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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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