New Book from Clive Barker, ‘The Price of Salt’ film adaptation, and more lgbt news… read more

Gay pulp novels of the 1960s sell at steep prices these days. Their racy covers have great camp value, and since they were cheaply produced and meant to be easily disposed of, gay pulps are now collectors’ items. Gay pulps have even made inroads with academics, who have come to regard pulps as repositories of… read more

“Comprehensive in scope, editor Katherine Bucknell has worked with Bachardy to amass all the letters known to exist that the couple ever exchanged.”… read more

This week in the LGBT-themed arts: This Sunday, May 25th, marks the television premiere of the HBO film The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (the creator of Glee) and written for the screen by Larry Kramer from his semi-autobiographical 1985 Tony-winning play, the film features an ensemble cast headlined by Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons, Taylor Kitsch,… read more

Perhaps the best way to approach Christopher Isherwood in America: Middlebrow Queer (University 0f Minnesota Press) by Jaime Harker is one idea at a time. The second half of Harker’s subtitle—Queer—of course refers to Queer Studies, a field in which “queer” has begun to mean so many things it may soon mean little to nothing at all…. read more

One thing the reviewing of diaries can do is deflate the zeppelin of personality one has created around the writer, in this case, author Christopher Isherwood, whose crystal-clear stories of conflicted characters have been ridden blissfully by many for years…… read more

Dan Savage spoke with the Sun-Times about the release of new book, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, his own experience growing up gay, and the effect his efforts are having on gay youth throughout the globe. The book version of the social media-based stories of inspiration for… read more

Gertrude Stein said, “A diary means yes indeed.” That’s the same unrestrained affirmation Christopher Isherwood brought to his life as captured in his diaries The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969 skillfully edited by novelist Katherine Bucknell, editor of all three volumes of Isherwood’s diaries, as well as his memoir, Lost Years. Christopher Hitchens wrote the Vol. 2 Foreword…. read more

27-year-old Matt Smith, best known to spec fans as Dr. Who, will play Christopher Isherwood in a new BBC biopic based on the author’s autobiographical book Christopher and His Kind. The made-for-TV pic will air in the BBC-2’s Fall 2010 schedule and that’s about all we know so far. One interesting fact: Director Geoffrey Sax… read more

George is not only the centerpiece of the movie, he is given a complex interior life, filled with astute observations about love and grief that transcend his gay identity. Yet, despite these advances, I was left with one nagging question: why did this story need to include the ubiquitous gay suicidal ideation in its narrative?… read more