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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Kelly Cogswell | Eating Fire | When Kelly Cogswell plunged into New York’s East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An exSouthern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in a
Janis Ian | Society’s Child | Grammy Awardwinning singer and songwriter Janis Ians memoir of her more than forty years in the music business. Janis Ian was catapulted into the spot
Mary Cappello | Night Bloom | Delicately interweaving the bilingual journals of her grandfather (a southern Italian shoemaker), her mother’s poetry, Sicilian folklore, and dreamwor