Gay Books


The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey MilkThe Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Best Price: $10.46
Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco...
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My FamilyThe Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
Best Price: $5.55
I found myself laughing throughout the book. Very snappy writing and a story that I could...
The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get PregnantThe Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Best Price: $5.48
I just can't get enough of Dan Savage. He draws us into his life and paints a picture that is...
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America (Plume Books)Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America (Plume Books)
Best Price: $3.79
Bought this as a gift for a minister -- it was a good choice according to him.
I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)
Best Price: $1.22
This book is both a small trip of New York and an intimate and skewed look of a man looking for...


The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics)The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.98
"When the telegram announcing my father's death arrived, I felt nothing except irritation...
Moab Is My WashpotMoab Is My Washpot
Best Price: $6.50
Stephen Fry recounts his childhood and teenage years with honesty and candor. Whenever I read an...
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Stonewall Inn Editions)The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Best Price: $47.94
Randy Shilts's intricately researched biography of one of the greatest gay activists of all...
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person EverSwish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
Best Price: $11.00
Picked it up based on the ridiculous cover and it hit the spot.... Hilarious in spots,...
Before Night Falls: A MemoirBefore Night Falls: A Memoir
Best Price: $1.95
My review will be quite simple, this book is... marvelous, magnificent, beautiful, brilliant,...


Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic MemoirSince My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir
Best Price: $13.00
The Catholic Church has contributed some wonderful things to this world, but the hatred and...
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of IdentityThe Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
Best Price: $5.99
Mendelsohn, Daniel. "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity", Vintage...
Taking WoodstockTaking Woodstock
Best Price: $15.61
Woodstock was a part of our lives but we were not there. Instead we were home raising our small...
Freddie MercuryFreddie Mercury
Best Price: $13.58
My intrigue for Freddie lead me to buy this book. I'm fascinated with his singing and showman...
Heaven's Coast: A MemoirHeaven's Coast: A Memoir
Best Price: $2.45
Heaven's Coast is a book about loss. Mark Doty approaches this topic through the loss of his...

Are You Guys Brothers?Are You Guys Brothers?
Best Price: $10.50
Are You Guys Brothers?This is a book that walks the talk. Many noted national and international...
All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.
Best Price: $10.85
Craig Seymour is a wonderful writer. His latest book "All I Could Bare" had the...
Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of SavannahHiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah
Best Price: $4.18
If you have read "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" you certainly remember one...
Secrets Of A Gay Marine Porn StarSecrets Of A Gay Marine Porn Star
Best Price: $7.18
Having grown up in the south s a gay man myself, this book hit closer to home than any other I...
The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies, and My Life with StyxThe Grand Illusion: Love, Lies, and My Life with Styx
Best Price: $1.49
To Chuck - Thank you for writing this book for the world to read and learn from the struggles...

Capote: A BiographyCapote: A Biography
Best Price: $1.74
This has to be the second worst book that I've read in along time. His flings and the details...
My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and ProstitutionMy Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution
Best Price: $7.99
Gay adult film legend Aiden Shaw's memoir My Undoing is not the book you would expect. There...
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural MidwestFarm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
Best Price: $11.87
It's not about being gay, or living on a farm, or growing up in rural areas where your entire...
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics)Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics)
Best Price: $3.65
I read this book years ago and recently came across it in an old box and reread a chapter in the...
Pedro and MePedro and Me
Best Price: $5.40
What I enjoyed about writer/cartoonist Judd Winick's Pedro and Me is reality style of this...

My Lives: An AutobiographyMy Lives: An Autobiography
Best Price: $1.25
Why this book is an autobiography when we've read a lot of it before is beyond me. Must say,...
The Best Little Boy in the WorldThe Best Little Boy in the World
Best Price: $6.48
The Best Little Boy in the World (TBLBITW) was the first memoir of a LGBT individual I read and...
Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler: A MemoirConfessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler: A Memoir
Best Price: $8.29
Wade Rouse's second memoir is extremely amusing for anyone who has seen prep school from either...
Borrowed Time: An AIDS MemoirBorrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Best Price: $8.95
Others have already described the book well. I just want to add my two cents. This account and...
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San FranciscoThe Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Best Price: $2.98
I enjoyed this book so much that I read it twice, then a year later, read it...

Firebird: A MemoirFirebird: A Memoir
Best Price: $4.20
Firebird is another tour de force by Mark Doty. The power in this book comes from two sources -...
Christopher and His KindChristopher and His Kind
Best Price: $12.24
I've just finished reading Christopher Isherwood's beautiful little memoir of the years 1929 to...
Exile in Guyville: How a Punk Rock Redneck Faggot Texan Moved to West Hollywood and Refused to Be Shiny and HappyExile in Guyville: How a Punk Rock Redneck Faggot Texan Moved to West Hollywood and Refused to Be Shiny and Happy
Best Price: $7.99
I enjoyed the hell out of this book. Not "loved" it, and it didn't change my life. But...
The ConfessionThe Confession
Best Price: $0.01
What's the Big Deal? McGreevy, James. "The Confession". Regan Books, 2006 Amos...
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A MemoirWhat Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir
Best Price: $5.29
I've always been fascinated by E. Lynn Harris' fictional work (and maybe a bit frightened since...

Nine Ten and Out! The Two Worlds of Emile GriffithNine Ten and Out! The Two Worlds of Emile Griffith
Best Price: $16.95
Very well written. A great true story that is stanger than fiction. Most of the time one greatly...
My Lives: A Memoir (P.S.)My Lives: A Memoir (P.S.)
Best Price: $0.28
No one has been more frank, lucid, and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than...
Center Square: The Paul Lynde StoryCenter Square: The Paul Lynde Story
Best Price: $8.70
Wow. And I thought Leona Helmsley was 'The Queen of Mean' ...? Like most of America, I grew up...
Mississippi SissyMississippi Sissy
Best Price: $4.10
Being in therapy is an excellent idea. Sharing therapy is a foolish idea. Dull-usions of...
Wonder Bread & Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey StefanoWonder Bread & Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano
Best Price: $4.30
With the explosion of porn distribution on the net and the constant rise and fall of...

Breaking the SurfaceBreaking the Surface
Best Price: $3.35
The reason I didn't give the book a 5 rating was because it could have had a better ending....
An Underground Life:  Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
Best Price: $14.77
Here's the story: gay Jew (really a half-Jew under Nazi racial law) survives Holocaust in...
A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban MemoirA Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir
Best Price: $0.01
Very good read. It's funny sad and sweet at the same time. I read it in one day. I could not...
DamagesDamages
Best Price: $6.00
This is an amazing story and testament to Bazhe's indomitable spirit. I don't believe that any...
Mama's Boy, Preacher's SonMama's Boy, Preacher's Son
Best Price: $2.43
Jennings, Kevin, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir, Beacon Press, 2006 Growing Up Gay ...

Life in Paradox: The Story of a Gay Catholic PriestLife in Paradox: The Story of a Gay Catholic Priest
Best Price: $14.37
This is not the kind of book that offers therapeutic or even informative insights, but it serves...
My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)
Best Price: $6.19
I'm always on the lookout for a good "dog book." I found MY DOG TULIP several years...
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like BoysGirls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
Best Price: $4.99
De la Cruz, Melissa and Tom Dolby, editors. "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales...
Suicide JunkieSuicide Junkie
Best Price: $15.99
This mental health probelm often can be seen in girls, thats why this book made me re-read it...
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco RenaissancePoet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance
Best Price: $10.74
Spicer and Ginsberg influenced one another, as is clearly shown in this book. Ginsberg stole a...

Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David JacksonFamiliar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Best Price: $2.10
How unfortunate that the self-appointed biographer (though she terms it a memoir) of James...
How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age StoryHow I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story
Best Price: $4.49
In my quest for more and more great gay coming-of-age fiction, I came across Kirk Read's...
The Operator : David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New HollywoodThe Operator : David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
Best Price: $8.99
I must confess. I have not as yet read the entire book on David Geffin. I am reviewing the first...
Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe SexStayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex
Best Price: $0.99
Richard Berkowitz, AIDS activist and a freelance journalist (and former S&M Hustler) writes...
Walt Whitman: A Gay LifeWalt Whitman: A Gay Life
Best Price: $14.99
In a world where historical figures as prominant and as influential as Walt Whitman are thought...

Major Conflict: One Gay Man's Life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell MilitaryMajor Conflict: One Gay Man's Life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Military
Best Price: $5.96
I really enjoyed reading this book and admire the author's courage and tenacity. Definitely...
    
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