In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's Emmy award-winning �Queer Eye�, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few people of colour in South Yorkshire. He illuminates ... Weiterlesen

Michael Ausiello: Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies

USA 2018, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Atria

For the past decade, TV fans have counted upon Michael Ausiello's insider knowledge to get the scoop on their favorite shows and stars. From his time at �Soaps in Depth� and �Entertainment Tonight� to his influential stints at �TV Guide� and �Entertainment Weekly� to his current role as co-founder of the wildly popular website TVLine.com, Michael has established himself as ... Weiterlesen

Garrard Conley: Boy Erased

UK 2018, 340 pp., Pb, € 13.95
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William Collins

The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. As a 19-year-old college student, Garrard was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to ... Weiterlesen
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Jeff Garvin: Symptoms of Being Human

Boy or Girl? Yes. USA 2017, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Harper Collins

Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in �ber-conservative Orange County, the pressure - media and otherwise - is building up in Riley's ... Weiterlesen

Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

UK 2017, 317 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Serpent�s Tail

Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of 20th- century. In �Before Night Falls�, Arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Lerner: Swords in the Hands of Children

Reflections of an American Revolutionary. USA 2017, 224 pp., hardcover, € 22.99
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This memoir of an American radical arrives at a moment of surging activism and rage. Against the chaos and conflicts of the 1960s, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change. Beyond that, he tells the true story of an intellectually adventurous but ... Weiterlesen

David Hallberg: A Body of Work

Dancing to the Edge and Back. USA 2017, 320 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 19.95
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Touchstone

David Hallberg, the first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer, presents an intimate journey through his artistic life. Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliott childhood - an all-American story marred by intense bullying - and culminating in his hard-won come-back after a devastating injury, Hallberg's memoir dives into life as an artist as he wrestles ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Logical Family

A Memoir. USA 2018, 289 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Harper Collins

The author of the bestselling �Tales of the City� series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer. Many straight Americans first learned of the San Francisco gay scene in the 1980's from �Tales of the City�, either the San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper ... Weiterlesen

Caitlyn Jenner: The Secrets of My Life

USA 2017, 336 pp., hardback, € 19.95
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Orion

With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn Jenner, male to female transsexual, writes about her confusion growing up, the temporary triumph of the Olympics as Bruce Jenner, and the noose of being endlessly described as the ultimate in manhood. She reveals her sense of shame and deceit she felt as she got older, as she went to great lengths to tell lies ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Little Brown

This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series �When We Rise� from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Lust and Wonder

USA 2016, 304 pp., hardcover, € 18.95
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Macmillan

In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. The author of �Running With Scissors� continues the story he began in �Dry� to examine the ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

UK 2016, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador

Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, �A Boy's Own Story� became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality and gay life in American fiction. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: How to Grow up

A Memoir. USA 2015, 287 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA

As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house. She drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on. She dated men and women, and sometimes both at once. But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks and organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real. In ... Weiterlesen

Joey Graceffa: In Real Life

My Journey to a Pixelated World. USA 2015, 260 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Twenty-three year old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and inspirational YouTube presence (not to mention his sparkling eyes and perfect hair). Yet, Joey wasn't always comfortable in his skin, and in this candid memoir, he thoughtfully looks back on his journey as a gay boy from pain to ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts

USA 2016, 180 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Maggie Nelson's �The Argonauts� is a genre-bending memoir, a work of �autotheory� offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who ... Weiterlesen

Oliver Sacks: On the Move

UK 2015, 397 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Picador

From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, �On the Move� is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a ... Weiterlesen

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

A Memoir. CAN 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press

The author is a multihyphenate force of nature, a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family, a sissy, an insecure teenager desperate to disappear, and ... Weiterlesen

Brad Gooch: Smash Cut

A Memoir of Howard and Art and the 70s and the 80s. USA 2015, 239 pp., hardback, € 27.99
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Harper Collins

Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. At the center of this memoir is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply of emotions, from blazing ecstasy to bleakest despair. Gooch and Brookner's intense relationship is haunted by the specter ... Weiterlesen

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