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Leo is dreamy in my book. Sigh.

I loved Dancing on Tisha B'av by Lev Raphael. Then I met him and never enjoyed any of his other works. Sometimes it's best not to meet our heroes.

She was very much a "wommin". When I was assigned her account everyone snickered assuming she'd chew me up. "A man placing orders with her? She'll hate you." Our initial contacts were rather, um, strained shall we say? But she grew to accept my genuine interest and enthusiasm for bringing the gay/lesbian canon to the attention of the reading audience. A lesbian took over the account from me and said that Barbara would ask about me. I considered that high praise indeed.

Barbara was quite a character and could be tough as nails. I remember placing orders with her on the phone way back in the day when I worked for a small regional book chain. During that period I read pretty much every gay novel we carried, the good the bad and the ugly. That helped warm her up to me as she would quiz me on what I'd read and suggest what I should read. I read well over 300 gay works during that 2 year period. So many of the books posters are mentioning are distant, pleasant reminders of days gone by.

In the early 80s I read "The Movie Lover", a nicely written, romanic-ish, escapist novel with some lol dialog. Still remember a line "... whose voice on warm summer nights could call bats from miles around." I doubt its in print any more.