Fresh out of college, Peter moved to New York City in 1975. Wide-eyed and determined to make it as a poet, he and his boyfriend, Harold, moved into a place in Brooklyn, ready to face whatever hurdles came their way. Fast-forward to 2012, Peter is a bigwig at an advertising agency and Harold has long… read more

“With remarkable candour and clarity, Cumming leads the reader through concentric layers of personal revelations that shook his life in 2010.”… read more

“[…A] quick-witted and moving novel that acutely explores the ways in which families mourn, the toll death takes on relationships and the resilience that allows people to survive […]”… read more

Margaret Thatcher was no friend to Scotland – hundreds gathered in Glasgow’s George Square to celebrate her death in 2013 – nor was she one to the burgeoning gay community – she passed Section 28 which outlawed the promotion of the “acceptability of homosexuality” in 1988 – yet for the young Damian Barr, her indefatigable… read more

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin  retells the unbelievable story of a boy who grew to adulthood in the very heart of Hitler’s Germany…. read more

Twenty-something Jacob Putnam leaves his native America for post-Communist Prague in an attempt to find himself. Yet this debut novel by Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors (Penguin), is far more than another tale of a gay man’s self-discovery. With delicate prose and probing insight, Crain touches upon an array of universally felt and emotionally fraught issues…. read more

In his debut novel, The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones, Jack Wolf leads the reader through an eighteenth-century Britain heaving under the strain of unprecedented change…. read more

“The complexity and diversity of gay society is so vividly represented that it forces the reader to question the limited ways in which we are often portrayed.”… read more

“[Gay men] are people and, like everyone else, we inhabit all corners of the world and partake in every possible interest. Hello Mr. not only recognizes this, but aims to showcase and celebrate our diversity.”… read more