Títulos en Biografías y memorias

What happens when two women commit to serving the Catholic Church as nuns taking vows of chastity, but fall passionately in love? They defy the Church's rules against same-sex relationships and blaze a bold trail for a joyous life together at a time when LGBTQ people could be killed for being gay and same-sex marriage was decades in the future.

Black Enough Man Enough: Embracing My Mixed Race and Fluid Sexuality by Gee Smalls is an unflinchingly honest memoir that explores identity, resilience, and self-acceptance. Narrated by the author himself, this deeply personal audiobook takes listeners on a journey through Gee's experiences growing up in the Gullah Geechee culture of James Island, South Carolina, in the 1980s.

When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward.

Coming Out and Coming Through is Matt Smeltzer's autobiographical story of his life growing up gay in a conservative Christian household, becoming the youth leader at his church, coming out, and the subsequent actions taken by the church in the wake of this revelation. Facing adversity could never break his spirit. He chose to take his struggles and turn them into empowerment and positivity to prove that you do not have to choose between your sexuality and your religion.

Holding On by a Thread is a heartbreaking and eye opening memoir that combines the tragic consequences of transitioning from male to female with the hopelessness of isolation and lost love. Set in the heart of a major city, the story revolves around the Wolscht family and their struggle with Paul's transgender issues, as she becomes Stefonknee. Through the eyes of Stefonknee, listeners are taken on a journey of discovery, suffering, and unexpected tragedy as she endeavors to create her new life as a woman coping with mental illness, homelessness and incarceration.

This memoir is a testament to the enduring power of love, resilience, and memory—a tribute to one mother’s extraordinary strength and an intimate exploration of the universal journey through loss and healing.

In Finally Free, Seth boldly and vulnerably chronicles his personal journey of self discovery and acceptance, sharing intimate details of his time in a conversion treatment program aimed at changing his sexuality. He skillfully interweaves his actual journal entries from those tumultuous days with poignant reflections from his current perspective as a therapist, ten years later.

The ambitious and experimental debut by Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot, interrogating the “good girl” archetype and the price one pays to embody it A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An utterly compelling blend of lyricism, diary, and criticism that has become my go-to for invoking the...

Growing up as a gay Catholic schoolboy in a tiny Mississippi River town surrounded by cornfields, Luke’s imagination was constantly set on fire by million-dollar daydreams and DIY hustles. Whether it was hunting down the missing Cap’n Crunch or gaming McDonald’s Monopoly, no scheme was too ridiculous, no shortcut too far-fetched. With his trusty Hustler bike and a mountain of determination, Luke didn’t just dream—he plotted.

A luminous memoir-in-essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South.

At the age of 90, Stanley Underhill ended years of secrecy and silence with the publication of his extraordinary memoir, Coming Out of The Black Country. Cathartic and courageous, the book vividly recounts Underhill’s lifelong struggle to reconcile his faith and sexuality – a struggle that began in extreme poverty in the industrial Midlands and continued with ever-increasing drama through his time as a naval nurse in the Royal Navy, as an accountant, as a Franciscan Brother and nearly 40 years as a priest in the Church of England.

How would you react to that question if your grandmother asked you that question from her nursing home bed? That is the question that led me on a quest to find out if I really was adopted or if they were ramblings or confusion of my grandmother who thought I might be someone else. The quest led me on a journey to find out more about my family and what it really means and, in turn, learn more about myself and find who I really am.

When Mary Beth and her family moved to the East Coast to live in a home she'd chosen, she assumed she had landed in heaven. Her husband took a teaching job at a small Christian college, while she took care of the three children in her castle—and found a shining star in Melo, her husband's female student. A year later, Mary Beth found her life upended as her husband grew jealous of her relationship with Melo—which was soaring from friendship into love.

Dale didn’t trust very many people, including himself. He thought he was a disappointment, and carried himself accordingly. He tried making everyone happy so he would feel that he had worth. On top of his childhood of abuse and bullying, his evangelical Christian church taught him that God both hated him and loved him at the same time.

In the early 1980’s, 95 percent of all artificial inseminations were performed for married, heterosexual couples. Among the other five percent were people like Gwen’s parents–lesbians navigating a homophobic medical system ready to deny them children.

Discover a deeply personal, powerful memoir that unveils the untold story of a unique friendship and its profound impact on two lives. Gunther Allen’s Pushed Out of the Closet Without a Parachute, published by Audiobook Publishing Services and narrated by the author himself, takes listeners on an unforgettable journey through the glittering yet secretive world of 1980s Hollywood.

An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. 'Ali's memoir absolutely wrecked me - in the best, most necessary way. It's brutally honest, beautifully written, and I have huge respect for her for putting this into the world' Paula Penfold 'I couldn't put...

Better Man is a story about love, heartbreak, and the difficult lessons learned while traveling the treacherous road of dating. Striving to become a better man, the author learns about his own values, what he's looking for in a partner, and that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is run. Getting through break-ups, navigating partners with differing values, and having the realization that just because sparks fly when you meet doesn’t always mean it’s meant to be – these are just a few of the harder truths the author learns along the way.

Amidst all of our beautiful differences, we're united in the common desire to be the authors of our own story. We all crave the freedom to tell the world who we are, and the confidence to protect what we want.

In the 1970s, all a 17-year-old from Miami wants is to escape his tropical paradise & find Utopia. First, he hitchhikes across the country with his secretly gay, openly black best friend. Then he joins a bunch of fellow Hippies and travels in a converted school bus to Denver, stopping along the way to harvest bags of really bad marijuana. Next, along with a bunch of Disney World rejects in Orlando, he enters the world of Glenn W. Turner and his famous get-rich-quick pyramid scheme: Koscot Interplanetary Enterprises.