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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
4) One man guy
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Fearing summer school after a difficult freshman year, Alek befriends the confident and free-spirited Ethan, with whom he develops an unexpected, mutual first love that challenges his beliefs about relationships and family values.
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At 42 handsome, endowed Gunnar Lindquist has apparently achieved success in life. Married, healthy, respected in his own field, wise in the ways of the world, he nonetheless feels a mysterious need for something more, something different. Attracted to certain men, he has fended off their advances since army days but now be cannot resist doing some indiscreet flaunting and to allow himself to be seduced. Gunnar "comes out" and after deliberate experimentation...
6) Venus envy
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"A misdiagnosis of cancer leads successful art dealer Mary Frazier Armstrong to send letters to her loved ones in which she comes out of the closet--letters she wants to retrieve when she finds that the diagnosis was a mistake."--NoveList Plus.
7) When I knew
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When I Knew is a collection of smart, uproarious, often poignant stories about that revelatory moment for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this gorgeously illustrated, cleverly designed full-color book, acclaimed fashion and celebrity photographer Robert Trachtenberg brings humor and style to the retelling of the unique stories of over 100 contributors, including B.D. Wong, Arthur Laurents, Simon Doonan, Stephen Fry, Marc Shaiman, Michael...
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The road families travel when a child is gay.
Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and saying, "I am the parent of a gay child." Something to Tell You recounts the stories of families whose lives have been touched by the discovery that a child is lesbian or gay―how it affects and influences people's perceptions of their children and even changes the self-image of parents themselves.
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"A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man in a culture of machismo, Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at twelve years old to become a man. The story then moves through the queer spaces where he learned the joy of being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor's office where...
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For Gay and Lesbian Americans, visibility has always been a key issue. While some maintain a life in the closet for family, career, or personal reasons, others come out to a world that rarely celebrates, and at times refuses to tolerate, the simple courage of people just being themselves. Out in America should look no different from the rest of America to the casual observer - there are farmers and artists, sky divers, families, professionals, and...
14) Queer in America
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What's it like to be queer in America? Ask Michelangelo Signorile. Called a "sissy" and a "faggot" while growing up in the working-class Italian-Catholic neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Staten Island, he is one of the new breed of lesbians and gay men who decided to bash back. Signorile's signature upper-case invective expressed the anger of a generation in his columns in OutWeek magazine. Queer in America is his story - and the story of a new gay generation...
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Part Augusten Burroughs, part Robert Leleux, Conversations and Cosmopolitans is a hilarious and touching memoir written by a mother, Jane, and her son, Robert, as they navigate their new relationship together after Robert announces in a hand-written letter that he is gay.
After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing them that he was gay. Once...
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"Exploring identity development and gender orientation, Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life contains firsthand information about the experiences and difficulties of women who discover and reveal their newfound lesbian sexuality in later life." "Lesbian Epiphanies is the first book to extensively quote from interviews of lesbians and bisexuals who had entered into heterosexual marriages. From the analysis of these 24 interviews, the...