Category: Autobiography/Biography

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An Army Of Ex-Lovers by Amy Hoffman

Amy Hoffman | An Army Of Ex-Lovers | Boston’s weekly Gay Community News was ‘the center of the universe’ during the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before

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Don’t Get Me Started by Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton | Don’t Get Me Started | Let’s get one thing straight. I’m not. And yes, my brother is Bill Clinton. But not the Bill Clinton. These two guys are very different. For on

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Zeit Der Maskierung by Claudia Schoppmann

Claudia Schoppmann | Zeit Der Maskierung | Schoppmann investigates the lives and stories of Lesbians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. She is faced with little documentation

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The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale | The Queen of Whale Cay | Featured on the London Times’s best-seller list, a biography of Marion ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the fastest female speedboat racer of the twenties, describes

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Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Wars I Have Seen | Wars I Have Seen first published in 1945 is the follow-up to Stein’s very successful Paris France. With her great wit and highly original style, Stein

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Awakening by Pat Stone

Pat Stone | Awakening | At first glance, Pat Stone was the picture of conservative womanhood. She married at the tender age of eighteen, settling into a quiet life as a house

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Obama And The Gays by Tracy Baim

Tracy Baim | Obama And The Gays | ‘Presents a clear, lively, in-depth review of Barack Obama’s policies on gay issues, from the early days of his political career through his meteoric

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For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland

Valentine Ackland | For Sylvia | In this soul-searching ‘record of blundering from shame to shame,’ Ackland (19061969), a shy, sensitive English poet and dealer in antiques, writes of

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Bessie by Chris Albertson

Chris Albertson | Bessie | A biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the ‘Empress of the Blues’. Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bes

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Leading The Parade by Paul D. Cain

Paul D. Cain | Leading The Parade | Paul Cain has artfully portrayed several dozen women and men who have enhanced queer life in America. These are our — Jim Sears, author of Lonely Hun