Everyone Has Their Reasons, by Joseph Matthews Two-time Lambda Literary and four-time

Two-time Lambda Literary and four-time National Leather Association award-winning author Jeff Mann's newest collection of personal essays speaks out against homophobia and the outdated ideas of masculinity demanded by life in Appalachia and the American South

Sean knows why Sara is on his ship from the start

small portraitures of the deceased

hyper-organized girl who's president of the Young Attachés Club and an emotional overeater who can't go out in public without his lucha libre mask — while still retaining her autonomy

She only needs to charm information from one of the fragger leaders

Everyone Has Their Reasons, by Joseph Matthews Two-time Lambda Literary and four-timeAt a time when the issues of identity, immigration, and class remain both universally important and enormously controversial, this book is an accessible and captivating tale of one boys historically famous experience in the extraordinary setting of roiling pre WWII Paris. On November 7, 1938, a small, slight 17 year old Polish German Jew named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris and shot dead a consular official. Three days later,