Halifax Men's Reading Group

Complete Bibliography

1.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

Oscar Wilde

        

2.

"Adult Art"

"Pages from Cold Point"

"The Secret of the Gentiles Skinned Alive"

"The Whiz Kids"

"Some of These Days"

"Giovanni's Apartment"

Allan Gurganus

Paul Bowles

David Plante

Edmund White

A.M. Holmes

Sam D'allesandro

3.

Maurice

 

E.M. Forster

4.

Zoo Story [Play]

Annunciation [Play]

"Mom’s Diner"

"Mixed Signals"

"Beauty"

"Personals"

"Territory"

 

Edward Albee

Carl Morse

Eugene Stein

Eugene Stein

Stan Persky

Stan Persky

David Leavitt

5.

Angels in America Part I:  The Millennium Approaches [Play]

 

Angels in America Part II:  Perestroika [optional]

 

Tony Kushner

 

 

Tony Kushner

6.

Death in Venice

 

"A Sense of Loss"

 

Thomas Mann

 

Martin Foreman

7.

One-Handed Histories:  The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography,  Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. [Non-fiction]

 

Autobiography of a Tattoo [Non-fiction -- excerpts]

 

"Ms. Strangelove, or How I stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Gay Male Porn" [Non-fiction]

 

"Adam Hart from Bad Boys on Video:  Interviews with Gay Adult Stars" [illustrated] [Non-fiction]

 

"Vince Rockland, from Bad Boys on Video:  Interviews with Gay Adult Stars" [illustrated]

 

Jon R. Burger

 

 

 

Stan Persky

 

 

Kris Franklin & Sarah F. Chino

 

 

Mickey Skee

 

 

 

Mickey Skee

8.

The End of Gay and the Death of Heterosexuality [Non-fiction]

 

"Gay Dream Believer:  Inside the Gay Underwear Cult, from Anti-Gay" from Anti-Gay [Non-fiction]

 

A Case for the Closet [Play] from Anti-Gay

Bert Archer

 

 

Mark Simpson;

Mark Simpson [editor]

 

Bruce LaBruce and Glenn Belverio

Mark Simpson [editor]

 

9

"Bad Pictures"

"Home Improvement"

"Love Did Tear Us Apart"

"Summertime, and the Living is Easy…"

 

Patrick Hoctel

Scott Allen Bowles

Oscar Moore

Reginald Shepherd

10.

Suddenly Last Summer [play]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [play]

Alternates 

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

11.

The Dreyfus Affair

 

Peter Lefcourt

12.

A Boy’s Own Story

 

Edmund White

13. 

Men on Men 2000

 

 

"Home"

"Quality Time"

"Quiet Game"

"A Really Weird Thing Happened Recently"

"Regular Flattop"

"Scarecrow"

"Second Island"

Mark Bergman & Karl Woelz [editors]

 

Bill Gordon

Jim Provenzano

William Lane Clark

 

Len Ingenito-DeSio

J.G. Hayes

Tom House

Patrick Ryan

 

14.

The Immoralist

 

Andre Gide

15.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

 

16.

The Lost Language of Cranes

 

David Leavitt

17.

Queeries:  An Anthology of Gay Male Prose

Dennis Denisoff [editor]

 

18.

Out our Way:  Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country [Non-fiction]

 

Michael Riordon

19.

Funny Boy

 

Shyem Selvadurai

20.

Nightswimmer

 

Joseph Olshan

21.

Arkansas

David Leavitt

 

22.

A Density of Souls

Christopher Rice

 

23. 

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

 

24.

Rebel Yell:  Stories from Contemporary Southern Gay Authors

 

Jay Quinn [editor]

25.

The Front Runner

 

Patricia Nell Warren

26.

Kansas in August

Patrick Gale

 

27.

At Swim, Two Boys

 

Jamie O’Neill

28.

 

Our Lady of Assassins

Fernando Vallejo

29.

Gay Body [Non-fiction]

 

Mark Thompson

30.

Metes and Bounds

 

Jay Quinn [editor]

31.

Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest

 

Alberto Manguel [editor]

32.

Corydon [Non-fiction]

 

Andre Gide

33.

The Substance of Fire [play]

 

Jon Robin Baitz

34.

This Thing Called Courage:  South Boston Stories

 

J.G. Hayes

35.

Men with the Pink Triangle:  The True, Life-and Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps [Non-fiction]

 

Heinz Heiger et. Al.

36.

The Man I Might Become:  Gay Men Write About Their Fathers [Non-fiction]

 

Bruce Shenitz

37.

Death Claims

 

Joseph Hansen

38.

Rebel Yell II:  More Stories of Southern Contemporary Gay Men

 

Jay Quinn [editor]

39.

The Swimming Pool Library

 

Alan Hollinghurst

40.

Dancer from the Dance

 

Andrew Holleran

41.

The Charioteer

 

Mary Renault

42.

Faggots

 

Larry Kramer

43.

 

Outlaw:  The Lives and Careers of John Rechy

[Biography]

 

Charles Casillo

44.

P.S. Your Cat is Dead

 

James Kirkwood

45.

Tearoom Trade:  Impersonal sex in public places [Non-fiction]

 

Laud Humphreys

46.

Regeneration

 

Pat Barker

47.

 

Edinburgh:  A Novel

 

Alexander Chee

48.

Almost Like Being In Love

 

Steve Kluger

49.

Cinnamon Gardens

 

Shyam Selvadurai

50.

Querelle of Brest

 

Jean Genet
 51.

The Mentor:  A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity [Non-fiction]

 

 Jay Quinn
52.

The Lord Won't Mind

 

Gordon Merrick
53.

Love, The Magician

 

Brian Bouldrey
54. The Snow Garden

Christopher Rice

 

55. A Home at the End of the World

Michael Cunningham

 

56. Spadework [September 2005]

Timothy Findley

 

57.

The City and the Pillar [October 2005]

 

Gore Vidal