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I’m honored to host a guest writer: my friend, columnist Julie Gillen. Julie and William were close friends. She did an interview with him assist in 2004 and from then on, their spirits maintained a deep loving connection. The week of his death, William provided Julie with a blurb for her forthcoming book. A lifetime treasure, that is, and something to hold on to in a age of loss. William has such a rare talent. I think my grandchildren and Julie’s grandchild, who are barely three and almost three, will explore him later on in school.
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WILLIAM Homosexual AND THE INEVITABILITY OF MIRACLES
“Without knowing it, he followed the same self-route the doctor had taken some eight months earlier, and in a earth of infinite possibilities where all journeys share a usual end, perhaps they are together, taking the evening atmosphere on a wrecked veranda among the hollyhocks and oleanders, the doctor sipping his scotch and the paperhanger his San Miguel, gentlemen of leisure discussing the vagaries of life and pondering deep into the night not just the possibility but the inevitability of miracles.”
— William Homosexual, excerpt from “The Paperhanger”
My friend William Gay died last week, and
What it means to own a bi community with Neil Aasve and William Burleson
Welcome to our LGBT podcast This Queer Manual Saved My Life! In this episode, we communicate with fundraiser and philanthropist Neil Aasve (he/him) about the LGBT book Bi America: Myths Truths and Struggles of an Invisible Community by William Burleson. Neil recalls the first time he read Bi America, “I remember my heart pounding. I just remember saying the words out loud: I’m bisexual! Also, we have a special guest! William Burleson joins us to talk about how he saw writing Bi America as an opportunity to preserve history.
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‘The Dangerous Kingdom of Love’ by Neil Blackmore, 2021.
A review by John Cook.
Francis Bacon (no, not ‘The Coupling’ of recent times, though that painter was a descendant of this famous essayist and thinker of Jacobean times) is the subject of this historical novel. I avow to admiration for the original Francis as the English initiator of the basis of the scientific method which is the foundation of my thinking and most others today, and, almost certainly, a gay man. I possess read a deal about him and his times leading into the turbulent years of Charles I and eventually Charles II, scientific inquiry, and the formation of the Royal Society. This story is set in the years of James I, the first king of England and Scotland and an undoubted homosexual and his coterie of three favourites. Two are dealt with here while Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, was a favourite while James was king of Scotland only.
Despite his like affair with the superhuman right of kings that proved fatal for his son, James was also something of a watershed in the nature of English kings and not necessarily always as portrayed by Blackmore.
Royal favourites own long been the subjec
An evocation of same-sex attracted life, this is the first novel Neil Bartlett wrote. In a obscure corner of the best bar in the city, two lovers fall into each other’s arms. The bar has been called many names, but it is now recognizable simply as The Bar. Its proprietor is the aging, still glamorous Madame. Its clientele is gay. The two who fall in love are Male child, a beautiful nineteen-year-old, and the handsome, forty-something “Older Man” referred to as “O” by the regulars of The Bar. This is the story of Boy’s and O’s courtship and marriage, of Madame’s role in the affair, and of the man called “Father,” who threatens to come between them.
Cruising is described painstakingly, as is the former Oasis Club and its regulars, including the chain-smoking, gravelly-voiced Flo, in Bristol.
The Boy appears at 19, a young man looking for something. For him, the look for is quite literal: he walks the city looking for something, looking for a place he belongs. He knows what he wants, but he doesn’t yet know where to find it. In this, he is like every young gay guy who leaves dwelling and comes to the big urban area, having left his history behind him. O is
Time of the Child by Niall Williams review – sublime tale of small-town Irish life
In his latest novel,Niall Williams returns to the fictional village of Faha in west Ireland, the setting for 2019’s This Is Happiness.It’s December 1962, and in what the parish has enter to call “the hour of the child”, physician Jack Troy and his eldest, unmarried daughter Ronnie find their lives upended when an abandoned neonate girl, at death’s door, is brought to their home. Jack saves her life and Ronnie takes on the role of carer. They fall in love with the infant Ronnie names Noelle.
There is a cinematic quality to the opening chapter as Williams introduces us to his characters, the rhythm of their lives (“in Faha time did not go straight but rotund and round”) and the emotional landscape they inhabit: “The inveterate layering of all Irish life, where the most important things were never said, and depth was more treasured than surface.”
While outwardly everything remains the same, interior lives are profoundly altered
The tweed-wearing postmistress Mrs Prendergast likes to be “the first to spread the word” and will heed unabashedly to the parish’s telephone conversations while operating the sw