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	All Books by Chastity Bono - Author of : Family Outing Paperback (October 1999) Little Brown & Co (Pap); ISBN: 0316115967 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Memoirs of Coming Out - From Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, comes the first comprehensive guide to the coming-out process, written from the perspective of both gays and lesbians and their parents." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Chastity Bono - Author of : The End of Innocence : A Memoir Paperback: 244 pages 1 Ed edition (June 2002) Publisher: Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555836208 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Chastity Bono has faced her share of battles as a spokesperson for gay and lesbian rights, both as the controversial former entertainment and media director for GLAAD--after she came out in The Advocate in 1995--and before that in the early '90s when a national tabloid maliciously outed her. In this riveting memoir she recounts a story of love, commitment, and tragedy lived out beyond the glare of the cameras. At 23, Chastity was well on her way to establishing her own life separate from her superstar parents, Cher and Sonny Bono. Geffen Records had just signed her band, Ceremony, and she was poised for musical stardom. And best of all, a love affair began to blossom with Joan Stephens, one of Cher's friends whom Chastity had known all her life. In what began as an unlikely relationship, Chastity and Joan found and nurtured the sort of tender, loving partnership they had both been seeking. But Chastity's aspirations for a life in music were soon thwarted by internal struggles and record company machinations that threatened to destroy Ceremony. These problems, however, paled in comparison with the devastating news of Joan's diagnosis with life-threatening non-Hodgkins lymphoma. As Joan fiercely battled her illness, Chastity's musical career imploded. Chastity became both caretaker and lover, discovering a depth and beauty that intensified the feeling of loss as Joan succumbed to the ravages of cancer. A story of love won and lost, of dreams fulfilled and destroyed, The End of Innocence is a coming-of-age story that provides a deeply personal look into the private struggles of a very public and courageous woman." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Barrie Jean Borich - Author of : My Lesbian Husband Hardcover - 294 pages 1 edition (September 1999) Graywolf Press; ISBN: 1555972926 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; In My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage, Barrie Jean Borich outlines a life journey made glorious by falling in love. She relates how, as an unrepentant bohemian, she has managed to make a certain peace with tradition--reshaping it when necessary. Throughout her story, she examines what lies outside America's moral center of marriage and the family as she illuminates the complex privilege of living within an intimacy unburdened by cultural imperatives. Weaving memory, imagination, public history, and dream, she sketches the literal and figurative landscapes of her lesbian marriage. Using evocative and lyrical prose, Borich shifts forward and back in time, between the changes in her own outlook and society's expectations, between her defiance and then celebration of being relegated to outsider status. The book reflects the complex swirl of feeling and history that arise when we confront the choices we've made through the passages of life, and marvels that our destination can so often turn out to lie in the exact opposite direction to our chosen route." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Claudia Brenner - Author of : Eight Bullets : One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence Paperback - 216 pages (April 1995) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563410559 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Story of Incredible Hate Crime - The lesbian victim of a violent hate crime that left her seriously wounded and her partner dead is the story of family and community, the medical system, the police and courts, and the media--and of one woman's incredible courage." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rita Mae Brown - Author of : Rita Will : Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser Paperback - 496 pages (January 5, 1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0553378260 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Before Rubyfruit Jungle stormed the book world in 1973, the term "bestselling lesbian novelist" was an oxymoron. But Rita Mae Brown's first novel was so honest and funny that it broke all barriers. The 52-year-old author's memoirs have the same sassy panache as her fiction. Generous and loving toward her eccentric family and most of those with whom she's been intimate, Brown pulls no punches when depicting those she considers hypocrites or cowards. Billie Jean King will hate this book; Martina Navratilova won't like it either. Almost everyone else will find it a delight." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Whitney Chadwick - Author of : Amazons in the Drawing Room : The Art of Romaine Brooks Paperback - 128 pages (July 2000) University of California Press; ISBN: 0520225678 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, this text reproduces in colour 34 of the 40 nudes and portraits she painted, as well as 37 automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the 17th century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her contemporary Gwen John, shaped an image of the androgynous New Woman for the 20th century." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rose Collis - Author of : A Trouser-Wearing Character : The Life and Times of Nancy Spain Paperback (December 1999) Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304706248 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; When Nancy Spain died in a plane crash in 1964, aged 47, with her partner, Joan Werner Laurie, she was at the height of a brilliant media career. A famous all-media celebrity of the time, she was a seasoned journalist and writer - with over 10 camp and frothy crime novels to her name. She later moved into radio and TV, quickly becoming an established panelist on "Juke Box Jury" and "What's My Line?" as well as a knowledgeable and lively contributor to "Woman's Hour". In this revealing biography, Rose Collis rediscovers Nancy Spain's public and private life and therein creates an account of an exceptional woman." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rose Collis - Author of : K. D. Lang Paperback - 128 pages (May 1999) Absolute Pr; ISBN: 1899791477 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; Since K.D. Lang's emergence in the mid-80's, Rose Collis has keenly observed the fascinating odyssey that has taken this unusual singer from performance art, via anarchic Country and Western to world-class, Grammy award-winning chanteuse status. This insightful, eclectic and often witty Outline explores Lang's career and life to date, placing her in the context of the social and political times that have influenced both author and subject. She shows how Lang's androgynously sexy image, her Canadian identity, her commitments to animal rights and the fight against AIDS, and her openness about her sexuality have all played their part in marking her out as both an important and influential musician and lesbian icon." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Betty Degeneres - Author of : Love, Ellen : A Mother/Daughter Journey Paperback - 384 pages (April 25, 2000) Quill; ISBN: 0688176887 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; "Mom, I'm gay." With three little words, gay children can change their parents' lives forever. Yet at the same times it's a chance for those parents to realize nothing, really, has changed at all; same kid, same life, same bond of enduring love. Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but not without a struggle. Coming from a republican family with conservative values, Betty needed time and education to understand her daughter's homosexuality -- but her ultimate acceptance would set the stage for a far more public coming out, one that would change history. In Love, Ellen, Betty DeGeneres tells her story; the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media's scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaigns National Coming Out Project." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Emma Donoghue - Author of : We Are Michael Field (Outlines) Paperback - 160 pages (October 1998) Absolute Pr; ISBN: 1899791663 "Lesbian Autobiography/Biography; For the first time, Emma Donoghue tells the story of two eccentric Victorian spinsters; Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913); poets and lovers, who wrote together under the name of Michael Field. They wrote eleven volumes of poetry and thirty historical tragedies, but perhaps their best work - richest in emotional honesty and wit - was the diary that the two women shared for a quarter of a century. Donoghue's groundbreaking Outline is based on these unpublished journals and letters. The Michaels lived in a contradictory world of inherited wealth and terrible illness, silly nicknames and religious crises. They preferred men to women, and yet their greatest devotion was saved for their dog, Snobbish, arrogant eccentrics who faced bereavement and death with great courage, and never lost their appetite for life or their passion for each other." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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