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Johnny Townsend
Jewish short stories. A Talmudic scholar dates an escort. The Golem of Prague is really Rabbi Loew's secret lover. A scientist tries to create a messiah.
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Capitalism creates inequality as a primary function. It's an economic system dependent on the exploitation of workers and the environment and doomed to fail.
When happily married Jake and Santino head to the bars on Seattle's Capitol Hill to pick up a third for the night, they don't realize they're about to hook up…
As Craig and Toby struggle to keep their faltering marriage alive, the climate crisis intrudes, part of a threesome in their relationship.Craig wants to take drastic action but Toby just…
The vast sums required to enact meaningful change are an investment that will pay off almost immediately. And without these adjustments to our lifestyles and values, there may be no…
From over 500 short stories published over three decades, author Johnny Townsend presents twenty of his favorites.
An escort persuades a closeted gay politician to come out.
A gay man caught in a time loop tries to fight climate breakdown while he still has a chance.
A gay Mormon missionary in Italy discovers the world...and love.
Two gay Mormon missionaries working in Naples fall in love.
A diverse group of Mormons tell stories as they await the Apocalypse.
Selected stories from the first editions of Mormon Underwear and God's Gargoyles.
Eclectic collection of humorous, paranormal, detective, and literary stories about Mormons and ex-Mormons, gay and straight, faithful and faithless.
Eclectic story collection featuring rural southern Mormons, gay and trans Mormons, homeless Mormons, ex-Mormons, Mormon missionaries and murderers.
Selected stories from The Mormon Victorian Society, Despots of Deseret, Dragons of the Book of Mormon, and Mormon Fairy Tales.
Selected stories from The Washing of Brains, The Last Days Linger, and The Moat around Zion.
Selected stories from Mormon Madness, Zombies for Jesus, Behind the Bishop's Door, Interview with a Mission President, and Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth.
Selected stories from The Moat around Zion, Behind the Bishop's Door, and Mormon Madness.
Selected stories from Zombies for Jesus, Interview with a Mission President, and Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth.
Second edition of the book named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012 and one of the top 25 best Indie books of 2012.
Selected stories from Missionaries Make the Best Companions, The Moat around Zion, Behind the Bishop's Door, and Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth.
Selected essays from Human Compassion for Beginners, Dead Mankind Walking, Mormon Bullies, Breaking the Promise of the Promised Land (1st edition), and Am I My Planet's Keeper?
Selected essays on the climate emergency from Dead Mankind Walking, Human Compassion for Beginners, Breaking the Promise of the Promised Land, Constructing Equity, and Am I My Planet's Keeper?
Gay porn with a Mormon twist.
A gay man struggles to keep his marriage alive while becoming an eco-activist after witnessing a longtime friend die in a wildfire.
Over 250 original gay patchwork quilt designs collected from the books Quilting Beyond the Rainbow, Gay Sleeping Arrangements, and Queer Quilting.
Two Mormon missionaries in Italy discover they can both emit pheromones on demand.
Essayist Johnny Townsend pushes past shame and guilt to show how everyone benefits from increasing equity and social justice throughout our communities.
An amateur detective in down-and-out Seattle travels by public transit to investigate the murder of his homeless friend.
Literary short stories set in LDS (Mormon) culture by the ex-Mormon author of Mormon Underwear, Recommended Daily Humanity, and Please Evacuate.
Set entirely on public transit in Seattle, "Orgy at the STD Clinic" is a work of gay literary fiction that addresses racism, climate change, ableism, ageism, income inequality, and the…
Freedom and equity aren't free. Neither is a stable society. We pay for our choices, one way or another. Let's use our resources wisely.
The first book on the UpStairs Lounge tragedy, an arson that killed 32 people in a French Quarter gay bar in 1973 (second edition).
Michael Townsend Smith
John P. Dodd, the light man at the legendary Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village in the early sixties, assisted at the birth of Off-Off-Broadway and collaborated with key figures in…
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