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1 Fingersmith Sarah Waters Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.  

Lesbian love in the gutters of Victorian London--a world-class yarn.

2 At Swim, Two Boys

Jamie O'Neill

Sprawling saga of secret gay love amid Ireland's troubles.

3 Some of Us Did Not Die

June Jordan

The late writer shines in essays from the `60s to September 11.

4 You Are Not a Stranger Here

Adam Haslett

Sharp stories by an openly gay law student: a Today show pick.

5 Running With Scissors scissors

Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends
 

Augusten Burroughs

A boy's crazy mom pawns him off on her crazier shrink--a memoir soon to be a film.

6 Some of the Parts

T Cooper

Sometime drag king Cooper conjures postmodern family.

7 Letters to Montgomery Clift

Noel Alumit

A gay Los Angeles Filipino's coming-of-age story--marvelous.

8 Dress Codes

Noelle Howey

Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as  touted this book by the child of a transsexual trans·sex·u·al
n.
A person who strongly identifies with the opposite gender and who chooses to live as a member of the opposite gender or to become one by surgery.

adj.
1. Of or relating to such a person.

2.
 dad.

9 Love in a Dark Time

Colm Toibin

Musings on the meanings of gay love in the old coded days.

10 Screening Party

Dennis Hensley

Wicked L.A. hipsters clobber (jargon) clobber - To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack."

Compare mung, scribble, trash, smash the stack.
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Jan 21, 2003
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