"She's got the gift of lyrical precision-nothing cuts to the core quite like the resolution of DiFranco rhyme."-Billboard

With eight Grammy nominations, a gold record, and sales of over 4.5 million, Ani DiFranco is one of America's most fiercely independent and beloved musicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience. For the first time, she releases a book of poetry and paintings capturing her essential artistry that has helped define and invigorate a new generation.

Ani DiFranco: Verses rages, eulogizes, menaces, revels, and envisions. With a poet's precision and a citizen's take, DiFranco finds the meeting places of intimacy and politics, of self and country, of resolve and compromise, and of the fickle and magnificent capacities of love and solitude.

In 1990 at the age of eighteen, Ani DiFranco rewrote the rules of the record industry when she created her own label, Righteous Babe Records, as an alternative to beckoning corporate offices. Since then, RBR has released twenty-one full-length DiFranco albums to critical acclaim, and is now home to over a dozen cutting-edge new artists. DiFranco was named one of the top twenty-five most influential artists of the past twenty-five years by CMJ New Music (alongside Nirvana and U2) and one of 21 Feminists for the 21st Century by Ms. Magazine. Together with Ani DiFranco: Verses, she released her first retrospective album, Canon, in September, and proceeded on a twenty-city tour in the United States.

Here, assembled into one comprehensive volume, is a rundown of the year's most intriguing Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender films, an illustrated guide that's Out, Outrageous, Provocative, and Proud. A defiant challenge to films today, it gets sweaty with Gay Cowboys, Gay Nazis, Nude Marines, Ballsy Detectives, Hit Men, Porn Stars, and Women in Love... With each other. The Scent of Lavender, the Smell of Testosterone, and the Aroma of Velvet.

IT'S ALL HERE!

* Descriptions and reviews of 130 feature-length gay films and 72 shorts, with commentary, special features, and hundreds of photos.

* "What the critics said" about each film, replicated from published sources worldwide.

* Special Features including the Blood Moon Awards and the year's winners for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actors, and the Runners-Up.

* Photographic testimonials to HOLLYWOOD'S HOTTEST HUNKS

* Fun, pithy, opinionated, informative! This book and its annual updates will become standard fixtures at Film Festivals and Film Schools worldwide.