January 31 is release day for Trebor Healey’s Ferro-Grumley award-winning novel, THROUGH IT CAME BRIGHT COLORS. Reissued today in a handsome new print edition and e-book.
Trebor Healey is recipient of The James Duggins Lambda Literary Award for Mid-Career Novelists. He also received the Violet Quill award for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, and the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction for both A Horse Named Sorrow and Through It Came Bright Colors.
“Trebor Healey delivers coming out as apocalypse – tender, destructive, punk. He tore down a worn-out block of queer lit and built it back up. Sweet, sad, gritty, and real.”
— Michelle Tea
In addition, he has penned the speculative fiction novel, Faun, and a homoerotic poetry collection, Sweet Son of Pan, along with three collections of stories – A Perfect Scar & Other Stories, Eros & Dust and Falling. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, and co-edited (with Amie Evans) Queer & Catholic.
Trebor Healey’s Debut Novel
Neill Cullane is a closeted, conflicted 21-year-old who lives in two worlds: a San Francisco suburb where he’s the middle-son of three young men, and, a short drive away in his beat-up VW bug, a seedy portion of the city’s downtown. At home, he’s the dutiful son of Frank and Grace, and devoted older brother to Peter – who is battling a cruel, disfiguring cancer – but in the city a chance encounter drags him into the orbit of Vince, a troubled, gregarious, very out gay transient. Moth to a flame, Neill is swept up and away by this secret lover, a beautiful junkie/philosopher/thief whose burning desire for truth lights a path Neill is destined to travel. Through Vince, Neill learns about honesty and love and finds the courage to confront his family in the face of tragedy and loss.
Trebor Healey’s multi-layered, lyrical prose illuminates a unique, intimate look at a young man’s struggle to live openly and honestly, to love and to be loved, free from shame and guilt. It’s a compelling family saga of rare emotional, spiritual, and poetic depth.
Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Novel in 2003, this new edition includes a foreword by Felice Picano (Like People in History).
Print 300 pgs • 978-1-951092-87-0 • $19.95
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More Trebor Healey on the way
We are pleased to announce Trebor Healey’s short story collection, A Perfect Scar and Other Stories, to be released in a new edition with a foreword by Peter Dubé in May.
The range of tales is jaw-dropping: from a Vietnamese gangster with a voracious libido and a small boy troubled by his gay dog to an 1870s hermaphrodite cowboy named Captain Jinx … and then there’s the lad who becomes a sex-inspiring satyr, an American Spanish student in Guanajuato seduced by a pair of twins during the Cervantino celebrations, and a housesitting gig that goes terribly awry.
But that’s not all!
Later in the year, we’ll follow up with his fantasy novel Faun, set in LA featuring a Mexican-American teen whose life transforms in more ways than one. And finally, a second book of stories, Eros & Dust. Stay tuned!
We are saddened by the news of the passing of Dr Charles Silverstein this past weekend. A gay rights activist pioneer, he was instrumental in the lifting of homosexuality as a “mental disorder” by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973.
He went on to write several books while in private practise as a psychotherapist, most notable the first (and subsequent) edition of The Joy of Gay Sex with co-author Edmund White. Charles broke ground repeatedly throughout his life.
His memoirs, For the Ferryman, in a new second edition here, covers both his activism and his relationship with William Bory. A great, heart-warming, funny and illuminating read.
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