I mostly know Gearhart from stuff like her Tarot book, and Loving Women/Loving Men: Gay Liberation and the Church, which is sort of what it says on the label. She's a big ol' queer and feminist activist. I haven't read any of her fiction.

Lynn Abbey, I know from Thieves World, and she was fun there, but having looked her up for the meme, she seems to have written /way/ more than that. Some of which looks fun.

As for Duane -- wow, what? That cover. I just. ... OK then! (I thought the blue horse-and-sword cover was bad -- (Er, this one (http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/55/d0/55d0855d36b55c55979736d51414141414c3441.jpg).)