Biographies & Memoirs Books


My Son DivineMy Son Divine
Best Price: $10.99
When you think of glamour you automaticly think of the most beautiful "woman" in the...
HeroesHeroes
Best Price: $17.40
Further down, someone - presumably dissatisfied by the fact that John Pilger doesn't try to...
Geography Of The HeartGeography Of The Heart
Best Price: $6.00
AIDS memoirs became a rather popular genre in the 1990s. Geography of the Heart fits well into...
Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature with Sixteen Writers, Healers, TeacheGay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature with Sixteen Writers, Healers, Teache
Best Price: $6.77
At long last someone has done a study of gay spirituality! Soul and Spirituality among gay men...
Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and FuryFerocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury
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This book has gross errors. The woman's organization to which the author refers, is not what she...


The Last Time I Wore a DressThe Last Time I Wore a Dress
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Daphne Scholinski wore the label of "inappropriate female" for much of her life. As a...
Escort Tales: The Trophy Boy and Other StoriesEscort Tales: The Trophy Boy and Other Stories
Best Price: $7.98
Save your money. This is a lame effort at erotica founded on the fantasy of "rent...
Hope: A Story of TriumphHope: A Story of Triumph
Best Price: $3.99
This is one of those amazing books that you can't put down! And although it can easily be read...
The Rice Queen DiariesThe Rice Queen Diaries
Best Price: $10.13
After reading the editorial and Amazon reviews, I had high hopes that this book would provide...
Surface Tension: Love, Sex and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight WomenSurface Tension: Love, Sex and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women
Best Price: $3.45
This book was incredible. I would recommend it to any women, straight, gay or bi. It puts...


The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas CooperThe Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper
Best Price: $17.00
John Richardson's book-The Sorcerer's Apprentice-reveals fascinating details and anecdotes on...
Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century DramaGentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama
Best Price: $6.50
So much of the critical reaction to the work of Tennessee Williams was colored by the prevailing...
The Ladies of Llangollen: 2A Study in Romantic FriendshipThe Ladies of Llangollen: 2A Study in Romantic Friendship
This is the life story of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler - the Ladies if Llangollen, who...
The Assault of LaughterThe Assault of Laughter
Best Price: $12.99
Melissa Hart takes us along for the ride as she and her siblings cope with having her mother...
The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay IdentityThe Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity
Best Price: $11.99
The Mentor...should be required reading for every middle and high school teacher and counselor...

The Bill from My Father: A MemoirThe Bill from My Father: A Memoir
Best Price: $2.00
I read the whole thing--but only little bits of the book were worth the time it to read it.
Francis Poulenc (Outlines)Francis Poulenc (Outlines)
Best Price: $7.95
Richard Burton explores the fascinating world of early to mid-twentieth century artistic gay...
My Lesbian HusbandMy Lesbian Husband
Best Price: $8.00
As a straight woman, this book gives me wonderful insight into the love life of a lesbian...
An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community NewsAn Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News
Best Price: $14.37
Those were crazy, foundation-shifting days in the 1970's when all manner of people, ideas and...
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks, 1950-1965 (Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies)Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks, 1950-1965 (Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies)
Best Price: $6.95
I met Sam Steward around 1983 when he was quite elderly and I wonder what his friends would have...

Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After StonewallArt and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall
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Felice Picano is the man who was there and who did the work. He devised SeaHorse Press and...
A Class Apart: The Private Pictures of Montague GloverA Class Apart: The Private Pictures of Montague Glover
Best Price: $14.91
This is a fascinating book on several levels. The pictures document a classic gay aethestic...
Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling (White Crane Wisdom Series)Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling (White Crane Wisdom Series)
Best Price: $4.80
Long-time spiritual writer Toby Johnson and publisher/writer Steve Berman have put together a...
Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine BrooksWild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Best Price: $6.17
A fascinating story of two extraordinary lives soaked in the demi-monde at the fin-de-siecle...
May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1916-1954 (May Sarton)May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1916-1954 (May Sarton)
Best Price: $6.84
Sarton was a master of the art of letter-writing. The notes are useful, the editing is superb,...

Open Secret: Gay Hollywood--1928-2000Open Secret: Gay Hollywood--1928-2000
Best Price: $15.00
This book lifts a veil on a still rather taboo issue. A lot of well known people are mentioned...
Some Boys (Gay Men's Press Collection)Some Boys (Gay Men's Press Collection)
Best Price: $17.00
Water From A Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957Water From A Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957
Best Price: $6.95
In an unpublished preface to "Les Fleurs du Mal," Baudelarie wrote "Does one show...
No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and ChangeNo Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change
Best Price: $11.75
Cameron has written a wonderful book--it explains so clearly how difficult and surreal and...
The World, the Flesh and Myself (Gay Modern Classic Series)The World, the Flesh and Myself (Gay Modern Classic Series)
Best Price: $27.34

Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian TranssexualMirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual
This is a somewhat hard to find title, but well worth aquiring. It details the personal...
Modern NatureModern Nature
Best Price: $4.49
Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955
Best Price: $12.50
That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the PriesthoodThat Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood
Best Price: $11.97
Review of: That Undeniable Longing My Road to and from the Priesthood By Mark Tedesco ...
Crossing: A MemoirCrossing: A Memoir
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One of the most idiosyncratic, and least insightful, of all TS memoirs. McCloskey's primary...

Prayer WarriorsPrayer Warriors
Best Price: $6.50
Prayer Warriors is a tragic story, to be sure. Stuart's story of coming out as gay to his...
Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical SourcebookContemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Best Price: $49.00
While many of the articles in the collection Gay American Novelists lack a sufficient critical...
Landscape without Gravity: A Memoir of GriefLandscape without Gravity: A Memoir of Grief
Best Price: $5.60
Guide Books along the Spiritual Path of Grief In her famous 1969 book, On Death and Dying,...
Walt Whitman: A Gay LifeWalt Whitman: A Gay Life
Best Price: $11.24
In a world where historical figures as prominant and as influential as Walt Whitman are thought...
Anonymity: The Secret Life of an American FamilyAnonymity: The Secret Life of an American Family
Best Price: $2.95

Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex MarriageHomo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage
Best Price: $0.92
When it comes to reading about family life, I am somewhat of a voyeur, since my own family...
"ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE" Gay Words, Gay Worlds UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION (TRIANGLE CLASSICS)"ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE" Gay Words, Gay Worlds UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION (TRIANGLE CLASSICS)
TRIANGLE CLASSICS, ILLUMINATING THE GAY AND LESBIAN EXPERIENCE. Winner of the 1985 Gay Book...
Lifted and Looking - Moments and Milestones (Parts Four and Five)Lifted and Looking - Moments and Milestones (Parts Four and Five)
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The third and fourth installments of Moments & Milestones, with the lilting alliterative...
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian JournalHindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
Best Price: $6.00
I personally enjoy memoirs so I jumped at the chance to read this book when my study abroad...
Not Like Other Boys: Growing Up Gay: A Mother and Son Look BackNot Like Other Boys: Growing Up Gay: A Mother and Son Look Back
Best Price: $11.84
I picked up this book in a store, never having heard about it before, and I read it in two days....

Bosnia RevelationBosnia Revelation
I love this novel. Maybe it is because it is on Bosnia and Sarajevo. Maybe as a work of art it...
How Will I Tell My Mother?: A True Story of One Man's Battle With Homosexuality And AIDSHow Will I Tell My Mother?: A True Story of One Man's Battle With Homosexuality And AIDS
Best Price: $2.73
Except for One Little Problem: Memoir of a Life in HidingExcept for One Little Problem: Memoir of a Life in Hiding
Best Price: $1.99
The details of my life differ in one major respect from Joan Denson's; I have chosen to stay...
The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three AutobiographiesThe True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies
Best Price: $30.11
College-level collections strong in literary criticism must have this study, which integrates...
Conversations With Christopher Isherwood (Literary Conversations Series)Conversations With Christopher Isherwood (Literary Conversations Series)
Best Price: $17.00
Better than the literary crit stuff that has been published on Isherwood, and miles ahead of the...

Burning PointBurning Point
Best Price: $11.29
I found this book at a rummage sale for a buck. I started reading it at the book store and...
Now Becoming Then : Duane MichalsNow Becoming Then : Duane MichalsTruly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual NieceTruly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
Best Price: $3.92
How do you relate the life of someone who never stepped forward from the shadows of her...
The Boy with the Betty Grable LegsThe Boy with the Betty Grable Legs
Best Price: $4.80
Okay, I'll admit it. I bought Skip E. Lowe's memoir with the idea that it would be a horrendous...
The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew ShepardThe Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard
Best Price: $11.28
Matthew Shepard is looked upon as part of a context. The technique is really very interesting....

God Doesn't Make TrashGod Doesn't Make Trash
Best Price: $51.97
this book is NOT about AIDS, it's about humanity. I was very interested in the story of the...
Blue Days, Black Nights: A MemoirBlue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir
Best Price: $8.32
...because addiction is basically boring to all but the addict, and all addictions are pretty...
Track Conditions: A MemoirTrack Conditions: A Memoir
Best Price: $19.50
Klein, Michael. "Track Conditions: A Memoir", University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. ...
  
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