This is the story of three very different pairs of men. One pair was born in Mexico and raised by a deeply loving father; one pair was born in the United States and raised by a morally rigid father and timid, but loving, mother and one pair was born in Italy and raised in a traditional Italian family. The boys are very different but they share one important thing: they love each other. Not the traditional love brothers have for one another, these men love each other with a physical passion...

323 Kearny is a San Francisco apartment rented, in 1959, by four married business men who happen also to love the touch of a man. The story revolves around several of those men, especially Tom, a new college graduate who is now taking courses in sex, both the playful, fun kind and the kind that binds men together. It is a love story, set against the beginnings of the gay sexual revolution in San Francisco.

The Folks on Taylor Circle is the story of the people who to live in a small, friendly neighborhood in Palm Springs, California and how they all influence each other. The neighborhood is changing and these people are the new folks, diverse, interesting and mainly gay. First are Wes & Bill who met when Wes was 17 and Bill was 34. Wes, from their very first handshake, is convinced that they belong together and will ultimately spend the rest of their lives together. Bill, after Wes 18th birth...

Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identifica...