Category: Autobiography/Biography

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A Gambler’s Instinct by Milly S. Barranger

Milly S. Barranger | A Gambler’s Instinct | Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford (1902–1986) declared in her 1977 autobiography, “The theatre has been my life.” Crawford was notoriously circumspect

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Teaching The Cat To Sit by Michelle Theall

Michelle Theall | Teaching The Cat To Sit | Nuanced and poignant, heartrending and funny, Michelle Theall’s thoughtful memoir is a universal story about our quest for unconditional love from our

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Greta and Cecil by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | Greta and Cecil | Greta Garbo and Cecil Beaton were both involved in same-sex relationships when they met in 1932. Another meeting 15 years later lead to a relationship

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated

The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me by Kady; Kady Van Deurs

Kady; Kady Van Deurs | The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me | Kay Van Deurs has shared with us her journal and various letters by and to her. They add up to an interesting autobiographical portrait that captures

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Queerly Beloved by Diane Anderson-Minshall; Jacob Anderson-Minshall; Diane & Jacob Anderson-Minshall

Diane Anderson-Minshall; Jacob Anderson-Minshall; Diane & Jacob Anderson-Minshall | Queerly Beloved | Imagine if, after fifteen years as a lesbian couple, your partner turned to you and said, “I think I’m really a man.” What would you do? How would you

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Desert Rose by Lynn Romaine

Lynn Romaine | Desert Rose | My great Aunt Rose was a mystery to me. She was last seen in 1928 heading West, wearing her six-shooter, driving her Buick, accompanied by two friends

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Boomer by Linda Niemann

Linda Niemann | Boomer | The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey–the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the We

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel | Are You My Mother? | From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the art

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Sophia Parnok by Diana Lewis Burgin

Diana Lewis Burgin | Sophia Parnok | The weather in Moscow is good, there’s no cholera, there’s also no lesbian love…Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseo

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The Truth Is … by Melissa Etheridge; Laura Morton

Melissa Etheridge; Laura Morton | The Truth Is … | She’s not in Kansas anymore! Melissa Etheridge, the gutsy Midwest girl who grew up to be the heartland’s gift to rock & roll (and a major gay spokeswo