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Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Houghton Mifflin (Hardcover)
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic ...
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Augusten Burroughs

Running With Scissors: A Memoir

by St. Martin's Press (Kindle Edition) (Release Date: 2006-10-26)
Running With Scissors: A Memoir

Randy Shilts

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

by St. Martin's Griffin (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-10-14)
Known as “The Mayor of Castro Street” even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk’s personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a ...
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

Cokie Roberts

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

by William Morrow (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2004-04-13)
Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with ...
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Jennifer Finney Boylan

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

by Broadway (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2003-07-29)
The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny.She’s Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story.By turns funny and deeply moving, ...
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A Biography (Oxford World's Classics)

by Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (Paperback)
Orlando: A Biography (Oxford World's Classics)

Alan Downs

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

by Da Capo Press (Paperback)
A gay psychologist demonstrates how to heal the trauma of being a gay man in an uncompromisingly straight world Whether he is flamboyantly fashionable with a body chiseled to perfection or chronically dissatisfied and without lasting relationships, the stereotypical ...
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

Leroy Aarons

Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

by HarperOne (Paperback) (Release Date: 1996-08-09)
Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the ...
Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

Dan Savage

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

by Dutton Adult (Hardcover)
The true story of a marriage (not really), a lovable and relentless mother, a six-year old who says his parents cannot get married (but wants to go to the reception), a partner who doesn’t want to act like a straight person, and the author, who has written a ...
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

Audre Lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

by Crossing Press (Paperback)
Lorde's self-named "biomythography"
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)