Volume 3, Issue 1 — January 1, 2005
Contributors
this Issue... Arlene Germain, p2 Betty Conley (IGW Editor), p3 Cheri Rosenberg, p4 Gary Phillips, p5 Jak Klinikowski, p6 Jay Mandal, p7 Jeffrey Williams, p8 Jerry Flack, p9 John Charles (IGW Editor), p10 Larry Hamilton - link to story Roy Evans, p11 Tony Heyes, p12 Features...  "Sometimes the
Swine Wear Pearls" Episode 9 of The Adventures of Ineeda Willingbottom by Jak Klinikowski "Advent" and "Flight" - two short shorts by English writer, Jay Mandal  "One Day at a Time" by our social commentator, Jeffrey Williams
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From
the Editor... I think of all the possibilities that literature offers, and I am one of those who believe that fiction is often a better suited vehicle for illustrating the complexities of human nature than non-fiction. I'm happy therefore to feature Larry Hamilton's story, which I like to call "The Legend of Faith Hill." The Legend of Faith Hill by Larry Hamilton  Even GLBT-Q lit now has its classics. Patricia Nell Warren had read the threads on one of the writer's sites recently and saw that people were looking for copies of the Song of the Loon books. Good news! Click here: http://www.gay.ru/mittas/library/loon.htm and here: http://www.nifty.org/nifty/Vince_Water/ At these sites, you can read a long-lost gay classic, Richard Amory's "Song of The Loon." First published in 1966, it eventually extended to three paperback volumes. It tells of a secret society of homosexual men during the 19th century. Set in the American West, it anticipates bear culture, radical faery philosophy and the freewheeling gay sex of the 1970s. This important novel (a bestseller in its day) appears to have fallen into the public domain. It needs to be put back into print for a new generation. Further, I think it is often helpful to remind us of the books and films from yesteryear, and so The Independent Gay Writer gladly includes reader-submitted reviews of earlier works. One of these is the late John Preston's work that sought to humanize gay men to the world. Gary Phillips, a contributor to this newsletter reminds us that Preston's Hometowns is still relevant and sometimes inspiring. IGW editor John Charles viewed and reviewed a favorite film of mine: "Birdy," starring superstar Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine. |
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