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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...
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Angels & Demons: One Actor's Hollywood Journey
by Ray Stricklyn Synopsis Angels & Demons is the story of one actor's rise, fall and ultimate triumph, an intimate look at a life in Hollywood and in the theater. Stricklyn pulls no punches as he portrays the angels and demons he met along the way and those he discovered within...
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Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship
by David Pitts Publisher Comments I’m not that kind of boy,” Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn’t end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings met at Choate, until the...
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
by John Boswell Publisher Comments "Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition."—Michel Foucault John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a...
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Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America
by Dudley Clendinen Publisher Comments This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement at the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)
by David Leavitt Publisher Comments Outlines the Bletchley Park mathematician's efforts to launch artificial intelligence innovations, describing his thwarted attempts to gain support for a programmable calculating machine, his contributions to cracking the Nazi Enigma code during World...
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About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
by John Rechy Publisher Comments The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as "one of the few original American writers of the last century." John Rechy's first novel, City of Night, is a modern classic and his subsequent body of work has kept him among...
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The Drive
by Trisha Todd Synopsis Trisha Todd, the actress who starred in the classic lesbian film, "Claire of the Moon" presents an account of her own intimate journey to herself. With honesty and insight, she reveals the secret loves she chased after - and ran from - her whole life....
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My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Series Q)
by Amber L Hollibaugh Publisher Comments 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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Proust in Love
by William C Carter Publisher Comments In telling the story of Proust in love, Carter discusses Proust's adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. With new revelations about his love life and a gallery of...
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Born to Be Gay: A History of Homosexuality
by William Naphy Publisher Comments 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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35 Cents
by Matty Lee Publisher Comments 35 Cents is the story of a straight, young, white boy growing up and coming of age as he hustles his way both through the gay community and the juvenile-detention system of South Florida in the late 1980s. Will he find home? Will he find love? All it...
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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006 (Vintage)
by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments In this brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his....
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Rock Hudson: His Story
by Rock Hudson Publisher Comments Written at Rock Hudson's request and with the cooperation of his closest friends, this is the definitive portrait of one of Hollywood's most enduring stars....
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Naked Civil Servant (77 Edition)
by Quentin Crisp 
Powells.com Staff Pick I'm not usually a fan of autobiography but The Naked Civil Servant is an exception. Quentin Crisp's book describes his life as a very "out" homosexual, with an outrageously effeminate manner and dress, living in London from the 1920's through the...
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
by George Chauncey Publisher Comments A fascinating look at a gay world that was not supposed to have existed, this book shows that gay life in prewar New York was not only remarkably visible but extensively integrated into the straight world.. Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that...
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Noble Lives
by Marc E Vargo Synopsis Noble Lives examines how sexual orientation affected the careers of two historical figures generally accepted as gay, and a third whose sexual identity was in constant question during his lifetime. This unique book features comprehensive biographical...
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Homosexuality & Civilization
by Louis Crompton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 584-597) and index....
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Here's What We'll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy
by Reichen Lehmkuhl Publisher Comments Reichen Lehmkuhl was playing the role of his life while in the Air Force. Not wanting to face a court martial for being gay, he was forced to live in a world where he had to watch everything he did and said for fear of being outed; and in another world...
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Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir
by Ron Nyswaner Publisher Comments "A brilliant and inspirational vision of love, death and spiritual redemption in 20th Century America. Ron Nyswaner's account of his struggle with real life demons great and small is gripping, harrowing and sometimes shockingly intimate. It is...
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