Product Description: Utterly unknown during his lifetime, Henry Darger led a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died, his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases and more than 30,000 manuscript pages depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world―many featuring hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified, and strangled...read more

Book by Elledge, Jim

Product Description: This three-volume collection of essays reveals the widespread existence of queer men and women in American popular culture, and showcases their important yet little-known role in shaping our society over the last 120 years.• Offers a collection of works by 39 distinguished international contributors, each an expert in his/her field• Includes 45 in-depth essays, all but three of which were written specifically for this three-volume set • An index in each volume allows for easy access by subject and by proper nam...read more

Product Description: Byzantium: the word itself denotes a period of chicanery, treachery and willful duplicity. Thus this novel begins with a conundrum that foretells the intricacies the reader will encounter as the plot unfolds. "Richard Unger is dead," the story begins...read more

Product Description: From the rock-n-rollin 60s and disco 70s into the closing moments of the twentieth century, A History of My Tattoo unflinchingly traces one man s experiences with the two greatest tragedies of recent U.S. history: the defeat of U...read more

Product Description: In this sequel to Elledge’s novel To Go Forth in the Midst of Wolves, journalist Margo Winters, former priest Joseph Casey, and their prot©g©, Joaquin Petain, are reunited in a struggle for justice. Long-smoldering resentments between the affluent Anglo establishment and Casey’s Casa Esperanza, a commune providing refuge for the disenchanted Mexican population, erupt into violence along the Texas Rio Grande as the inherent prejudices in vogue in this 1945 time frame, coupled with an ever-increasing communist hysteria, produce a drama punctuated by murder and a political system that has lost its moral bearings...read more

An overview of homosexual themed poetry in America, from early pre-colonial times to the end of World War II features works by Hart Crane, Christopher Isherwood, Walt Whitman, Mercedes De Acosta, Emily Dickinson, Djuna Barnes, Sara Teasdale, John Erskine, Marsden Hartley, and many others. Simultaneous.

Product Description: In 1940 Colorado three strangers, drawn together by Fate, find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival on a frozen mountainside. An alcoholic priest hiding the shame of secret passions, a Basque shepherd boy seeking retribution for his negligence, and a woman journalist whose brazenness has destroyed her marriage are being torn apart by forces they no longer control...read more

Product Description: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons were at the center of a large body of myths in which they played important roles, from creators of earth and all life to heroes (male and female) in battle. From approximately 160 extant Native American myths, Jim Elledge has selected all those which would be most readily identifiable by contemporary readers as dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals, as well as those which focus on them as prominent, if not main, characters in the myths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of poetry about rock music includes such pieces as 'Jungle Music,' 'Meet the Supremes,' 'Sound Systems,' 'American Bandstand,' and 'Elegy for Elvis' (view table of contents)

Product Description: "What a great premise for an anthology! And it succeeds, both in its celebration of our crazy culture and its fascinating analysis, through the poems, of popular myths that have stood the test of time." —KliattIn the past few decades, poetry about and around popular culture has become a very hip contemporary art form...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)