Fiction and nonfiction about sex, love, shame, and the long road back to oneself. Order below, or read on as the work unfolds.
A bold, funny, heartbreaking novel set inside a gay men's therapy group in Hollywood. Four men confront shame, intimacy, and desire under the eye of their analyst, with a detour into dialogue with Plato and a closing workshop that turns the reader into a participant.
My award-winning first novel returns for its thirtieth anniversary in a new edition, with a foreword by Sarah Schulman. A limited number of signed copies of the original St. Martin's edition are also available.
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A cultural history of gay male desire from the postwar years to the present, first published by HarperSanFrancisco in 1996.
The Gay Hero's Journey: A Gay Man's Search for Meaning fuses clinical theory, narrative, and the depth psychology of Jung and Freud with the existential question of meaning to develop, out of the G+Q MAP and G+Q SHIFT first dramatized in the novel Healing Gay Sex and Love, a myth of meaning for gay men who want more out of their lives.
The opening chapters will be free to read, with a small subscription unlocking each installment as it publishes. The serialization page is on its way.
Notify meA men's therapy group restages Dante's Divine Comedy as their own descent and return, falling apart and into love along the way. Released as audio, episode by episode.
The late Felice Picano's luminous memoir of Fire Island in its glory years, reissued with a new foreword by Douglas Sadownick in honor of his mentor and friend.
The Gay Hero's Journey starter guide, nineteen pages on the G+Q MAP. Yours when you sign up.
Get the free guide on StanThe inaugural volume from Psychology for the People Press. The call for submissions is open now.