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What happens when a life-long apartment dweller becomes a homeowner? But more importantly, what happens when a gay Jew realises the American Dream by moving into a trailer park? Based on his popular and hysterical blog, Milton Stern threads together his trailer park adventures with Esmeralda the rescue beagle and his past exploits that only he can tell. Known for his engaging stories, dark and self-deprecating humour, hysterical and outlandish antics and a slightly warped view of life, Stern proves that Jews, even gay Jews, can thrive in any world.

A cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed us for the better. How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual "immigrant" group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society and has, in many ways, become mainstream itself. From the way camp, irony, and the gay aesthetic have become part of our national sensibility to the undeniable effect the gay cognoscenti have had on media and the arts, Cathy Crimmins examines how gay men have changed the concepts of community, family, sex, and fashion.

WORKING BOYS by MILTON STERN, the popular online serial, is now in print. Published weekly over a two-year period, all the chapters are now together in two print editions. Follow the lives of notorious, retired madam, Madeline Bennett and her two Gay sons, Bradley, a former escort, and Marty, a police detective, as they navigate mid-life, while working to catch the Black Marble Murderer, who targets middle-aged, muscular gay men. Old loves return and new loves blossom. The cast of colorful characters are back, including the members of a secret organization, who have been hiding in plain sight. WORKING BOYS, Part II will leave you asking for more.

WORKING BOYS by MILTON STERN, the popular online serial, is now in print. Published weekly over a two-year period, all the chapters are now together in two print editions. Follow the lives of notorious, retired madam, Madeline Bennett, and her two Gay sons, Bradley, a former escort, and Marty, a police detective, as they navigate mid-life, while working to solve thirty-year-old, cold murder cases that may be related to a spate of recent beating deaths of working boys. Meet a colorful cast of characters who come into and out of their lives as well as many nefarious individuals, whose only goal is to destroy them. WORKING BOYS, Part I is just the beginning. The adventure continues in WORKING BOYS, Part II.

The notion of “self” and “other” and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept of “self” and “other” and its imaginary dichotomy is gaining more and more political impact in a world of resurfacing ideology-ridden conflicts. The essays deal with Jewish reality in contemporary Germany and its reflection in movies from the special point of view of cultural sciences, political sciences, and religious studies. This anthology presents challengingly new insights into topics rarely covered, such as youth culture or humor, and finally discusses the images of Jewish life as realities still to be constructed.

Tim Connor has just lost his father, a Vietnam veteran, to an untimely death. His girlfriend, Allie, tries to support him, but she has plans of her own that involve leaving Baltimore and embarking on a new acting career. The death of Tim’s father, however, inadvertently involves the young couple in a plot that could get them both killed. A domestic terrorist group is planning to attack the United States government. Led by the ruthless Vance Galvin, this group hopes to kill off the president, as well as everyone in his line of succession, leaving only Galvin’s inside man to act as commander-in-chief. This leading man will survive the DC doomsday and create an America to match the ideals of the Founding Fathers: a white, Christian nation. Galvin has amassed conventional ordnance and weapons of mass destruction that will give him his revenge. He blames the US government for the death of his family at Waco, Texas, in 1993, and he longs to purify his homeland. Galvin believes Tim has information that could ruin the plan, but Galvin has made things too personal, which can get messy, and now his perfect plan could fall to pieces at the hands of a veteran’s son.

Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.

Most Christians are living a distorted Christian life. You don't have to be one of them. Imagine a church where 84% of Christians are completely unfamiliar with the essential tenets of their faith, with a crippling misunderstanding of the word righteousness and, in turn, the gospel of Jesus. According to a recent survey conducted by Chris Seay and Barna Research Group, this is not just speculation; it's the reality for the church today. The Gospel According to Jesus takes an in-depth look at this research study, which examines our understanding of the command, "Seek first the kingdom and His righteousness." Most Christians define righteousness as morality. This means that what's being preached by the church is not at all the gospel Jesus intended for His followers. Through personal stories, interviews with today's church leaders, and a detailed study of the book of Romans, Chris uncovers a staggering disconnect between the gospel according to Christians and the gospel according to Jesus--the redeeming, restorative gospel that a broken world so desperately needs. Our role, he says, is to join Jesus in restoring the world. Will you?

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.