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31st-Aug-2007 04:17 pm - New review
kiss
 I have a new review up on [info]erastes's Speak Its Name gay historical fiction blog.

This one's about Richard Amory's classic, much discussed, much ripped-off, and much parodied Song of the Loon.  Read that review here.  

Loon was made into a soft-core art-house movie (unendorsed by the author) in 1970.  It's apparently impossible to get but here's a link to a clip.  Don't let it dissuade you from reading the book; the two are only tenuously related.

Be warned, it's got two cocks and four balls men's dangly bits. 

My other reviews so far are for Chris Hunt's Street Lavender and Mel Keegan's Dangerous Moonlight.

I'm loving the way reviewing forces me to clarify what I like and don't like, what works and doesn't, when authors tackle gay themes in historical settings.  

So, what's your favorite gay historical?
What gay historical do you wish someone would write?
26th-Aug-2007 10:43 am - Whipping up Desire and Devotion
kiss

In my fantasy world where I have an unlimited library budget and am not subject to the vagaries of public or academic libraries, I would have this book.  I read an ad for it in this week's London Review of Books and lusted immediately.  Just look at the cover; can you blame me?  "An exploration of the emotional, sensual, religious, and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practice, as seen in religious, literary, and medical texts and images."  Who says history is bloodless??

The historical novel I'm researching doesn't have anything to do with such naughty things, but just reading about this book has the plot monkeys quivering.

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