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In a crawlspace at the offices of Switchboard, a queer helpline in operation since 1974, lie dozens of log books kept by volunteers describing the phone calls they had taken: a teenager kicked out of home for dressing as the wrong gender; a lesbian terrified of having her baby taken away from her; a man arrested for chatting up another man; a young person wanting to know how to come out. These logs documented traces of tens of thousands of queer lives, captured by people who lent an ear to those in need.

Brought to you by Penguin. My friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress... So take me for a man or a woman as you wish. By the age of thirty, the novelist who had been born Aurore Dupin in 1804 had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English...

« J'écris cette suite parce que l'histoire ne s'est pas arrêtée à la naissance d'Ezio. Parce qu'un combat ne s'éteint pas quand l'enfant vient au monde – il change simplement de visage. Parce qu'il ne suffit pas d'être devenu père… il faut le devenir chaque jour. » Après Mon combat...

Bloomsbury presents Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs, read by Ron Butler ‘For me,’ wrote James Baldwin in 1959, ‘the difficulty is to remain in touch with the private life. The private life, his own and that of others, is the writer’s subject – his key and ours to his...

'In stunning detail . . . Baconi traces a story of personal and communal alienation, longing, and liberation' Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 'Moving and generous' Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost 'Outstanding' Raja Shehadeh, author of We Could...

She didn't have an engagement ring, or get down on one knee, or ask that magical four-word question, but Adriana Forsman knew her secret girlfriend had essentially just proposed. Their forbidden love had led Forsman to the greatest crossroads moment of her life. Would she choose to serve Jesus or be with the woman she loved? Or could she choose both?

What does it mean to never forget? Especially if one of the most significant days of your life involved experiencing September 11, 2001, as an FDNY dispatcher and still a new-to-New York transplant from Ohio. In this engaging testimony to the miraculous moments that define our personal journeys, Christopher Blake Carver offers his remembrance. Sharing experiences from being adopted at birth, to being an out gay person in the fire service, and a member of the greatest group of fire dispatchers in the world.

Losing Gerry by Patricia O'Brien is a heartfelt and compelling story that explores the complexities of grief, loss, family and same sex love. The story is autobiographical and revolves around the author Patty, who is deeply impacted by the sudden loss of her lover Gerry (Geraldine). As she struggles with her overwhelming emotions, Patty reflects on her relationship with Gerry, which was both fraught and intimate.

In the quiet suburbs of Indiana, Herbert Baumeister appeared to have it all: a thriving business, a loving family, and the perfect home. But beneath the polished veneer of success lay a predator whose crimes would shock the nation. Known as “The Bone Collector”, Baumeister preyed upon young men from Indianapolis’s gay community, luring them to his secluded Fox Hollow Farm—where investigators later uncovered thousands of bone fragments scattered across the property.

She didn’t have an engagement ring, or get down on one knee, or ask that magical four-word question, but Adriana Forsman knew her secret girlfriend had essentially just proposed. Their forbidden love had led Forsman to the greatest crossroads moment of her life. Would she choose to serve Jesus or be with the woman she loved? Or could she choose both?

The original edition of this book was written as a diary in poetry during the author’s personal journey through clinical depression. It carries his unique emotions and feelings experienced as a psychologist going through intensive therapy. However, this second edition is not just a book of poetry. It combines the feelings expressed in poetry with the cultivated prose of a writer and psychologist looking back at his days of depression. It then embarks on his twenty-five-year post depression journey that opened the door to a new life filled with the joys of just being alive.

It is my personal memoir of everything I learned while assisting my mentor, Brian De Palma, which prepared me for my own successful career as a director on over 50 movies, including Elvira’s Haunted Hills and the De Palma-esque thriller Acting on Impulse starring Nancy Allen (Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out). It is also a coming out story of my transition from a 19-year-old closeted teenager raised in the conservative South, to marrying a woman, and then finally becoming an openly-gay adult in New York City.

What does it take to overcome deeply embedded family traumas, career-ending betrayals, and failed relationships? What is the personal cost of keeping secrets—and staying in the closet? These are questions that Mary Means explores in her memoir, as she navigates growing up as a young closeted lesbian in Georgia during the 1960s and learning to love—and be loved—as an adult.

Risk. Resilience. Reinvention. Tom LeNoble’s life has been anything but ordinary, rising from the “Shack” with no hot water to the heights of Silicon Valley, and helping build some of the world’s most influential companies. He’s been a crowd-favorite performer, a bold leader, and a...

I'm Prancing as Fast as I Can is a coming of Gay story that takes us from a scared, self-hating kid who spends most of his time under his desk staring at the hunky man on the Doan's Pills box, to becoming a writer on Will & Grace, helping to make it a little easier for other scared, self-hating kids who might also be hiding and staring at their secret desire.

In this unique oral biography, Bachardy recounts his astonishing story, providing illuminating recollections of celebrity portrait sittings and revelations about his thirty-year relationship with Christopher Isherwood. From their meeting in the 1950s until Isherwood's death in 1986, theirs was a legendary love story, courageous and uncompromising for its time, and remarkable in any era for the creative collaborations and art it continues to inspire.

A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience. Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones? I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to...

In the summer of 1974, a fourteen-year-old girl in Dolton, Illinois, had a dream. A dream to become an actress, like her idols Ron Howard and Vicki Lawrence. But it was a long way from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, and it didn’t help that she’d recently dropped out of the school...

AWFULLY HILARIOUS STORIES WE NEVER TELL. Ever had a moment so embarrassing, so outrageously awkward, that you swore you’d take it to the grave? Well, we didn’t (take it to the grave, that is!). Here, for the benefit of all, we bare our souls (and other body parts we'd rather not mention).

What if the very things that broke you were preparing you to shine? At nine years old, Maruis Aldridge learned that survival meant silence. Growing up in apartheid-era South Africa, he carried secrets too heavy for a child's shoulders. Sexual abuse. Crushing shame. A body that became both shield and prison. By his mid-thirties, the weight became unbearable. Panic attacks. Psychiatric wards. Suicidal plans. He was drowning until he stopped waiting to be saved and became his own lighthouse. This is the story of that return. From illegal immigrant to spiritual healer.