Nicole J. Georges | Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir | Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from the ninetie
Jinx Beers | Memoirs of an Old Dyke | Born in a dysfunctional lower middle class family in the middle of the ‘big’ depression, no one could have predicted that Jinx Beers would be a pionee
Gypsy Rose Lee | Gypsy, A Memoir | Gypsy: A Memoir is a 1957 autobiography of renowned striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, which inspired the Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable and t
Annie Rachel Lanzillotto | L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir | If you’re looking for a singular category for Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s memoir L Is For Lion, you’ll be hard-pressed to choose just one. This sprawl
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