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Volume
3, Issue 3 — March 1, 2005
This
is an independently published
magazine, edited by Ronald L. Donaghe. The views expressed herein are
solely those of the writer of each review, article, or column. Writers'
work is accepted solely at the discretion of the editor. All material
is copyrighted by the submitting writer or Ronald L. Donaghe and cannot
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Contributors this issue... Arlene Germain • Higher Ground, page 4 • When Night is Falling, page 4 Cheri Rosenberg • Trouble Boy, page 7 • Under the Gun, page 7 Jay Mandal • Double Entendre, page 8 Jeffrey Williams • Abuse in Our Community, page 2 Jerry Flack • Freedom in This Village, page 15 • Almost Like Being in Love, page 9 John Charles • The Sum of Us, page 10 • The Wild Man, page 10 Larry Hamilton • Damages, page 11 • Wreck of the G.D.K. (an epic poem), page 11 Lori L. Lake • Cinátis, page 13 • Under the Witness Tree, page 13 • The Wave in the Mind, page 13 • Colder Than Ice, page 13 • Imperfect Past, page 14 • Erik & Isabelle, page 14 • Nick of Time, page 14 Patricia Nell Warren • Election Post Mortem, page 2 • The Real Reasons Why Gay Bookstores Close, page 12 Ronald L. Donaghe • A Perfect Peace, page 17 • A Time Before Me, page 17 • Don't Smother Your Book in the Crib... Proofread!, page 3 Tony Heyes • Finding Hope, page 16 • The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, page 16 • Best Gay Love Stories 2005, page 16 William Maltese • The Phoenix, page 5 • An Interview with Ruth Sims, page 5   The Phoenix by Ruth Sims |
From the Editor... Over the last two
years, I've had submissions of articles and opinion pieces from writers
that don't fit the moniker of this magazine: "All About Books and
Writing." I had attempted to keep the social and political commentary
at bay, while occasionally allowing a few pieces to be
published...well, actually several pieces, when I consider the
interesting and sometimes off-topic social pieces from Jeffrey
Williams. And last month, with our emphasis on transgender books, I
included a short piece from Mekah Gordon.
So I decided to open a page in this magazine to social and political commentary, which could be our editorial page if you will. And guess what? We have two submissions: Patricia Nell Warren conducts an Election Post Mortem, "How Did the Republicans REALLY Get Control of the Government?" and Jeffrey Williams presents "Abuse in Our Community, the Hidden Epidemic." In the last two
years, we have also
published three serialized novels and several short
stories; this month, Larry
D. Hamilton, author of A Gathering
of Angels, has submitted an epic poem, "The Wreck of the G.D.K."
Prolific writer Jay Mandal has given us another short-short story,
"Double Entendre."
We'll need to turn this into a book catalog with the seven books reviewed by writer Lori L. Lake and the reviews by eight of our other regular reviewers. You may have noticed that I have allowed books to be reviewed more than once. If this becomes a real problem and we only review the same books repeatedly, I'll abandon the practice; but in my opinion, it never hurts to have a second or third opinion. I think multiple reviews spread out over time keeps a book in the market longer than the initial six-months and offers varying perspectives on a book.
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 Books Reviewed...  Higher Ground by Saxon Bennett  The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby  Under the Gun by Lori L. Lake  Amost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger  Freedom in this Village ed. E. Lynn Harris  The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren  Films Reviewed...  When Night is Falling  The Sum of Us |
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Election
Post-Mortem
Abuse in
Our Community: 
