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New York stories
The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America (Grove Press, $17).
We just don’t have a history quite like this in Chicago. All the gay events that have shaped modern homosexuality—including postwar watering holes, the Stonewall riots, bathhouse culture, lesbians and the femisnist movement, the AIDS crisis and the post-AIDS era—are retold in moving detail with plenty of name dropping to add flair to the narrative. The exciting history is now available in paperback. 

Family Feud
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin, $13.95).
Dykes to Watch Out Forcartoonist Alison Bechdel writes this family memoir centered around her father, who came out to her and then committed suicide two weeks later. This critically acclaimed graphic novel, which also recounts Bechdel’s own coming out story, finally arrives in paperback.

City mouse
Michael Tolliver Lives (Harper Collins, $25.95).
Gasp! The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back! Eighteen years after bidding farewell to the kooky, frisky, lovable characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series, Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, the series’ most enduring figure, returns. Now middle-aged, the longtime San Francisco resident is dating a man 21 years his junior and still seeking kinship with his compadres from the original series.—Jason A. Heidemann