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"Never Silent tells previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject of David France's How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuous activism to find treatments and public health interventions.The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David France's How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activism In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive...
2) De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde's autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for "from the depths") is Oscar Wilde's reconciliation from a life full of pleasure. In 1891 the author began an intimate relationship with the young aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas, known to his friends as Bosie. This affair led to speculations about Wilde's sexuality just as his career was reaching its apex. Ultimately, Bosie's father,...
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Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, and their TED talk has received over 1.6 million views online. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Non-Fiction and was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book.
In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy...
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With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places.
Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a...
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"A Friend of Dorothy/Life on the Yellow Brick Road" is about the struggle for self-acceptance and discovering that a happy life is the sole responsibility of the individual traveler. A story that shares some of life's most difficult challenges using humor and honesty to navigate those sometimes treacherous paths. But inevitably "A Friend of Dorothy" is about the realization that the road to a joy filled life starts and ends in our own hearts.
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Journal entries, poems, stories, and rants from the mind of an artist, who found out he was gay, and how the writing and creating helped him make it through, to today. How I learned to accept myself, as a gay male artist, in a world, I knew didn't fully accept me, and how I only wanted to be as everyone else. I later found out that I didn't need to be like everyone else, and it wasn't doing me, or the world any good, by trying to conform, and downplay...
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A complete trilogy which is a candid, true memoir of a gay man's life, telling a story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy, charting one gay man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood.
The first book deals with Simon's childhood friendship and eventually love affair with an older boy and early sexualisation, the second the trauma of his teenage years and early adulthood, the third his struggle to...
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A history of gay Key West starting in 1954, when the city police chief Bienvenido Perez promised to rid the island of the "scores of sex deviates" that had supposedly flocked to the island to escape a crackdown by Miami police. "The town is full of them," he said at the time. "We don't want that kind of people in Key West."
Twenty-nine years later Richard Heyman, an out-and-proud homosexual, was elected mayor. But no one in 1954 would have believed...
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Get the Summary of Boy George's Karma My Autobiography in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Karma My Autobiography" by Boy George is a candid memoir that delves into the artist's life, from his challenging upbringing in south-east London to his rise to fame with Culture Club and beyond. George candidly discusses his early life as a gay youth, his transformative experiences with music and fashion, and his first romantic...
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“Unspoken” is a collection of memories from intersex people in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. These stories and drawings reflect on singular moments held across numerous lifetimes.
Intersex people, or people born with variations in sex characteristics, grow up with bodies and experiences beyond the norms, often unknown or misunderstood. Shame and stigma about intersex variations have kept many intersex people from speaking out, reinforced...
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A young boy sitting on a piano bench realizes one day that he will never marry. At the time, this seems merely a simple, if odd, fact, but as his attraction to boys grows stronger, he is pulled into a vortex of denial. Not just for one year or even ten, but for 25 years, he lives in an inverted world, a place like a photographic negative, where love is hate, attraction is envy, and childhood never ends. He comes to think of himself as a kind of monster-until...
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The love-child of Carrie Bradshaw and David Sedaris, Koelen puts new meaning into the term "living life to the fullest." His collection of sixteen autobiographical essays gives a hilariously raw and brutally honest look into the imperfect world around him. In every story, he grabs life by the balls and in true comedic form, he encourages his readers to do what he does: embrace living and dance in your underwear. "I've always said that if you don't...
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Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. There is the Appalachian widower who, following the death of his wife, decides it's time to tell his church community. There is the young man who left his hometown as a girl, returning hesitant...
16) Apples & Oranges
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Sexuality and identity are the twin goddesses that lend Jan Clausen's Apples & Oranges its grace and urgency. In the late 1980s, after more than a decade living within a strong Brooklyn lesbian community with her female lover and their daughter, Clausen travels to a war zone in Nicaragua, where she falls in love with a West Indian male lawyer. Her memoir is brimming with intimate physical and emotional details of her personal journey, but perhaps...
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Este es un libro mítico. Publicado en 1982 en Barcelona, citado profusamente en Baños, fiestas y exilios, aludido en conversaciones de obsesionados por la historia homosexual argentina, todos hablaban de él, pero pocos lo habían podido leer.
Desde el exilio, Héctor Anabitarte compone a través de pequeñas historias, recuerdos y reflexiones una especie de autobiografía colectiva. Un álbum de la vida queer periférica, cuando el concepto de...
18) Déjame ser
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A los 20 años llegué a casa y estallé las puertas del armario asumiéndome como homosexual ante mi familia. Mi padre no aceptó lo que yo era. Dos meses después, decidí que quería morir. Pero ni la muerte me quiso a su lado. Sobreviví. Para reescribir mi historia. Y no parece, pero ésta terminó bien.
"Déjame ser" es un libro biográfico que relata la parte crucial de mi vida que me definió para siempre. Del preconcepto al suicidio, de...
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A major transformation is happening in today's workplace. This groundbreaking anthology chronicles personal narratives from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied executive trailblazers who have conquered adversity and ushered in policies that affirm and support the LGBT community in the workplace. Out & Equal at Work profiles an advocacy organization located at the intersection of the private sector and the broader social movement: Out &...
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In the Spring after the Stonewall Riots, a California teenager began a journey that shattered the boundaries of sexual identity. When Beth Elliott became the very first to transition from male to female to be an out lesbian, she rocked the newly above-ground LGBT world-and it rocked her back. Historians and sexologists now routinely relate how radical dyke feminists drove her out of the nation's first lesbian rights organization, the Daughters of...
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