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Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas by Dale A Carpenter Publisher Comments No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywood by Alan Shayne Synopsis Gay marriage is at the forefront of America's political battles. The human story at the center of this debate is told in Double Life: A Love Story, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a 50 plus year relationship. With high profiles in the entertainment,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson Publisher Comments In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother held a rifle to her head and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would be... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies by Mikey Walsh Publisher Comments An Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski Publisher Comments Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men--Between Women) by Lillian Faderman Publisher Comments Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mississippi Sissy (07 Edition) by Kevin Sessums Publisher Comments Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs by Mary Karr and Augusten Burroughs, Kevin Sessums brings the American South and the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Queer America (08 Edition) by Vicki Lynn Eaklor Synopsis Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century, Vicki L. Eaklors Queer America: A Peoples GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience. Written in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Stonewall by Martin Duberman Publisher Comments "As scholars we should read Stonewall, and as teachers we should assign it. All of us will be challenged to build on it."—Michael Sherry, Northwestern Univ. "Both a fascinating account of the birth of gay liberation and a replay of the turbulent... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fit to Serve: Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador by James C Hormel Publisher Comments This is the memoir of James C. Hormel--a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family owned the Hormel "empire" and lived in a twenty-six-bedroom house in a small Midwest town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell Publisher Comments Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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City Boy by Edmund White Publisher Comments Groundbreaking literary icon Edmund White reflects on his remarkable life in New York in an era when the city was economically devastated but incandescent with art and ideas. White struggles to gain literary recognition, witnesses the rise of the gay... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh Publisher Comments Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germanys gays, as directed by Himmler and his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography by Rupert Everett Publisher Comments "I was born on 29 May 1959 at 'sometime before tea.' I was delivered by our local doctor, Jarvis Woodsend. My father was painting the garage doors as Dr. Woodsend drove past and cheerfully called out, 'It's a boy, all eleven pounds of him.' My father... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Women in Pants Manly Maidens Cowgirls & Other Renegades by Catherine Smith and Cynthia Greig Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-178) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter Publisher Comments New York Magazine's The Year in Books pick The Millions' A Year in Reading pick Salon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus Publisher Comments From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage.Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words by Harvey Milk Publisher Comments The unrehearsed and unguarded conversations in this collection reveal Harvey Milk's sense of humor, outrage over injustice, and love of dramatic confrontation. This volume contains the texts of 39 interviews Milk did for newspapers, radio, and television,... (read more) Your price: $31.95 New - Hardcover
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Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William Jr Eskridge Publisher Comments A fascinating one-of-a-kind history of the governments regulation of sexual behavior From the Pentagon to the wedding chapel, there are few issues more controversial today than gay rights. As William Eskridge persuasively demonstrates in Dishonorable... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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