Middlebrow Queer by Jaime Harker
Middlebrow Queer | Jaime Harker | How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and inter
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So Famous And So Gay: by Jeff Solomon
So Famous And So Gay: | Jeff Solomon | ‘Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewa
Adam’s Gift by Jimmy Creech
Adam’s Gift | Jimmy Creech | Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected
The Audacity Of A Kiss by Leslie Cohen
The Audacity Of A Kiss | Leslie Cohen | ‘The Audacity of a Kiss tells the story of Leslie Cohen, from her youth in Queens, New York during the ‘Mad Men’ era of the 1950s, to her young adulth
My Life As A Boy by Kim Chernin
My Life As A Boy | Kim Chernin | ”If a woman in her thirties turns into a boy, that may mean she’s having trouble getting out of the place she’s in. She requires the instinctive, who
Crossing The Border by Kim Chernin
Crossing The Border | Kim Chernin | Kim Chernin breaks literary boundaries and shatters silences in everything she writes – from her explosive memoir In My Mother’s House, hailed by News
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries And Notebooks: 1941-1995 by Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries And Notebooks: 1941-1995 | Patricia Highsmith | Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of ‘our greatest modernist writers’ (Gore Vidal). B
Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
Whip Smart Melissa Febos A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman’s transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts how unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a … Read more
Scars by A. Breeze Harper
A. Breeze Harper | Scars | Scars is a novel about whiteness, racism, and breaking past the normative boundaries of heterosexuality, as experienced through eighteen year old Sava
Broken Horses by Carlile Brandi
Carlile Brandi | Broken Horses | ‘Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving fr