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 Goodbye, I Love YouBest Price: $8.41 Pearson's memoir drew me in from the first page, as she relates her initial encounter with... |  The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay MovementBest Price: $15.00 |  The Day We Met: The Very First Day of Long-Term RelationshipsBest Price: $52.56 Jack Hart's fourth published book is something a deviation from his trademark writings about... |  How to Have a Life-StyleBest Price: $59.95 A wonderful 'how-to' from the master himself. Full of Quentin's classic wit. I... |  Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated SouthBest Price: $140.72 ; Segregated South /Susan Tucker A moving and eloquent collection of oral histories that convey... |
 Women, Science, and Society: The Crucial Union (Athene Series)Best Price: $21.02 This work calls for women to come together to shape the research agenda for biotechnologies and... |  Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian AutobiographyBest Price: $16.95 Bravo to Oliver Buckton for unmasking the stuffy conventions of Victorian life and revealing the... |  Dear Tiny HeartBest Price: $23.00 This book is a collection of letters centering about an amazing, actual woman who moved to... |  Grandmothers: Granddaughters Remember (Writing American Women)Best Price: $8.96 |  A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists (A to Z of Women)Best Price: $12.72 |
 Christopher And His KindBest Price: $11.67 C. Isherwood's autobiography contains comments on his own books (with inside information on... |  Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film MovementBest Price: $13.99 Writing about women as spectators of Hollywood cinema, B. Ruby Rich once protested that the... |  Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992Best Price: $17.06 At last. Arthur Russell is definitely the most important artist to have been (re)discovered... |  Colonies of the HeartBest Price: $8.62 |  Queer Impressions: Henry James' Art of Fiction (Studies in Major Literary Authors)Best Price: $49.99 Beginning with "The Portrait of a Lady", this book explores the fiction of Henry James... |
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 A Life of Unlearning: a journey to find the truthBest Price: $184.94 |  Queen Unseen: My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th CenturyBest Price: $17.60 An intimate and affectionate insider's story of his years spent alongside... |  Witness To AIDS (Autobiography)Best Price: $14.95 In WITNESS TO AIDS, Edwin Cameron, a white South African judge discusses the AIDS pandemic in... |  Female Fortune: Land, Gender and AuthorityBest Price: $45.95 |  Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967Best Price: $205.28 |
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 Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical SourcebookBest Price: $100.00 While many of the articles in the collection Gay American Novelists lack a sufficient critical... |  Family OutingBest Price: $3.00 The thesis is, "Yeah, for us and boo to our enemies". Enemies meaning anybody... |  To Be Young Was Very HeavenBest Price: $94.33 In the years before World War I, New York City's Greenwich Village was a place of great... |  Best Little Boy in the WorldBest Price: $25.94 The Best Little Boy In The World stands as proof that not every personal experience should be... |  Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955Best Price: $30.00 |
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 "Only If You Are Really Interested": Celebrity, Gender, Desire and the World of MorrisseyBest Price: $40.00 One of the keys to the enduring popularity of the British singer Morrissey is his carefully... |  Valentino: A Dream of DesireBest Price: $3.82 The first most disappointing factor about David Bret's biography, "Valentino: A Dream... |  John Maynard Keynes (Lives of Notable Gay Men & Lesbians)Best Price: $24.00 Although published in a special series, Jeffrey Escoffier's book gives a fair picture of the... |  Lesbian and Bisexual Fiction Writers (Women Writers of English & Their Works)Best Price: $19.88 |  The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age (University of Toronto Romance Series)Best Price: $25.00 Juan Rana was the most famous buffoon of his time. An actor working during the years 1617-1672,... |
 Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other ObsessionsBest Price: $0.87 This fascinating book of personal essays by Chicago-based writer Sandi Wisenberg covers a wide... |  Journey to the CrossroadsBest Price: $14.00 This is a very interesting read about one man's journey to achieve the man he was supposed... | Bright Lights, Dark Places Best Price: $19.99 Little could stand in Debra Gauthier's way. A marathon runner, Debra excelled in the Police... | Art & Life Best Price: $24.52 This autobiography provides a fascinating look into Australia's Heide modern art movement... | A Life of Unlearning: a journey to find the truth Best Price: $184.94 |
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 Alexander the Fabulous: The Man Who Brought the World to Its KneesBest Price: $57.36 An excellent text to accompany the Oliver Stone movie, "Alexander," this book is... |  Muslim Women Throughout the World: A BibliographyBest Price: $75.00 There is nothing like this book out there. You can search library online catalogues forever and... |  Letters from a War ZoneBest Price: $7.98 You know someone is a danger to the status quo when they're vilified in the midst of... |  A Report from WinterBest Price: $11.00 There's a freedom to reviewing a memoir that one seldom gets when reviewing fiction. On one... |  Secret SummerBest Price: $11.76 This book really does have it all; Joy, pain, sadness and comedy, not to mention true pathos! ... |
 An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)Best Price: $13.22 Here is a memoire of life in Berlin during the Nazi regime from the perspective of a gay Jew.... |  Glenway Wescott Personally: A BiographyBest Price: $13.46 As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers... |  The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical LifeBest Price: $5.84 Dennis Bacchus is a middle aged gay man who did his share of partying in the 70's and... |  A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of CultureBest Price: $12.80 Will Fellows is himself a sort of preservationist writer. His first book, Farm boys, recovered... |  Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to TexasBest Price: $4.00 In Mr Ding's Chicken Feet, the author, Gillian Kendall, comes across at first as maybe a... |
 In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing DeathBest Price: $54.98 A widely recognized and respected authority on French literature, women's writing, feminist... |  The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)Best Price: $12.00 In 2003, after serving five and a half years as a carpenter in a North Dakota National Guard... |  Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914Best Price: $27.20 Brooke's heart-stopping good looks are the essence of this epistolatory account of the... |  Liberation Was for Others: Memoirs of a Gay Survivor of the Nazi HolocaustBest Price: $279.60 I enjoyed this..It is good to learn of the stories that men and women endured to tell their tale... |  The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961Best Price: $12.80 I came about Rorem 'round about-ly -through videos of interviews and liner note snippets -... |
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