Gerald Parker

Livre de nus masculins de sensualité et beauté exceptionnelles = Book of Gorgeous Male Nudes of Exceptional Appeal & Sensuality, 11 juin 2013

It can seem surprising that the wonderfully and skillfully photographed photo-books of young male nudes Bel Ami's series of such homoërotic gems seem to have so little popularity in English Canada (no longer regularly available even from that paragon of gay literature distribution, Little Sisters in Vancouver, from checks of that firm's WWW site in 2005 and 2006, the original time of writing this review), but, thankfully, Bel Ami's products remain fairly easy to find in such major gay-populated Québec cities as Montréal. (Bel Ami, on its own WWW site, includes some items that are unavailable even on the various national Amazon sites.) The youthful men, in their teens and early… Lire la suite

Dictionnaire qui s'est prouvé suffisamment utile aux E-U & en France = Good French-English Dictionary for Use in US or in France, 1 mai 2013

I have two editions of this English-to-French and French-to-English dictionary on which E. Clifton and J. McLaughlin collaborated, this one, the "New Revised Edition" of 1904, published in Philadelphia by the David McKay Company, and a similarly delineated edition of 1958, published in Paris by the Éditions Garnier frères, but, in the case of that "A New Revised Edition" it has a further name associated with it, that of L. Dhaleine, who apparently undertook whatever the extent might have been of real updating of the dictionary that occurred in the intervening years. The 1904 edition is printed on superior paper, but the 1958 edition is bound within somewhat more soberly… Lire la suite

Un Film magistral et un autre film moins exceptionnel d'Everett Lewis = Everett Lewis Films at His Best and at His Less Good, 13 avril 2013

Everett Lewis is one of the great masters of gay cinema, especially of such "alternative" full-length films produced imaginatively on low budgets. This combination set of two movies by the notable gay film director and producer pairs one of Lewis' two best (and most polished) films (the other being "The Pretty Boys"), namely "Luster" (the American spelling of "lustre"), with one of the least of his works, "FAQS". The gulf in quality between "Luster" and "FAQS" is a wide one, albeit both films are well worth viewing multiple times and, indeed, seeing "Luster" frequently is a most enjoyable habit! Since this combo-pack of the two films has not yet (as of early 2013) received any commentary in… Lire la suite