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	All Books by Tim Fountain - Author of : Quentin Crisp Paperback - 128 pages 1 edition Vol 1 (May 1, 2001) Absolute Pr; ISBN: 1899791485 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Fountain paints his story against the backdrop of Crisp's colourful and controversial life and sheds some light on the intriguing events leading up to his death. It is a compelling portrait of man who Fountain calls a 'great, glittering contradiction': a man who flaunted his sexuality at a time when the penalty for buggery was gaol, a man whose very name epitomized style and yet lived alone in abject poverty in a room he refused to clean and a man who confidently declared at the height of the AIDS epidemic that he 'didn't believe it existed'." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Kenny Fries - Author of : Body, Remember: a Memoir Paperback - 240 pages (February 1998) Unknown; ISBN: 0452276713 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; At thirty-five, Kenny Fries wanted to discover what could be learned about the history of his body and the map of physical and psychological scars that he had lived with since infancy. He began only with the description his father had given him. At birth, his legs were no bigger than fingers; both twisted like pretzels; neither had an arch to separate leg from foot; dimpled above what would have been his ankles. There was no scientific description of his disability; no reason for it had been given. So Fries turned to long-buried medical records, reconstructing the story of his disability just as his body had been reconstructed over countless surgeries. In these pages we learn not only what one man's disability has taught him but also gain intimacy with the connections between body and memory that are common to us all." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Brad Gooch - Author of : Finding the Boyfriend Within Hardcover - 171 pages (June 1999) Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684850400 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; In the tradition of the perennial bestseller I'm OK, You're OK, noted author Brad Gooch offers single and coupled gay men a provocative, sophisticated, and inspirational guide that addresses the big issues of love, romance, and being alone. Part memoir, part self-help, Finding the Boyfriend Within is a remarkably practical and helpful guide in the quest for self-discovery for the thousands of gay men who despair of ever being in a committed relationship." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John W. M. Hallock - Author of : The American Byron : Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck Paperback - 240 pages (April 2000) Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299168042 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed "the American Byron" and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes. This biography portrays him as a prophet of the literary and sexual revolution." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Harry Hay and Will Roscoe - Editor of : Radically Gay: Gay Liberation In the Words Of Its Founder Hardcover (June 1996) Unknown; ISBN: 0807070807 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Harry Hay is the acknowledged father (or mother, as he might prefer) of the modern gay liberation movement. As a Communist Party organizer and historian who founded the Mattachine Society in 1949, Hay began turning out essays, position papers, critical studies, and manifestos concerning what it means to be gay in the world. Radically Gay is a collection of those writings, edited by historian Will Rosco, and its breadth and depth is amazing. Radically Gay is an important contribution to gay history and letters; it tells us not only where we have been, but, more importantly, where we might be going." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sal Iacopelli and Phil Foglio - Authors of : Love, Sal Paperback - 200 pages (September 1, 2000) Grass Stain; ISBN: 1890159247 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; On April Fool's Day 1995, sometimes actor and lifelong Chicago resident Sal Iacopelli began his three year sojourn among the leather bars and drag shows of downtown San Francisco. His hilarious, bitchy and moving commentary was chronicled in a three-year series of letters to his longtime friend back home. His hilarious observations on the collared and the buffed, the spankers and the slaves, the warped and the wonderful of the gay Mecca make this book an unforgettable read." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Benjamin Ivry - Author of : Arthur Rimbaud (Outlines) Paperback - 144 pages (October 1998) Absolute Pr; ISBN: 189979171X "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Benjamin Ivry's Outline is the first study of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's sexuality in relation to his life, work and posterity. Focusing on Rimbaud's great poetry, written before the age of twenty, and his notorious and sensational affair with the poet Paul Verlaine, this book is a frank and helpful introduction to an often misunderstood and misinterpreted poet. It is also an invaluable introduction to further reading on Rimbaud and his circle." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by David Kaufman - Author of : Ridiculous: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam Hardcover: 400 pages - (October 2002) Applause Theatre Book Pub; ISBN: 1557835888 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; From his first, unscripted appearance in the revolutionary Sixties to the front-page news of his death at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied the upheavals of his time. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of daunting circumstances. Ludlam's gender-bending creative experimentation reached far beyond his early influence on Bette Midler, the original cast of Saturday Night Live, and countless other artists. Posthumously, his work has become increasingly acclaimed on stages throughout the world." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by William J. Mann - Author of : Wisecracker : The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star Paperback - 480 pages (March 1999) Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140275681 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; William Haines was one of MGM's biggest stars in the late 1920s, playing cocky but sympathetic wise guys in movies such as Brown of Harvard. He was as self-assured in real life: dropped by the studio in 1933 because he refused to hide his homosexuality, Haines became a successful interior decorator. Journalist William J. Mann perceptively links Haines's story to shifting attitudes in the movie industry, the gay community, and America as a whole. He also paints a tender portrait of the actor's love for Jimmie Shields, his companion from 1926 until Haines's death in 1973." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jaime Manrique - Author of : Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Living Out, Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) Hardcover - 152 pages (July 1999) Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299161803 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Jaime Manrique, one of the leading Latino writers working today, offers a provocative autobiography interweaving his own story with the lives of three other gay Hispanic authors: the Argentine Manuel Puig; Reinaldo Arenas, originally from Cuba; and Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garca Lorca. The result is a poetic, moving memoir that has much to say about literature, sexuality, and Hispanic culture, as well as about four of contemporary literature's leading writers. As one of those writers, Manrique chronicles his own intellectual and emotional journey to becoming an author. Through the account of his early years in Colombia, he provides a candid glimpse of what it means to grow up gay in Latin America. Other surprises abound-from revelations about the last days of Arenas and Puig, to new details about Lorca's emotional life. Colombian-born writer Jaime Manrique interweaves his own life story with the lives of three other gay Hispanic writers: the Argentinean Manuel Puig, Cuban-born Reinaldo Arenas, and Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. A friend of both Puig and Arenas, Manrique also draws on his interviews with friends of Lorca (who was killed in Spain in 1936) to provide warmly sympathetic portrait of men who lived and wrote from the perspective of exiles and outcasts, both for their sexuality and for their politics." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Eric Marcus and Rudy Galindo - Author of : Icebreaker : The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo Paperback - 272 pages Reprint edition (May 1998) Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671003917 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; The inspiring story of America's first openly gay figure skater reveals the incredible inner strength that brought Galindo through his worst hours." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Bernard Duncan Mayes - Author of : Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest Hardcover: 320 pages (March 2001) University Press of Virginia; ISBN: 0813920043; 0 edition *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Gay AutoBiography; This fascinating memoir by a gay British priest begins in London in 1929, when Bernard Mayes emerged from his heavily sedated mother, and, according to the practice of the day, was sequestered by doctors for a month, returning to her sickly and fretful. By turns political, confessional, and spiritual, Mayes's tale is entertaining and well written. Coming of age during the rise of Nazism in Europe, he began having affairs with boyhood chums, then moved on to seminary where the "pad, pad, pad of feet and the rustle of cassocks down the ever-creaking corridors during the night was not always evidence of devoted meditations." A gay priest in a culture where love "is damnably suppressed, denied, and hidden ... to please intellectual tyrants claiming to speak for God," Mayes eventually helped found a small congregation of like-minded gay and lesbian Christians in the Castro district of San Francisco, in the years just before the outbreak of AIDS. All the elements of a blockbuster movie are here--sex, oppression, and the Sturm und Drang of romance--set against a wider historical backdrop. Mayes's introspective retelling of his journey--from his staid Anglican roots, to a tour of the American South at the height of the civil rights movement, and finally to the gay mecca of San Francisco--should resonate with anyone who appreciates the ways in which history is both made and reflected in our private lives.- Jack Connolly (Amazon.com)." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Daniel Mendelsohn - Author of : The Elusive Embrace : Desire and the Riddle of Identity Paperback - 224 pages (June 13, 2000) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0375706976 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; When Daniel Mendelsohn was growing up, he "secretly imagined a place where all the people were other boys, and where all the stores and books and songs and movies and restaurants were by boys, about other boys. It would be a place where somehow the outside reality of the world that met your eyes and ears could finally be made to match the inner, hidden reality of what you knew yourself to be." And while he's found that place in Manhattan's Chelsea district, Mendelsohn has only one foot there--his other foot is in suburban New Jersey, where he acts as a masculine role model ("not exactly a father but a man who would be present") to the young son of a close friend. The Elusive Embrace is an elegantly written memoir that shifts effortlessly between these locales, and between the events in Mendelsohn's life and the Greek and Roman classics that are his academic specialty. Whether he's elaborating upon his earliest explorations of his sexuality or teasing out the secrets that redefine his family history, he writes with admirable grace and delicacy. - Ron Hogan (Amazon.com)." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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