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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master...
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Diane Wood Middlebrook
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
Billy Tipton was a jazz performer who played in clubs throughout the Midwest for nearly 50 years. Tipton never made the big time as a musician and ended up working as a booking agent in Spokane, Washington. Only with Tipton's death in 1989 was it...
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Goodbye, I Love You
Carol Lynn Pearson
Cedar Fort
Cedar Fort
The true story of a wife, her homosexual husband, and a love that transcended tragedy. Gerald Pearson had been honest with Carol Lynn about his homosexual past, but both of them had faith that marriage and devotion to their religion would change...
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu
North Point Press
North Point Press
A 1996 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this perceptive, meticulously researched biography rescues from obscurity the gifted Billy Strayhorn (1915-67), Duke Ellington's arranger and composer of many popular Ellington Orchestra...
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Holding the Man
Timothy Conigrave
Cuttyhunk Books
Cuttyhunk Books
When Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, at their Catholic all-boys school in Melbourne, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness. This bestselling true story is at once...
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Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Wisconsin Press
Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm...
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Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit
Cheryl Peck
5 Spot
5 Spot
A collection of stories for anyone who shuddered at the idea of senior prom, REVENGE OF THE PASTE EATERS is about the way the experiences of childhood stay with us and shape us into adults. Cheryl Peck applies her signature wit to more personal...
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The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love
Alice A. Carter
Harry N. Abrams
Harry N. Abrams
Alice Carter's The Red Rose Girls traces the lives of three talented artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley. After studying together under the sympathetic guidance of Howard Pyle in Philadelphia, the three (all...
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Maiden Voyage
Denton Welch
Exact Change
Exact Change
Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welch's sixteenth year, when he ran away from his English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. The book was Welch's first and created a sensation on publication in 1943;...
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Conundrum (New York Review Books Classics)
Jan Morris
NYRB Classics
NYRB Classics
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian...
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