Tag: queer history

• QUICK REVIEW: Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent by Brian Francis

  

  An entertaining and moving memoir about coming out, looking inwards, and the search for connection, inspired by the responses to a personal ad. In 1992, Brian Francis placed a personal ad in a local newspaper. He was a twenty-one-year-old university student, still very much in the closet, and looking for love. He received twenty-five responses,…

  charkinzie

  17 Jul 2021

  Books, coming out, Contemporary, historical, HIV, lgbtqia content, own voices author, self-discovery

  2021, 2021 review, AIDS, book, book review, Book Reviews, Books, Brian Francis, epistolary, gay community, HIV, letters, Missed connections, personal ad, queer history, review

• Review: When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan

  Hugh Ryan is an interesting fellow, so when I saw this book was coming out I was intrigued! Hugh is a curator of queer history, a writer and speaker and New York is his home. If someone was going to write the queer history of Brooklyn then this was the man. I haven’t read a queer…

  charkinzie

  5 Mar 2019

  lgbtqia content, non-fiction

  book, book review, Books, Hugh ryan, lgbtq literature, lgbtq+, queer history, queer lit, When Brooklyn Was Queer