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That Gad Beck, a gay Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is amazing. His determination to keep loving, living and believing in every human possibility - even in the face of the unthinkably monstrous - makes this quite a different story of the Holocaust.
An American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.
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. By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to maintain them.
Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of Gonzalez 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, their lonely youth, their father's desertion, and their grandfather's invective.
An outcast gay Mormon travels by bus from his Washington, DC, home to Antarctica, in a wild yet touching adventure across some of the most astonishing landscapes on Earth.
The record of a thrilling and tormenting gay love affair in World War II England, these letters also reveal a devastating experience of disability and, above all, the awakening of a remarkable and unforgettable literary voice.
This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and ""The Sound of Music"" Oz"".
This volume gathers six of performance artist Tim Miller's 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 Breath"", ""Fruit Cocktail"" and ""Glory Box"".
In this volume, Betty Berzon tells the story of her journey from psychiatric patient on suicide watch to her role as a therapist and gay pioneer. She discusses her mental breakdown and suicide attempts, her hospitalization and recovery, and her own coming out as a lesbian at the age of 40.
Ultimately a romance - of Lori Soderlind's love for America, her dog, the long-term partner she left behind, and the childhood crush she remembers with a big, aching pang - The Change offers daring and often hilarious insights into loss and acceptance, especially when it takes a while to get there.
Blending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, ""Development"" and ""Two Selves"" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood.
A candid and revelatory memoir of simultaneously falling in love with the Catholic faith and with another woman.
Offers 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 generation" of AIDS - their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art.
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. This memoir opens the closet door to reveal some of the most important writers of his time. It brings back a forgotten era, postwar Bohemia, bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic.
A memoir that chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids.
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.
Brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man. He explores life as a gay American man - from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement.
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