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GLBTQ memoirs, histories, comics, essays, practical info and more.
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Gender Outlaws: the Next Generation In Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers--new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected mainstream news sources. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together a collection of excellent stories that can be enjoyed by all. 2012 Adult Graphic Novel | |
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Bechdel, Alison The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a rich, funny, deep selection from all eleven of Bechdel's previous DTWOF comics collections. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form. Catch up on the lives, loves, and politics of Mo, Lois, Sparrow, Ginger, Clarice, and more. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Beye, Charles Rowan My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey A personal history that is also a history of evolving social mores, My Husband and My Wives is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications of discovering at puberty that he is attracted to other men. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bond, Justin Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels Hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in the New Yorker, Mx Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bornstein, Kate A Queer and Pleasant Danger: a Memoir With wisdom, wit, and an unwavering resolution to tell the truth ("I must not tell lies"), Bornstein shares her story: from a nice Jewish boy growing up in New Jersey to a strappingly handsome lieutenant of the Church of Scientology's Sea flagship vessel, and later to 1990s Seattle, where she becomes a rising star in the lesbian community. In between there are wives and lovers, heartbreak and triumph, bridges mended and broken, and a journey of self-discovery that will mesmerize readers. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bowers, Scotty Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars "The wholesome image of America propagated by Hollywood in the 1940s,'50s and '60s is one of the most persistent in popular culture: loving wives, smiling children. But off the set, many of the actors who helped create this image were secretly leading different lives, and one man in particular was helping them: Scotty Bowers." Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bram, Christopher Eminent Outlaws: the Gay Writers Who Changed America In the years following WWII, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come and transforming the American literary landscape forever. In Eminent Outlaws, novelist Christopher Bram brilliantly chronicles the rise of gay consciousness in American writing. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bronski, Michael A Queer History of the United States Examines how American culture has shaped the LGBT experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating this country. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bucatinsky, Dan Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? Confessions of a Gay Dad From actor/writer/producer Bucatinsky, executive producer of NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?," comes a collection of snort-milk-through-your-nose funny stories of parenthood that will obliterate the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation, and sweep readers into fatherhood. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Cohen, Lisa All We Know: Three Lives Cohen's highly-praised group biography plumbs the lives of Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta (Garbo's lover), and Madge Garland--three dazzling women who challenged gender and sex norms in the 20th century. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Cooper, Bernard The Bill from My Father: A Memoir The award-winning author of Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum explores family, memory, and identity in his life, seen through the lens of his relationship with his enigmatic and eccentric father. Winner of a 2006 Lambda Literary Award. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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Dlugos, Tim A Fast Life: the Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos Tim Dlugos--the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic--was one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time. This volume, edited by poet David Trinidad, contains all of Dlugos's published work and previously unpublished poems. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Henderson, Kristen and Ellis, Sarah Kate Times Two: Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made Sarah, a high-powered magazine executive, and Kristen, a laid-back rock star, decide it's time to start their family. The fact that they both get pregnant at the exact same time is where things start to get interesting. From the start, they think of their babies as twins, each woman carrying half of a set. But for two who've always finished each other's sentences, they suddenly find themselves on opposite ends of the mothers-to-be spectrum, with different opinions on almost everything. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Hoffert, Melanie M. Prairie Silence: a Memoir In this evocative memoir about a rural expatriate and her struggle to reconcile family, faith, and love on the prairie, Hoffert offers a deeply personal and poignant meditation on land and community, taking readers on a journey of self-acceptance and reconciliation. 2013 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Hormel, James C. Fit to Serve: Reflections On a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador This is the memoir of James C. Hormel--a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family owned the Hormel empire and lived in a twenty-six-bedroom house in a small Midwest town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not discussed or accepted. Hormel moved to New York City, became an antiwar activist, battled homophobia, lost dear friends to AIDS, and set out to become America's first openly gay ambassador, a position he finally won during the Clinton administration. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Jones, Lesley-Ann Mercury: an Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury The lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and Queen a household name. But despite his worldwide fame, few people ever really glimpsed the man behind the glittering facade. Now, more than twenty years after his death, those closest to Mercury are finally opening up about this pivotal figure in rock 'n roll. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Khosla, Dhillon Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood A man who underwent gender reassignment recounts his painful early efforts to accept the female body he was born with, his experiences with living as both a woman and a man, and his discovery about the spiritual and political ramifications of his life. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Kilmer-Purcell, Josh The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: an Unconventional Memoir Michael Perry meets David Sedaris in this follow-up to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's beloved and bestselling debut memoir, *I am not myself these days*. *The Bucolic Plague* is the riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of Kilmer-Purcell's attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Link, Aaron Raz What Becomes You "Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change. His mother Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes the process as both a parent and a professor who has studied gender issues. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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| • | Alarcon, Francisco X.
poetry |
| • | Albee, Edward
plays |
| • | Allen, Paula Gunn |
| • | Anzaldua, Gloria |
| • | Ashbery, John, 1927-
poetry |
| • | Auden, W.H.
poetry |
| • | Bacon, Francis |
| • | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 |
| • | Barnes, Djuna |
| • | Barthes , Roland |
| • | Beach, Sylvia |
| • | Bechdel, Alison
comics |
| • | Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 |
| • | Brecht, Bertolt
plays |
| • | Cullen, Countee
poetry |
| • | Eliot, T. S.
poetry, plays |
| • | Fierstein, Harvey |
| • | Ginsberg, Allen
poetry |
| • | Housman, A.E.
poetry |
| • | Hughes, Langston
poetry |
| • | Lorde, Audre
poetry |
| • | Merrill, James
poetry |
| • | Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
| • | Mistral, Gabriela
poetry |
| • | Monette, Paul |
| • | Nin, Anais |
| • | Rimbaud, Arthur
poetry |
| • | Rukeyser, Muriel
poetry |
| • | Santayana, George |
| • | Sarton, May |
| • | Savage, Dan |
| • | Schrag, Ariel |
| • | Sedaris, David |
| • | Shilts, Randy |
| • | Sitwell, Edith |
| • | Sontag, Susan |
| • | Stein, Gertrude |
| • | Verlaine, Paul |
| • | Vogel, Paula
plays |
| • | White, Edmund |
| • | Whitman, Walt
poetry |
| • | Wilde, Oscar
plays |
| • | Wilder, Thornton |
| • | Williams, Tennessee
plays |
| • | Williams, William Carlos |