Category: Autobiography/Biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Coming Out

Coming Home to America by Torie Osborn

Torie Osborn | Coming Home to America | A book speaking to gays and lesbians and their families and friends emphasizes how every open gay or lesbian strikes a blow for social justice and cha

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Wild Mares by Dianna Hunter

Dianna Hunter | Wild Mares | A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s

Dianna Hun

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Secret Service by Zsa Zsa Gershick

Zsa Zsa Gershick | Secret Service |

Although 79 percent of Americans support allowing gay and lesbian troops to serve openly, the military continues to hunt down and discharge qualifi

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The Girls by Diana McLellan

Diana McLellan | The Girls | Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Jewish Interests

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Bibliography

The Third Rose by John Malcolm Brinnin

John Malcolm Brinnin | The Third Rose | The first detailed biograph including literary criticism, art history, and social history. See also Addison-Wesley (1987 ISBN: 9780201058802) , P. Smi

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The Truth Is … by Melissa Etheridge; Laura Morton

Melissa Etheridge; Laura Morton | The Truth Is … | She’s not in Kansas anymore! Melissa Etheridge, the gutsy Midwest girl who grew up to be the heartland’s gift to rock & roll (and a major gay spokeswo

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Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth

Victoria A. Brownworth | Too Queer | Q is widely published and highly controversial lesbian journalist Victoria A. Brownworth’s revealing collection exploring the contours of her personal

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Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi | Unbearable Lightness | “I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to ma

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

k. d. lang: All You Get Is Me by Victoria Starr

Victoria Starr | k. d. lang: All You Get Is Me | All You Get is Me uncovers k.d.’s deepest emotions, from a commitment to animal rights that threatened to ruin her career, to her coming to ter