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 Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin YearsBest Price: $2.00 Books of fiction and nonfiction, films, paintings, and museums abound in the ongoing ceaseless... |  Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950'sBest Price: $2.95 Fans of Patricia Highsmith - and anyone who reads her becomes one - will want to read this small... |  Julian Rush-Facing the Music: A Gay Methodist Minister's StoryBest Price: $6.84 This is a superb work that needs wide distribution. It highlights Julian Rush's incredible... |  Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen (Sexual Minorities in Historical Context)Best Price: $15.00 BECOMING A WOMAN: A BIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTINE JORGENSEN offers a more studied examination of the... |  The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's WorldBest Price: $12.92 If you experienced the gay lifesyle as a skinny twink, enjoying the night life, drugs, alcohol... |
 The Real Trial of Oscar WildeBest Price: $3.06 As this book makes abundantly clear, Alfred Douglas is to blame. Al wanted to get back at his... |  S/HeBest Price: $8.07 I honestly tried to read with an open mind, but if this pretentious, pornographic little book is... |  In the Arms of Adam: A Diary of MenBest Price: $11.44 This book will keep the reader spell bound with his writing style and honesty. The reader will... |  Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna BarnesBest Price: $30.00 Roughly chronological, these essays explore Barnes’ early work in the New York... |  Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their CircleBest Price: $75.00 leddick's book about the lives and loves of lynes, cadmus and kirstein is one of the best! ... |
 I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and FeminismBest Price: $11.66 This is one of the few books I've found that really explores the issues of sovereignty and... |  Bryher: Two Novels: Development and Two Selves (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)Best Price: $19.95 I am thrilled that this title is finally available. It consists of the first two novels by the... |  Bruce Chatwin: A BiographyBest Price: $29.92 Its fun to read about Bruce Chatwin's alleged 'genius' but you realize that for the most part,... |  Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967Best Price: $22.00 |  Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David JacksonBest Price: $2.51 How unfortunate that the self-appointed biographer (though she terms it a memoir) of James... |
 Worry Girl: Stories from a ChildhoodBest Price: $5.31 This is a wonderful chain of stories from Loewenstien's childhood. The child in the book lives... |  Conversations With Audre Lorde (Literary Conversations Series)Best Price: $50.00 Black, feminist, lesbian, mother, and warrior poet are all words that Audre Lorde used to... |  Loving Emma: A Story of Reluctant MotherhoodBest Price: $6.40 Most memoirs speak of family, innocence lost, secrets hidden and later unearthed-or of... |  A Restricted CountryBest Price: $0.98 This is a wonderful book and should not be missed. The last entry "Hope" has such... |  Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan DorseyBest Price: $7.66 I read this book because I heard about a renowned Buddhist named IssanDorsey at a dharma talk.... |
 In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David WojnarowiczBest Price: $2.88 Despite the fact that I am already reading 3 other books concurrently, I am revisiting David... |  Suburban Hustler: Stories of a Hi-Tech CallboyBest Price: $8.99 I was wowed by this book. Aaron Lawrence is so incredibly frank that it is both highly erotic... |  Why the Long Face?: The Adventures of a Truly Independent ActorBest Price: $2.30 This wry, witty, entertaining, and eminently readable tome is about as different from your... |  Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)Best Price: $4.24 a very powerful book! It left me hungry - throughout the whole reading - all the food for... |  A City Comes Out: The Gay and Lesbian History of Palm SpringsBest Price: $16.29 Today, Palm Springs' gay-owned businesses are flourishing, and even the Palm Springs Art Museum... |
 The Truth Shall Set You Free: A MemoirBest Price: $3.78 I loved this book for what it taught me. It's almost like a riches to rags story. One who... |  San Francisco's Castro (CA) (Images of America)Best Price: $12.56 Nestled in the Eureka Valley area, the Castro is arguably the most well-known of San Francisco's... |  Not for Your Hands: An AutobiographyBest Price: $15.00 |  Gay Olympian: The Life and Death of Dr. Tom WaddellBest Price: $7.75 Tom Waddell is more than just the creator of the Gay Games, he is someone who has dedicated his... |  Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life 1918-1945Best Price: $36.99 I could not put this book down. This diary of a gay man from 1918 to 1945 reads like a novel... |
 Jean Genet: Born To Lose: An Illustrated Critical HistoryBest Price: $12.45 Jean Genet: poet-thief, novelist, revolutionary, gay icon. Genet's early life was one of... |  The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young PeopleBest Price: $62.93 This was the first book I found when I started accepting my sexuality, and I have to say I was... |  In My Life: The Brian Epstein StoryBest Price: $19.45 Going into this book I didn't know much about Brian Epstein, but I was interested in the... |  Mary Renault: A Biography (A Harvest Book)Best Price: $3.94 I have loved Mary Renault's historical novels about the ancient world since I was a pre-teen and... |  World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library)Best Price: $6.00 I like Stephen Spender. That is, of course, I like his poetry that I've read as well as his... |
 The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of IdentityBest Price: $3.83 Mendelsohn, Daniel. "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity", Vintage... |  All the Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman's Notebook (Adventura Books)Best Price: $1.48 Memoiristic writing about a sterotypically "masculine" way of being in the natural... |  Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette HuxleyBest Price: $12.45 In this book of letters, rich in description of life before, during, and after the war, Sarton's... |  Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before StonewallBest Price: $7.90 As someone who has read a good deal of gay literature I alighted upon this book with a great... | Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall Best Price: $7.90 As someone who has read a good deal of gay literature I alighted upon this book with a great... |
 Walk Like a Man: A family's walk with Clay and his walk with being gay and living with AIDSBest Price: $6.22 For years I have been saying "as soon as this is over, I'm going to write a book.over...at... |  Jack & Jamie Go to War |  Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies)Best Price: $24.66 Sears, James. "Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early... |  Papa and Daddy and Babies in AlaskaBest Price: $6.58 I stumbled upon this book and fell in love with this less than typical family. The story... |  Physique: The Life of John S. BarringtonBest Price: $10.95 This is an interesting look at a unique life and personality. Not quite worth the five star... |
 Against the Current: Coming Out In The 1940's (Autobiography)Best Price: $15.99 |  Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and JewishBest Price: $6.80 This collection of essays by the author of Dancing on Tisha B'av, Winter Eyes, not to mention... |  Florence: A Delicate Case (Writer and the City)Best Price: $2.98 The Writer and the City books are supposed to be idiosyncratic, and I greatly liked Edmund... |  The Heart's Progress: 1A Lesbian MemoirBest Price: $3.75 I mostly read fiction but the book descriptions were enticing and the two reviews convinced me I... |  King of ShadowsBest Price: $8.95 San Francisco is known for its large gay community, and "King of Shadows" is one gay... |
 Body, Remember: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)Best Price: $14.59 This book started out reading like poetry--but as I read I got lost in the muddle that was the... |  Tainted Life: The AutobiographyBest Price: $89.95 Marc Almond gives us a personally responsible and earnest look back at his childhood, his... |  El amor en tiempos oscuros y otras historias sobre vidas y literatura gay / Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and LiteratureBest Price: $19.45 El amor en tiempos oscuros es un texto que permite conocer al estudioso, al interesado y, hasta... |  Suicide JunkieBest Price: $16.20 By S Westwood ISBN: 9781847470812 Published: 2007 Pages: 281 Key... |  Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College SororityIn Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity (Alyson... |
 Nureyev: His LifeThe book gives impression of reading a work of psychologist. From the beginning to the end of... |  Man Enough To Be Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne CountyBest Price: $12.13 The five stars are for the truly amazing, immensly well written, entertaining and hilarious... | |||
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