allowed the attraction to develop into a deeply passionate affair both women were powerless to control. Before long, though, the dangerous game Sheila is playing to advance her acting career threatens to trap her in the very web she has woven, and ensnare the lovers in the glare of gossip, rumor and ostracism. Against the backdrop of the theater world, Queer Patterns is a story of powerful attraction, passionate love and the lengths to which two women will go to protect it against all odds.

Download or read book Bonnie Kaye s Straight Talk written by Bonnie Kaye and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bonnie Kaye s Straight Talk" is a collection of the best of her monthly newsletters from 2001 2008. These are the newsletters that her support network members call their lifeline when unraveling the complexities of their marriages to their gay husbands. In Kaye s own words, " This is the best survival guide for women who suspect or find out that their husbands are homosexual. These newsletters were written from my heart about my own life experiences as well as those of some of my support network members. I clearly explain how and why your husbands are gay, as well as provide good advice on how to handle those difficult situations such as rebuilding your sexual and self-esteem. After reading this book, you will understand how to make the only rational choice to survive emotionally after this happens to you. It will help you identify with the millions of other women in this situation who can identify and feel every raw emotion you are going through now, and understand the challenges you face in the years ahead of healing and starting over. " Kaye, who has counseled over 35,000 women since 1984, is considered the national expert on Straight/Gay marriages by the media. She is a consultant and guest for the major talk shows and news shows throughout the country. Kaye has written four other books to address this topic, but she believes that this collection of her newsletters is, The best of my best! About the Author Bonnie Kaye is recognized as an international expert in the field. She acts as a consultant for major news networks and television shows including Oprah, Montel Williams and Tyra Banks. Kaye s other books include: "The Gay Husband Checklist for Women Who Wonder; Doomed Grooms: Gay Husbands of Straight Wives; ManReaders: A Woman s Guide to Dysfunctional Men; Straight Wives: Shattered Lives;" and "How I Made My Husband Gay: Myths About Straight Wives."

Download or read book Gay Is Good written by Michael G. Long and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular notions, today’s LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Long before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny (1925–2011), one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. Beginning in 1958, he encouraged gay people to embrace homosexuality as moral and healthy, publicly denounced the federal government for excluding homosexuals from federal employment, openly fought the military’s ban against gay men and women, debated psychiatrists who depicted homosexuality as a mental disorder, identified test cases to advance civil liberties through the federal courts, acted as counsel to countless homosexuals suffering state-sanctioned discrimination, and organized marches for gay rights at the White House and other public institutions. In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny’s historically rich letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today’s politically powerful LGBT movement. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny’s inimitable voice—a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament, and often shrill, piercing to the federal agency heads, military generals, and media personalities who received his countless letters. This volume collects approximately 150 letters from 1958 to 1975, a critical period in Kameny’s life during which he evolved from a victim of the law to a vocal opponent of the law, to the voice of the law itself. Long situates these letters in context, giving historical and biographical data about the subjects and events involved. Gay Is Good pays tribute to an advocate whose tireless efforts created a massive shift in social attitudes and practices, leading the way toward equality for the LGBT community.

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Download or read book Gay Romance Collection Volume 3 written by Connor Whiteley and published by CGD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 emotional, moving, gripping gay romance books from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 3 very fun and outstanding gay romances in this one volume. Includes: · Never Been Kissed: A Gay Sweet Contemporary Romance Novella · Meeting A County Man · Falling For Oxford Love sweet gay romance? Love unputdownable stories? Connor gives you both layered on thick in this amazingly fun collection. BUY NOW!

Download or read book Badboy Gay Mafia Books 1 3 Box Set Collection written by Steve Milton and published by Steve Milton. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad boy gay gangsters don't live the straight and narrow. Bad Boy Gay Mafia Books 1-3 Box Set Collection: novels 1 through 3 of Steve Milton's gay romance series Badboy Gay Mafia. Each of the three books in this collection is a standalone gay romance with a HEA and steamy love. Love and Zika Con man Jack finds a lucrative target for manipulation in Simon, a lonely IT manager. He feigns attraction in order to push Simon's buttons, but love gets in the way of the perfect con. The Sticky Icky Trevor and Henry have been best buddies ever since their first furtive glances across the high school lacrosse locker room. Now Henry is a police chief and Trevor sells him the marijuana he needs in order to function. Henry doesn't know why Trevor became a weed dealer, and Trevor doesn't know why Henry dropped out of law school. Henry tries to get closer, but Trevor's emotional boundaries get in the way, until revealed secrets change everything. Swimming to Cuba Linus and his Cuban counterpart Adam smuggle stolen luxury cars from Miami to a sleepy Cuban beach town. After a misadventure at sea, Linus and Adam have only each other, but Linus won't trust, and Adam won't wait.

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Download or read book 5 on 5 A Gay Hockey Romance Collection written by L.A. Witt and published by GallagherWitt Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 1795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hockey and romance – what’s not to love? This collection includes five full-length standalone M/M hockey romance novels! Brick Walls – They’re bitter exes. Now they’re on the same team… along with the very persistent demon that drove them apart. Own Goal – Eight seasons after he made the biggest mistake of his career, he’s finally regaining some respect and securing his place as second line center. But his team just made a new acquisition, and suddenly he’s linemates with the man who was the unknowing catalyst for his fall from grace. Name From a Hat Trick – When his daughter’s hero becomes his boyfriend… can they make it work? Burner Account – The last person he expected his anonymous online friend to be was his hockey crush. Now the chemistry is sizzling and they’re as inseparable in person as they are online, and their only regret is not doing this sooner. But when the novelty eventually wears off, how much can a broke, overweight average Joe actually offer a hot, rich, younger athlete? Injured Reserve – A marriage in crisis… and the injury that might be exactly what they need to get back on track. Enemies to lovers. Exes to lovers. Friends to lovers. Fans to lovers. This collection has it all!

Download or read book Gay Romance Starter Collection written by Connor Whiteley and published by CGD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand-new Starter Volume in the gripping, acclaimed fiction series! For years Connor Whiteley has written in a wide range of series spanning multiple genres from fantasy to mystery to romance and selling to top magazines like Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. For the first time ever, Connor Whiteley collects 100 short stories from his bestselling series into five brilliantly themed collections. This volume explores outstanding gay romance fiction from the English Gay Romance Stories. Including 20 heart-warming, sweet, emotional gay romance short stories. Romance readers will love this stellar volume. BUY NOW!

Download or read book Finding Love With His Best Friend Gay Romance Story Collection written by Mark Pace and published by Gay Romance Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Share the romantic journeys with these hot guys as they find true love with their best friends in this five story gay romance collection which proves that there's nothing in the world like friendship blossoming into love with your true soulmate. High school friends falling in love for the first time. College roommates who discover that opposites attract. Best friends finding love in a gay version of The Wizard of Oz... Best Friends Turn Into Lovers - Supposedly straight college student Chad fantasizes about his best friend. When the shirtless stud asks him to rub tanning oil on his back, things really heat up. Falling For His Roommate - Nerdy college freshman Dustin works in the campus library. He's never told anyone he's gay, but he secretly desires the guy who sleeps on top of him, in the upper bunk, that is! He has the hots for Jeff, his drop dead gorgeous roommate. Zach's Secret - Can a young man come out, find love, and survive senior year all at the same time? Small town high school student Zach vows to keep his true feelings for guys locked up inside. Confident and popular Key, the school's newly arrived attractive jock, gladly changes all that. The Wicked Hot Wizard of Oz - Farm boy Donny is in the closet and he's in love with his straight best friend! A tornado transports Donny and his little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz where they encounter Lions and Tylers and Gay Bears - oh my! On his journey down the Yellow Brick Road to meet the Wicked Hot Wizard of Oz, Donny discovers there's no place like home, especially if it's with the man of his dreams. Finding Love On Christmas Eve - Keith knows exactly what he wants – his best friend, Mike. Just one little problem - Mike is straight. Keith fears pursuing his desires will crash and burn in heartache. However, Keith's been hiding his feelings for so long, he's ready to burst. Will the truth - and Mike - both come out in time for the two best friends to have a merry Christmas together?

Download or read book The Health of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender People written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals-often referred to under the umbrella acronym LGBT-are becoming more visible in society and more socially acknowledged, clinicians and researchers are faced with incomplete information about their health status. While LGBT populations often are combined as a single entity for research and advocacy purposes, each is a distinct population group with its own specific health needs. Furthermore, the experiences of LGBT individuals are not uniform and are shaped by factors of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographical location, and age, any of which can have an effect on health-related concerns and needs. The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People assesses the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations, identifies research gaps and opportunities, and outlines a research agenda for the National Institute of Health. The report examines the health status of these populations in three life stages: childhood and adolescence, early/middle adulthood, and later adulthood. At each life stage, the committee studied mental health, physical health, risks and protective factors, health services, and contextual influences. To advance understanding of the health needs of all LGBT individuals, the report finds that researchers need more data about the demographics of these populations, improved methods for collecting and analyzing data, and an increased participation of sexual and gender minorities in research. The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People is a valuable resource for policymakers, federal agencies including the National Institute of Health (NIH), LGBT advocacy groups, clinicians, and service providers.

Download or read book Sound Of Love A Gay Romance Collection M M Romance Bundle written by Topher James and published by Topher James. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Of Love: A Gay Romance Collection is the third bundle of 3 sensual and steamy M/M romances from authors Topher James, Raiden King, and Reya Karl, who previously brought you Journey Of Love: A Gay Romance Collection, and What The Heart Wants: A Gay Romance Collection. From sexy and sweet brand new experiences, to new self-discoveries and awakenings, to lusty first times, and to love that stands the test of time, these three gay romance stories will make you laugh, smile, cry, fan yourself, and leave you satisfied. Contained in this 350+ page box set anthology are the M/M romance books Where You Least Expect, The Young Nurse, and The Reunion. * Where You Least Expect Love is confusing. It intertwines with lust, with a base attraction so animal and powerful, it can make a man do things he shouldn’t. It can make a man think things are one way… when they are the other. I thought I was in love with Terrence. He was everything I wanted in a man. But I slowly began to realize that I was just in love with the fantasy of him. Terrence in theory. And the person I was really falling in love with… the man who would stand by my side, love me, support me… Was someone I could never have imagined. Greg used to cruise for girls. Greg was the ladies man on campus, a star athlete back in the day. And here he was… his gorgeous eyes looking right through me. And he’s telling me that he’s falling for me… And that this could be the beginning of our happily ever after. * The Young Nurse My marriage to my wife ended once the kids left the house. All of a sudden, we didn't know each other. We divorced. It was amicable. It's not exactly a new story. Here I am, forty-three, and in shape. Not to get too cocky, but let's just say I'm the kind of man my age who is *very* eligible. The problem? Every woman I've dated I've had no interest in. What exactly is wrong with me? Then I got sick. I had to stay in the hospital. That's where I met Taden, my young, handsome male nurse... ...And everything in my life changed. He asked if I needed help getting into the shower, and he helped me undress. His touch lingered on my skin like electricity. But I'm not gay. I'm attracted to women! So why do I find myself thinking about Taden every waking minute? Why do I fantasize about him in my dreams? And why do I desperately want to tell him... ...so he can touch me again? * The Reunion It all started with a chance encounter. I bumped into Gary in St. Ives, the sea-salty air whipping past us. His deep brown eyes stopped time itself, and the coppery hair that lined his chest sparkled in the sun. Little did I know that we were schoolmates way back when. An impromptu reunion, you could say. But I had no idea what lay in store for me. Gary invited me onto his yacht. Gary flirted with me. And before I knew it, every inhibition I had was crumbling. This was supposed to be a relaxing holiday. Who could have expected it would turn into a torrid affair with a gorgeous man? Who could have expected that happily ever after might just be on the itinerary? *

Download or read book Love This Touch A Gay Romance Collection M M Romance Box Set written by S.E. Loveless and published by S.E. Loveless. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love This Touch is a M/M romance box set of 3 sexy gay love stories featuring steamy, sensual, and sweet male/male romance. From lusty and exciting first times, to new experiences and self-discoveries, to love that ends in happiness ever after, these three gay love romances by M/M romance favorite S. E. Loveless are guaranteed to stimulate you, satisfy you, and leave you smiling at the happy endings. Contained in this 76,000 word, 340 page collection are the books Chance This Change, Guard This Body, and Save This Life. Also contained is the bonus book Tacking in the Wind. * Chance This Change Alex Prentice never thought his life would turn out like this… He started working for a bad man at just thirteen, and now, six years later, he's ready for a change. He wants something good in his life. He wants something for himself. Alex went the only place he could think of: He went to the police. He never expected the Detective to be assigned to his case to be a man like Scott Henderson, with eyes that looked into him… through him. An older man who showed him compassion and care… the first he'd experienced in a long time. A man who would be his protector until his court date. A man he never thought he'd take a chance on… A chance at love. * Guard This Body For years he was a bodyguard with a secret… His job description was to protect Michael… It didn't say anything about falling in love… Jackson thought he had his world figured out. He was a bodyguard, one of the best, and he did his job well. He never expected to fall in love with his charge, Michael Carson… He never expected to have to keep it a secret… When danger threatens Michael, he knows he has to act. But what does he do when Michael finds out his secret? What does he do when, in order to save Michael, he has to reveal his love for him? * Save This Life Travis couldn't know what the future would have in store for him that night… …that night that changed his life. He found the man sitting on the street, passersby ignoring him… …a victim of a mugging. He helped the stranger, helped to stop the bleeding, helped to call the police and an ambulance. He had done his duty as a Good Samaritan, so what else was there left to do? When he was about to leave, the man asked him to stay. And Travis felt one of his heartstrings tugged. The man was suffering from amnesia. The man needed more than just his immediate help. And Travis found himself giving more. He offered the man a place to stay. Offered the man emotional support. But what he didn't realize was that he would offer the man his heart. That night he helped somebody, possibly even saved a life. How could he ever know that the man he helped would, in his own way, save Travis' life, too? *