2021 GCLS Finalists Announced

2021 GCLS Finalists Announced

The Golden Crown Literary Society has announced finalists for 2021, which includes several Bywater Books titles. Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award The Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award recognizes the book that has been picked as the membership’s favorite among nominated...
Ann McMan: Coming Out

Ann McMan: Coming Out

When it comes to questions about my tenure in psychotherapy, I like to tell people that I was on the five-year plan. Don’t laugh—I’m not really kidding. I didn’t think my “issues” were all that complicated. Not at first, anyway. I thought I was breezing in there with...
Fay Jacobs: Coming Out

Fay Jacobs: Coming Out

I married a male accordion player (please judge). What was I thinking? About the marriage? I wasn’t. About the accordion? I was instantly sorry. You haven’t suffered until you’ve heard “Jerimiah was a Bullfrog” on the accordion. And while the musician played his night...
Bonnie Morris: Coming Out

Bonnie Morris: Coming Out

To come out in Washington, D.C. in 1980—to stand with the closet door flung open on the very threshold of Ronald Reagan’s arrival in the White House and the decade of the AIDS epidemic—was my queer generation’s personal dare, our collective challenge to...