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The autobiographies and biographies on this page are not necessarily from 'famous' people, but GLBT community members - sharing their diverse life experience. This section in particular has a great range of transgender autobiographies! Please note: there are many more Gay and Lesbian biographies in the separate gay and lesbian non-fiction sections. We hope you find a LGBT biography that peaks your interest on RainbowSauce.

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	All Books by Deirdre N. McCloskey - Author of : Crossing: A Memoir Paperback - 266 pages (October 2000) University of Chicago Press (Trd); ISBN: 0226556697 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" race lines, class lines, and cultural lines. But few have written of crossing--completely and entirely--the gender line. Deirdre McCloskey, the former Donald, has, and she now tells the dramatic and poignant story of her travel in Crossing, her memoir. A renowned economist and historian, a husband and father, Donald McCloskey had cross dressed for years without wanting more. But rather suddenly, at age 52, a sense that he was denying his real identity grew to the point where he knew he needed to become a woman. Crossing is the story of this realization and its consequences." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Diane Wood Middlebrook - Author of : Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton Paperback - 320 pages (June 1, 1999) Mariner Books; ISBN: 0395957893 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; Billy Tipton was a jazz performer who played in clubs throughout the Midwest for nearly 50 years. Tipton never made the big time as a musician and ended up working as a booking agent in Spokane, Washington. Only with Tipton's death in 1989 was it revealed that the five-times-married father to three boys was biologically female. Diane Wood Middlebrook's biography describes the transformation of Dorothy Tipton, a white Oklahoman who was not allowed to play jazz because she was a girl, into Billy Tipton, a male pianist and bandleader. The author traces the life of this itinerant jazz musician over several decades and through changing constructions of gender." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Mark Nicholas Alban Rees - Author of : Dear Sir or Madam : The Autobiography of a Female-To-Male Transsexual Paperback (March 1999) Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304333948 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; This autobiography paints a very accurate portrayal of growing up male, though confined to a female body. This is good reading material for people just beginning their transition, their friends and family, and supporters." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Daphne Scholinkski - Author of : The Last Time I Wore a Dress Paperback - 211 pages (October 1998) Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573226963 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; This terrifying memoir recounts author Daphne Scholinski's three years spent in mental institutions for, among other things, Gender Identity Disorder. Daphne came from a busted home: Mom left to go to college and become a feminist and an artist; Dad stayed home with two daughters, the elder of whom, Daphne, he often beat. When Daphne started acting up at school, her shrinks decided to put her away. Her family, not knowing how to handle her, agreed. Because she was a tomboy who wore jeans and T-shirts and didn't act enough like a girl, her treatment, in addition to talk therapy, isolation, and drugs, required her to wear makeup, walk with a swing in her hips, and pretend to be obsessed with boys. This sounds awful enough, but when you realize that the confinement and treatment took place from 1981 to 1984, it's absolutely chilling. This book is both a powerful indictment of Gender Identity Disorder treatment and an inspiring testament of one person's survival." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Dawn Langley Simmons - Author of : Dawn : A Charleston Legend Hardcover - 191 pages (April 1995) Wyrick & Co; ISBN: 0941711161 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; Following gender modification in 1968, Gordon became Dawn and married a black Charlestonian and was forced to move from South Carolina to escape hostility." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rupert Smith and John S. Barrington - Author of : Physique : The Life of John S. Barrington Paperback (November 1997) Serpents Tail; ISBN: 1852423749 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; This biography discusses the life of John S. Barrington, a pioneer of male physique photography. This work depicts bohemian life in London, New York and Paris, the outlandish schemes that often ended in prison, and a series of strange friendships with Coward, Cocteau, Lennon and Bob Marley." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Elizabeth Stone - Author of : A Boy I Once Knew : What a Teacher Learned from Her Student Hardcover: 202 pages (May 2002) Algonquin Books; ISBN: 1565123158 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's life as she read Vincent's diaries and began to learn about the high school student she had taught twenty-five years before. A BOY I ONCE KNEW is the story of the man that Vincent had become-and the efforts of his teacher to make some sense of his life. With his diaries, Vincent becomes a constant presence in her household. She follows his daily life in San Francisco and his travels abroad. She watches him deal with the deaths of friends in the gay community. She judges him. She gets angry with him. She develops affection and compassion for him. In some ways she brings him back to life. And in doing so, she becomes the student, and Vincent the teacher. He forces her to examine her life as well as his. He challenges her feelings and fears about death. He proves to her that relationships between two people can deepen even after one of them is gone. A BOY I ONCE KNEW is a powerful book about loss, memory, and the ways in which we belong to each other. This is a revealing, moving, and wholly unexpected book." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by William Storandt - Author of : Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean Hardcover - 178 pages 1st edition (August 3, 2001) Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299174603 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; Outbound is the story of two voyages: an Atlantic crossing in the 33-foot cutter Clarity, bound for Scotland; and the hard voyage of self-discovery that finally brought Bill Storandt to his life partner. Storandt's account of the adventure he had carefully planned with longtime partner Brian Forsyth and their friend Bob soon turns into a white-knuckled sailing tale, as they encounter a fierce storm four hundred miles from the Irish coast that tests their courage and all their sailing skills. The sea story, vividly evoking life in a small boat on a big ocean, is interwoven with Storandt's flashbacks to his earlier life. Outbound delivers its share of excitement, but it's also a moving reflection on how circuitous our paths can be, even when the destination is clear and beckoning." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Susan Stryker - Author of : Christine Jorgensen : A Personal Autobiography Paperback - 340 pages 2nd edition (October 2000) Cleis Pr; ISBN: 1573441007 "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; On December 1, 1952, readers of the New York Daily News were greeted with a banner headline: EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY: OPERATIONS TRANSFORM BRONX YOUTH. In the ensuing 18 months, more than half a million words about Christine Jorgensen rolled off the world's presses. In her own personable style, Jorgensen offers an intimate account of her groundbreaking life as the first world-renowned transsexual. "Nature made a mistake," she writes, "which I have corrected." An entertainer who played clubs from Las Vegas to Havana, Jorgensen was both "banned" in Boston and named "Woman of the Year" in New York City. She hobnobbed with many of the celebrities of the day, including Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Natalie Wood, and Truman Capote." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Barry Werth - Author of : The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal Paperback: 352 pages (March 5, 2002) Anchor Books; ISBN: 0385494696; 1 Anchor edition "GLBT Autobiography/Biography; 2002 Lambda Award Winner for Biography - During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal of several friends. An utterly absorbing chronicle, The Scarlet Professor deftly captures the essence of a conflicted man and offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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