Biographies & Memoirs

This is the flamboyant autobiography of the uninhibited and wonderful Quentin Crisp. Quentin Crisp was a true original. With his mauve hair and flamboyant sense of style, by the time of his death he was widely hailed as one of the great British eccentrics. An openly gay man in a less tolerant era (h... More

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he - one of South Africa's most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate. In Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron's compelling memoir... More

As a corrective to the stereotype of cruisers and tempestuous, revolving-door relationships, 15 couples tell of their lasting and successful lives together. They discuss how they met, how soon they committed to each other, how they collaborate on fulfilling lives, and how some have maintained their ... More

This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. It includes fascinating entries on authors from W.H. Auden to Alice Walker, James Baldwin to Virginia Wolff, and also includes works of those who have theorized lesbian and... More

Edith Craig is at last taken out of the shadows cast by her famous relatives, her mother Ellen Terry and her brother Edward Gordon Craig. As a woman and as a lesbian Edith Craig found that her work in stage and film received uneven critical attention, sometimes ignored, frequently undervalued. Her a... More

This book explores the matrix of ideas and ideologies that paved the way for the intense intellectual, social and political ferment of post-revolutionary Europe. Its focus on the texts of Jacobin women novelists such as Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and Charlotte Smith strongly ... More

The Universe: A Biography tells the life story of the entire universe as it actually happened, from the very beginning.Here John Gribbin makes cosmology accessible to everyone, answering the most fundamental questions in science in the most exciting and appealing way possible. He reveals the secrets... More

Moore's unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addict--a tweaker-- chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psychorobbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God.So begins Patrick Mo... More

Alan Turing helped break the Nazis' Enigma code and became a champion of artificial intelligence. An openly gay man, he was sentenced to chemical castration and committed suicide. Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor.A "skillful and litera... More

The author of "Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs" is back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit.... More

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" ("Choice") biography of the author, poet, and American icon of womanhood, black arts, and survival. During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author... More

Here's the diary of a man who in mid-life found himself uprooted and dumped into West Hollywood, an unfamiliar place not exactly known for stability. White explores his neighborhood ? "queens: 6 percent; cranky 70-year-old Russians who give you the evil eye when you walk past: 2 percent; blonde girl... More

"What a rare and skillful thing is Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Steven Fales' engrossing, funny and often quite harrowing tale. A fine writer and actor."-Chicago Sun-Times A hit at New York's Fringe Festival, Steven Fales' true-life story has become a smash across the country. Now playing off-Broad... More

The memoir of a gay man's quest for self-acceptance and spiritual meaning as he wrestles with conflicts involving homosexuality and religion.Soulfully Gay is a personal memoir of an intellectually rigorous gay man wrestling with fundamental issues of meaning and self-acceptance. Joe Perez finds hims... More

Intense, sizzling, vibrantly real and all true lesbian erotica in the spirit of "Skin Deep" and "Wet," Nicole Foster edited the best-selling books "Skin Deep," "Awakening the Virgin," "Body Check," "Wet," "Electric," and "Ultimate Lesbian Erotica,"Intense, sizzling, vibrantly real and all true lesbi... More

A dazzling collection of profiles and interviews by the preeminent American cultural essayist of our time.In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, art... More

From Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, heroine of the gay community, comes the first comprehensive guide to the coming-out process, written from the perspective of both gays and lesbians and their parents.Chastity Bono grew up in the spotlight cast on her parents, but nothing could have pre... More

Kate Bornstein has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress. In this work, she covers everything readers want to know about gender (but are too confused to ask) and takes a witty, incisive look at the ra... More