Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Growing Up Gay by Rita Reed

Rita Reed | Growing Up Gay | Through photographs and their own words, a young man and a young woman relate their experiences growing up homosexual in America’s heartland. Adolesce

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Jewish Interests

Gertrude Stein by Nadine Satiat

Nadine Satiat | Gertrude Stein | Connaissez-vous Gertrude Stein ? Rose is a rose is a rose… Certes, mais encore ? À Paris, où elle vécut pendant près d’un demi-siècle, on entend de

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated Lesbian Studies

Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love

Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love | Sappho Was a Right-On Woman | A radical change in a little-understood part of society has made this book possible. It is a change that is forcing people to reevaluate their attitud

Posted in Autobiography/Biography True Crime

Sapphic Slashers by Lisa Duggan

Lisa Duggan | Sapphic Slashers | On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lov

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

Suits Me by Diane Wood Middlebrook

Diane Wood Middlebrook | Suits Me | The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989.

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The Portable Queer: A Gay in the Life by Erin McHugh

Erin McHugh | The Portable Queer: A Gay in the Life | Those who have changed the face of homosexuality over the centuries are not completely heroic. Learn about the first great gay activist Karl Heinrich

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k. d. lang by David Bennahum

David Bennahum | k. d. lang | An illustrated biography of Canadian singer k.d. lang. This book explores the controversies surrounding the singer, including her lesbianism and milit

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Anti Diva by Carole Pope

Carole Pope | Anti Diva | Known for their sexual lyrics and provocative act, Carole Pope and Rough Trade ushered Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave soun

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Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton

Harold Acton | Nancy Mitford | What was Nancy Mitford’s wicked sense of humour really like? The writer and poet Harold Acton was – like Nancy Mitford herself – one of the Bright You

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Eating Fire by Kelly Cogswell

Kelly Cogswell | Eating Fire | When Kelly Cogswell plunged into New York’s East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An ex–Southern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in a