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Toby Johnson's
Books on Gay Men's Spiritualities
GAY PERSPECTIVE:
Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe
** Lambda Literary Award Nominee 2004 **
Reviews of Gay Perspective
The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness
Lethe Press Edition
** Lambda Literary Award Winner 2001 **
"The answer to what gay people are here for!"
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Toby Johnson's Mystical Gay Novels
A new edition of Toby Johnson's award-winning gay science fiction romance novel, SECRET MATTER, has just been released by Lethe Press, an updated, expanded, and revised edition for 21st century readers. With an Afterword by Mark Jordan. Read a Funny Synchronicity about New Release of SECRET MATTER: "Aliens Settle in San Francisco"
Secret Matter originally appeared in 1990. It won a Lambda Literary Award that year. And in 1999 was one of five books nominated to be the first book ever inducted into the Gaylaxian Gay Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
In collaboration with Steve Berman Toby Johnson has just edited Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling, an anthology of writings reclaiming our queer spirituality through story.
Toby tells the story of meeting the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in person in a most surprising way. (You can listen to a talk Toby Johnson gave to the Dharma Book Study Group of the S.F. Gay Buddhist Sangha on Feb 22, 2007. Click on the link, then click on Resources>audioarchives (by speaker) at the bottom of the scrolling list in the left column. Then go to the bottom of that list to find Toby.)
Toby's new novel--a collaboration with Walter L. Williams, the USC professor whose book The Spirit and the Flesh first brought gay community attention to the berdache/two-spirit phenomenon among Native American cultures. The new novel is titled Two Spirits: A Story of Life with the Navajos. With a story full of Native American spirituality and mysticism, it's a romantic adventure novel, rich with Navajo wisdom, set in the 1860s. Click on the title for info.
Sweet, sexy, wise and thoroughly entertaining, this mytho-historical novel features two lovable apparitions from the late 1800s America. Getting Life in Perspective interweaves a heart-warming story of youthful romance and adventure with an ageless life-affirming and gay-positive spiritual message
...along with just a touch of the Twilight Zone.
In
addition to the novels featured elsewhere in this web site,Johnson is
author of IN SEARCH OF GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD and 
Kip
Dollar
is
a professional bookkeeper and
community activist. It
was he who managed the financial matters of Liberty Books. He worked
with numerous gay community groups and organizations in San Antonio and
Austin. He
is a talented natural artist, working on paper in watercolors, pastels, and charcoal (click on
the link to see his portfolio) and in
sculpture with clay. He is presently studying pastels with protrait
artist Susan Carlin and with
renowned watercolorist Brad Braune. Kip is also a creator of
marvelous Halloween costumes. Kip's a striking redhead.
In
1996 Toby joined an
EarthWatch
expedition to
videotape the spring equinox festivals in the rural village of Tigiria
in eastern India. Toby returned with several "longees," the sarong-like
garment the men in the area wear. Here are Kip and Toby in the backyard
in Austin, wearing the Indian longees. Toby
looks like actor Ben Kingsley -- and so by extension, 
