Gay Biographies & Memoirs

As seen on 60 Minutes. Until Christmas Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as... more

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  Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America (Plume Books)

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  • Very well written
  • Dr. Mel White is an excellent writer. You feel along with him, his guilt, depression, etc. of being gay & Christian (I am neither). I read it because I wanted to find out what he went through. I...
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  • Posted:Dec-24-2008

  • wasn't available
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  • Posted:Apr-19-2007

  • Well-Written Biography
  • The best sentence in this book is at the foot of page 193 in the paperback - "After years of trusting the people "in charge" to know what was right for me and for my life, I began to realize that I...
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Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from... more

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  Christopher and His Kind

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  • Posted:Dec-05-2006

  • Classic Literary Memoir
  • I've just finished reading Christopher Isherwood's beautiful little memoir of the years 1929 to 1939, Christopher and His Kind. The personalities that Isherwood surrounded himself with, both little...
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  • Posted:Dec-13-2001

  • Interesting Read- rewarding for the patient
  • I will admit to being slightly put off by the text when I first started reading it. However, once past the unique construction of grammar and syntax, it was an enjoyable experience. I found the...
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This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba... more

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  Before Night Falls: A Memoir

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  • Posted:Apr-13-2009

  • This book has been AMAZON RANKED
  • If you found this actual paperback, good for you. Amazon has recently removed sales ranks from several titles it considers "mature," meaning that this result is buried under everything else even...
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  • Posted:Apr-29-2001

  • Interesting but I'm a little suspect
  • Great story, for the most part but the writing is choppy and there are leaps of faith the reader has to take in order to make sense of the story and Arenas' choices. Gay or not, he is a sexual pig...
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  • Posted:Apr-03-2001

  • GROSS blech blech blech
  • This book just made me gag. The graphic descriptions of the author's sex with animals and, for that matter, sex with men way overshadowed the political aspect. The reviews of this book made it...
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Since she first burst onto the international music scene, Melissa Etheridge has released seven albums that have sold... more

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  The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music

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  • Posted:Jan-14-2009

  • The Truth Is . . . Melissa's Book Is Good
  • I'm a die-hard Melissa fan. I have every one of her albums and have lost count of the number of her concerts I've been to. That being said, I thought Melissa's book was very interesting....
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  • Posted:Jun-17-2002

  • Way too much information...
  • I have to agree with Howdydudes (below)-- Although I love Melissa Etheridge's music, I don't really need to know all of the personal details of her relationships. The parts of the book that I...
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  • Posted:Dec-20-2001

  • She could have done better
  • Don't get me wrong, I love ME. But this book is written poorly and is not what I expected from her. She tells her story, she is honest and forward but the book lacks what her songs are able to...
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Lorde's self-named "biomythography" more

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  Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

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  • Zami: My New Favorite Book
  • This book is fabulous. It truly resonated with me and my experiences. Lorde writes beautifully! Read this.
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  • Fascinating, but also commonplace
  • A strong voice in both African-American women's literature and lesbian literature, Audre Lorde is likely someone as alien to my experience as anyone could possibly be. Well, at least someone who...
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Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-GLBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama?s Boy,... more

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  Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son

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  • Posted:Oct-12-2008

  • Growing Up Gay
  • Jennings, Kevin, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir, Beacon Press, 2006
    
    Growing Up Gay
    
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    "Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son" is a great new book about coming...
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  • okay, I'm the spoiler
  • As a gay preacher's kid (fundamentalist) from the same geography (rural N.C.), I have to say I found Jenning's story to be irritatingly self-indulgent. I know many gay people who suffered a great...
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  • Posted:Jan-06-2007

  • Good but strangely narrow
  • The post-college years, especially those at Concord Academy, are the most interesting in terms of Kevin's personal development. Having been a gay teacher at al all-boys boarding school in the 80s,...
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Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million... more

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  The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant

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  • Posted:May-03-2009

  • Sadly, the people who most need this won't ever read it.
  • I ended up reading Savage's books in reverse order (I'm sure Savage would complain that to me, marriage should always come before a child), but it really doesn't matter. Savage's account of the...
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  • Possibly a permanent setback to other potential gay adoptive parents
  • It's hard to believe the other reviewers here read the same book that I did! On the VERY FIRST PAGE, Mr. Savage expouses his contention that any time now he be unfaithful to his "partner", the poor...
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  • The trials of adoption, with humor & triumph
  • I often enjoy Dan Savage, though I am by no means a rabid fan. I picked up _The Kid_ on a recommendation from a friend, and read through it fairly quickly. The book is a true story recounting the...
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Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to AIDS provides a comprehensive modern... more

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  Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History : From World War II to the Present Day (Who's...

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  • very interesting book, but.....
  • Although this is a very interesting and useful book, almost of all entries are so-called "the westerners" with a few exceptions ; e.g. Mishima Yukio. And I don't understand the reason why the...
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"By offering different perspectives on their shared pasts, the Shyers produced a complex and emotionally persuasive... more

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  Not Like Other Boys: Growing Up Gay: A Mother and Son Look Back

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  • Incredibly moving and insightful
  • I picked up this book in a store, never having heard about it before, and I read it in two days. This is a well-written account, with alternating chapters by mother and son, of what it was like to...
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Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life, and then he changed. With the help... more

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  Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience

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  • Posted:Dec-16-2008

  • Must Have
  • This is a perfect book for anyone who is trans or knows someone who is.
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  Not Afraid to Change: The Remarkable Story of How One Man Overcame Homosexuality

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  • Posted:Dec-28-2003

  • Sad Endings
  • Mr. Paulk's book is remarkable in light of his return to a gay bar in Washington, DC., where someone took his photograph in the men's room. Perhaps his salvation simply did not "take."
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  • Good Bio...
  • John really pours it all out here. Lots of pre-born-again detail. Great, 'Getting saved' climax. There's no pushing, 'The Faith' here, just a honest bio..
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  • Not Afraid to Change : The Remarkable Story of How One Man
  • This is a book that truly reveals how one man struggled for years to overcome a lifestyle that overpowered his life. John Paulk literally put himself on the line to share with people his...
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Natalie and Romaine met in London during World War I and their partnership lasted until Natalie died 52 years later.... more

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  Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks

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  • Posted:May-09-2006

  • Fascinating, But...
  • A fascinating story of two extraordinary lives soaked in the demi-monde at the fin-de-siecle with the world of the rich and artistic as its background. Unfortunately, this telling comes with some...
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  • Posted:May-11-2005

  • A life still left in shadow
  • Gray is a difficult colour to master. It is enigmatic, aloof. It can be warm, with tints of peach and pink, or cold, with tints of sapphire and indigo. But no one could ever doubt that American...
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  Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing on Menopause

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  • Diverse, helpful, affirming, many different experiences.
  • This book offers a full range of the often unpredictable experiences of menopause from a large and varied group of women. For lesbians, it is a dramatic departure from many other menopause books...
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It is widely admitted that Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality is schizophrenic: morally rigorous but pastorally... more

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  Acts of Faith, Acts of Love: Gay Catholic Autobiographies As Sacred Texts

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  • love and salvation
  • The naturalness of gay love and desire is witnessed in this book through generously given insight into the hearts of gay people. The author interprets written texts of 40 men identifying as both...
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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History is a uniquely authoritative and comprehensive work on key men and women in the... more

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  Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History (Who's Who)

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  • very interesting book
  • I was deeply disappointed when I received and opened this book, since I had expected a more comprehensive encyclopedia of the topic. However, the book contains only famous and European people with...
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What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is... more

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  Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema

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  • "Working" requires a bit of labor on the part of the reader
  • Tinkcom's text is hard to digest at times, especially the lengthy introduction that exposes the manuscript's origin as a dissertation. Work through the intro pays off for tenacious readers, as the...
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  Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema

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  • "Working" requires a bit of labor on the part of the reader
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On Thursday, February 12, 2004, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, a lesbian couple who have been together for fifty-one... more

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  Hitched!: Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall

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  • The best non-fiction book you should read
  • This wonderful collection of non-fiction essays is a must have for anyone, regardless of sexual preference. Each essay beautifully describes the heartwarming celebration of love between individuals...
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Like so many closeted gay teenagers who faced this high school rite of passage, David Boyer asked a girl to his... more

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  Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom

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  • Great, "creative" nonfiction
  • I've read David Boyer's pieces off and on in the New York Times over the past years and always found them very clever. Smart, slice-of-life pieces about the city that end up saying something more...
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A Powerful Story of Survival.Overcoming prejudice through childhood, ostracized by the Church, criticized by many for... more

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