A chance letter speaks off a transatlantic literary romance between two writers, one British, one American, in which they share their unhealthy and unfashionable passions for military men, cruising and cats. Mark Simpson reveals the slow collapse of his hopeless relationship with a serving Royal Marine and the outrages response to ‘Anti-Gay’; while Steven Zeeland chronicles his doomed attachment to his psycho-Marine boyfriend and his love-triangle rivalry with Andrew Cunanan, gay serial-killer and Gianni Versace’s assassin. Funny, insightful and scandalous, “The Queen Is Dead” will outrage some and make others laugh out loud.
Mark Simpson is the author of the critically-acclaimed Male Impersonators, It’s a Queer World and editor of Anti-Gay. He lives in London.Steven Zeeland is the author of The Masculine Marine, Sailors and Sexual Identity and Barrack Budies and Soldiers Lovers. His work has appeared in The Times, The Face, Honcho and The Village Voice. He lives in Seattle.