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The gay rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams – but this success seems suddenly fragile. Ronan McCrea’s important audiobook argues that this is no blip. Forces favourable to gay rights – such as the wider cultural shift towards sexual freedom – are weakening, while political developments, cultural changes and migration patterns mean that sources of opposition, both old and new, are gaining strength. The gay rights movement is ill-equipped to meet this challenge.

The Four Rooms: An InQueery on Sexual Freedom and Well-being by David Wichman is an intimate and thought-provoking exploration on the struggles many face around sexuality. Rooted in over 18 years of experience as a gay male sex worker, David shares raw and personal experiences bearing witness to those grappling with sexual shame, inadequacy, and societal expectations, offering insights into the journey toward uncovering more self-acceptance and connection.

This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father's lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on the stoop and watched the boys play stickball in the street; inside, she hid silver teaspoons behind the heat pipes to tap calls for help while her father beat her mother.