Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> LGBTQ+ - Gay

While out riding his motorcycle Stephen Paterson witnesses a fatal motoring accident in which the motorist is killed and a motorcyclist is seriously injured. This incident sets in motion a series of developments which completely change the lives not only of Stephen himself but also of the injured motorcyclist and all his friends.

Because of a heavy blizzard he offers four of the friends overnight accommodation in his home. During that night he learns of the tragedy in the early life of the injured motorcycle, of two tragedies in the developing years of another of the friends. He also...

Juan Rana was the most famous buffoon of his time. An actor working during the years 1617-1672, he achieved a status similar to that of the Italian Harlequin and was a favourite of the ruling monarchy and the general populace. Over fifty short plays were written especially for Rana by some of the most important playwrights of the day, including Pedro Calder?n de la Barca, who crowned Rana the most famous gracioso of the baroque era.

Juan Rana was arrested in 1636 for the 'nefarious sin' of homosexuality and thereafter played more gender bending, transvestite, and homosexual...

Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, save for a period as an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1908. He numbered among his many friends and acquaintances George William Russell (A. E.), E. M. Forster, Edmund Gosse, C. S. Lewis, and Walter de le Mare, as well as various Uranians such as Theo Bartholomew, Osbert Burdett, and Mark Andre Raffalovich.

Despite his sixteen novels, his two autobiographies, and a range of other works, despite being a founding member of the Irish Academy of...