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When I first encountered Duffy’s writing, I was astonished at how far ahead she was for her time – a true literary innovator . . . Alongside her prolific creativity, her activism for gay and author rights is unparalleled

There could not have been a more deserving winner for the inaugural RSL Pioneer prize . . . Her writing and activism were never far apart

Love Child

Shot through with a lively brilliance, The Monkey's Mask is a traditional verse novel told in multiple voices, which also happens to be an erotic lesbian detective romance. Like the archetypal hero of Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, Porter's lesbian private eye heroine, Jill Fitzpatrick, is torn between passionate love and professional ethics

Porter offered energetic, spare, sexy and irreverent poetry, which she was able to perform with unforgettable passion and energy

The Monkey’s Mask undertakes its projects with energy and originality . . . Porter’s anger at the endless self-regeneration of the posing posh is raw and uncontained, and she deserves immediate nomination for poetry prizes the length and breadth of the nation for her coinage of the literary term ‘I’ve-got-a-big-dick epic’

The Monkey’s Mask

A jolting book . . . An intense, personal, and courageous document. A book written out of rage, unnerving, thought provoking

His tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own, and he has the kind of discipline which allows him a rare and beautiful recklessness. He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys

An intelligent, persuasive, and, in its way, heartbreaking manifesto

One of the few original American writers of the last century

Rechy shows great comic and tragic talent. He is truly a gifted novelist

A passionate manifesto for gay rights by an author who openly and unapologetically identifies himself as a participant

The Sexual Outlaw

Electrifying . . . Indiana's re-creation of Cunanan's crimes and ever-shifting states of mind are convincing, but his real story, and strength, is his analysis of the hysterical, wildly inaccurate media coverage of the case. In the end, Cunanan's life and crimes, both factual and reimagined, become Indiana's vehicle to explore and expose how the media create a self-referential and self-perpetuating culture of hysteria, stereotypes, inaccuracies and glorified violence

A hero to the underground . . . Gary struck me as an authentic downtown literary artist, with a provenance that roped in Frank O’Hara’s concept of personism and Lou Reed’s unsparing empathy

Gary Indiana belongs to a special breed of American urban writers who take cool pleasure in dissecting the lives of the rich and ugly . . . On a good day, he makes Bret Easton Ellis look like Enid Blyton, yet many, myself included, think he might have already written the Great America Novel(s)

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