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	All Books by David B. Mixner - Author of : Stranger Among Friends Paperback - 392 pages Reprint edition (July 1997) Bantam Books; ISBN: 0553375547 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; In the sixties, David Mixner became an activist in the civil rights and anti-war movements, then emerged in the seventies as an influential Washington insider. Unknown to his comrades, he was also a closet homosexual, so scared of exposure he let hardly anyone know his secret. With good reason: when he came out in 1977 he lost a lot of his political clout. Undeterred he marched on a new crusade--gay liberation. He returned to national prominence as a political activist when he led a hugely successful drive in the gay community to elect his long-time friend Bill Clinton. That relationship, which has been bittersweet through Clinton's presidency, is one of the fascinating sidelights in this memoir of a radical life." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by George L. Mosse and Walter Laqueur - Authors of : Confronting History : A Memoir Hardcover - 224 pages (June 27, 2000) Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299165809 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Writing about his life through a historian's lens, the author of this memoir offers a personal history of the 20th-century. He describes his childhood in Berlin, his exile in Paris and England, including boarding school and Cambridge University, exile in the US and stays in London and Jerusalem." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Wakefield Poole - Author of : Dirty Poole : The Autobiography of a Gay Porn Pioneer Paperback - 304 pages (August 2000) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555835619 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; From child prodigy to the most notorious director of gay adult films, Wakefield Poole wrote the rules for a living on the edge with no safety line and no apologies. How a former singer and ballet dancer went from the Broadway stage to behind the camera as the world's most beautiful men bared all for him is just part of a fascinating story that takes us on a whirlwind tour of the early days of the sexual revolution when "anything goes" was more than a phrase, it was a religion. While rubbing shoulders with the elite of the day, including Andy Warhol, Bob Fosse, and Stephen Sondheim, Poole created Boys in the Sand, the gay porn film that would revolutionize the industry and serve as the ruler by which adult entertainment is measured to this day. Only in that time and that place would it have been possible, and Poole's memoir serves as a fascinating trip to an era when anything was possible and everything was celebrated as long as it had style." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by John Reid and Andrew Tobias - Authors of : Best Little Boy in the World Paperback - 247 pages Reprint edition (June 1993) Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345381769 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; A gay man explores his coming out, describing how as a respectful son, an excellent athlete, and a model executive, he still denied his true nature by concealing his homosexuality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Pat Reid - Author of : Morrissey Paperback - 128 pages 1 edition Vol 1 (September 6, 2001) Absolute Pr; ISBN: 1899791736 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Morrissey has been one of the most enigmatic and compelling figures in the history of pop music. Critically acclaimed albums from his band The Smiths ensured they would be remembered as one of the most significant British bands of all time. However, it is the still-vexed question of Morrissey's sexuality that Pat Reid addresses in this groundbreaking Outline. If Morrissey is the quintessential "gay artist"-in that his work certainly qualifies as "gay art" although the man himself has never made any claims about his sexuality other than he is celibate-why is the gay community so indifferent or indeed hostile to him?" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Tobias Schneebaum - Author of : Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea Hardcover - 168 pages 1 edition (September 2000) The University of Wisconsin Press; ISBN: 0299169901 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; In this biography, Schneebaum seeks to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering his life as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years amongst the Asmat. The result juxtaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead and New York, plagued by AIDS, and its own sad spirits." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Andren Schoen - Author of : Beyond the Big Easy : One Man's Triumph Over Abuse Paperback - 256 pages (October 2000) New Falcon Publications; ISBN: 1561841315 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Beyond the Big Easy is a story which gives inspiration to all survivors of abuse. It is the true story of a child reared in the Cajun culture of the Louisiana bayous. It is a story of malicious cruelty and of abusive and addictive parents, of early abandonment and homelessness. Raped by his ninth birthday, he was further brutalized and molested by the 'upstanding' citizens of his island. As a teenager, he was estranged from all that he knew and thrown into a den of hypocrisy. Yet, he would survive and ultimately prosper because of a vision and an internal quest for family unity. This is a story of deep-rooted pain, of trusts turned sour, and of a magic that a boy held on to, nurtured, embraced, and passionately idealized as a man. This book is dedicated to those who may identify with wishes to generate hope, encouragement, and compassion." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Alan Sheridan - Author of : Andre Gide : A Life in the Present Paperback - 709 pages (October 2000) Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674003934 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; A biography of 20th-century writer, Andre Gide; novelist and essayist, patron, fervent homosexual and political innocent." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Andrew Solomon - Author of : The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Hardcover: 571 pages (June 2001) Scribner; ISBN: 068485466X "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Mental Illness - 2002 Lambda Award Winner for Memoir - The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Anthony Tommasini - Author of : Virgil Thomson : Composer on the Aisle Paperback - 605 pages (December 1998) Unknown; ISBN: 0393318583 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Best known for an opera he set to Gertrude Stein's text, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), and for the Pulitzer Prize-winning score of the documentary Louisiana Story (1948), composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was also an unswerving champion of modern American classical music during his tenure as the powerful music critic of the New York Herald Tribune (1940-54). His works' tonality, stress on simplicity, and skillful use of traditional American tunes strongly influenced Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and many others. Lively prose evokes the crusty character of an American original in this enjoyably opinionated biography." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rick Whitaker - Author of : Assuming the Position : A Memoir of Hustling Hardcover - 160 pages (September 1999) Four Walls Eight Windows; ISBN: 1568581238 "Gay Autobiography/Biography; Memoirs of Male Hustling - Rick Whitaker is a college-educated, one-time book publishing insider who found himself at a point in his life when prostitution made sense. Now, with the distance of time, he tells his story. In graceful, refined prose he looks at his life straight on, from his unconventional upbringing to vivid recollections of the encounters he had with the men who hired him for sex." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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