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When one or both partners in a relationship stonewall, their ability to hear each other or listen to each other's disagreement, concern, side or argument, reduces their ability to engage and help address the situation. Stonewalling can be detrimental to relationships because there is often no chance for resolution of conflict. [7] [8]
The book was a 1994 Lambda Literary Award finalist in the category of Lesbian Fiction, and shared the award in the Small Press Books category with Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS. [16] It also won the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award (now the Stonewall Book Award). [17]
The book's cover, showing a young man in a suit and tie wearing stiletto heels, seems devoid of context compared to its content. The book conveys a depressed mood, contains two descriptions of a repressive environment and a non-existent homosexuality. 1920: The Dark Mother: Waldo Frank: US
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a gay American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. He is the recipient of Lambda Literary's Visionary Award, the National Book Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, [1] and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. [2]
Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. [3]
Hemingway described Across the River and into the Trees, and one reader's reaction to it, by using "Indian talk": "Book too much for him. Book start slow, then increase in pace till it becomes impossible to stand. I bring emotion up to where you can’t stand it, then we level off, so we won’t have to provide oxygen tents for the readers.
Other examples of 1920s lesbian literature include poems by Amy Lowell about her partner of over a decade Ada Dwyer Russell. [43] Lowell wanted to dedicate her books to Dwyer who refused as they had to hide the nature of their relationship [44] except for one time in a non-poetry book in which Lowell wrote, "To A.D.R., This, and all my books.
The book was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5]Booklist 's Kaitlin Connor noted, "Felix's hard-fought and dramatic journey toward self-discovery will resonate with teens looking for narratives about diverse LGBTQIA characters learning to love themselves."