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Underground Life
Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Häftad, 2000
217 kr
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That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out of the country is amazing. It was love that …
In the Province of the Gods
Av Kenny Fries
Inbunden, 2017
303 kr
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A disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference, Kenny Fries finds himself on a journey of profound self-discovery. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and …
Taboo
Av Boyer Rickel
Inbunden, 1999
187 kr
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Investigating the way one breaks through taboos and becomes a self-realized adult, this memoir traces the author's childhood in rural Arizona, his relationship with a physically shrinking father, his eccentric teenage friendships, and his growing awareness of his sexuality among young gays.
Bryher "Development" and "Two Selves
Two Novels
Av Bryher
Häftad, 2000
232 kr
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When Sacvan Bercovitch s The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition, Bercovitch has written …
You're not from Around Here, Are You?
A Lesbian in Small-Town America
Häftad, 2001
232 kr
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Put together 20 million frozen sperm, two funny women, and one impoverished stretch of Appalachia and what do you get? A wise and celebratory tale by Louise A. Blum, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Amnesty, who now uses her razor wit and deft precision to tell the story of her own life. …
Surviving Madness
A Therapist's Own Story
Av Betty Berzon
Inbunden, 2002
336 kr
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Betty Berzon, renowned psychotherapist and author of the bestselling book Permanent Partners, tells her own incredible story here. Berzon's journey from psychiatric patient on suicide watch - her wrists tethered to the bed rails in a locked hospital ward - to her present role as a groundbreaking …
Body Blows
Six Performances
Av Tim Miller
Häftad, 2002
251 kr
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Performance artist Tim Miller has performed infront of audiences all over the world. This volume gathers six of his best-known performances that chart the sexual, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man: ""Some Golden States"", ""Stretch Marks"", ""My Queer Body"", ""Naked …
End of Being Known
A Memoir
Häftad, 2009
202 kr
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Written in poet Michael Klein's uniquely passionate, unapologetic but humble voice, ""The End of Being Known"" explores the lines that define, yet also blur, the boundaries of sex, friendship, and compatibility. This collection of autobiographical essays probes the manifestations of sexual desire …
Cleopatra's Wedding Present
Travels Through Syria
Inbunden, 2003
306 kr
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Cleopatra’s Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the first page. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Moss’s memoir of his travels through Syria resonates on many levels: as a profoundly telling vivisection of Middle Eastern society, a chilling history of ethnic …
Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag
And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
Av Edward Field, David Bergman m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
261 kr
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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 and the bohemian outposts of Paris' Left Bank …
1001 Beds
Performances, Essays and Travels
Häftad, 2006
232 kr
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If I continue to tour for another twenty years, as I have for the last twenty-one, I will end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime. For maximum poetic oomph, let's say 1001 beds...They symbolize a life and art dedicated to reaching out toward folks from Bozeman to Tampa. A life …
Sex Talks to Girls
A Memoir
Häftad, 2018
217 kr
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Sex Talks to Girls chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids. Recasting herself in this memoir as ""Molly Meek,"" Maureen Seaton interprets the emergence of Molly's identity in luxurious and very funny prose.Molly …
TRAVELS in a GAY NATION
Av University of Wisconsin Press, Michael J. Kiskis m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
306 kr
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This collection of interviews with gay activists and artists is like going to dinner with people you’d love to know but don’t, and Phil Gambone is the perfect stand-in for the reader: impressively prepared, sympathetic, and smart.—Andrew Holleran, author of Grief: A Novel For two years, Philip …
Last Deployment
How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq
Häftad, 2011
291 kr
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Through the Door of Life
A Jewish Journey Between Genders
Av Joy Ladin
Häftad, 2013
232 kr
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Memoir.Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman—Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her …
Autobiography of My Hungers
Häftad, 2019
202 kr
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In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and …
Lawfully Wedded Husband
How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
Av Joel Derfner
Inbunden, 2013
321 kr
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When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before long the two were on what they expected to be a rollicking journey to married bliss. What they didn't realise was that, along the way, they would …
Good Night, Beloved Comrade
The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver
Inbunden, 2017
366 kr
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Denton Welch (1915–48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much praised by critics and literati in England and has since inspired creative artists from William S. …
Treehab
Tales from My Natural, Wild Life
Av Bob Smith
Inbunden, 2016
306 kr
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In these moving, often surprising essays, award-winning author and comedian Bob Smith writes about facing life with ALS, his rich, funny experience of fatherhood before and after his diagnosis, and about his enduring relationship with nature, which inspires him to fight for his survival and for the …
Pox Lover
An Activist's Decade in Paris and New York
Inbunden, 2017
336 kr
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The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d'Adesky remembers ""the poxed …
Black Penguin
Av Andrew Evans
Inbunden, 2017
306 kr
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An outcast gay Mormon travels from his Washington, DC, home to Antarctica—by bus.A devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied and bored, he escaped …
Black Penguin
Av Andrew Evans
Häftad, 2018
217 kr
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As an awkward gay kid—bullied, bored, and eventually ejected from the Mormon Church—Andrew Evans escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic and the wide promise of the world atlas. The Black Penguin chronicles his journey riding public transportation toward his ultimate goal: Antarctica. …
Self-Made Woman
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2017
321 kr
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Denise Chanterelle DuBois's transformation into a woman wasn't easy. Born as a boy into a working-class Polish American Milwaukee family, she faced daunting hurdles: a domineering father, a gritty 1960s neighborhood with no understanding of gender nonconformity, trouble in school, and a childhood …
In the Province of the Gods
Av Kenny Fries
Häftad, 2021
215 kr
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Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he also discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and …
What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth
A Memoir of Brotherhood
Inbunden, 2018
306 kr
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Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of González men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As brothers Rigoberto and Alex grow to manhood, they are haunted by the traumas of their mother's early death, …
Given Up for You
A Memoir
Av Erin White
Inbunden, 2018
321 kr
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In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin O. White shares her hunger for both romantic and divine love, and how these desires transformed her life. In the late 1990s, she spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. But when the Church closed its …
Change
My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
Inbunden, 2020
321 kr
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In the throes of a classic midlife crisis, Lori Soderlind takes a sabbatical from her community college job as a journalism professor. She sets out to travel across America's rusting heart with her fourteen-year-old dog, Colby, and a used camping trailer. Making pit stops in places like Buffalo and …
Men I've Never Been
Inbunden, 2021
306 kr
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Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity-and, ultimately, his sexual orientation-in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. Beginning with the memory of a four-year-old sitting in a dingy dive bar, sounding out newspaper headlines while …
Plain
A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood
Häftad, 2025
202 kr
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Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Although endowed with a personality “prone toward questioning and challenging,” the young Mary Alice at first wants nothing more than to be a good girl, …
Lonely Veteran's Guide to Companionship
Häftad, 2025
232 kr
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In this collection of interrelated essays, Bronson Lemer explores companionship through the lens of a queer veteran, focusing on the difficulty of forming true connections with others, including a “battle buddy” during basic training, the people he meets while teaching in China, and the spirit of a …
