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Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
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Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
by Joel Derfner

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Joel Derfner is gayer than you. Don’t feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life’s work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging, but the camp...
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When I Knew
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When I Knew
by Robert Trachtenberg

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When I Knew is a collection of smart, hilarious, and often poignant stories about that revelation for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this gorgeously illustrated, cleverly designed, and colorful book, acclaimed fashion and celebrity...
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Mismeasure of Desire : the Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (99 Edition)
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Mismeasure of Desire : the Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (99 Edition)
by Edward Stein

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In the last decade, fierce controversy has arisen over the nature of sexual orientation. Scientific research, religious views, increasingly ambiguous gender roles, and the growing visibility of sexual minorities have sparked impassioned arguments about...
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Transgender Warriors : Making History From Joan of Arc To Dennis Rodman (96 Edition)
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Transgender Warriors : Making History From Joan of Arc To Dennis Rodman (96 Edition)
by Leslie Feinberg

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With a New Afterword by the Author In this fascinating, personal journey hrough history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening...
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The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
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The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
by Dan Savage

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The true story of a marriage (not really), a lovable and relentless mother, a six-year old who says his parents cannot get married (but wants to go to the reception), a partner who doesnt want to act like a straight person, and the author, who has...
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My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Series Q)
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My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Series Q)
by Amber L Hollibaugh

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Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires...
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Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit
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Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit
by Cheryl Peck

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The author of "Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs" is back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit....
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Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches (84 Edition)
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Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches (84 Edition)
by Audre Lorde

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The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her coverage of a...
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture)
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture)
by Don Kulick

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In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as...
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My Fair Captain
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My Fair Captain
by J. L. Langley

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A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem, and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence....
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Born to Be Gay: A History of Homosexuality
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Born to Be Gay: A History of Homosexuality
by William Naphy

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There has long been an assumption in the West that views on sex and sexuality are basically similar worldwide. This has never been the case. Many ancient cultures actively promoted same-sex relationships as an integral part of adolescence or even worship....
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography
by David Halperin

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"My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation," Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in...
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For Lesbian Parents: Your Guide to Helping Your Family Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Proud
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For Lesbian Parents: Your Guide to Helping Your Family Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Proud
by Suzanne M. Johnson

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Raising a child is overwhelming, thrilling, exhausting, terrifying, and joyous--and all at the same time. In addition to the adjustments that any new parents must make, lesbian mothers face numerous special questions and concerns. From "coming out" to...
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The Ultimate Guide to Strap-On Sex: A Complete Resource for Women and Men
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The Ultimate Guide to Strap-On Sex: A Complete Resource for Women and Men
by Karlyn Lotney

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Dildos and harnesses are purchased and used worldwide by a wide range of people - women and men; singles and couples; gay, straight, and bi. The Ultimate Guide to Strap-on Sex explains how to choose and use these sex aids and includes ways to enhance...
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Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
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Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
by Amy Bloom

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Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of "people who reveal, or announce, that...
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The Back Passage
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The Back Passage
by James Lear

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Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit. A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective — all the...
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How to Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do
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How to Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do
by Lannie Rose

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Lannie Rose changed her sex and now she explains how you can too! How To Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do is an amusing and practical guide to everything you need to know for your sex change, from how to tell if...
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The Cutting Room
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The Cutting Room
by Louise Welsh

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Wow! A first novel with an intriguing plot and totally believable characters. An excellent writer who allows you to empathize with a protagonist who is not always deserving. Mark Ingraham, Powells...
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Loving Ourselves: The Gay and Lesbian Guide to Self-Esteem
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Loving Ourselves: The Gay and Lesbian Guide to Self-Esteem
by Kimeron Hardin

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Love the inside, embrace the outside. First published in 1999, this thoroughly revised and updated edition now presents the issues and concerns relating to self-esteem in the LGBT world to a new generation of men and women. This compassionate guide...
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Androphilia: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity
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Androphilia: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity
by Jack Malebranche

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At once a self-assured embrace of homosexuality and an indictment of mainstream gay culture's celebration of perpetual victimhood, effeminacy and feminist gender theory, Androphilia presents homosexual desire in men not as a fixed orientation, but as a...
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