Books I've read in the past few months ... the moving and beautifully written novel Grief by Andrew Holleran #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #classic #GayClassic #AndrewHolleran

Joy Division "Atmosphere" Walk in silence Don't walk away, in silence See the danger Always danger Endless talking Life rebuilding Don't walk away #music #poetry #Atmosphere #JoyDivision #IanCurtis #BernardSumner #StephenMorris #PeterHook

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" How I wish, how I wish you were here We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year Running over the same old ground What have you found? The same old fears Wish you were here #music #poetry #PinkFloyd #WishYouWereHere

Charles Bukowski: "I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, 'crazy.' But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there." (Ham On Rye) #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #poetry #novel #CharlesBukowski

Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11 #RememberTheSky #NeverForget911

Star Trek was everything to me growing up. Mr. Spock was my hero. 🖖

Franz Kafka: "I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness." #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #FranzKafka

Christopher Coe (1953.11.27–1994.09.06) wrote two novels: I Look Divine (1987), a brilliant tale about the fragility of beauty and vanity, and Such Times (1993), a beautiful, heart-breaking semi-autobiographical story about a love affair cut short by the AIDS virus. #booksky #books #lgbtq #reading

Oscar Wilde: "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." [The Picture of Dorian Gray] #booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #art #OscarWilde

James Baldwin: "One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give." (Notes of a Native Son 1955) #booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #JamesBaldwin

Truman Capote: "You can't blame a writer for what the characters say." #booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #TrumanCapote

Books I've read in the past few months ... Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan, entertaining second novel about gay friends Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn. #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #humor #classic #GayClassic #JoeKeenan @joekeenan.bsky.social

Albert Camus: "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." #booksky #books #novel #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #classic #AlbertCamus

Edna St. Vincent Millay: "A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him." #booksky #books #lgbtq #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #poetry #EdnaStVincentMillay

Dorothy Parker: "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy." #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing

Books I've read in the past few months ... one of my favorites and a very entertaining movie, as well Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund @boyculture.bsky.social #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #classic #GayClassic #MatthewRettenmund

Sylvia Plath: "I love my rejection slips. They show me I try." #booksky #books #poetry #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #SylviaPlath

E.E. Cummings: "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." #booksky #books #poetry #reading #EECummings

Thoughts on rejection... Henry Rollins: "Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on." #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #HenryRollins

Shattered Mirrors (standalone and complete at 81,000 words) In an alternate future, a recovering addict haunted by guilt forges an unexpected connection with an empath drowning in emotion, until secrets and addiction threaten to destroy the fragile trust between them. #QueerPit #A #SPF #R

Terry Pratchett: "The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #writer #author #TerryPratchett

Toni Morrison: "If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #writer #author #ToniMorrison

"It unfolds as you write it. That’s something I never believed before I wrote a book, but it does." – Joan Didion #booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #writer #author

The original cover of one of my favorite books, Such Times by Christopher Coe. The photo is of my copy, purchased when the book was first released in August 1993. #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #classic #GayClassic #ChristopherCoe #SuchTimes

One of my favorites books, Such Times, by Christopher Coe, is an exquisite, heartbreaking novel that spans the time from the near-idyllic 1970s and early 80s to the horrors of the AIDS epidemic in the 90s. #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #classic #GayClassic #ChristopherCoe #SuchTimes

Have you ever worked on a story until you know have a finished piece that's ready to be sent out into the world, but you love your characters so much that it's hard to let them go? That's where I am right now. <sigh> #WritingCommunity #QueerLit #booksky #books #lgbtq #writing #writer #author

Books I've read in the past few months ... City of Night, a brilliant semi-autobiographical novel by John Rechy. Absolutely riveting. #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #autobiography #classic #GayClassic #JohnRechy

Dr. Seuss: "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" (Oh the Thinks You Can Think) #booksky #books #novel #creativity #reading #classic #DrSeuss

Albert Camus: "I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am." (From “Carnets 1935-1942”) #booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #classic #AlbertCamus

Björk on creativity #booksky #musicsky #creativity #Björk

E.B. White: "I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all." #booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #EBWhite

Susan Sontag: "What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive." #booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #SusanSontag

Ian Curtis, lead singer and lyricist for the band Joy Division, was born on this day, 15 July 1956, in Stretford, Lancashire, England. He died on 18 May 1980. 💔 #MusicSky #PunkRock #PostPunk #NewWave #otd #IanCurtis #JoyDivision #UnknownPleasures #Closer Photos 1979 © Kevin Cummins

Books I've read in the past few months ... My Lives: An Autobiography by Edmund White. Very enjoyable. #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #autobiography #classic #GayClassic #EdmundWhite

Isaac Asimov: "Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter." #booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #sciencefiction #IsaacAsimov

Evelyn Waugh: "I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were white with fool's-parsley and meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer." #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #classic #EvelynWaugh

Ray Bradbury: "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." #booksky #books #novel #writing #WritingCommunity #RayBradbury

While Ernie has no siblings, his partner Bert has a twin brother named Bart and a nephew named Brad. Just learned this and I love it! #Muppets #SesameStreet #BertAndErnie #ErnieAndBert #Bert #Ernie #lgbtq+

Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive" "No, not I, I will survive Long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive I've got my life to live And all my love to give and I will survive I, I, I will survive" #gay #lgbtq #disco #music #musicsky #GloriaGaynor

The Weather Girls "It's Raining Men" #gay #lgbtq #disco #music #musicsky #TheWeatherGirls

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

PBS American Experience: Stonewall Uprising "When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for days." #gay #lgbtq #pride #Stonewall #StonewallRiots

Donna Summer "I Feel Love" #gay #lgbtq #music #musicsky #disco #DonnaSummer

Sylvester "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" #gay #lgbtq #music #musicsky #disco #GayClassic #Sylvester

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

Just finished watching this wonderful movie: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert #gay #movies #lgbtq #classic #GayClassic #TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert

Henry David Thoreau: "A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself." (Walden 1854) #booksky #books #writing #reading #classic #HenryDavidThoreau

Books I've read in the past few months ... a classic that I reread every few years ... A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White #booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #classic #GayClassic #EdmundWhite #VioletQuill

Aldous Huxley: "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced." (Brave New World) #booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #classic #AldousHuxley

Andy Warhol: "Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." #AndyWarhol #art #gay #lgbtq