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Heroes and Exiles: Gay icons through the ages
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Tom Ambrose
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Demonised by the Church throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, homosexuals became the scapegoats of society, constantly facing exile or a brutal death. In "Heroes to Exiles", the human cost of this long exile is told through the lives of the most eminent homosexual men and women in history. Some were artists like the wild living Benvenuto Cellini or the repressed Edward Lear. Others were poets such as Thomas Gray, W. H. Auden or novelists such as Henry James and A. J. Symonds. Their places of refuge changed through the centuries from Italy in the 18th, to Paris in the 19th and Berlin, California and Tangier in the 20th. Some experiences were tragic, like those of William Beckford, Lord Byron or Oscar Wilde, and some were triumphant, like the remarkable story of the Ladies of Llangollen who became the most famous lesbians in Europe. Often treated with outright suspicion, homosexuals were targets for the totalitarian ...
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Mates and Lovers : A History of Gay New Zealand
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Chris Brickell
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New Zealand Society of Authors E.H. McCormick Best First book Award for Non-fiction Winner
What are the historical changes through which the modern New Zealand 'gay man' has emerged? If he has not always been with us, then who preceded him?
University of Otago academic Dr Chris Brickell tells the evolving history of New Zealand gay men accessibly, through the lives of individual clerks, labourers, gardeners, soldiers, actors, writers; working class and middle class men; mostly urban but sometimes rural or small-town men. A landmark publication, this first-ever New Zealand gay male history combines lively, engaging scholarship with a remarkable collection of just under 300 images, spanning the book's period: 1830 to 1980. Written for an intelligent general, rather than an academic audience, Mates and Lovers aims to tell interesting stories along the way. The 130-odd images are integral to the stories of the text, and ...
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Men Alone - Men Together
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Mark Beehre
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Combines photography and oral history to document the lives of 45 gay men - 14 couples, 14 single men and one trio - and how their journeys have, for the moment, led them towards or away from relationships.
Men Alone - Men Together
reflects the immense diversity of the gay world.These men are our workmates and neighbours. They are gardeners and jewellers, teachers and builders, priests and fathers, each with a story to tell of remarkable determination and courage.
First published January 2010.
Paperback 232pp h215mm x w240mm photographs
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City Boy : My life in New York during the 1960s and 1970s
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Edmund White
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In the 1970s, Paris had fashion, London had the theatre, Berlin had a small painting scene, but New York had all these cultural attainments and more - a vibrant intellectual life. In a decade when New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy, when local headlines were dominated by urban scandal, corruption and violence, the city flourished as never before. The representative figures of this New York were Susan Sontag, Jasper Johns, George Balanchine, among others - fierce cultural arbiters, 'martyrs to art' - living in a city that was still obsessed with the hierarchy of the arts and the idea of the Pure. From Isherwood to Mapplethorpe, Borges to Foucault, Brodkey to Burroughs, Edmund White knew them all, and writes about them with love, affection, insight and often biting wit. It is a fascinating, personal journey through the vibrant and explosive New York of the 70s - featuring wonderful sideshows in San Francisco and a Venice ...
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My Lives
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Edmund White
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No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to 'cure' homosexuality, he emerged into a 1960s society which re-designated his orientation as 'acceptable (nearly)'. He describes a life touched by psychotherapy in every decade, starting with his flamboyant therapist mother who demanded that he be her own personal test case. In "My Lives", White also shares his enthusiasm for England, his passion for Paris, and introduces us to his friends and lovers, past and present. His striking and eloquent opinions on art and life make this a spectacular read, by turns moving and hilarious, outrageous and enlightening.
First published 2005.
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No Fretful Sleeper : A Life of Bill Pearson
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Paul Millar
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'There is no place in normal New Zealand society for the man who is different', wrote William Harrison (Bill) Pearson. One of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, Pearson's life was also fraught with contradiction and secrecy, largely because of his homosexuality. Born in Greymouth in 1922, he grew up in a society dominated by a rugged ideal of New Zealand manhood; not an easy childhood or adolescence for an unusually sensitive boy who preferred intellectual pursuits to sports. He went to university and Dunedin Training College, then taught at Blackball School - a period from which he drew the material for his celebrated novel, Coal Flat. After serving in the Second World War he received his PhD from the University of London - where distance gave him a clear critical perspective on this country of 'fretful sleepers' - then returned to New Zealand as a scholar and lecturer, writer and editor. Bill ...
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A Dog's Life
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In the spring of 1985, the novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome by her charms, though after a good deal of resistance.
This memoir tells of the sixteen years Paul Bailey spent in Circe's company, while also offering portraits of friends and acquaintances, living and dead. There are sketches of the various eccentrics encountered during his walks with the dog, and descriptions of the author's trips abroad - to Romania, Poland, and Hungary, among other countries.
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Arts and Letters
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Edmund White
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Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists, and cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20 years.
White is as compelling as he is unpretentious in these stories of his encounters with some of the most provocative writers, artists, and personalities of our time. Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, David Geffen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andre Gide, Michel Foucault, Andy Warhol, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean Genet, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, Yves Saint Laurent, and Elton John are among the cast.
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A Wolf at the Table : A Memoir
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Augusten Burroughs
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From the number one New York Times bestselling author of
Running with Scissors
comes an hilarious, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir.
A Wolf at the Table
tells the story of Augusten's early childhood when he lived with his crazy father, John Robison Sr, a man only briefly touched upon in
Running with Scissors
, his spaced-out poet mother, and his delinquent older brother, John Robison Jnr (author of
Look Me in the Eye
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Told with brutal honesty and psychologically penetrating insight, it chronicles the young Augusten's increasing paranoia as he navigates a household that is by turns very funny, and very sinister. He wants his big brother to like him and his mother to understand him, but most of all he wants his father's love and acceptance, yet can't be sure he isn't a ticking time bomb...
A Wolf at the Table
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A Young Man's Passage
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Julian Clary
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This is Julian Clary’s story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen.
After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict’s, where beatings from ‘holy’ men gave him some brutal life lessons, and other ‘unholy’ boys his first awakenings of sexuality.
He had just one true friend and ally, Nick - to his other school peers, Julian’s aloof demeanour made him an enigma or simply a figure of ridicule. In school he was just another pained adolescent, but inside Julian was a new Jean Genet or Quentin Crisp bursting to get out.
Leaving St Benedict’s thankfully behind him, Julian went on to college where he found his true vocation as an entertainer with a peculiar comic brand of smut and glamour. At the same time, he was finding as much sex as he could, sometimes with remarkably less-than-glamorous characters. Periods in community theatre and the singing ...
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Confessions of a Mormon Boy
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Steven Fales
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This work offers a look behind-the-scenes of this off-Broadway smash hit. It includes original script, introduction by the director and reviews. A hit at New York's Fringe Festival, Steven Fales' true-life story has become a smash across the US. Now playing off-Broadway, it continues to dazzle audiences with its honesty and wit, as the author recounts his story of being excommunicated from the Mormon church for being gay, leaving his wife and children, and his subsequent descent into the dangers of sex in drugs.
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Crossing Borders
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Will Carr
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This is a 1950's personal travelogue and journey around the Mediterranean by a then young Jewish boy who came out as gay during the trip that engaged the heart and mind.
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Dog Years : A Memoir
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Mark Doty
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Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care, to join Arden, the black retriever. As Beau bounds back to life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days - their tenacity, loyalty and love inspiring him when all else fails."Dog Years" is a remarkable work: a moving and intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. Mark Doty writes about the heart-wrenching vulnerability of dogs, the positive energy and joy they bring, and the gift they bear us of unconditional love. A book unlike any other, Mark Doty's surprising meditation is radiantly unsentimental ...
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Don't Postpone Joy : A life of purpose and passion
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Peter Taylor
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'However you view my life by the end of this book, you are certainly not likely to use the word 'mediocre'. I stomp on mediocrity with a tall pair of riding boots caked in horse sweat, and I plan to go out that way too.'
Don't Postpone Joy
tells the amazing story of Peter Taylor's life, from a childhood dominated by his parents' unhappiness to success as a chef and co-founder of Auckland's ground-breaking Le Brie restaurant, international equestrian, exuberant host at the Surrender Dorothy bar, medical marvel and unrivalled motivator. His is a story of heart-breaking sadness, unwavering determination, immense sacrifice and - perhaps more than any of these - humour and great joy.
Moving between rural New Zealand and the riding circuits of Europe, small towns of the American South and the mean streets of Sydney, this book offers inspirational insights into a man who embraces life full-on and never backs away. It leaves ...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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David Sedaris
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David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it?
In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
finds one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today at the peak of his form.
"This is a man who could capture your heart and lift your spirits while reading out the ingredients of a rice cake."--
Observer
"His best, funniest, most satisfying book."--
Time Out
First published 2004.
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Dry
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Augusten Burroughs
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The story of one man trying to outdrink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past.
Young, good-looking and raking in the cash as a successful advertising executive, Augusten has everything going for him...except for his drinking.
Dry
is his hilarious and moving account of coming off the booze and attempting to live his drunken life sober. It's also a story of love, loss and Starbucks as a higher power.
"A stylish memoir about a messy life."
- Entertainment Weekly
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Ever, Dirk
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John Coldstream
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Dirk Bogarde was known as the star of more than sixty films and a critically acclaimed author. To a privileged few, however, he was also a prolific, stimulating and treasured correspondent. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde's letters were invariably frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no ...
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Gay Life and Culture : A world history
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Robert Aldrich (ed.)
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Gay Life and Culture
is the first ever comprehensive, global account of gay history. It is spectacularly illustrated throughout and includes an extensive selection of images, many of them only recently recovered.
From Theocritus' verses to Queer as Folk, from the berdaches of North America to the boy - wives of Aboriginal Australia, this extraordinarily wide-ranging book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.
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I am Not Myself These Days
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Josh Kilmer-Purcell
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Josh Kilmer-Purcell lived a double life. By day, he was a successful young advertising executive. By night, he would trade in his corporate uniform for high heels and sequins, and perform in downtown New York nightclubs as a drag queen called Acquadisiac before returning to the uptown penthouse he shared with his crack-addicted male escort boyfriend.
In this powerfully written, emotional rollercoaster of a memoir, Kilmer-Purcell blends the glittering and highly dramatic world of nightclubs, drugs and drag with a soulful and ironic perspective on his own journey through love and life. Told with a raw and honest voice that conveys hard truths with unflinching courage,
I Am Not Myself These Days
is a stunningly witty and ultimately deeply moving tour de force by a remarkable new talent.
First published 2006.
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Inside Out
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Mark Tewksbury
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A Canadian sports hero, Mark Tewksbury is a three-time Olympian and four-time world record holder. Now a leading motivational speaker and media figure, Tewksbury offers a message as simple and powerful as a slicing backstroke in
Inside Out
-- his own personal story of coming out as a gay man and living by principles that have brought him to the summit of athletic achievement.
Tewksbury continues to inspire all those around him with his dedication to both the sports industry and the gay and lesbian community. He contributes to various athletic committees, including the International Olympic Movement, as well as serving as the Co-President of the 2006 World Outgames, held in Montreal. This event hosted over 16,000 participants from over 120 countries. The games were organized to bring about social change through sport, an idea that Tewksbury advocates himself. Here is an inspirational read for anyone facing personal ...
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