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Jack Nichols, Gay Pioneer: Have You Heard My Message?
by J Louis Campbell  Publisher Comments One of the founding fathers of the gay and lesbian liberation movement, Jack Nichols was a warrior for gay equality. Journalist, activist, co-founder of the Mattachine Societies of Washington, DC, and Florida, and editor of the first gay weekly newspaper...
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Lovers' Legends
by Andrew Calimach Publisher Comments First comprehensive uncensored collection of homosexual Greek myths in 2000 years. Lucian'ss Different Loves, an unabashed debate on gay vs. straight love, frames richly illustrated stories of Hercules, Orpheus, Narcissus, others. Presents positive and...
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Homosexuality and Civilization (03 Edition)
by Louis Crompton Publisher Comments Sweeping in scope, elegantly crafted, and lavishly illustrated, this volume is a stunning exploration of a rich and terrible past. 80 color illustrations. 30 halftones....
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Family outing
by Chastity Bono Publisher Comments From Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, heroine of the gay community, comes the first comprehensive guide to the coming-out process, written from the perspective of both gays and lesbians and their parents....
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The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir
by Candace Gingrich Publisher Comments When Candace Gingrich met Roseanne Barr at a GLAAD dinner in 1995, the actress said, "Don't worry, honey, I've got a weird brother, too." Candace laughed, and at the same time realized how significant the moment was: She was speaking to a celebrity at a...
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Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging
by Gary Atkins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-438) and index....
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Under the Rainbow
by John Carlyle Publisher Comments Actor John Carlyle got his big break in 1954. New to Hollywood, the twenty-three-year-old Carlyle was cast as the assistant director of the movie-within-a movie in George Cukor's A Star is Born. Although Carlyle's scene was later cut from the film —...
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Pink & the Black Homosexuals in France
by Frederic Martel Publisher Comments While acknowledging that the development of France's homosexual communities after 1968 was influenced by America's gay liberation movement, Frédéric Martel highlights the differences arising from the fact that homosexuality has not historically been...
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Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson
by Elizabeth Adams Publisher Comments A sharecropper's son, Gene Robinson rose to become an Episcopal priest & later, the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church. His election set off a worldwide firestorm of reaction, both positive and negative. Based on extensive interviews with...
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Flights of Angels: My Life with the Angels of Light
by Adrian Brooks Publisher Comments The Angels of Light were more than a queer performance troupe in the 1970s; growing out of the equally legendary Cockettes in San Francisco, the Angels were a way of life, putting on trashy, fantastical drag fairy tales in a city and an era that was in...
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The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
by Douglas Shand Tucci Publisher Comments In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest...
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History
by Lillian Faderman Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, a landmark work of lesbian history that both "sets the record straight (or unstraight)" for all Americans and "provides a usable past" for lesbians "This is a book about how millions of...
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Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood
by Keith Fleming Publisher Comments It isn't often that a memoirist gets the biographic treatment, but the story of Edmund White's youth was too dramatic to resist. In this bracing true-life tale, Keith Fleming, White's nephew whom he adopted, captures a particularly unusual childhood...
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The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
by Martin Duberman Publisher Comments This rich and revelatory biography of Lincoln Kirstein, cofounder of the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet, is filled with fascinating incidents and perceptions, and is being published for Kirstein's centenary. photos....
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Gay Life & Culture: A World History
by Robert (edt) Aldrich Publisher Comments A global history from ancient times to the present, told through a series of essays by more than a dozen noted scholars, discusses a wide range of topics, from the Old Testament relationship between Jonathan and David and the Age of Confucius to Native...
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Here's What We'll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy
by Reichen Lehmkul Publisher Comments Reichen Lehmkuhl is perhaps best known for the ambition, intelligence, and athleticism that won him the grand prize on CBS's Amazing Race. Since winning the million-dollar prize, Lehmkuhl has gone on to find success acting in film and television. However,...
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The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era (Living Out)
by Edward Field Publisher Comments Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village...
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An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News
by Amy Hoffman Publisher Comments Boston's weekly Gay Community News was the center of the universe during the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before AIDS, before gay weddings, and before The L Word. Provocative, informative, inspiring, and absurd, with a...
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--A History
by Lillian Faderman Publisher Comments This landmark of lesbian history focuses on how certain late 19th-century and 20th-century women, whose lives can be described as lesbian, were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today....
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At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament
by Derek Jarman Synopsis s an impassioned and provocative celebration of gay sexuality, overflowing with his blunt and uncompromising philosophy of life in the age of AIDS. Photos....
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