'Felice Picano' in OBA Collectie

As the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our literary and artistic heritage, there is an increasing demand for literature that successfully highlights these diverse li...

In 1979, Felice Picano rocketed to fame with the publication of this shocking, controversial thriller. Riveting and candid in its depiction of the gay sexual subculture of the era, The Lure thrusts young widower Noel Hathaway into a dark universe of phy...

Ross Ohrenstedt, a resourceful and well-read young academic teaching a single summer literature course at UCLA, manages to get permission to examine and catalog the papers of Damon Von Slyke, a member of the infamous Purple Circle of gay writers active...

A novel chronicling life in the homosexual world from the 1950s to the present. It focuses on the relationship of two cousins and their love for the same man, a Vietnam War hero. The novel describes the spirit of community which aids created.

A young homosexual man exploring the gay lifestyle in Europe and Greenwich Village during the early 1960s has an affair with an Italian film director, takes tea with W.H. Auden, and inadvertently becomes involved in the Stonewall Inn riot.

Set and written during World War II, Charles Jackson’s “The Fall of Valor” is a masterful work that depicts marital crisis and simmering sexuality at a time when most of us might assume Americans would rather recoil from such frankness. But as Jac...

Felice Picano reminisces with fellow author Jeniver Levin about the Violet Quill Club, a legendary gay literary salon. (The Violet Quill Reader: The Emergence of Gay Writing After Stonewall (St. Martin's Press)).

Picano beschrijft het homoleven in Tokio.

Het levensverhaal van Alan Turning, de man die van onmisbaar belang bleek te zijn in WO II voor de Engelse inlichtingendienst en aan de basis stond van de moderne computer. Door het openlijk toegeven van een relatie met een jongen is hij wellicht vermoo...