You could call this my Mission Statement. When I started my first website several years ago, it was primarily to disseminate news about my recently published book, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson (McFarland, 2014). That book is still represented here, and still in print, but the mission of this new site is somewhat larger. The web site will now serve as a source of information for multiple books about LGBT life, history, and culture in which I have had a hand: The Up Stairs Lounge