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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret Leila J. Rupp,Verta A. Taylor "It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The… OL15079486W
I am not myself these days I am not myself these days Josh Kilmer-Purcell An advertising executive describes how he moonlighted as a drag queen performing in nighclubs, detailing a surreal odyssey into Manhattan's dark underbelly as it chronicles his relationship with his … OL15859512W
Re-dressing America's frontier past Re-dressing America's frontier past Peter Boag Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag open… OL16190571W
Butterfly Butterfly Michael A. Robinson Rejected by a bitter father with high political ambitions and manipulated by a hungry wolf in sheep's clothing, Butterfly's greatest desire is to fly away. Her spineless mother adds to the anguish wh… OL19993505W
The petticoat men The petticoat men Barbara Ewing The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young widow Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. It is Mattie who admires their sparkling gowns, makes … OL20979485W
Absent God Absent God Vincent Wilde 1 online resource OL21329051W
In the City of Shy Hunters In the City of Shy Hunters Tom Spanbauer **From Goodreads:** Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first novel in ten years, is a "rich and colorful" portrait of New Yor… OL4084789W
Normal Normal Amy Bloom "Bloom takes us on a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of "people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic" - female-to-male transsexuals, heteros… OL500118W
Tipping the Velvet Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manage… OL551012W
Breakfast on Pluto Breakfast on Pluto Patrick McCabe Set in the politically tumultuous London of the 1970s, *Breakfast on Pluto* follows the misadventures of Patrick "Pussy" Braden, a transvestite prostitute on a quest to find love and a place to call … OL78695W
Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues Randall Peffer A mysterious fire sweeps through the commercial district of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the police hypothesize that the blaze was set to cover up the murder of Big Al Costelano, a notorious P-to… OL8670453W