John Andrews

Dorothy Allison

Jericho Brown

Kevin Sessums

Will Stockton

D. Gilson

Mary Meriam

Derrick Austin

Sassafras Lowrey

Perry Brass

Dan Stone

Ed Madden

Cameron Mitchell

Miriam Bird Greenberg

Jeff Mann

Shane Allison

Richard Blanco

Randall Mann

Scott Wiggerman

Valerie Wetlaufer

Jason K. Friedman

TC Tolbert

Dan Vera

Del Shores

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Evan J. Peterson

Joseph Osmundson

Christine Stroud

Jeffery Berg

Dustin Brookshire

Joey Connelly

William Cordeiro

C. Cleo Creech

James Croteau

J.K. Daniels

Nick Dephtereos

David Eye

Ellen Goldstein

Elizabeth Gross

Johnathan Harper

Scott Hightower

Matthew Hittinger

Rex Leonowicz

Tyler Lynn

Bo McGuire

Rangi McNeil

Kelly McQuain

M. Mack

Stephen S. Mills

Foster Noone

Eddie Outlaw

Seth Pennington

Kenneth Pobo

Brad Richard

Hannah Riddle

Laurence Ross

Liana Roux

Erin Elizabeth Smith

Billie Tadros

Annie Virginia

C.T. Whitley

Cristan Williams

L. Lamar Wilson

In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. Included are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. Cleo Creech, James Croteau, J.K. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Friedman, D. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson.

LGBTQ Writers on the American South

The Queer South

A Spiritual Thriller

The Substance of God

Sex-charge. Forthright, unblushing, tender poems by nationally-published writer Perry Brass, about the gay male experience - in crisis, under attack; through openness, maturity, & change: love, AIDS, sex, censorship, politics, & the cohesive bonds of a unique community. Beautifully illustrated with sensitive photographs by NY photographer Joe Ziolkowski.

Sex-Charge

"In The Lover of My Soul, Perry Brass offers us a biography of himself, as well as a spiritual journey of nakedness, surrender, and transcendence. On this journey he finds the "lover of my soul," that immense, deep Connection found in moments of intense feeling. He finds the Lover in many places, including the mysterious metaphor of Jesus ("What a Best Friend I Have In Jesus") and in one of the most poignant "S & M" poems in print, "My Master Richard Has Returned" from "Three Los Angeles Poems." He talks about his family, his growing up, his dog, his partner, the luminous, lost figure of his father and the disturbing one of his mother. There are moments of icy anger ("A Warning to Fag Bashers"), and of full-throttle eroticism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom

The Lover of My Soul

“There are people all over the world, Allen, who’ll sell anything to anyone. You must know that. We use those people; it’s as simple as that. . . . I can’t tell you any more.” from Warlock, a new novel by Perry Brass, author of Angel Lust, The Harvest, and How to Survive Your Own Gay Life. “Submission, passion, power, and the kind of unleashed gay sexuality that I like to write about — these were the elements I wanted in my new book, Warlock, A Novel of Possession,” says gay poet and novelist Perry Brass. “I also wanted to create characters that leap off the page. I think that’s one of the problems with so many gay books — the characters seem interchangeable. They never have to work hard at anything. Life for them seems like a big cocktail party, with a play room attached. I wanted to write about the struggle for survival that so many of us have — and that we try to transcend with the special gifts we bring to our own lives. I also wanted to tell a hell of a story, which Warlock does.” And what is that? “Two men meet under fairly common circumstances — in a popular gay bath house in Manhattan. One of them, Allen Barrow, is sexually inhibited, has a small penis that embarrasses him, is shy, soft-spoken, polite, and has a low-paying job in a bank. His whole life will change when he meets Destry Powars. “Powars is, indeed, ‘destiny’s child’: he is larger than life, a true urban cowboy, sexually wild, smart, uncouth, vulgar — from generations of footloose losers. He has reinvented himself over and over again and has become spectacularly rich and successful. He has learned the language that moves money, the language of power, force, success at any means. But who has taught him this, and at what price? The price is his own goodness, his own real soul – and he can find this again, only by merging with Allen.” Warlock is a book of hypnotic splendor and power, full of gorgeous eroticism and total suspense. If you ever wanted to find your own “man of destiny,” who will pull you away from the problems of your life, who will satisfy your every wish — Warlock will tell you how to find and recognize him, as well as make you see the ancient and hard work of warlocks. “I think,” Perry Brass says, “the message of Warlock is that the business of business is . . . often evil. Just how evil it is, I write about in Warlock. Many of the excesses of the last ten years are coming back to roost. I’m glad that I have published a very powerful gay book that deals with so much of what we have seen, but in a way that is both entertaining and very moving. The real message of this book is our own submission to love and sexual fulfilllment — how much we really want this and how difficult it is to achieve, as much as we want it. That is a message I have written about many times, but I’m glad to do it in this really unique way in this book.”

A Novel of Possession

Warlock

1963. John F. Kennedy is president. Civl rights is catching fire, as another community -- of bachelor men -- is emerging as one to be despised or acknowelged. Ann twevl-year-old Benjamin Rotheberg who lives in a marshy suburb of Savannah, Georgia, with "the most ravishing name in the world," the Isle of Hope, with his mother Caroline, a classically beautiful Southern WASP and his magnetic father Robby, a smark dark Sephardic-Jewish salemsan, is trying to figure out who he is ... Benjamin must change idetities from beign a smart, precocious self-aware kid to masquerading and passing as a regular guy from growing into a sexually curious (and possibly gay) young man to expereince a fragile adolescent innocence and attraction to a pretty girl. King of Angels is about many communties coming together in an explosive time -- Southern Jews, African-Americans, Southern Catholics, an emerging gay one, and the secret underground world of boys, their crushes and conflicts, their attachments and hates. It is also about the seductive attractions of self knowledge and the men and women who open our hearts to it, amidst the struggles of the soul itself to bloom in life and even after death. This is Perry Brass's most stirring and emotionally charged novel, set in the hunting coastal South. -- Publisher's description.

A Novel about the Genesis of Identity and Belief

King of Angels

"Albert is the story of two worlds - our own, in the midst of political and cultural turmoil - and Ki, a tiny pristine planet, besieged by tribal war and the threat of overpopulation, where gay men mate for life and possess the Egg of the Eye, a third testicle that allows them to listen to the thoughts of others, to reproduce, and to transcend space and time." "Using his Egg, Albert, the endangered son of a Same-Sex male couple from Ki, will be reborn on Earth. The year is 2025, after the fundamentalist White Christian Party has taken over a divided America. Traveling through a nation split among fundamentalist strongholds and "gay reserves," Albert will find the Earth mate who will claim his heart - and allow him to return to Ki and reclaim leadership of the planet. Mesmerizing, erotic, and truthful, Albert is the story of two men - and two worlds - finally merging in these amazing chronicles of The Book Of Man. There, as the gay Everyman at the crossroads of life, death, and identity, Albert will tell his own story and define the ultimate tribe from which he comes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Albert, Or, The Book of Man

“A gay classic from the wild Rudolph Giuliani era of New York politics—the then-mayor (and now Donald Trump-do-anything-guy) himself makes an appearance in this spell-binding novel. Like Angels in America, Angel Lust pushes every boundary from sexuality, time travel, angelology, and of course, most volatile of them all in this Age of Donald J. Trump Morality, real estate. Basically, who owns what—and who will get to do what to you. This is one heck of a ride—and you won’t put it down until the last page, by the acclaimed author of The Substance of God, the bestseller The Manly Art of Seduction, and King of Angels.” Excerpt From: Perry Brass. “Angel Lust A Novel of Eros, Time Travel, and Real Estate.” iBooks.

A Novel of Eros, Time Travel, and Real Estate

Angel Lust

Futurist Faustian pact: 2075. Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-raised design superstar in Americanized Germany, is 78 but looks 40 years younger due to the perks of his stressful job. Meeting an impulsive, gifted man will destroy the life he has painfully built for himself, but allow him to reclaim his own soul.

A Historical Novel of the Future

Carnal Sacraments

Like any classic, this powerful, moving, and, often, even funny story of the “Same Sex” men of the planet Ki becomes more relevant with time. Right-wing politicians up to their same old tricks, people excluded from the American dream, guns going off at the wrong time—also flying blue monkeys and good witches, Perry Brass has re-envisioned Oz as a far off, mythical planet where queer men marry and raise families, wage bloodthirsty wars, and partake whenever they can, in the love of angels. Welcome to Ki, a beautiful distant tribal planet where the boy Enkidu had been promised to Greeland, an older hunter, in the spirit of the Agreement which, centuries ahead of gay marriage on Earth, bonded pairs of Same-Sex men for life. To control the often violent population of tiny Ki, its inhabitants were divided into three interlinking groups: The nature-centered Same-Sex men of the swamp forests; the warlike Off-Sexers of the dry plains with their obedient wives and daughters; and the Sisters of Ki, renegade women who controlled the planet through the powerful temple of the Goddess Ki Herself. The Same-Sex men of Ki are endowed with a special third testicle, called “the Egg of the Eye.” The third Egg produces its own sperm or “seed.” Exchanging seed from the third Egg is at the heart of Same-Sex bonding. Seed produces intense, mystical visions, and can travel through space on its own and replicate itself—therefore providing certain Same-Sex men from Ki the abilities for space and time travel. To replicate themselves, a pair of Same-Sexers is allowed to impregnate an Off-Sex woman with their combined seed. This is controlled by the Sisters of Ki, who limit the number of Same-Sex men on their small planet and even pick the woman, bringing her into their Temple for the rite of impregnation, since the male couple is not allowed to know her. A year after giving birth, the woman must surrender her son to the Sisters who will deliver him to the male couple who fathered him. Same-Sex offspring are always male, since one man’s sperm produces the third Egg itself; the other’s, the dominant physical characteristics of the boy child. The child has to be given up as the woman’s husband, usually an Off-Sex warrior, is permitted, by the Agreement of the Planet, to kill the boy if he remains in his house longer than one year. In the midst of Enkidu and Greeland’s first sexual encounter in the beautiful forests of Ki, a young Off-Sex warrior surprised them, threatening to kill Greeland and take Enkidu a prisoner. Instead, the very strong Greeland killed the warrior and was charged—by some accounts unjustly—with his murder. Later, it is learned that Ert, this handsome but headstrong warrior, was the son of Ertan, chief of the Off-Sexers, whose wife Candra—it is also revealed—was actually Enkidu’s mother. As punishment for Greeland’s crime, the Sisters of Ki declared that Enkidu must be taken from Greeland, stripped of his Egg, and be made to live with the Off-Sexers as their servant. To escape this punishment, Woosh, a wizard from the mysterious enclave of the Blue Monkeys, sent Greeland and Enkidu to Earth, using his magic and the powers of their third Eggs. On Earth, Greeland and Enkidu took over the identities and bodies of two men: Cold, handsome Wright and his sensitive lover, Allan. The two men were charged with the mission to send back to Ki an Earth “same sex” man, to take Enkidu’s place with the Off-Sexers who have never seen him. Greeland, as Wright, succeeded in sending back his friend George Marshall, who lusted for Wright but truly loved Allan. On Ki, George, hulking, hairy, a man few would find conventionally attractive, gave himself the mysterious name Enhursag, “Lord of the Mountain,” dating back to the strange, ancient Sumerian heritage of Kivian Same-Sexers. This connection with another planet’s past, lost in the mists of time, was finally revealed on Earth to Wright and Allan. On Earth as Wright, Greeland cast off his natural Same-Sex shyness, and taking on an Earthly personality became manipulative, sexually aggressive, hungry for power, and ruthless. On returning to the shimmering forests of Ki, Greeland brought back his egotistical needs to the Same-Sex enclaves from which he came, believing that only he could control the destiny of his beautiful, fragile planet. Circlesis the next book in the chronicle of Ki, a place where the need for balance controls all, where individuals are at the beck of the Agreement, and where Same-Sex love is part of a culture, powerful and eternal. The book has an amazing appeal in this age of a divided America, of a Donald Trump lusting for power in the midst of lies, and of gay men trying once more to define their position on Earth.

A Science Fiction Novel from the Chronicles of Ki by Perry Brass

Circles

The Manly Art of Seduction, How to Meet, Talk to, and Become Intimate with Anyone, by Perry Brass, author of How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, Angel Lust, Warlock, and Carnal Sacraments. Always waiting for someone else to make the first move? Traumatized by rejection? Don't have a clue how to open a conversation, or expand the terms of a relationship? The Manly Art of Seduction is a must-have. Brass explains male territorialism, and how it keeps men locked inside themselves. He talks about making decisions yourself, and how these decisions can be used to make seduction possible-even easy. He deals with the monster of rejection, and how to use mind pictures and exercises to rejection-proof your psyche. At the end of most chapters are questions you can use to tailor this book to your needs, seeing your own progress as you come to master this art.

How to Meet, Talk To, and Become Intimate with Anyone

The Manly Art of Seduction

Perry Brass

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