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GAY INTEREST
1. “Michael Tolliver Lives” by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins, 288 pp., $25.95 hb, less 10 percent in the store). What’s it like now for the 55-year-old hero of the “Tales of the City” books?
2. “A Secret Edge” by Robin Reardon (Kensington, 265 pp., $15 pb). Coming-of-age young adult novel.
3. “Looker” by Stanley Bennett Clay (Atria, 275 pp., $13 pb). By the author of “In Search of Pretty Young Black Men.”
4. “Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: Gay Literary Life After Stonewall” by Felice Picano (Carroll & Graf, 265 pp., $15.95 pb). Picano, author, publisher of SeaHorse Press and co-owner of Gay Presses of New York reflects on the “scene” from the 1970s to 1991.
5. “The Fire This Time” by Randell Kenan (Melville, 224 pp., $23 hb, less 10 percent in the store). This collection of essays updates James Baldwin’s famous book, “The Fire Next Time.”
6. “A Private Affair” by Mike Warren (Life Changing, 240 pp., $15 pb). A novel about a black gay military man’s love life.
7. “Just a Boy” by R.W. Clinger (Haworth, 214 pp., $14.95 pb). A young adult novel about high-school wrestlers.
8. “Now Is the Hour” by Tom Spanbauer (Houghton Mifflin, 459 pp., $14.95 new in pb). In 1967, a teen reflects on why he’s leaving Idaho for San Francisco.
9. “Frightening the Horses: Gay Icons of the Cinema” updated and expanded, by Eric Braun (Reynolds & Hearn, 256 pp., $24.95 hb). Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Brando, River Phoenix, Madonna and more.
10. “Grief: A Novel” by Andrew Holleran (Hyperion, 150 pp., $12 new in pb). A professor goes to Washington, D.C., to mourn.
LESBIAN INTEREST
1. “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin, 232 pp., $19.95 hb). Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, readers are drawn into a daughter’s yearning for her father.
2. “Awkward: A Detour” by Mary Cappello (Bellevue Literary, 236 pp., $16.95 pb). Examines awkwardness.
3. “Honor Under Siege” by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes, 272 pp., $15.95 pb). Fictional lesbian romantic intrigue concerning our nation’s First Daughter.
4. “Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women” edited by Therese Szymanski (Bella, 252 pp., $15.95 pb). Kallmaker, Radclyffe, Brownworth and many more contributed to this collection.
5. “The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica, 1920-1940” edited by Victoria A. Brownworth and Judith M. Redding (Magic Carpet, 310 pp., $17.95 pb).
6. “Touchy Subjects” by Emma Donoghue (Harvest, 280 pp., $12 new in pb). Stories set in the present.
7. “The Education of Elly” by Jackie Calhoun (Bella, $13.95 pb). Romance.
8. “Red Light” by J.D. Glass (Bold Strokes, 285 pp., $15.95 pb). Romance for an emergency medical aide.
9. “Babyji” by Abha Dawesar (Anchor, 368 pp., $13 pb). A sexy, surprising, subversively wise new novel about an Indian Lolita and her quest to conquer love and life.
10. “The Lesbian Sex Book” 2nd Edition, by Wendy Caster, revised by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Alyson, 231 pp., $21.95 pb).
GAY FILMS
1. “Noah’s Arc: The Complete Second Season” (2006, 180 min., $35.95 DVD, discounted from $39.95). Follows four black friends as they chart an uncertain course through the City of Angels.
2. “Dante’s Cove,” Season 2 (2006, 255 min., $29.95 DVD). Season 2 is even more outrageous with the introduction of more deadly secrets, more intriguing twists and, most importantly, more hot-bodied stars!
3. “Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds,” directed by Phillip J. Bartell (2006, 85 min., $24.95 DVD). A gay guy pretends to be straight in an effort to win the man of his dreams.
4. “Guys Gone Wild: Pool Party” (2006, 57 min., $19.99 DVD). Even more college guys strutting their stuff.
5. “Dante’s Cove,” Season 1, directed by Sam Irvin (2005, 190 min., $26.95 DVD). This popular gay supernatural TV series features an extremely sexy (and frequently unclothed) male cast.
6. “Flirting with Anthony,” directed by Christian Calson (2005, 89 min., $19.99 DVD). A dark and sexy thriller about an ultra-violent road trip where comedy and romance lurk around the corner.
7. “The History Boys,” directed by Nicholas Hytner (2006, 112 min., $27.95 DVD). This is a delightfully witty comedy of eight boisterous yet talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England’s most prestigious universities.
8. “Sunkissed,” directed by Patrick McGuinn (2006, 92 min., $24.95 DVD). Love and drama in the California desert.
9. “Sideline Secrets,” directed by Steven Vasquez (2006, 96 min., $29.95 DVD, director’s cut). High-school student comes out by falling in love.
10. “Kinky Boots,” directed by Julian Jarrold (2006, 107 min., $19.95 DVD). British cult phenom Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a bravura performance as Lola, a kick-ass female impersonator.
LESBIAN FILMS
1. “Loving Annabelle,” directed by Katherine Brooks (2006, 77 min., $24.95 DVD). Rising heartthrob Erin Kelly stars as Annabelle, a precocious senator’s daughter who falls in love with her teacher, Simone (gorgeous Diane Gaidry) at a stodgy Catholic girls’ boarding school.
2. “Inescapable,” directed by Helen Lesnick (89 min., $24.95 DVD). Gorgeous women and hot sex make for a winning combination in this erotic drama.
3. “She Likes Girls” (2006, 100 min., $24.95 DVD). Six well-produced lesbian short movies.
4. “Amour de Femme,” directed by Sylvie Verheyde (2001, 89 min., $26.95 DVD). French with English subtitles.
5. “Lost and Delirious,” directed by Lea Pool (2000, 100 min., $14.95 DVD). Terrific, full-on lesbian melodrama set in a boarding school.
6. “But I’m a Cheerleader,” directed by Jamie Babbit (1999, 90 min., $14.95 DVD). A great comedy.
7. “Stranger Inside,” directed by Cheryl Dunye (2001, 96 min., $9.95 DVD). Black woman in prison searches for her birth mother.
8. “Better Than Chocolate,” directed by Anne Wheeler (1999, 102 min., $14.95 DVD). A sexy romp of love and lust in an apartment shared with mom and dad and brother.
9. “If These Walls Could Talk 2,” directed by Martha Coolidge, Jane Anderson and Anne Heche (2000, 96 min., $9.95 DVD). A trio of stories about lesbian couples in three different decades. Stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sharon Stone, Michelle Williams, Marian Seldesy, Ellen DeGeneres, Chloe Sevigny.
10. “Johnny Greyeyes,” directed by Jorge Monzano (2001, 76 min., $24.95 DVD). Native-American prisoners struggle for tolerance.