Felice Picano – författare

For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life. Featuring 50 new illustrations.

One of the touchstones of the emerging gay consciousness when it was first published in the 70’s, and a standard reference for gay men throughout the 80’s and 90’s, The Joy of Gay Sex has informed countless men about the ins and outs of gay life, love, and pleasure. A full decade has now passed since the last update, and while the gay community has seen improved treatments for AIDS, more positive media coverage, new forums for the expression of community, and more favorable laws, there continues to be an urgent need for this book’s brand of positive and responsible advice.

Invaluable not only as a sex guide but as a resource on building self-esteem, and a coming out guide for young gay men, The Joy of Gay Sex addresses the many emotional and relationship-oriented issues in gay life, from long-term couples and one-night stands, to loneliness and growing older. It also serves as a general reference on a number of diverse topics, including living wills and insurance.

This volume demonstrates clock reactions, batteries, electrolytic cells and plating. All demonstrations are in the familiar format used in previous volumes: brief description, materials list, preparation procedures, instructions for presentations, important information about potential hazards and safe disposals, and thorough and lucid discussions of the phenomena displayed and the principles illustrated.

Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay- identity.Through the lens of their complex, tumultuous, yet enduring relationship - and their involvement with the handsome model, poet and decorated Vietnam vet Matt Loguidice, whom they both love - Felice Picano chronicles and celebrates gay life and subculture over the last half of the twentieth century. From Malibu Beach in its palmist surfer days to the legendary parties at Fire Island Pines in the 1970s, from San Francisco during its gayest era to AIDS activism in Greenwich Village in the 1990s, Like People in History presents 'the heroic and funny saga of the last three decades by someone who saw everything and forgot nothing' (Edmund White).

Bright, ambitious and handsome, Ross Ohrenstedt, a high-flier in the fashionable field of Queer Studies is flourishing amid the back-stabbing, resentments and petty intrigues of academia. He has just taken up a prestigious university post in Los Angeles and has been appointed to oversee the collection of the papers and works of Damon Von Slyke, prominent man of letters and leading light of the gay literary salon known as the Purple Circle. Sorting through the papers, Ross stumbles across a 'lost' work by an unknown author. His quest to identify the mystery writer and achieve the glory of scholastic tenure unveils the lives and wild times of a group of writers who in the 1970s and 1980s broke new ground in the creation of a gay literary sensibility. But the truth contained within THE BOOK OF LIES is even more surprising...With sharp wit, powerfully unexpected revelations and a luscious sense of place and character, Felice Picano's new novel explores the ties of love, friendship and betrayal with rewarding depth and emotional honesty.With a luscious sense of place and character and with powerfully unexpected revelations, Felice Picano's new novel explores the ties of love, friendship and betrayal with rewarding depth and emotional honesty.

"e;From the smoky salons of 1970s New York to the vibrant heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, Felice Picano blazed a trail through the cultural frontier, reshaping the landscape of queer literature with wit, courage, and unflinching truth. Felice's writing and life were a love letter to community, to mentorship, and to the enduring power of story (and he loved to tell a good, dishy story!). Felice was a frequent attendee at the Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival in New Orleans. Through panels, readings, and late-night conversations, he played a crucial role in shaping an environment where queer writers could gather, grow, and be recognized."e; —Sven Davisson, Rebel Satori publisher, author of Puck You!, Breeding Devils in Chaos, and The United Rite"e;I've long delighted in Felice Picano's boundless curiosity, his eidetic observations, his digressions inward and social, but A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay gives us all of his genius. It's in our tongue, mother: barbed, quick, camp. Picano's voice pilots readers through triumphs and heartbreak, offering a perspective on ourselves from a post in gay paradise–the sparkling, 'irretrievable moment of glory' that was Fire Island before the devastation. A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay is intimate, enchanting, and trenchant session from a legendary raconteur. —Dale Corvino, author of Afterlife of a Kept Boy and Bonds & Boundaries"e;Felice Picano's A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay is a lush Fire Island seascape that revels as much in its cool, humid breeze as it does the people around whom it whirls. Picano builds sandcastles for his friends, lovers, and acquaintances and moves them through his recollections, never losing track of the architecture of their memories—a deeply moving achievement as illustrative of when it was written as when it happened to him."e; —Jerry Wheeler, author of the BookFest award-winning novel, Mercedes General and Pangs"e;In his love letter to the Fire Island of the 70's and 80's, Picano brings us back to a moment in queer history, when gay men created a refuge within a natural refuge. Although the men are mostly gone and Fire Island is gentrified, with Picano's words, we can still feel the wind and hear the voices of men who came to freely live, love, and create community in an otherwise hostile world."e; —Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night ShineFelice Picano (1944–2025) was a central figure in queer letters. A member of the Violet Quill, he founded SeaHorse Press in 1977 and, in 1981, co-founded The Gay Presses of New York, serving as its editor-in-chief. Remarkably prolific, Picano published fiction, memoir, poetry, nonfiction, and drama, with work appearing in countless anthologies and magazines. Widely honored with literary awards, he was also a generous mentor and true friend to innumerable writers.

Gay romance is coming into full bloom in the wake of the Defense of Marriage Act’s fall, and the literary world is giving this full expression. New series editor Felice Picano is one of the top gay writers in the world with many awards and much critical acclaim to his credit. Picano has written novels, plays, and major nonfiction works and he is at his finest when it comes to the subject of love. In Best Gay Romance 2015, he gathers a sweepingly romantic collection of short fiction that is long on love (and sex).