Category: Memoir

David A.J. Richards | Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves | Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He

Esther Newton | My Butch Career | In My Butch Career Esther Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while co

Marcia Freedman | Exile in the Promised Land: a Memoir | Lively first-person account of fourteen years in Israel by former Knesset member, feminist movement founder, early peace activist.

Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o

Regina Marler | Queer Beats | The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s. Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the ful

Rita Mae Brown | Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser | Before Rubyfruit Jungle stormed the book world in 1973, the term ‘bestselling lesbian novelist’ was an oxymoron. But Rita Mae Brown’s first nov

Lee Lynch | An American Queer | This collection of Lee Lynch’s columns chronicles over a quarter century of queer life in the United States, from the last decades of the twentieth ce

Mary Meigs | In the Company of Strangers | Based on her participation in the movie, ‘The Company of Strangers,’ Meigs’s account of the film unfolds in an intricate meditation on time, old age a

Chastity Bono; Billie Fitzpatrick | Family Outing | Family Outing is two books in one: a memoir of Chastity Bono’s experience coming out as a lesbian to her famous parents and a look at the diffi

Sandra Bernhard | May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra? | It’s tough to categorize Sandra Bernhard’s book of semi-autobiography, philosophy, and quasifactual showbiz gossip. The book partly overlaps with her