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Woman Like That, A: Lesbian & Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
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Joan Larkin (ed)
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Artists, writers, activists and critics aged from 20 to 70 offer a vision that is witty, courageous and memorable: a rich tapestry of experience over the past half-century. Includes contributions from Joan Nestle, Leslea Newman, Jill Johnston, Judy Grahn, and many more. As Rita Mae Brown says, “Every family needs a woman like that!”
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Zami A New Spelling of My Name [BT]
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Audre Lorde
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The poet, Audre Lorde, depicts her life and examines the influence of various women on her development in this self-named "biomythography".
“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—-Off Our Backs
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The Funny Thing Is... [BT]
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Ellen DeGeneres
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Whimsical, clever and always spot-on observant, THE FUNNY THING IS...is a satisfying follow-up to Ellen's smash hit bestseller - a collection that perfectly captures the brilliance of this comic supernova.
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Beautiful Shadow : A life of Patricia Highsmith
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Andrew Wilson
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Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award 2003
Patricia Highsmith - author of
Stranger on a Train
and
The Talented Mr Ripley
- had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal documents - diaries, notebooks and letters - which detail the links between her life and her work. Drawing on these intimate papers, together with material gleaned from her closest friends and lovers, Andrew Wilson has written the first biography of an author described by Graham Greene as the 'poet of apprehension'. Wilson illuminates the dark corners of Highsmith's life, casts light on mysteries of the creative process and reveals the secrets that the writer chose to keep hidden until after her death.
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Finding the Real Me:True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity
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Tracie O'Keefe
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Finding the Real Me
is an extraordinary collection of real-life stories told by a wide-range of sex and gender diverse people.
These healing tales of struggle and transformation reveal just how creative, resourceful, and adventurous the individuals in this community can be and also helps to bridge the gap between ignorance and understanding. As each incredible story unfolds we become part of the author's journey to self-acceptance and join the celebration of their new life. Page by page, we laugh, cry, and learn to appreciate these wonderful courageous people and the road they walked to be their true selves.
Finding the Real Me
is a landmark book that encourages us to embrace diversity, to never fear our differences, and to remain always in awe of our amazing possibilities.
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From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life : Stories of Transformation [BT]
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Edited by Ellen Farmer, Deborah Abbott
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Drawing from a broad range of cultures and classes, this collection of first-person essays, interviews and poems offers a glimpse into the lives of women who got married and then came out as lesbians. It tells the stories of women who have had to overcome ostracism and homophobia. It deals on a personal level with most of the problems facing married lesbians: family conflicts, custody battles, financial strains, struggles to achieve independence and finding a sense of wholeness.
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Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel
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One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years,
Fun Home
is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter.
When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
“Rich language and precise images combine to create a lush piece of work.” —
New York Times
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Highsmith: — a romance of the 1950s
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Marijane Meaker
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Patricia Highsmith, author of classics such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, was a lesbian and a writer who defied simple categorizations. Gore Vidal called her: "One of our greatest modernist writers." And The Cleveland Plain Dealer rightly commented: "Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman."
To young novelist Marijane Meaker, however, Highsmith was more than a role model. Shortly after the two met in a New York City lesbian bar, they became lovers and embarked on a two-year romance amidst the bohemian set of Greenwich Village and the literary crowd of Fire Island. There, the pair navigated the underground lesbian scene, lunched with literary stars like Janet Flanner, shared intimacies, and gossiped with abandon. Written with wit and brassy candor, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s is a revealing look at a controversial icon of popular ...
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Just a Mom
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Betty DeGeneres
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For many gay men and lesbians, Betty DeGeneres has come to represent the mother stolen from them by homophobia. For many parents, she has provided the inspiration to reconcile with their own children.
In her first book, the critically acclaimed
Love, Ellen: A Mother/ Daughter Journey
, Betty DeGeneres revealed the struggles of her own life and those of her famous daughter. At the end of the book Betty invited readers to contact her with questions and stories about their own battles as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight people caught up in the fight for equal rights. The response she received was overwhelming and formed the basis for
Just a Mom
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In this heartwarming book readers of all sexualities will hear true stories and anecdotes about the pain and joy thousands of children have gone through for being gay or lesbian. Betty DeGeneres' touching true stories will help them see the human side to ...
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Lives of Lesbian Elders
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Clunis, Freeman, Nystrom
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Based on interviews with those aged 55 plus, this inspirational book examines the lives of women who have had to confront challenge and adversity, yet are resilient and optimistic. Chapters cover coming out, lesbian identity, family, work, aging, adversity and resilience.
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Love, Ellen
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Betty Degeneres
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"Mom, I'm gay." With three little words, gay sons and daughters can change their parents' lives forever.
Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but it was not without a struggle. In
Love, Ellen,
Betty DeGeneres tells her story: the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter, the media's scrutiny of their family life, and the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard.
Insightful, universally touching, and uncommonly wise,
Love, Ellen
is a story of friendship between mother and daughter and a lesson in understanding for all parents and their children. Betty DeGeneres offers up her own very personal memoir to help parents understand their gay children, and to help sons and daughters who have been rejected ...
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Mean Little Deaf Queer
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Terry Galloway
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My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Music Scene and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
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Alix Dobkin
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Women's music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album in 1973.
Her story, however, opens much earlier in postwar New York City, where, growing up in a Communist family, she watches Jackie Robinson steal home, rubs elbows with radical Left celebrities like Paul Robeson, and comes of age under the watchful eye of the FBI. Dobkin herself joins the party at the height of the McCarthy witch hunts and offers readers a firsthand glimpse of daily life as a young person living under government surveillance.
During this time she also matures as a devotee of folk music, having fallen under the spell of renowned performers such as Lead Belly and Pete Seeger. Yet it's after she arrives on the burgeoning folk music scene of Greenwich Village, where she meets the up-and-coming Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, John Sebastian, Buffy Ste. Marie, and Flip Wilson, among many ...
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Name All The Animals
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Alison Smith
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Memoir and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction, this book has been widely acclaimed in the gay, lesbian and mainstream media for its portrayal of family loss, first love and more.
“Stunning... [a] story of survival and sexual awakening.” -
O, the Oprah Magazine
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“Makes time stand still and your coffee go cold beside you.” -
New York Times Book Review
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Ruth Maier's Diary
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Ruth Maier
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Ruth Maier was born into a middle-class Jewish family in interwar Vienna. Following the Anschluss of Austria
in March 1938, the world of the substantial Viennese Jewish community crumbled. In early 1939, her sister
having left for England, Ruth emigrated to Norway and lived with a family in Lillestrøm, about thirty miles from
Oslo. Although she loved many things about her new country and its people, Ruth’s relationship with her
hosts soon turned stale, then sour. Ruth became increasingly isolated in Norway until she met a soul mate,
Gunvor Hofmo, who was to become a celebrated poet. Norway itself became a Nazi conquest in April 1940,
and Ruth’s attempts to join the rest of her family – now in Britain – became ever more urgent. She never left
Norway, and in November 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz where she was exterminated on arrival. She
had just turned twenty-two.
Ruth Maier kept a diary from 1934 until just before she ...
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The Confession of an Unrepentant Lesbian Ex-Mormon ( Or hanging out with gay Mormons in Salt Lake City)
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Sue-Ann Post
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A funny and insightful journey deep into the heart of faith and sexuality.
In June 2003 Sue-Ann Post was invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual Affirmation conference in Salt Lake City. Affirmation is a group of gay and lesbian Mormons, a group that is reviled by the mainstream church body. As a lesbian ex-Mormon she simply had to go. Her early life had been shaped by her mother's fundamentalist devotion to the church, but she forcibly rejected it all when she realised that she was a lesbian. She became aggressively atheist in her views and took to ridiculing the religion in her stage show. Visiting the epicentre of Mormonism was bound to be a major head-spin ...
The Confession of an Unrepentant Lesbian Ex-Mormon
is Sue-Ann's intensely personal account of her time in Salt Lake City and her inner grapplings with notions of faith, redemption, honesty and sexuality. As befits a stand-up comedian, it is ...
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
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Vita Sackville-West
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Among the most complete and moving documents of a legendary love affair, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf span nineteen years of flattery, flirtation, adoration, and frustration in the lives of two exceptional women writers.
Opposites in many ways, Vita and Virginia knew each other by reputation when they met at a 1922 dinner party. The brooding, aristocratic Vita had already scandalized polite London with her lesbian affairs. Virginia, both more delicate and more ferocious than Vita, had recently published her first experimental novel, Jacob’s Room.
Beautifully edited and annotated by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, these 500 letters record the tentative beginnings of their relationship, the flush of new love, flashes of jealousy and anger, along with the confidences and gossip and worries of their daily lives—all as fascinating to read now as they were when the pages fell fresh from the envelope. In ...
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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Joan Schenkar
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,b>Shortlisted for Lambda Literary Awards 2010
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite 'hero-criminal', talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel,
Strangers On a Train
, to her long, strange, self-exile in Europe.
We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. ,i>The Talented Miss Highsmith is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.
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Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls DVD
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Director Leanne Pooley
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The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
is the first time that the irrepressible Kiwi entertainment double act, Jools and Lynda Topp's extraordinary personal story has been told.
The film offers a revealing look into the lives of the World's only comedic, country singing, dancing, and yodeling twin sisters. As well as rarely seen archive footage and home movies, the film features a series of special interviews with some of the Topp's infamous comedy alter-egos including candid chats with the two Kens, Camp Mother and Camp Leader, the Bowling Ladies and the Posh Socialite sisters, Prue and Dilly.
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
is a big story. It's not just the story of two sisters but also of 25 years of New Zealand history. Quarter a century of cultural changes and the foundation of a national identity. Part concept film, part biopic, part historical record, part comedy, the Twins share their journey from "coming out" ...
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Truth Is... My Life in Love and Music
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Melissa Etheridge
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New York Times
(and Women’s Bookshop!) bestseller this is a candid autobiography of a lesbian rock superstar.
THE TRUTH IS...is an extremely rare, intimate, and highly charged autobiography - a bold and unflinching account of an extraordinary life, described as only Melissa can: from her Kansas roots through her early love of music to her brilliant rise to stardom in a male-dominated rock world. Melissa discusses the massive impact of her publicly coming out, a revelation that only increased her popularity, making her a highly visible spokesperson for the gay and lesbian community. THE TRUTH IS...shares Melissa Etheridge's fascinating story - sometimes shocking, always inspiring - with unprecedented candour and insight.
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