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Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend

Dusty Springfield was one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century. From the launch of her solo career in 1963, she exuded beauty and glamour with a distinctively unique...

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Picture Perfect?

Picture Perfect? is an honest, soul-bearing memoir that pulls back the curtain on the story behind a family picture that went viral after a Facebook post. With inspiring candor, Kordale Lewis describes...

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A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

<b>A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life</b><p>In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hern?ndez chronicles...

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Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball's First Openly Gay Player

<b>Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first&#8212;and only&#8212;openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in...

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A Fetish for Men

<p>From cold lessons in survival to hot adventures in flesh, from the first inklings of kink to bisexual love, <i>A Fetish for Men</i> is the unsparing sex history of a child of...

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Bettyville: A Memoir

<b>A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother&#8212;a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love</b><p>When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan...

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Wishbone: a memoir in fractures

Lambda Award-winning memoir&#151;a surreal debut collection of coming out and coming of age, family rupture and life-changing love

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Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

<p>Mark Tewksbury is best known as a gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer. His remarkable sixteen-year athletic career included three Olympic medals, numerous world records, and inductions into...

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The Clouds Still Hang: The Complete Trilogy

A complete trilogy which is a candid, true memoir of a gay man's life, telling a story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; charting one gay man's attempts to rise above...

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Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX

<b><i>Wild </i>meets <i>The Boys in the Boat</i>,<i> </i>a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear</b><p>Forty...

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James Merrill: Life and Art

Langdon Hammer has given us the first biography of the poet James Merrill (1926&ndash;95), whose life is surely one of the most fascinating in American literature. Merrill was born to high...

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My Body Is Yours: A Memoir

An LGBT memoir by a formerly self-described &#147;inadequate male," about the true meaning of being a man.

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Out of Orange: A Memoir

<p>The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show <i>Orange Is the New Black</i> tells her story in her own words for the first time&#8212;a...

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Concerning E. M. Forster

<p><b>A major reassessment of the great English...

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Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, + Pranks

<p>In a time when memoirs are often less than they claim to be and essays do not say enough, Justin Chin breaks onto the scene with a collection that is a combination of confession, tirade,...

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All We Know: Three Lives

<p>Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write--a...

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My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey

<p><i>My Husband and My Wives: A Gay's Man's Odyssey</i> is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications of discovering at puberty that he is...

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Gypsy Boy on the Run: My Escape from a Life Among the Romany Gypsies

<p>Mikey Walsh didn't know what life was like beyond his Gypsy community. But after fleeing home at age fifteen, he had no choice but to find out.</p><p><br>After centuries of...

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Christopher and His Kind: A Biography

<p>Christopher and His Kind is an intriguing slice of autobiography. It covers ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay...

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Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

<p><b>A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know</b><br><b></b><br>Detached and ironic; a...

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