{"id":114,"date":"2009-01-06T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:43:58","slug":"lola_dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/lola_dances\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Dances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Banis, Victor J. <em>Lola Dances. <\/em><br \/>\nAlbion, NY: ManLoveRomance Press, c2008. 232p. ISBN 978-1934531426. Soft cover. $16.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a delightful romantic tale of the old West, sort of a 19th century Brokeback Mountain with less angst and a happy ending. There is lots of violence and lots of sex, tastefully described. If your library collects romance novels, then you should consider this for your gay romance collection.<\/p>\n<p>The author is a master storyteller and he should be, having published more than 150 novels. Thomas L. Long, editor of the Harrington Gay Men&#8217;s Literary Quarterly, has called him &#8220;the godfather of modern gay popular fiction&#8221; (Banis&#8217; Wikipedia entry). Old timers may remember his popular C.A.M.P. series of mystery novels from 1966-1968; the first of what became a major subgenre. He stopped writing after 1980, but luckily for us he has now resumed. His recent novel Longhorns, another Western romance (Carroll &amp; Graf 2007) includes an essay by Michael Bronski charting his decades of literary contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Lola is transgendered, beginning life as a small effeminate boy in the slums of New York&#8217;s Lower East Side.  After he is raped by a high society aristocrat, he and his older brother escape to the mining camps of the West. There he begins to dance as a woman and ends up famous in San Francisco where he stumbles upon his first love from the Lower East Side. For the rest, read the novel!<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by James D. Anderson<br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus of Library and Information Science<br \/>\nRutgers University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banis, Victor J. Lola Dances. Albion, NY: ManLoveRomance Press, c2008. 232p. ISBN 978-1934531426. Soft cover. $16.99. This is a delightful romantic tale of the old West, sort of a 19th century Brokeback Mountain with less angst and a happy ending. There is lots of violence and lots of sex, tastefully described. If your library collects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}