reviews_and_ramblings | Aug. 5th, 2015

Aug. 5th, 2015

By exploring a subject that had personal and societal implications, Andrew "Drew" Mattison (Aug. 5, 1948, Brooklyn, Queens County, New York, USA - Dec. 29, 2005, San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA) helped bring gay relationships into the media spotlight.

Teaming with his life partner of 34 years, Dr. David McWhirter, Dr. Mattison wrote the ground breaking book "The Male Couple," an in-depth study evaluating the quality and stability of long-term homosexual relationships.

Published in 1984, before AIDS became a scourge in the gay community, the book gained international attention and landed Dr. Mattison and his partner on the TV and radio talk-show circuit.

"No one had done the research before," McWhirter said. "We became authorities on couples, invited to speak all over the world."

Dr. Mattison, a medical psychologist, psychotherapist and educator, went on to help found the first federally funded research center dedicated solely to studying the effects of AIDS infection on the brain.

The HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center opened at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine in June 1989.

By exploring a subject that had personal and societal implications, Andrew Mattison helped bring gay relationships into the media spotlight. Teaming with his life partner of 34 years, Dr. David McWhirter, Dr. Mattison wrote the ground breaking book "The Male Couple," an in-depth study evaluating the quality and stability of long-term homosexual relationships. Mattison died of stomach cancer at 57. McWhirter, who was 16 years younger than Mattison, died of a stroke less than 7 months later.

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Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time by Elisa Rolle
Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1500563323
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
Amazon: Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time

Days of Love chronicles more than 700 LGBT couples throughout history, spanning 2000 years from Alexander the Great to the most recent winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how they met and fell in love, as well as photos from when they married or of their families. Included are professional portraits by Robert Giard and Stathis Orphanos, paintings by John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini, and photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Arnold Genthe, and Carl Van Vechten among others. “It's wonderful. Laying it out chronologically is inspired, offering a solid GLBT history. I kept learning things. I love the decision to include couples broken by death. It makes clear how important love is, as well as showing what people have been through. The layout and photos look terrific.” Christopher Bram “I couldn’t resist clicking through every page. I never realized the scope of the book would cover centuries! I know that it will be hugely validating to young, newly-emerging LGBT kids and be reassured that they really can have a secure, respected place in the world as their futures unfold.” Howard Cruse “This international history-and-photo book, featuring 100s of detailed bios of some of the most forward-moving gay persons in history, is sure to be one of those bestsellers that gay folk will enjoy for years to come as reference and research that is filled with facts and fun.” Jack Fritscher

Crossposts: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/2584761.html

Emmanuel George "Manoly" Lascaris (5 August 1912 – 13 November 2003) was the life partner of the Australian novelist and dramatist Patrick White. Lascaris was born in Cairo in 1912, the son of an American woman and her wealthy Greek-Egyptian husband from Smyrna in Asia Minor. Lascaris met White while they both were servicemen in the Second World War. (Picture: Manoly Lascaris in 1990. Photo: William Yang)

He was raised in Athens and Alexandria. In 1941 he joined the Greek Army in exile in Egypt and soon after, in Alexandria, met White, who was then serving with the Royal Australian Air Force. (Picture: Patrick White)

White and Lascaris lived together in Cairo for six years, before moving to a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney in 1948. When White's mother died, they moved into Highbury in Centennial Park, where they lived for the rest of their lives. Although it was widely known that they were lovers, such matters were not publicly discussed in Australia at that time. Lascaris was sometimes referred to as White's "housekeeper." The relationship was not openly discussed until White published his memoirs, Flaws in the Glass, in 1981.

By the time World War II broke out, Patrick White (28 May 1912 – 30 Sep 1990) joined the British Royal Air Force. While in the Middle East, he had an affair with a Greek army officer, Manoly Lascaris, who was to become his life partner. After the war White returned to Australia, buying an old house in Castle Hill. Here he settled down with Lascaris. White and Lascaris hosted many dinner parties at Highbury, their Centennial Park home, in a leafy part of the affluent Eastern suburbs of Sydney.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoly_Lascaris

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), was an Australian author who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.

White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Australian to have been awarded the prize.

White was born in Knightsbridge, London, to an English-Australian father and an English mother. His family later moved to Sydney, Australia when he was six months old. As a child he lived in a flat with his sister, a nanny, and a maid, while his parents lived in an adjoining flat.

At the age of four White developed asthma, a condition that had taken the life of his maternal grandfather. White's health was fragile throughout his childhood, which precluded his participation in many childhood activities. He loved the theatre, which he first visited at an early age. This love was expressed at home when he performed private rites in the garden and danced for his mother’s friends.

At the age of ten, White was sent to Tudor House School, a boarding school in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, in an attempt to abate his asthma. It took him some time to adjust to the presence of other children. At boarding school he started to write plays. Even at this early age, White wrote about palpably adult themes. In 1924, the boarding school ran into financial trouble and the headmaster suggested that White be sent to a public school in England, a suggestion his parents accepted.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White

White was the first Australian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1973). He was openly gay and infamously misanthropic. When named “Australian of the Year” he wrote to a friend: “Something terrible happened to me last week.” To describe the plot of The Eye of the Storm might turn off potential readers, but here goes: it’s a long, challenging book about the slow death of a strident, indomitable elderly woman. Her children, a down-at-the-heels “princess” and an actor, return to Australia from abroad to be with her as she’s dying. Nurses come and go. Eventually…but I won’t spoil the ending. Fans of Henry James will appreciate White’s complicated, rewarding prose and his astonishing psychological accuracy. --Stephen McCauley

Crossposts: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1792643.html

Paul Alan Fahey (born October 27, 1944) lives and writes on the California central coast. On June 28, 2013, his long-term partner Robert Franks (born July 14, 1940) proposed him. After 37 years of living together he said "I'd have to think about it." They married on August 5, 2013.

He is the editor of the anthology, THE OTHER MAN: 21 Writers Speak Candidly About Sex, Love, Infidelity, & Moving On. He has written several LGBT themed novellas, including the 2012 Rainbow Award winner, THE VIEW FROM 16 PODWALE STREET, WHEN THE RIGHT ONE COMES ALONG, BOYS WILL BE BOYS, and YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW. Paul is the author of THE LOVERS & LIARS WARTIME SERIES, featuring the novellas: BOMBER'S MOON, WEEP NOT FOR THE PAST and the soon to be released, A MANX TALE. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In.

The View from 16 Podwale Street won a 2012 Rainbow Award as Best Lesbian Historical and The Other Man won a 2013 Rainbow Award as Best LGBT Non Fiction.

Paul Alan Fahey lives and writes on the California central coast. On June 28, 2013, after 37 years of living together, his long-term partner Robert Franks proposed him. He said "I'd have to think about it." They married on August 5, 2013. He is the editor of the anthology, THE OTHER MAN: 21 Writers Speak Candidly About Sex, Love, Infidelity, & Moving On. He has written several LGBT themed novellas, including the 2012 Rainbow Award winner, THE VIEW FROM 16 PODWALE STREET.

Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time by Elisa Rolle
Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1500563323
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/4910282
Amazon (Paperback): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?tag=elimyrevandra-20
Amazon (Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

Days of Love chronicles more than 700 LGBT couples throughout history, spanning 2000 years from Alexander the Great to the most recent winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how they met and fell in love, as well as photos from when they married or of their families. Included are professional portraits by Robert Giard and Stathis Orphanos, paintings by John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini, and photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Arnold Genthe, and Carl Van Vechten among others. “It's wonderful. Laying it out chronologically is inspired, offering a solid GLBT history. I kept learning things. I love the decision to include couples broken by death. It makes clear how important love is, as well as showing what people have been through. The layout and photos look terrific.” Christopher Bram “I couldn’t resist clicking through every page. I never realized the scope of the book would cover centuries! I know that it will be hugely validating to young, newly-emerging LGBT kids and be reassured that they really can have a secure, respected place in the world as their futures unfold.” Howard Cruse “This international history-and-photo book, featuring 100s of detailed bios of some of the most forward-moving gay persons in history, is sure to be one of those bestsellers that gay folk will enjoy for years to come as reference and research that is filled with facts and fun.” Jack Fritscher

Crossposts: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/2428839.html

Ernestine "Tiny" Davis was born on August 5, 1907. She was an African American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. She was part of the The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, with Edna Williams, Willie Mae Wong, and her partner, Ruby Lucas. While their exposure to white audiences was somewhat limited, they were extremely popular with black audiences. The All-girl band singer Tiny Davis and Ruby Lucas owned Tiny and Ruby's Gay Spot in Chicago during the 1950s. In 1988, a short film entitled Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women was made as a tribute to Davis, and her partner of 42 years, drummer Ruby Lucas. Ernestine “Tiny” Davis died in 1994.

Little is known of Davis’ early life and thus her career (so far) is where most get acquainted with her. In 1937, the Piney Woods Country Life School of Mississippi founded the 16-piece band known as The International Sweethearts of Rhythm. The purpose of the band was to financially support the school, which educated the poor and orphaned black children in that state. But in 1941, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm severed their ties with the Piney Woods Country Life School, moved to Virginia and recruited seasoned professionals to join their band.

Included in this group of professional musicians were Anna Mae Winburn, who previously had been singing with and directing an all-male orchestra, singer/trumpeter Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, and alto saxophonist Roz Cron. They toured the United States extensively, with the high points of their tour being the Apollo Theater in New York, the Regal Theater in Chicago, and the Howard Theater in Washington, D. C., where their debut set a box office record of 35,000 patrons in one week. One such engagement was at The Apollo where the audience was on their feet, dancing to the unique rhythms those all-male, white big bands would later hire black arrangers to copy. The energy pulses and throbs as they swung through the moves the new dance form demanded; vibrated the building in Harlem that night.

Tiny Davis was part of the The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, with Edna Williams, Willie Mae Wong, and her partner, Ruby Lucas. While their exposure to white audiences was somewhat limited, they were extremely popular with black audiences. With her partner they owned Tiny and Ruby's Gay Spot in Chicago during the 1950s. In 1988, a short film entitled Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women was made as a tribute to Davis and Lucas, her partner of 42 years. Ernestine “Tiny” Davis died in 1994.

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Source: http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/woman-serious-swing-ernestine-davis

Crossposts: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/2254607.html

Andrew W.M. Beierle (born August 5, 1951) is a California-based professional communicator with thirty years experience at two of the nation's leading private research universities. He has studied at the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Napa Valley, and Kenyon Review writers' workshops.

Since March 2007, he has been a private consultant to higher education and nonprofits, specializing in publication redesign and management and precision web design for niche clients. He also is the author of two critically acclaimed novels and a stock photographer currently ranked in the top 150 member downloads on the web site Stock Exchange.

Further Readings:

First Person Plural by Andrew W.M. Beierle
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Kensington (August 28, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0758219709
ISBN-13: 978-0758219701
Amazon: First Person Plural
Amazon Kindle: First Person Plural

In this stunning novel, Andrew W.M. Beierle brings to life characters at once unthinkably foreign and utterly real. Frank and fearless, sexy and witty, First Person Plural is a masterfully rendered, powerfully imaginative work, as complex and as extraordinary as the bonds of love. Owen and Porter Jamison are conjoined twins inhabiting one body with two heads, one torso, and two very different hearts. As children, they're seen as a single entity-Owenandporter, or more often, Porterandowen. As they grow to adulthood, their differences become more pronounced: Porter is outgoing and charismatic while Owen is cerebral and artistic. When Porter becomes a high school jock hero, complete with cheerleader girlfriend, a greater distinction emerges, as Owen gradually comes to realize that he's gay. Owen, a reluctant romantic, is content at first to settle for unrequited crushes. Porter's unease with his brother's sexuality leaves Owen feeling increasingly alienated from his twin, especially when Porter falls in love with Faith, and Owen becomes the unwilling third side of a complicated love triangle. When Owen finally begins to explore his own desires, the rift grows deeper. As Porter and Owen's carefully balanced arrangement of give-and-take, sacrifice and selfishness, is irrevocably shattered, each twin is left fighting for his relationship-and his future-in a battle of wills where winning seems impossible, and losing unthinkable . . .

More Spotlights at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Lists/Gay Novels

Crossposts: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/2314129.html

Starting from June 1, 2015, I will daily feature authors attending the three conventions I will join, Euro Pride in Munich (July), UK Meet in Bristol (September) and GRL in San Diego (October). Moreover I'm taking part at the 2015 GRL Featured Blog Tour as Featured Blogger.

For the 2015 Featured Blog Tour, today author is Clare London (Clare London will also attend UK Meet in Bristol):

There’s a Brit in the Lobby!

So here I am – the short, plump Brit redhead, fresh in from the loooong Transatlantic flight, unnoticed and alone in the big, plush American hotel lobby, shyly picking at the hem of my “London” T-shirt, wondering whether I brought enough wacky clothes in my already overstuffed suitcase, whether I have enough swag, and how on earth I’ll ever be heard over the excited and happy US voices at the bar when I want – no, NEED – a frozen Margarita?!

Wait. Let’s re-shoot that scene. That is so NOT how I first experienced GRL LOL. And as I think you’ll see from the pictures chronicling my GRL history from 2011 to 2014…I’m happily immersed into it by now!

I went to the first GRL without really knowing anyone. I mean, I knew some of the attendee list from online, and I’d met some fellow authors at Yaoi Con and the NY Book Fair, but this was my first real MM fiction event. I even dragged my son along with me as moral support (he loved New Orleans! though he was disappointed in my party stamina, which was much less than his :).) I also arrived late because of flight times. Things were not looking good for me, the newbie.

Then I was invited to grab dinner with the lovely Elisa Rolle and her friend, I said hello to a couple of people whose names I knew, I bravely introduced myself to Ethan Day so I could find my souvenir T-shirt and bag … and I started to relax.

GRL New Orleans

To be honest, the one thing I learned was that, short of locking yourself away in your hotel room and avoiding every single scheduled and social event – it’s impossible *not* to mix and make friends. The first big step of any event like this is GOING there. After that, the mere fact of being around means that people say hello, even if you’re all peering at each other’s chest at first, to read your name. You soak in the enthusiasm and fun, you’re seated beside people you don’t know at the start of an author reading, but know much better at the end, and overall there’s an overwhelming sense of relaxation, belonging and community that can’t be beaten.

For those who are most shy – and believe me, I *am* – just draw a deep breath, find somewhere you feel safe but can see what’s going on… and then DIVE DEEP into the groundswell of happiness.

That’s NOT to say that you’re dragged off into huge groups, forced to take part in drinking games, and have to dance on tables! You are still in charge of how much you do or don’t. I’m an introvert, which means I like socialising, but need to recharge by taking time out on my own in the quiet. I told you how my son was disappointed in my lack of party stamina, remember? LOL

I plucked up the courage to travel on my own in successive years. I’m not saying the nervousness ever goes – and it’s been a new hotel, new journey each time – but I *know* in advance I’ll fit right in.

Some of my favourite events at GRL are the author readings. If you’re there this year, come and listen to me and my “cute” Brit accent! Though as I often say, it’s not *me* who has the accent ….. LOL.

GRL Albuquerque

Flashbulb (Flight HA1710 Book 3) by Clare London
Publisher: Jocular Press (June 26, 2015)
Amazon Kindle: Flashbulb (Flight HA1710 Book 3)

Blythe Harris was taking his first flight to the USA and hopefully a whole new client base for his bespoke upholstery business. An adventure for him, he was both nervous and excited to attract the attention of a handsome steward. Things might have gone further – if Flight HA1710 hadn’t failed.

Marc Stafford is a self-confessed player, and he used his charm to seduce his cute passenger. But in the aftermath of the crash, he’s struggling to recover his confidence. The TV declares him a hero for saving passengers, but at night his nightmares trigger painful flashbulb memories of the crash.

In an Irish hospital, Bly realises that although his broken leg will recover, his career may not. And in Chicago, Marc can’t face returning to work. Neither of them can shake off the memory of their brief, sexy encounter. Both of them need to be with someone who understands exactly what they’ve been through. And on a middle ground they can make all their own.

GRL Atlanta

Bio : Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash and her day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.

Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.

All the details and free fiction are available at her website. Visit her today and say hello!
Website: http://www.clarelondon.com
Blog: http://www.clarelondon.com/blog
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/clarelondon
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/clare_london
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/clarelondon
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarelondon

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Andrew Mattison & David McWhirter
Manoly Lascaris & Patrick White
Paul Alan Fahey & Robert Franks
Ruby Lucas & Tiny Davis
Andrew W.M. Beierle (born August 5, 1951)
2015 GRL Featured Blog Tour: Clare London

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