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The Lavender Locker Room: 3000 Years of Great Athletes...
Patricia Nell Warren, 2006
Patricia Nell Warren's compilation of
stories highlighting some of history's great gay, lesbian and
gender-bending athletes is rich and colorful. It features
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Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham
Jon Barrett, 2002
Jon Barrett's book on
Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham is a magnificent and inspiring tale of
heroism in the face of what would be for most of us overwhelming
fear and adversity. The emotional tsunami caused by the attacks on
September 11, 2001 generated countless stories of outrage and
despair, but also many stories of strength and courage.
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Trailblazing: The True Story
of America's First Openly Gay Track Coach
Eric Gumby
Anderson, 2000
At only 25 years of age, Eric Anderson was near the top of his sport, coaching the cadre of distance
runners at Huntington Beach High School in conservative Orange County, Calif.
Victory on the track gained Anderson high respect as a coach, but he was hiding the truth from
his colleagues and his team: Eric Anderson was gay.
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Jocks: True Stories of America's
Gay Male Athletes
Dan Woog, 1998
Find out what happens when the final closet door--that of men in sports--finally swings open. Is there
life for gay athletes after coming out to their teammates? Journalist Dan Woog, himself
an openly gay soccer coach, interviewed dozens of gay jocks and offers over 25 inspiring
stories of men who are truly today's champions.
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David Kopay Story
David Kopay, Perry Deane Young,
Robert Lipsyte, 1977
The David Kopay Story was an earth-shattering event. It has never been
duplicated. Twenty-three years after publishing his story, David Kopay remains
the only NFL player who has publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. After a
ten-year career as a running back for the San Francisco 49ers, the Detroit
Lions, the Washington Redskins, the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay
Packers, and exhausted by the agony of living a double life, Kopay bravely
talked to the Washington Star and took his place in history as the first
prominent male athlete to come out of the closet.
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Northridge High Football Camp: A Novel
S. Joseph Krol, 1996
This was the story of two tough and popular football players who find themselves
attracted to each other. In their rough and brash football world, they develop
an infatuation as old as time. They attend football camp together and come to
terms with their feelings for each other.
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PINS
By Jim Provenzano, October 1999
Set in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1993, PINS weaves the classic story of a
Catholic saint into a compelling modern life -and near-death- account of Joey
Nicci, a fifteen-year-old Italian-American wrestler. After befriending
Donald "Dink" Kohrs, Joey and his new posse get involved in pranks and
partying that eventually get out of control, resulting in the death of a
maligned fellow teammate.
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A Better Place
Mark A. Roeder & Ronald L. Donaghe, March 2001
High school football, a hospital of horrors, a long
journey, and an unlikely love await Brendan and Casper as they search for a
better place... Casper is the poorest boy in
school. Brendan is the captain of the football team. Casper has nothing. Brendan
has it all; looks, money, popularity, but he lacks the deepest desire of his
heart. The boys come from different worlds, but have one thing in common that no
one would guess.
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The Boys on the Rock (Stonewall
Inn Edition)
By John Fox, 1994
For any of you other gay guys who might need
an incentive to read it, let it be said that this tale of first love between
high school swimmer Billy and college-student political volunteer Al has some
stunningly (and graphically) erotic passages. But the sex is just a natural (and
inevitable) outgrowth of a ruthlessly honest (and often laugh-out-loud
hilarious) look at a teenage boy's life.
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Metes and Bounds
Jay Quinn, 2001
In this unusual coming-of-age novel, author Jay Quinn
surveys the expanding emotional and sexual boundaries of Matt, an
eighteen-year-old surfer in coastal North Carolina. Set against the broad skies
and beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Matt's story of claiming his place
as a surfer and as a gay man in the small and large worlds of construction
sites, fishing piers, and surf breaks, is a triumph of storytelling.
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Johnny in the Spot
Ed Gallagher, 1998
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The Front Runner
Patricia Nell
Warren, 1974
Harlan Brown is a tough, conservative track coach - hiding from
his past at a small college. Billy Sive is a brilliant young
runner who is homosexual - and doesn't mind who knows it.
When they fall in love, they will enter a race against hate and
prejudice that takes them to the '76 Olympics and a shocking,
shattering conclusion.
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Harlan's Race
Patricia Nell Warren, 1994
In the sequel to The Front
Runner, coach Harlan Brown is forced to enter the race of his
life. To survive the hate and violence which threaten his
chosen family - Betsy, valiant lesbian mother, Vince, angry
activist seeking revenge, Chino, Vietnam vet with a wounded heart,
and the secret child of Billy Sive, The Front Runner.
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Billy's Boy
Patricia Nell Warren, 1998
BILLY'S BOY is a first person
story, about a teen's passionate search to know more about his
dead gay father, his lesbian mother's past...and his own sexual
destiny. John William, 14, describes himself as "the
science geek from hell." He loves astronomy, but lately his
attention is focused on Earth, his best friend Shawn, and his own
awakening body. New in L.A., he hangs out with his straight girl
buddy Ana and two Latino club kids, Teak and Elena, that he just
met. William is sure he's straight, and he is irritated by Teak's
effeminate attitude.
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At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel
Jamie O'Neill, 2002
In the spring of 1915, Jim Mack and
"the Doyler," two Dublin boys, make a pact to swim to an
island in Dublin Bay the following Easter. By the time they do,
Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising, and the boys'
friendship has blossomed into love--a love that will in time be
overtaken by tragedy.
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Behind the Mask: My Double Life in...
Dave Pallone, Alan Steinberg
(Contributor), 1990
Pallone became a National League umpire during the 1979 arbiters' strike; during
his 10 years in the majors, he encountered animosity for his original ``scab''
status and rumors of the homosexuality he tried to conceal.
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Changing Pitches
Steve Kluger, 1998
Journalist Kluger's
first novel takes the form of a diary and scrapbook kept for one season by
Scotty MacKay, aging star pitcher for the hapless Washington Senators. PW said,
``as a parody of jock journals, this book misses by lampooning the cast instead
of the medium.''
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Northridge High Football Camp: A Novel
S. Joseph Krol, 1996
This was the story of two tough and popular football players who find themselves
attracted to each other. In their rough and brash football world, they develop
an infatuation as old as time. They attend football camp together and come to
terms with their feelings for each other.
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Uprising
Randy Boyd, 1998
What if a pop star as
famous as Michael Jackson or Madonna, an athlete as big as Michael Jordan and a
tycoon as powerful as Ted Turner were all secretly gay? What if they all joined
forces to assassinate a homophobic, Jessie Helms-type senator? What if the FBI
got wind of this threesome and assigned a straight undercover agent to
investigate? A straight undercover agent who's a tough, blond, muscular
ex-athlete, chosen because the bureau knows the pop star has an irresistible
attraction to tough, blond, muscular ex-athletes?
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Bad Boy
Diana J. Wieler, 1997
A.J. thinks his 16th year will be the
best yet--until he discovers that his closest friend, Tully, is gay and that his
hockey coach condones deliberate brutality on the ice. A.J. has proudly moved up
to the Cyclones, a Triple-A team, and is developing an intense interest in
Tully's younger sister, Summer. But finding Tully at a gay bar with a teammate
turns his world upside down; he takes out his sense of betrayal (and fright at
his own feelings) by going after opposing players, accepting his spreading
reputation as a ``bad boy'' with guilty pleasure.
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Hardball: An Erotic Novel
Tom Hitman
HARDBALL is no-holds barred, high voltage sexual read right from the start where Bruno explores and
relieves himself to the enticing voyeur Ricky. The manager Mitch has a penchance for S&M with the
players and there is a romp of behind the lockers scene. In the midst of such debauchery, HARDBALL
could have been so much more if not for the lack of redemption in the characters.
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Men for All Seasons: Stories of
Sports and Sex
August 2000
Joining the recent flowering of specialized
erotica collections is this hardcore, testosterone-drenched volume
for sports aficionados and those who love them. No sub-fetish of
the jock genre is neglected here, and potent socks, jockstraps,
damp towels, and shorts all make memorable appearances.
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Latest Feature |
 Jocks 2: True Stories of America's
Gay Male Athletes
Dan Woog follows up his
successful "Jocks" book with a sequel. “I think
the stories in this one are more compelling than the first,”
says Woog. The
first book focused on declaring that gay athletes are here, he
said. "Now that we know they’re here, what are their
lives like?” Jocks 2 profiles a wide range of gay sports
fans and athletes, including baseball fan Dug Funell, high school
football player Greg Congdon, and Outsports.com co-founder Jim
Buzinski.
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