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Pictures and Passions Pictures and Passions James M. Saslow *Pictures and Passions* is a sweeping panorama of art by, for, or about gays and lesbians across the world and across time, from Europe and North America to China and Australia, from the Stone Age to… OL14865936W
Losing Matt Shepard Losing Matt Shepard Beth Loffreda The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against min… OL15843872W
Fire in the belly 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
Raising My Rainbow Raising My Rainbow Lori Duron Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy’s boy, Lori’s younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while si… OL17358377W
Hold Tight Gently 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
The prince of Los Cocuyos The prince of Los Cocuyos 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… OL17900743W
Wagstaff Wagstaff Philip Gefter A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon)… OL19637079W
The new Negro The new Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawren… OL19732332W
Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic Richard Andrew McKay The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Y… OL19734000W
Tinderbox Tinderbox Robert W. Fieseler,Paul Heitsch "Fieseler chronicles the ... event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on ... access to … OL19745186W
Henry Darger, throwaway boy Henry Darger, throwaway boy Jim Elledge "Henry Darger was utterly unknown during his lifetime, keeping a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than thr… OL19971021W
Visions and revisions 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 narrow door The narrow door Paul Lisicky In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The con… OL20016709W
The Stonewall Reader The Stonewall Reader Edmund White,Jason Baumann For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund Whi… OL20153225W
When Brooklyn Was Queer When Brooklyn Was Queer Hugh Ryan Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Broo… OL20156997W
Figure It Out Figure It Out Wayne Koestenbaum Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and “assignments” that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and … OL20758156W
Man Who Ate Too Much Man Who Ate Too Much John Birdsall In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of America… OL21679221W
Lives of Great Men Lives of Great Men Chike Frankie Edozien From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, U.S.A. to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France; from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edoz… OL24192100W
The bill from my father The bill from my father Bernard Cooper Bernard Cooper's new memoir is searing, soulful, and filled with uncommon psychological nuance and laugh-out-loud humor. Like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, Cooper's account of growing up and coming… OL2960419W
Assisted Loving Assisted Loving Bob Morris What would you do if your eighty-year-old father dragged you into his hell-bent hunt for new love? Bob Morris, a seriously single son, tells you all about it in this warm, witty, and wacky chronicle … OL8239346W
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