Category: Autobiography/Biography

Audre Lorde | Zami; Sister Outsider; Undersong | ZAMI: Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audr

Jimenez; Karleen Pendleton | How To Get A Girl Pregnant | Karleen Pendleton Jiménez has known that she was gay since she was three years old, and has wanted to have a baby for almost as long. But one crucial

Jeannine Talley | Banshee’s Women Capsized In The Coral Sea | The gripping story of Jeannine Talley and her partner Joy Smith, who capsized off Australia in a terrible storm.

Capsized and dismasted off

Louise A. Blum | You’re Not From Around Here, Are You | From Publishers Weekly

A pregnant lesbian living in the middle of God’s country: it sounds like the premise of a sitcom, but this personal narrati

Irene Reti | The Keeper Of Memory |

Synopsis

The Keeper of Memory delves into the emotional territory of a child growing up in a house filled with secrets and silence. At sevent

Meg Daly | Surface Tension | Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share – or fear – and the rich diversity of perso

Avis Burnett | Gertrude Stein | The name Gertrude Stein calls up different images for different people. For some it is prose and poetry that seem to play with words and sounds instea

Zoe Progl | Woman of the Underworld | Autobiography of Zoe Progl, self-proclaimed ‘Queen of the Underworld’, who was the first woman to escape from Holloway Prison.

Bonnie J. Morris | Girl Reel | What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common?

All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver sc

Kathleen Tracy | Ellen |

All Ellen DeGeneres wanted to be was funny. She kept her humor clean and steered clear of politics and social agendas, instead honing a quirky, off