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Familiar faces, hidden lives
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Howard Brown |
A former senior health-services official speaks honestly and plainly about what it is like to be gay in America. A classic of gay history. Introduction by Randy Shilts. |
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Frank
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Barney Frank,Barney Frank |
Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first and to keep the sec… |
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A Work In Progress
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Connor Franta |
About the Author
Connor Franta is an Internet sensation and global trendsetter, with millions of followers on YouTube and many other social media platforms. He is the founder of Common Culture Coffe… |
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Gypsy Boy On The Run
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Mikey Walsh |
"Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited but eventually he was forced to make the h… |
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Hold Tight Gently
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Martin Duberman |
In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from wha… |
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Letters from the closet
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Amy Hollingsworth |
"Timely and relevant, this is a love story of the most contemporary kind. It's a rare and beautiful glimpse into an intimate, but platonic relationship between a gay English teacher and his young fem… |
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After Woodstock
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Elliot Tiber |
During the summer of 69, Elliot Tiber helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. But some of the best and most significant events of Tiber s life did… |
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The prince of Los Cocuyos
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Richard Blanco |
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his p… |
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Logical family
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Armistead Maupin |
Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Maupin reflects on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, sharing his candid search f… |
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How to write an autobiographical novel
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Alexander Chee |
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art. |
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There will be no miracles here
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Casey Gerald |
Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999,… |
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Bettyville
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George Hodgman |
"A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother--a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love. When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Misso… |
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Bad kid
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David Crabb |
"Discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: he was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being… |
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My avant-garde education
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Bernard Cooper |
In this lively memoir, art critic and writer Cooper retraces his youth, up to and including the period of his intellectual awakening during the heyday of conceptual art, and vividly recalls his exper… |
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When We Rise
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Cleve Jones |
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, ne… |
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No Ashes in the Fire
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Darnell L Moore |
When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and … |
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How We Fight For Our Lives
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Saeed Jones |
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written… |
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E.M. Forster
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Wendy Moffat |
Based on exclusive access to E.M. Forster's previously restricted diaries at King's College, Cambridge, this biography reveals how deeply his ideas on individual freedom, tolerance, sexuality and lov… |
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A work in progress
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Connor Franta |
"The YouTube personality shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation, "--NoveList. |
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Christopher and his kind
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Christopher Isherwood |
Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical account of his years in Berlin during the rise of Nazism. |
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