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Mirrors by Geri Nettick; Beth Elliot

Geri Nettick; Beth Elliot | Mirrors | This is a new, revised edition of the cult classic ‘Mirrors – Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual’ by Geri Nettick as told to Beth Elliott, in which Bet

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Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried | Thing of Beauty | At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top mo

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Alice + Freda Forever by Alexis Coe

Alexis Coe | Alice + Freda Forever | In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked the nation–it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alic

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k. d. lang by Victoria Starr

Victoria Starr | k. d. lang | 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 terms with

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Dear Sammy by Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas | Dear Sammy | Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striki

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La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | La Bâtarde | An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde

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Who’s Who In Gay And Lesbian History by Robert Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon

Robert Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon | Who’s Who In Gay And Lesbian History | Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian Historyis a uniquely authoritative and comprehensive work on key men and women in the history of homosexuality. It includ

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A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen by Elizabeth Mavor

Elizabeth Mavor | A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen | In 1778, to the fury of their aristocratic families, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped and fled to North Wales, to Llangollen.

This ch

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What It’s Like to Live Now by Meredith Maran

Meredith Maran | What It’s Like to Live Now | Like the heart-to-heart conversations you share with your funniest, most honest, most unshockable woman friend, What It’s Like to Live Now reveals the

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Here Lies The Heart by Mercedes De Acosta

Mercedes De Acosta | Here Lies The Heart | A murky combination of refinement, confusion, and a desperate faith in the occult, is this autobiography of Mercedes de Acosta, writer, society woman,