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
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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.
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
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
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
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
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 exSouthern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in a
Society’s Child by Janis Ian
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
Night Bloom by Mary Cappello
Mary Cappello | Night Bloom | Delicately interweaving the bilingual journals of her grandfather (a southern Italian shoemaker), her mother’s poetry, Sicilian folklore, and dreamwor
Lesbian Crossroads by Ruth Baetz
Ruth Baetz | Lesbian Crossroads | Synopsis: Ruth Baetze met her first lover in college and lived with her for five years in a very closeted relationship. When that love affair ended. B