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< Before Night Falls: A Memoir > < Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba (Pentagonia) > < Before Night Falls > < The Doorman: A Novel > < Mona and Other Tales > < The Color of Summer: or The New Garden of Earthly Delights > Reinaldo Arenas

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(Beutiful, Glorious)

(Cuba Libre!)

(A life of rebellion at the intersection of sex and literature)

(it aint pretty)

(real people with dirt on their feet)

My review will be quite simple, this book is... marvelous, magnificent, beautiful, brilliant, painful, poetic, and glorious. Read it!!!!!!!!
Anyone can put the their life on paper, but few such endeavors are worth reading. A fine memoir must come alive, must breathe, must sweat, must bleed, must become flesh and blood and acquire a `life` beyond that of its creator. A memoir worth reading (more than once) must become a Frankenstein. Reinaldo Arenas` supremely moving and magical autobiographical journey has become just that, a freakish, terrifying and stunningly gorgeous creation that will carry the memory of its creator well into the future. If Arenas had never written anything else, `Before Night Falls` would have been enough to rocket its author into the pantheon of literary greats.

When I first devoured this book more than ten years ago, it gripped me like some nagging fever. I just couldn`t put it down, nor put its collection of macabre images and revealing epiphanies out of mind. Coming back to it once again, I was amazed that its power and pathos can still hold the reader spellbound. And what exactly is the secret of its magic? The answer lays with Arenas`s unflinching desire to lay himself bare before the reader, completely shorn of the disingenuous veils through which we all like to see ourselves and be seen by others. Arenas makes no such attempt to airbrush his forty-seven years of life into a pretty portrait for posterity. Instead, he gives us what was and nothing more.

But was, was truly a life lived to the full. As full as possible within the Island prison of Fidel Castro. When the first page begins with little Reinaldo expelling a painful and ferocious stomach worm (the result of too much dirt eating!), the die is cast. Page after page, Arenas documents his impoverished upbringing within the wilds of Eastern Cuba. With his stark and matter-of-fact diction, Arenas shades nothing. Yet, through the very simplicity of his language, the images of his magical youth do achieve something of that overused phenomenon within Latin American letters, `magical realism.` Whether describing his lonely and forsaken mother, superstitous grandmother or lecherous grandfather, Arenas` tiny familial world comes alive like that of a Marquez novel. And everpresent throughout are the forces of nature, the rich, luxurious island fauna, the extremes of rain and sun and especially, the powerful and mysterious Caribbean. Throughout his life, the sea remained a mythic and revered instrument of freedom for Arenas, always enticing and prodding him to abandon his island prison, which he eventually did in 1980 with the Mariel exodus.

And in a book where the forces of nature play a central role, sexuality is omnipresent. Arenas` homosexuality was central to who he was as a man and as a writer, and he lived a life many would deem promiscuous at the very least. With seering intensity and unmatched candor, Arenas catalogues his sexual history like few have done before. From the group encounters with his childhood playmates (even a few animals) to the legions of encounters and partners in adulthood, Arenas leaves no stone unturned in documenting the importance of sex in his life. Yet, Arenas` lusty descriptions of his extraordinary erotic life are neither strictly prurient nor solely for voyeuristic thrill. Instead, one feels the palpable, if albeit transitory, joy that the erotic held for Arenas. While some parts of the book will be hard going for the puritan, the arm-chair psychotherapist will have a field day constructing theories as to the source of Arenas` grandiose appetites. Yet, Arenas` makes no excuses nor explanations for his behavior, rather he documents what was, without blinders, without shame.

Like in Kundera`s Czechoslovakia, Arenas` Cuba was/is a place of profound spiritual, emotional and physical suffering. A place where the `state` forced its way into every perimeter of human existence. Sexual expression, along with artistic expression, was the only way of asserting any individual autonomy. But even this was/is controlled and oppressed by the all-compassing arms of Castro`s revolutionary state. Arenas suffered persecution and torture for both his uncompromising sexual autonomy and for his individual artistic voice. Branded a `degenerate` and `counter-revolutionary,` Arenas paid a heavy price for his refusal to conform. Some of `Before Night Falls` most endearing and moving passages involve Arenas` internment in the infamous `El Morro` concentration camp.

While the constant references to the Cuban literary milieu and its inhabitants can confuse the reader (who informed on who!), they never wholly detract from the fluidity of the narrative nor from the power of the voice locked within. `Before Night Falls` is like a boulder rolling down a steep cliff. With each page, it only gains in intensity and ferocity.

With Arenas`decision to end his richly lived and endured years, `Before Night Falls` comes to an abrupt stop. But not end, for this is truly an unfinished work. Arenas` spirit stays with the reader long after the last word is digested, feverishly waiting for his country to catch up with him.

Arenas` last words say it best, `Cuba will be free. I already am.`

Many readers may have a difficult time getting past the first third of Reinaldo Arenas's memoir. Its opening chapters describe both the author's sexual awakening and his unorthodox (to say the least) adventures at the beaches and in the bushes and even in public restrooms in Cuba before and after the rise of Castro. "In spite of everything, youth in the sixties managed to conspire, not against the regime but in favor of life." He regales his readers both unashamedly and unreservedly with his exploits, and the more homogeneous audience members may be repelled by his homo-heterodoxy.

Yet these tales are an integral part of Arenas's message: in a totalitarian society, everything is an act of rebellion--even sex, which is often subversive and furtive and (in spite of any regime's puritanical attempt to control it) always available. For Arenas, his sexual prowess is of a piece with his literary expression, and his brave and headstrong need to write often overlap with his desire to be a gay man in a society that doesn't want homosexuals--or writers--to exist. The bulk of the book, dealing with his life as a writer, as a rebel, as a fugitive, as a prisoner, and as an exile, is identical in tone and spirit to the early passages about his libidinous youth.

His stubbornness is awe-inspiring. We read about the many times Arenas's manuscripts, often hidden in the roof or left with friends, were discovered and destroyed. Nevertheless, he would shirk off the dangers and re-create them from memory. The novels he managed to smuggle out of the country resulted in a slim international celebrity that made him a pariah of the government yet immunized him from becoming simply a political prisoner. After his arrest, he confessed to "ideological weaknesses," but his public trial was for sexual offences. "By convicting me of a common crime, they would avoid an international scandal," and the court condemned him as "a counterrevolutionary and an immoral person [who] should be sentenced for corruption of minors." (It is almost beside the point that the two swarthy "victims," both of whom recanted their testimony at the trial out of embarrassment, were hardly minors.) All of Arenas's battles were fought at the intersection of sex and literature.

Arenas has little good to say about the Batista era, but his recollections are a bracing and much-needed rebuttal to those who make apologies for the Castro regime. He reserves his bitterness especially for fellow writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Alejo Carpentier who have helped prop up Castro with an aura of respectability. He reminds us that Carpentier wrote his best work (in exile) before 1959 but became part of a group of writers who "once they embraced the new dictatorship, never wrote anything worthwhile again."

Arenas begins his book with "The End," a chapter summarizing his final struggle with AIDS and acknowledging the irony that after the "thousand adversities" he suffered in Cuba, "the only escape for me was death." The paradox of Arena's life is that he finally escaped his homeland, only to die in a decade by his own hand in a dingy New York City apartment. Repression, imprisonment, and torture couldn't destroy him in a land that liberty forgot, but the fight ended once he reached the land of the free.
No pretty prose passages, no magical realism, no lovable eccentrics. Thank God. This isn't Marquez or Allende. This is true life, sonny Jim, dirty, brutal, hilarious, dark and unrepentant. This is a great book filled with creations, copulations, imprisonments, escapes, knife fights, love affairs and a deep, deep love of a rich beautiful Cuba that one day Arenas hopes will be free from tyranny.

Arenas hates what Castro and his cronies did to him and the island. He shows us the secret police, the prisoners, the informers, the labor camps all in intense and sometimes horrifying detail. He levels his wrath at deluded pro Castroites in the United States and Latin America and doesnt hold back from accusing fellow writers (including Marquez, Carpentier and Paz) of being stooges of the Castro brothers.

I personally could have done without the AIDS conspiracy theories and the copious beastiality, but that doesnt detract from a terrific book.

If you're sick of cute little stories that follow some godforsaken formula, you might get some juices flowing with this book. I can count on my fingers all the books I've read that resulted in what I would call "an experience." This is one of them.
This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to his flight to America and subsequent life and death in New York. A New York Times Best Book of 1993.
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< Before Night Falls: A Memoir > < Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba (Pentagonia) > < Before Night Falls > < The Doorman: A Novel > < Mona and Other Tales > freaks

< Hard Times > < The Lonely Hearts Club > < The Candidate > < Fully Involved > < Thirteen Hours > < Winds of Fortune > Blayne Cooper

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(Surprisingly good)

(Thank you for a new setting)

(Unforgettable Characters)

(Wonderful read)

(Gotta Love a Lesbian Prison Romance)

Cooper deftly avoids the cheesiness associated with "women in prison" stories with believable characters and a storyline that easily hooks the reader. It was a quick read with the satisfaction of justice and a happy ending, without schmaltz. I've come to have lower expectations of small press titles, because it often seems apparent why they would have been rejected as large press offerings, but that's not the case here. This was my first Blayne Cooper book, but it won't be my last.
A very good read and the setting was a wonderful change of pace. A friend of mine works for the CDC and has done interviews with federal women prisoners and thought the "family" relationships and black market were point on. I liked the time spent on developing the characters and the twists and turns in the plot. One of the other reviewers mentioned that this novel was more "grittier" than the authors past novels, I liked that aspect and hope the author keeps it up in future books. I only have one caveat about the book; I was bothered slightly by two people with zero successful relationship experience making such giant leaps of maturity. All other aspects of the book were grounded in reality while the emotional quotient slipped by (duh, it is a romance novel).
Just a few days back, or were they hours only, I was exchanging a few lines with a very talented British author about how hard is to leave some characters behind because readers as well as writers end being fond of them and wishing that their stories would continue for more than a while. This is what a book deserves when it's so well written as "Hard Times". There's no need to write about the plot as other Blayne Cooper's readers have done so. You know... a women's correctional known as Blue Ridge. A few prisoners that happen to live there more than they could dream of and a newcomer that makes their lives a bit different than used to be before she arrived to the facility.

But this is more than that, much more. If you happen to have watched "Bad Girls", the British tv series you might know what I'm talking about. Mainly the first four seasons. Relationships that imply power, love, hate, winners, losers, lovers, drug addicts, alcoholics, killers, victims, rapists, maniacs, loving mothers, lunatics,... well. You name them, you have them. But not all at once. Well told, with a plot in it, a good structure and with a great sense of characters' builder. Characters do talk too, you know? Well, at the beginning I said that there are always some of them that I want to stay longer. Lorna Malachi and Kellie Holloway make no exception to me. I love them already. Right now I have no idea whom I would take home because they are full of life, desire and even love.

To be honest, I don't really know the importance of having an editor. Apparently, it is vital in some cases for the book's sake. Blayne Cooper has had another great talented author as Katherine V. Forrest is as her editor this time. So, there it is. If you had any doubt in the beginning about "Hard Times" and "another prison story". Forget that, will you? Thanks.
I love Blayne cooper writing very much.especially Madam president and The first
lady.This book has a very unique topic.It's take
place in a prison.It's very strong and beautiful.The character are awesome.
I enjoyed watching Prisoners of Cell Block H when I was a pre-teen. Not knowing any other lesbians, the thought of going to prison to meet some or be in an all women environment seemed like a harmless daydream. While it wasn't a very well thought out fantasy at 11, it got me through some isolation and teenage angst. I have a developed a fondness for the prison genre. The gals on H were nowhere near as exciting or out as those in Hard Times. Breaking down the walls between the main characters was done well and over time. This romance wasn't an easy read at times due to some of the violence but it was well written and enjoyable, which is a given with Blayne Cooper.
Years ago, Lorna Malachi, a frightened teenager, was plunged into a nightmare called Blue Ridge Women's Correctional Facility. Terrified and desperate to belong, she sold her soul one piece at a time. She survived to sit atop the ever-shifting trash heap of prison society.

Lorna has learned the hard way not to trust anyone, particularly penal system virgins like Kellie Holloway, her unrepentant new cellmate. But Kellie's pride and cluelessness guarantee that without help, she won't last long.

Together, Kellie and Lorna navigate through an oppressive, hidden world where the lines between right and wrong blur, sexual passion is forbidden but explosive, and love is the biggest risk of all.
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< Hard Times > < The Lonely Hearts Club > < The Candidate > < Fully Involved > < Thirteen Hours > freaks

< Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland) > < And Tango Makes Three > < Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story > < Daddy's Roommate (Alyson Wonderland) > < The Family Book > < Who's in a Family? > Leslea Newman

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(Heather has Two Mommies)

(Heather has a Major Controversy)

(A wonderful book)

(Two Mommies)

(Totally Awful)

My daughter likes this book, she seems to get it. And its given her permission to talk about having two mommies.
Leslea Newman's "Heather has Two Mommies" was controversial when it came out-so to speak-nearly two decades ago. It has become a staple in school libraries, most public libraries don't relegate it to a forbidden corner, yet it still provokes challenges... like the Harry Potter series. While the boy wizard has sparked debates about witchcraft, "Heather has two mommies" still inflames with its depiction of lesbian parenting.

"Heather has Two Mommies" is a fascinating relic of its time. Back when it was first published, lesbian parenting wasn't common. High-profile celebrity lesbians like Melissa Etheridge weren't raising children. It was enjoyed by few. Now, lesbians can have children easily through IVF&adoption. "Heather has two mommies",ironically,hearkens back to a more conservative time. The plot is simple: two women decide to have a child. When Heather grows up, she asks about families at day care. She learns that her family is part of a spectrum of families. There's no norm.

"Heather has two mommies" brings up more questions than it answers, especially when one considers presenting the issue of homosexuality to children. In the recent anniversary edition, the artificial insemination beginning of the book has been excised. A little cut- but it means so much. Why self-censorship on Newman's part? The illustrations are also gloomy&a little odd. It doesn't have children's book approachability, like "Daddy's Roommate." It comes across as a glum tome. The two mommies fit the butch/femme stereotype.

"Heather has two mommies" functions better as an artifact of the controversy about lesbian parenting than as a children's book. It hearkens back to a time when society still questioned whether lesbians could be suitable parents. It's proof that times have changed-- but the book is still facing controversy like when it first appeared.
First of all, I'd like to mention that most of the bad reviews here are for the original edition and not the 10th anniversary edition. The latter contains no mention of artificial insemination or any other particularly controversial subjects. It is a sweet story in which Heather attends her first day of school and joins her class in talking about their families and drawing their pictures. All kinds of families are represented in this book, and Heather and her mothers are represented as a normal loving family. Also, an informative note from the author explains her reasons for changing the text for the tenth anniversary edition, which addresses the problems some reviewers had with the book as it was originally written.
It is a good book. It would be nice if it had colours and was not only black and white but still one should definitely buy it. It is important to grow our children whether the parents are gay or not with the open mind that one needs to be a human being.
Hey, I'm a lesbian mom myself. I have two great kids. I was given this book as a gift. What a horrible book. Difficult to read, full of 1970s impossible to comprehend propaganda. Almost seems like the crazy right-wing wrote it, there is so much to object to. How on earth is artificial insemination a subject for kids, and if it was, surely there is a less textbook, more creative positive way to portray it?? Surely. At best, this book is an artifact of good intentions, and little more.
Originally self-published in 1989, Heather Has Two Mommies became the first title in Alyson's newly formed Alyson Wonderland imprint in 1990. The simple and straightforward story of a little girl named Heather and her two lesbian mothers was created by Newman and illustrator Diana Souza because children's books that reflected a nontraditional family did not exist, but a firestorm of controversy soon ensued. Attacked by the religious right, lambasted by Jesse Helms from the floor of the U.S Senate, and stolen from library shelves, it was an uphill battle for Heather. Thanks to the overwhelming support of booksellers, librarians, parents, and children, however, Heather Has Two Mommies has sold over 35,000 copies, launched a minor industry in providing books for the children of gay and lesbian parents and, as attested to by a recent New Yorker cartoon, become part of the cultural lexicon.
This handsome 10-anniversary edition of a minor classic presents the story of Heather, a preschooler with two moms who discovers that some of her friends have very different sorts of families. Juan, for example, has a mommy and a daddy and a big brother named Carlos. Miriam has a mommy and a baby sister. And Joshua has a mommy, a daddy, and a stepdaddy. Their teacher Molly encourages the children to draw pictures of their families, and reassures them that "each family is special" and that "the most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other." In the afterword, the author (whose other children's books includeMatzo Ball Moon) explains that although she grew up in a Jewish home, in a Jewish neighborhood, there were no families like hers on the television or in picture books. She came to regard her family as somehow "wrong," since there was no Christmas tree in the living room and no Easter egg hunt. Whatever the religious right may wish to think about nontraditional families, there is no denying that any child enrolled in an American school will encounter friends with single parents, gay parents, stepparents, or adoptive parents. This new, revised version ofHeather Has Two Mommiesoffers an enjoyable, upbeat, age-appropriate introduction to the idea of family diversity. The book is essential for children (ages 2 to 6) with gay parents or family members, and a great addition to a Rainbow Curriculum.--Regina Marler
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< Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland) > < And Tango Makes Three > < Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story > < Daddy's Roommate (Alyson Wonderland) > < The Family Book > freaks

< Falling > < The Tin Star > < Without Reservations > < Willow Bend > < Couplings > < Bareback > M. L. Rhodes

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Amber Quill Press, LLC(2007-01-26)
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(I liked it!!)

(I really enjoyed it except...)

(Falling)

(Not My Favorite Book Ever)

(Hard to put down!)

This was an interesting novel, not the fact that it was about a gay couple, but because of the magic and all kinds of things like that. It was an interesting read and I liked it. I'll have 2 check out more novels by this author in the future, and I do recommend this book. Although it was my 1st by her I enjoyed it.
This was the first book I have read from this author and I really liked it. The only problem I had with it was the rapidness of the depth of the relationship of Chris and Alex. I felt that part jumped way too fast. For me it takes more than a week to know that someone is for you ....forever.
Do you believe in ghosts?

That's the question that Diana Christmas has been asking herself lately. It all started the night her grandfather, Sparky Christmas, died. On her way home from the hospital, Diana knew her mind was playing a trick on her when she saw a man sitting in the back of her car through the rearview mirror. Of course, no one was there. Yet, when Diana arrived home, she saw the same man in her bedroom and he introduced himself as Alex. Diana thought she was losing her mind due to the stress from the dying of her beloved grandfather. Not to mention inheriting the family's century old home - the Christmas House which Sparky was in the process of turning into a bed and breakfast before he died. Nevertheless, Alex continues to appear causing havoc on her libido. Diana tries to ignore him by dating a man she once went to school with; but somehow, Alex still manages to creep into her heart and soul. Can things possibly get any worse for Diana?

Christmas Spirit is a touching, fun-loving story that captured my heart right from the start and held me tightly intrigued until the very end. I was persistently turning from one page to the next eager to see what would happen as this wonderful story unfold. I found Diana to be an independent, yet vulnerable woman who was trying to hold onto her sanity by trying to form a relationship with a `live man", instead of living in a fantasy world with a ghost which led to her being taken advantage of on many occasions. On the flip side, Alex had great charisma. He was sexy as hell, witty and strong-willed. The storyline was very satisfying and exciting with a great deal of surprising drama going on. Both the main and secondary characters were great. Christmas Spirit had more of an old-fashion romantic flavor to it than erotic, so the faint of heart readers will definitely enjoy this book!

Sabella
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A novel that struggles to make any of it's main characters believable. There's a lot of effort towards this, but it all falls flat once the inevitable relationship between the two leads starts to develop.
Read this book in one sitting and loved it. Rhodes knows how to do it right! I had to read it again, just like watching a favorite movie all over. Hot, sexy and full of passion!
As the leader of an elite British group that hunts criminals of the magic world, Christian Wetherly comes to the U. S. undercover, posing as a British cop, to investigate a series of murders he suspects have been committed by a dark mage. He never expects, however, to find himself intensely attracted to the American police detective in charge of the case. Christian has long struggled with his hidden desires and hasn't admitted them to anyone. But Alec Anderson stirs something deep within him that's difficult to ignore. Still...even if he could master his fear of coming out, Christian's dedicated himself to protecting the world from magic terrors. It's a dangerous life an ordinary human could never understand or accept. And to complicate matters, Alec's emotionally vulnerable, still grieving the death of his previous lover, a fellow cop killed in the line of duty. So Christian's determined to keep his true occupation and powers hidden from Alec. Neither man can deny the powerful chemistry that burns between them, and both realize they're falling hard for one another, yet with so many secrets and complications, a relationship seems impossible. When the two men becomes the target of the dark magic, however, and clues about an ancient legacy come to light that indicate Alec may not be exactly what he seems, can they find the strength to tear down all the barriers between them and risk their hearts in order to save each other's lives?
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< Falling > < The Tin Star > < Without Reservations > < Willow Bend > < Couplings > freaks

< Walk Like a Man > < Strapped > < Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories > < A Taste Of Sin > < Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology > < Undercover > Laurinda D. Brown

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(Captivated)

(Total Fantasy)

(Not my cup of tea.......................)

(Exciting Book)

(A book that keeps it real in the Black Lesbian World)

I truly was amazed by this book, I couldn't put it down. After reading this book had to get author's other book. Looking forward to other stories by the author. Truly a gem.
Reading the summary of this book completely peeked my interest. After sitting and reading it over the couse of a week - my brain is screaming complete disappointment.

Approximatly 70% of this book is comprised of recycled plots. Plots we've seen on tv (L-Word, Tois,) the other comes from the imagination of a potential non-lesbian. The remaining 30% was very well written. The plots were amazing and very creative.

Overall the book is poorly written, the dialogue sucks, plots predictable and very far fetched -- all in all... i'm amazed the author is published. I was extremely disappointed in some of the stereotypical references and situations in the book. One of the associations between molestation and the homoseuality is borderline dangerous. I didnt care for this book at all. Save you're money - unless the book is being sold for $3 used.
I can't down this book, it was well written, but wasnt for me. Being that I am straight it took me forever to finish this book. I wasn't feeling it. But the author done a good job, keep up the good work for those that are interested.
Great book to read couldn't put it down and it is a true page turner that will have you wanting more and more as you go on. The stories are truly short and may keep you attention reminding you of some locations in such vivid detail...like the story about the couple that hooks up during Black Gay Pride in ATL on a business trip...excellent story....or the story of the two studs Dom&Dommer...the book is a great read. Enjoyed!
I just got the book and I have read the first three chapters in one day. I really love this book. Its raw, edgy and it's has a creative flow that keeps the reader wanting more. This book portrays Black lesbian life in its rarest form: REAL! Some of the things going on in the book, I have experienced or no someone who has went through something similar. Its a MUST HAVE! MS. Brown is moving up on my list of favorite lesbian authors! Five STARS!!!! I can't wait to read the next book! BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!
"The first time I lied naked with a woman I was nervous but anxious to get it on. I had no idea what we were supposed to do. As I sat there waiting for her to make her move, she was lying there waiting for me to make mine. So I kissed her.

...I will say that our lovemaking was one of the most intense events of my life. That whole night I felt this power…this aura about myself that I'd never felt before. And then it hit me. I had spent the entire night with a woman consumed with the idea of me being a man. On the outside I walked on the tips of my toes-dainty and self-assured-bouncing my long, thick hair from side to side, I looked every bit of alady to the world. But on the inside, though, down beneath the smooth skin and soft fragrance, I walked like a man."

Strap on your attitude and dive into 10 different pulsating stories from women who love the way you love, living life on the edge, exploring sexuality uninhibited. Walk Like A Man….Don't read it alone. It's so hot with passion you'll need somebody to cool you off!

Walk Like A Man is an underground release from Laurinda D. Brown and her first venture into lesbian erotica.
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< Walk Like a Man > < Strapped > < Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories > < A Taste Of Sin > < Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology > freaks

< Transgender History (Seal Studies) > < The Transgender Reader > < Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category > < Transgender Vo Beyond Women and Men > < Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity > < How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States > Susan Stryker

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Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today,Transgender Historytakes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication ofThe Transsexual Phenomenon,and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s.

Transgender Historyincludes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.

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< Transgender History (Seal Studies) > < The Transgender Reader > < Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category > < Transgender Vo Beyond Women and Men > < Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity > freaks

< Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America (Plume Books) > < What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality > < Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right > < Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church > < The Children Are Free: Reexamining the Biblical Evidence on Same-sex Relationships > < For The Bible Tells Me So > Mel White

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(Good Choice)

(Human understanding at its best)

(Sad, but agenda-based, way too subjective.)

(A must read)

(Well-Written Biography)

Bought this as a gift for a minister -- it was a good choice according to him.
A compelling narrative of the life and growth in self-awareness of one of God's noblest creatures. Required reading for anyone, liberal or conservative, Christian or pagan. White argues most convincingly for the full inclusion of homosexuals in the life of church and society.
I had first read about Mel White through the eyes of grace: his best friend Philip Yancey wrote a chapter about Mel in the book "What's So Amazing About Grace?" So I approached the book "Stranger" with a grace-filled attitude toward Mel. I truly felt sorrow for his terrible struggle against his homosexual urges and attractions. Eventually, I was practically convinced that Mel had tried his best to live as a straight man. However, I was troubled when I sensed that the book was more than simply a telling of his person