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Daisies Die In Winter

1968 was to be his Summer of Love…coming of age and coming out in a small Texas rodeo town at a time when same-sex dancing…

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We Speak In Storms

A haunting coming-of-age young adult novel It’s been more than fifty years since a tornado tore through a drive-in movie theater in tiny Mercer, Illinois,…

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Posted in Coming of Age Fiction Gay Fiction

The Rites of Passage

Jonathan A. Taylor’s The Rites of Passage is marketed as the first in a series of novels; it also ably stands on its own. The…

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Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill

Inspired by real historical evidence that Abraham Lincoln was in love—romantic love—with another man, this debut young adult novel was too controversial for traditional publishing….

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