Who We Are (So Far)

A collection of first person narratives from the queer community. Recounts of exploring one’s sexuality and gender, silencing, coming out, experiencing love, and more take the forms of essays and stories. First Person Queer is humorous at times, painful at others, and extremely honest all the while. These writers address homophobia from their families, rejection from their own queer communities, and the building of constructive relationships that challenge heteronormative models

Always
by Nicola Griffith

In Always, Aud travels to Seattle to check up on one of her real estate investments, and soon becomes embroiled in investigating a poisoning on the set of a TV show being filmed at a warehouse she owns. She is also instantly attracted to the production's caterer, a former stuntwoman named Kick. In a parallel story line set in Atlanta, Aud teaches self-defense to a group of women — an endeavor that brings up a whole host of issues about power and women's roles that Aud never expected. The two strands of the novel come together in the end.

Going As Far As I Can
by Duncan Fallowell

Left money in a friend's will to write a book, Duncan Fallowell, whose previous excursions have taken in Sicily and St Petersburg, decided on New Zealand, on the grounds that he couldn't go any further, to cure himself of the need to travel and, though he doesn't admit it, to write a kind of anti-travel piece, which is part of this elegant and companionable book's charm.
Unlike many other travel writers, Fallowell owns up to having a sex life. Noting the copious buttock cleavage on display among the youth's rollerskaters and skateboarders, he adds drily that in animal language such ostentatious displays of the rear end are a plea for anal penetration, though the boys appear in most cases not to realise it. His matter-of-fact encounters include fleeing a gay hotel, sex cellars and financial transactions.

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