ABOUT THE EDITOR
RICHARD LABONTE ([email protected]) was a gay book-seller for twenty years, has written book reviews for more than thirty years, has edited about thirty (mostly erotic) gay anthologies for Cleis Press and Arsenal Pulp Press, and spends his weekends as a kitchen assistant preparing lunches and dinners for as many as sixty people. He lives on beautiful Bowen Island, a short ferry ride from Vancouver, with husband Asa Dean Liles and their two dogs, both (the dogs, not the men) frustrated because they have not yet caught one of the island’s hundreds of free-roaming deer, which would be a natural thing to do, but so very wrong. Several editions of the Best Gay Erotica series, which he has edited since 1996, have been Lambda Literary Award finalists, and two have won, as has First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp), coedited with Lawrence Schimel.
Copyright © 2010 by Richard Labonté.
All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or online reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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eISBN : 978-1-573-44558-0
“Remembered Men” © 2006 by Shane Allison. “Fucking Doseone” © 2005 by Ralowe Trinitrotoluene Ampu. “They Can’t Stop Us” © 2005 by Tim Doody. “The Pancake Circus” © 2005 by Trebor Healey, reprinted with permission from Out of Control, edited by Greg Wharton (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005). “My Boy Tuesday” © 2007 by Arden Hill. “Orange” © 2007 by Lee Houck. “The Welcome-Back Fuck” © 2006 by Dale Lazarov & Drub. “The Stray” © 2009 by David May. “Underground Operator” © 2007 by Andrew McCarthy. “Mass Ass” © 2008 by Robert Patrick. “A Retired Writer in the Sun” © 2008 by Simon Sheppard. “Rushing Tide of Sanity” © 2007 by Charlie Vázquez. “Benediction” © 2006 by Alana Noël Voth. “The Boy in the Middle” © 2009 by Thom Wolf. “Trouble Loves Me” © 2005 by Steven Zeeland, reprinted with permission from Barracks Bad Boys: Authentic Accounts of Sex in the Armed Forces, edited by Alex Buchman (Harrington Park Press, 2004).
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