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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dangerous liaisons Dangerous liaisons Eric Brandt A groundbreaking study of the intersections of race and sexuality, by an all-star group of writers. From Selma and Stonewall to California’s Proposition 209 and the Defense of Marriage Act, blacks an… OL15137195W
Recruiting young love Recruiting young love Mark D. Jordan In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging… OL15445280W
Secret Historian 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 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
How to write an autobiographical novel How to write an autobiographical novel 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. OL19738261W
How to Survive a Plague How to Survive a Plague David France "From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic st… OL20042944W
How We Fight For Our Lives How We Fight For Our Lives 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… OL20344845W
Other men's sons Other men's sons Michael Rowe,Rowe, Michael Looking for Brothers, Michael Row's first essay collection (1999), won international critical acclaim, heralding the arrival of one of the most perceptive and insightful journalist essayists writing … OL2581173W
Thomas Mann Thomas Mann Anthony Heilbut A groundbreaking biography of one of the century's most important writers. A portrait of Thomas Mann's Germany, his work, his life, his exile and arrival in America - a life of suffering and courage,… OL2653086W
Naked Naked David Sedaris Naked, published in 1997, is a collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. The book details Sedaris’ life, from his unusual upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, to his b… OL2693098W
Sex-Crime Panic Sex-Crime Panic Neil Miller Following the brutal murders of two children in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1954, police, in an attempt to quell public hysteria, arrested 20 men whom the authorities never claimed had anything to do with t… OL3470377W
Covering Covering Kenji Yoshino Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives… OL5846775W
The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's Ricardo J. Brown It is often difficult to imagine gay gathering places in the decades before the Stonewall riots of the 1960s, and nearly impossible to think of such communities outside the nation's largest cities. Y… OL8530974W
The Greeks and Greek Love The Greeks and Greek Love James N. Davidson For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a bri… OL931693W