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The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
3) Sita
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Presents moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. This book follows the disintegration of the author's love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior, a veteran of several marriages, and the mother of grown children.
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Kate Clinton's first book of irreverent humorLet's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm. It wasn't until I had lived and slept with a woman for a year that it occurred to me to ask, "Do you think we're lesbians? "
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When her best friend, Matthew Shepard, was murdered in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, Romaine Patterson was thrust into activism by the media frenzy that surrounded the town. In 1999, she founded Angel Action, an organization for peaceful demonstration, tolerance, acceptance, and nonviolence.
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With four words -- "I am a lesbian" -- Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer became the highest ranking officer ever to challenge the military's anti-gay policy. Colonel Cammermeyer recounts her journey of self-discovery from her childhood in German-occupied Norway to the intense media coverage of her dismissal from the U.S. Army. Focusing more on her personal experience than on a political agenda, she offers listeners a rare glimpse into the evolution that...
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For years, Michelle LeClair, former President of Scientology's international humanitarian organization, tried to reconcile her sexual orientation with the anti-gay ideology of the church. Michelle finally ends her horrific marriage, finds the love of her life, a woman, and ultimately leaves the Church. But the split comes at a terrible price. Her once pristine reputation is publicly dragged through the mud, the police raid her home, her ex-husband...
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"Riki Anne Wilchins has written the book that may take the discussion of gender over the top." "In a voice that is by turns outraged, outrageous, sad, and hilarious, Wilchins - cofounder of the Transexual Menace and Executive Director of GenderPAC - weaves theory and personal experience into a story of self-discovery." "Lesbians, feminists, queer academics, activists, transpeople, the "queer-on-the-street," and mainstream readers hungry for writing...