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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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Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
by Karla Jay Publisher Comments Karla Jay, a direct participant in the dramatic history of the women's and gay liberation movements, brings on stage a dazzling cast of unforgettable characters and gives voice to the sweeping tale of the activists who struggled for their vision of...
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Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder
by Harry Hay Book News Annotation A collection of speeches, papers, and interviews by Harry Hay, credited as having launched the Lesbian and Gay liberation movement. His writings touch on avant-garde theater and filmmaking, trade unionism and Marxism, Native American revivalism, New...
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Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway
by Farley Granger Publisher Comments Synonymous with the golden age of Broadway, the dazzling lights of Hollywood, and the rise of television arts, Farley Granger’s charm and talent captivated the acting community and audiences alike. Working with creative visionaries like Alfred...
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Queer Cowboys
by Chris Packard Publisher Comments Was the American Cowboy gay? Judging from the earliest representations of cowboys and other frontier figures in popular literature—who typically preferred a "buddy" over a wife—the answer seems to be yes. Evidence from books by nineteenth...
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Alone in the Trenches
by Esera Tuaolo Synopsis As a dirt-poor Samoan immigrant, Tuaolo won a football scholarship to Oregon State, was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, and played for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1999 Super Bowl. But Tuaolo carried with him an agonizing secret: he is gay. Now he shares...
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Stonewall
by Martin Duberman Publisher Comments Since 1969, the word Stonewall has been synonymous with gay resistance to oppression. Yet remarkably, the full story of the Stonewall riots has never been told. Now historian Duberman profiles six early activists, whose lives intersected during the...
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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son (07 Edition)
by Jennings Publisher Comments Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his sons eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasnt supposed to cry. He also...
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Men Who Loved Me
by Felice Picano Publisher Comments The second instalment of Felice Picano's complete memoirs, picks up the threads of his life in the mid-1960s....
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The Confession
by James E Mcgreevey Publisher Comments For the first time, former New Jersey Governor McGreevey tells the full story of his political rise and fall, in a book that blends intrigue, revelation, and a window into what it means to be an American citizen trying to negotiate the ethical minefields...
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Gay America: Struggle for Equality
by Linas Alsenas Publisher Comments Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book published specifically for teens. Profusely illustrated with archival images, the groundbreaking Gay America reveals how gay men and women...
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Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
by Matt Houlbrook Publisher Comments In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to...
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Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
by William Wright Publisher Comments In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put a dozen students on trial for homosexuality and...
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Stranger Among Friends
by David Mixner Publisher Comments "From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom. <BR>"President Clinton and I...
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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir
by Kevin Jennings Publisher Comments Jennings's poignant, razor-sharp memoir describes growing up in poverty in the South, the death of his fundamentalist preacher father when he was eight, and his discovery of a world beyond poverty--a world of education and a world where it was possible...
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My Lives: An Autobiography
by Edmund White Publisher Comments In this autobiography filled with humor and social history, one of today's most revered writers evokes past moments and draws portraits of the interesting and celebrated people he has met during his extraordinary life. 8-page b&w photo insert....
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Out of Sync
by Lance Bass Publisher Comments Bass, who grew up as part of one of the biggest bands in history, tells all abut his life, his music, and his sexuality, in this candid, compelling autobiography. Eight-page full-color photo insert....
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Anthony Perkins: Split Image (Advocate Life Stories)
by Charles Winecoff Publisher Comments Paramount groomed him to replace the late James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest heartthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho killed that-and spawned an image of Anthony Perkins that eerily paralleled his...
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Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
by William Wright Publisher Comments Draws on confidential university papers from the 1920s to reveal the tragic conspiracy stemming from the suicide of a gay freshman and the subsequent witch hunt that served to discredit and prompt the suicides of numerous homosexual students. Reprint. 15,...
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Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story
by Steve Wilson Publisher Comments As a popular character actor and a regular on "The Hollywood Squares," Paul Lynde showed mainstream viewers that a gay man could be perceived as a stylish, funny man. This biography of Lynde paints a portrait of a man who reaped the rewards of frame, but...
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