(NY Times) A new book about Samuel Steward, “Secret Historian” by Justin Spring, reveals a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century.

(GLAAD) Honor Moore reads from her memoir The Bishop’s Daughter at last year’s Bi Lines This Friday May 28th marks the third annual “Bi Lines: A Celebration of Bisexual Writing in Reading Music and Culture.” The event, held the day after the Lambda Literary Awards , features authors reading from works which have been nominated for “Lammies” in the categories of Bisexual Fiction and Bisexual Nonfiction. This years participants include Bisexual Fiction Nominees J. E.

(NY Times) Wendy Moffat’s biography of E. M. Forster sheds light on its subject’s homosexuality.

(Advocate) A local New Jersey chapter of the Glenn Beck group the 9.12 Project is behind an effort to ban books about teenage homosexuality in schools.

(SFGN) Terrorist bombings, family secrets, sibling conflicts, corruptive wealth, maze-like conspiracies, a closeted 18-year-old Muslim scion and a handsome homo flight attendant: Rice stuffs a whole lot of plot into his fifth novel. The story is somewhat dense, with oodles of expository asides, but nonetheless zips along at a page-turner pace. When West Hollywood party-boy flight attendant Cameron is caught on video fleeing a Hong Kong hotel bombing, accompanied by a shady Middle Eastern character, his slightly estranged but still loyal sister, Megan, sets out to prove her brother is no terrorist.

(Phila. Inquirer) The day after members of a Burlington County conservative group successfully petitioned to have a book on teenage homosexuality labeled obscene and removed from a high school library, organizer Gerry Grabinski was ebullient.

(Phila. Inquirer) A Burlington County school board voted Tuesday night to pull a book depicting teenage homosexuality from its high school library shelves after protests from a local conservative group.

(Times-Dispatch) The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia has asked a Chesterfield County textbook-review committee to drop one of the books being considered for a proposed Bible class. A fax sent Wednesday by the ACLU to textbook-review committee members Ed Witthoefft and Gayle Hines urged them not to use the book “The Bible in History and Literature,“ prepared by the North Carolina-based National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools.

(365 Gay) Comic artist and writer Dan Parent says that a gay character is coming to Riverdale High, when Archie comics adds “Kevin Keller” in September. Says the Washington Post: “With some comics, this would qualify as non-news. But in the historically less-diverse world of Riverdale, in the longtime land of white-walled jalopies, this registers as notable.

(SFGN) The great promise of Haslett’s 2002 short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here , is more than realized with this mesmerizing marriage of financial fraud, an elderly woman’s melancholy decline into dementia and gay sexual awakening. Doug Fanning is the ruthless financier, a handsome 37-year-old bachelor (and ex-Marine) rattling around near-friendless in a rambling mansion; Charlotte Graves, his cantankerous blue-blood neighbor, is enraged that a stand of trees was sacrificed for Fanning’s new home; into this confrontation comes Nate Fuller, a sexy high school senior and slacker who Charlotte, a retired Read more…