Eric Hunter

BookSurge Publishing

$14.99 paperback

Column Inches explores the world of the everyday gay through the eyes of its author, Eric Hunter. These observations have been culled from the monthly column he wrote for Cincinnati, Ohio’s CityBeat for more than five years; during which time Hunter was one of the lone “out there” voices fighting for GLBT equality in red-state terrain.

The thought-provoking and discussion-generating topics he undertakes include: the AIDS epidemic, legislated discrimination, gay monogamy and bridging the gay generation gap. There are also humorous inclusions about finding “the inner boyfriend within.”

Hunter brings into sharper focus the issues that our community faces, and also gives readers food for thought about how to shatter stereotypes and bring about liberty and justice for all.

Hunter lives in New York City and has written for The Advocate, TimeOut New York and Metrosource.

Salvatore Sapienza

Southern Tier Editions

$15.95 paperback

Seventy Times Seven delves into the mixing of two seemingly separate worlds, homosexuality and religion, as they converge upon Brother Vito Fortunato, who is a few months shy of his final vows. Fortunato stands at a crossroads, unsure of which road to take, the road of spirituality or the road that will lead him to be out and proud.

A summer spent volunteering at an AIDS center in San Francisco and an affair with a recently divorced landscaper named Gabriel prompt him to challenge and attempt to change the church’s antiquated views of homosexuality.

Sapienza’s debut novel has been described as “real, present and important” by famed gay author Felice Picano (Like People in History) and “deeply moving and reverent” by Edge Magazine.

Sapienza owns and manages a bed and breakfast with his partner in the gay resort town of Saugatuck on Lake Michigan. His name may be familiar to readers of the Gay & Lesbian Times – he has done several cover stories for the newsmagazine in the past.

Amy Sedaris

Warner Books

$27.99 hardcover

Comedic chameleon Amy Sedaris tries on a new skin, that of the hostess with the mostest. In her book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, the “Strangers With Candy” star takes real recipes and tips and dresses them up with comic zingers, such as this sage advice: “A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of marbles hitting a porcelain sink.”

With this book, Sedaris hopes to take readers back to a kinder, simpler time when entertaining was “charmingly old-fashioned, like courtship or back-alley abortions.”

I Like You is the perfect antithesis to the upcoming holiday season of hosting and attending endless parties. With that signature Sedaris wit, she warns against taking it all too seriously.

This is Sedaris’ first solo book. She collaborated with her brother, David Sedaris, on The Book of Liz and with her “Candy” costars, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, on Wigfield.