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erotic magazines including ''

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'', ''Torso'' and ''Inches'', Lawrence Schimel, ''The Drag Queen of Elfland''.

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, 1997. . he also wrote and published several works of

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in the 1980s and 1990s.

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, "Through the Looking Glass" in

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, ed., ''Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS''.

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, 2002. . He published three novels and two short story collections during his lifetime; two additional novels were published following his death of

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in 1995. In addition he founded Amethyst Press, a now-defunct publishing company which specialized in LGBT books, including his own books and titles by

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, Bo Huston, Steve Abbott, Kevin Killian, Patrick Moore and Mark Ameen. He garnered three

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nominations, in 1989 for ''Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square'', in 1990 for ''Fault Lines'' and in 1991 for ''Black Marble Pool''.

Works

Novels

*''Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square'' (1988, ) *''Fault Lines'' (1989, ) *''Black Marble Pool'' (1990, ) *''Skydiving on Christopher Street'' (1995, ) *''Barbie in Bondage'' (1996, )

Short stories

*''A Herd of Tiny Elephants'' (1988, ) *''Candy Holidays and Other Short Fictions'' (1991, )

References

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