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  • - Six Performances
    af Tim Miller
    243,95 kr.

    This volume gathers six of performance artist Tim Miller's best-known performances, that chart the sexual, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man: ""Some Golden States"", ""Stretch Marks"", ""My Queer Body"", ""Naked Breath"", ""Fruit Cocktail"" and ""Glory Box"".

  • - How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
    af Joel Derfner
    283,95 kr.

  • - A Lesbian in Small-Town America
    af Louise A. Blum
    508,95 kr.

    In this memoir, the author tells of how, with the help of a tiny sperm vial called ""Dad"", she and her partner decide to have a child, unleashing a storm of controversy in their small town. From a glowing article in the local newspaper, to prayer vigils, the town responds in different ways.

  • af Philip Gambone
    283,95 kr.

  • af Kenny Fries
    243,95 - 288,95 kr.

    An American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.

  • af Michael Sadowski
    258,95 kr.

    Recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity - and, ultimately, his sexual orientation - in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to maintain them.

  • af Rigoberto Gonzalez
    188,95 - 208,95 kr.

  • - A Memoir of Brotherhood
    af Rigoberto Gonzalez
    268,95 kr.

    Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of Gonzalez men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As brothers Rigoberto and Alex grow to manhood, they are haunted by the traumas of their mother's early death, their lonely youth, their father's desertion, and their grandfather's invective.

  • - The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver
     
    318,95 kr.

    The record of a thrilling and tormenting gay love affair in World War II England, these letters also reveal a devastating experience of disability and, above all, the awakening of a remarkable and unforgettable literary voice.

  • - Growing Up Gay at the Movies
    af Patrick E. Horrigan
    193,95 - 258,95 kr.

    This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and ""The Sound of Music"" Oz"".

  • - A Therapist's Own Story
    af Betty Berzon
    298,95 kr.

    In this volume, Betty Berzon tells the story of her journey from psychiatric patient on suicide watch to her role as a therapist and gay pioneer. She discusses her mental breakdown and suicide attempts, her hospitalization and recovery, and her own coming out as a lesbian at the age of 40.

  • - Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
    af Gad Beck
    228,95 kr.

    That Gad Beck, a gay Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is amazing. His determination to keep loving, living and believing in every human possibility - even in the face of the unthinkably monstrous - makes this quite a different story of the Holocaust.

  • - My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
    af Lori Soderlind
    288,95 kr.

    Ultimately a romance - of Lori Soderlind's love for America, her dog, the long-term partner she left behind, and the childhood crush she remembers with a big, aching pang - The Change offers daring and often hilarious insights into loss and acceptance, especially when it takes a while to get there.

  • - Two Novels
    af "Bryher"
    278,95 - 508,95 kr.

    Blending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, ""Development"" and ""Two Selves"" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood.

  • - A Memoir
    af Erin White
    288,95 kr.

    A candid and revelatory memoir of simultaneously falling in love with the Catholic faith and with another woman.

  • - A Memoir
    af Denise Chanterelle DuBois
    368,95 kr.

  • - An Activist's Decade in Paris and New York
    af Anne-Christine d'Adesky
    338,95 kr.

    Offers a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-Christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS - their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art.

  • - And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
    af Edward Field
    233,95 - 308,95 kr.

    Young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. This memoir opens the closet door to reveal some of the most important writers of his time. It brings back a forgotten era, postwar Bohemia, bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic.

  • - A Memoir
    af Maureen Seaton
    193,95 kr.

    A memoir that chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids.

  • - Performances, Essays and Travels
    af Tim Miller
    213,95 - 608,95 kr.

    Brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man. He explores life as a gay American man - from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement.