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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Familiar faces, hidden lives	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.	OL13350336W
A great unrecorded history	Wendy Moffat	With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual, though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy …	OL13844329W
May Sarton	Margot Peters	From acclaimed writer Margot Peters comes the first, completely authorized biography of novelist, poet, and feminist May Sarton. Beginning with a young Sarton largely ignored by her parents, Pete…	OL15858301W
The Jack Bank	Glen Retief	Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a preserve of its own…	OL15976290W
Fire in the belly	Cynthia Carr,C. Carr	David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Vill…	OL16489836W
Secret Historian	Justin Spring,Sean Runnette	Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of o…	OL16799820W
Frank	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…	OL17102722W
Gay Life Stories	Robert Aldrich	"A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest af…	OL17461935W
Hold Tight Gently	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…	OL17531664W
Growing Up Golem	Donna Minkowitz	In the tradition of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Donna Minkowitz’s Growing Up Golem is a sharply funny memoir about growing up inspired by the Jewish legend of the golem. The author's mother told Minko…	OL17543193W
Eleanor Roosevelt, volume 3`	Blanche Wiesen Cook	“Monumental and inspirational…Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years… [a] grand biography.” -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers ever…	OL17606597W
Skin	Dorothy Allison	Compelling collection of autobiographical narratives, essays, and performance pieces They don't write much better than this.	OL1810292W
My own country	Abraham Verghese	By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tenness…	OL1822507W
The indelible Alison Bechdel	Alison Bechdel	Go behind the pen and into the psyche of dyke to watch out for Alison Bechdel--cartoon chronicler extraordinaire--as the inner workings of lesbiania's most quick-witted, longest-running social commen…	OL1835950W
Fire Shut Up in My Bones	Charles M. Blow	Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's leg…	OL19354307W
Afterglow	Eileen Myles	The author writes an account of her relationship with her pit bull Rosie. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, the author launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true…	OL19719624W
Looking for Lorraine	Imani Perry	Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achi…	OL19753477W
Dirty River	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the…	OL19854040W
Visions and revisions	Dale Peck	Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work--part memoir, part extended essay--is a foray into what the author calls "the second half of the first half AIDS epidemic," i.e., the period between 1987, …	OL19998527W
The black penguin	Andrew Evans	A devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied an…	OL20052733W