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Gay Lives & Histories - See also booklist: Lesbian & Gay History.

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 88 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps
    Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - by Roland Philipps

    £25.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781847927071 | ISBN 10: 1847927076

    Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.  'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett
    Fire Island: A Queer History - by Jack Parlett

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783787029 | ISBN 10: 1783787023

    Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.   Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here we ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt
    All Down Darkness Wide - by Sean Hewitt

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114478 | ISBN 10: 1529114470

    A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.  'Beautiful' Colm Tóibín 'Rapturous' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Stunning' Sunday T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain by Jeremy Seabrook
    Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain - by Jeremy Seabrook

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745348421 | ISBN 10: 0745348424

    A moving memoir chronicling the friendship of two gay men coming of age in 1950s Britain.  'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; ... more

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    I'm Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss - by Joseph Lezza

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9786185728007 | ISBN 10: 6185728001

    ★★★★★ “A standout piece of work. This is tough and true and so well considered. A magnificent achievement.” Russell T. Davies, award-winning writer and creator of Queer as Folk and Doctor Who   In I'm Never Fine, a collage memoir ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
    Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781839763281 | ISBN 10: 1839763280

    An unconventional history of homosexuality.   We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual hero ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich
    Gay Life Stories - by Robert Aldrich

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780500297032 | ISBN 10: 0500297037

    A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today’s varied gay culture.  This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major conti ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale Of Two Omars by Omar Sharif Jr
    A Tale Of Two Omars - by Omar Sharif Jr

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781640095588 | ISBN 10: 1640095586

    “A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery... Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and homophobia, this is an essential book that shines a much-needed light on the intersection of Arab and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé
    Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex - by Gilles Dauvé

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781629639451 | ISBN 10: 1629639451

    In a fascinating and radical critique of identity and class, Your Place or Mine? examines the modern invention of homosexuality as a social construct that emerged in the nineteenth century. Examining “fairies” in Victorian England, transmen in ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Difference Is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society by Michael Handrick
    Difference Is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society - by Michael Handrick

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780750999021 | ISBN 10: 0750999020

    In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surround ... more

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  • Cover image of book Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys by Jeffrey Weeks
    Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys - by Jeffrey Weeks

    £15.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595097 | ISBN 10: 1914595092

    Jeffrey Weeks has been called ‘the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s’. Yet behind the titles and acclaim lies the story of a hugely fascinating, inspirational life ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
    The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk - by Randy Shilts

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838956585 | ISBN 10: 1838956581

    ‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door’   This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
    Gay Bar: Why We Went Out - by Jeremy Atherton Lin

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783785834 | ISBN 10: 1783785837

    From leather parties in the Castro to Gay Liberation Front touch-ins; from disco at Studio One to dark rooms in Vauxhall railway arches, the gay bar has long been a place of joy, solidarity and sexual expression. But around the world, gay bars are cl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Are You This? Or Are You This? A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, with Ellen Georgiou
    Are You This? Or Are You This? A Story of Identity and Worth - by Madian Al Jazerah, with Ellen Georgiou

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787384651 | ISBN 10: 1787384659

    A gay man’s memoir of hardship, courage, community and kin in the Arab world and beyond.   When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. ‘Are you this?’ she asked, cupping her hand. ‘Or are you thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
    The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler - by Chris Bryant

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526601735 | ISBN 10: 1526601737

    A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY   We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told.  In the early 1930s, a group of y ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O
    All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying - by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409189121 | ISBN 10: 1409189120

    'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eat, Gay, Love by Calum McSwiggan
    Eat, Gay, Love - by Calum McSwiggan

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529384529 | ISBN 10: 1529384524

    In the spring of 2012, Calum finds himself single again after his relationship of six years comes to an end.  Heartbroken, unhappy and unsure of what to do next, he leaves the hometown he has been in all his life to embark on a journey that take ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS : A Memoir by Derek Frost
    Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS : A Memoir - by Derek Frost

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786784964 | ISBN 10: 1786784963

    This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story.  Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
    And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic - by Randy Shilts

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788167734 | ISBN 10: 1788167732

    An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film.  Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1981, the year when AIDS c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties by Darryl W. Bullock
    The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties - by Darryl W. Bullock

    £20.00   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787602311 | ISBN 10: 1787602311

    In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock'n'roll was changing pop, politics and society for goo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim
    A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim's Journey to Acceptance - by Mohsin ZaidI

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529110142 | ISBN 10: 1529110149

    A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household.  Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative.  From a young age, M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men
    Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives - by Walt Odets

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141990149 | ISBN 10: 0141990147

    Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
    Naturally Tan: A Memoir - by Tan France

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780753553732 | ISBN 10: 0753553732

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption by Patrick Flanery
    The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption - by Patrick Flanery

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786497260 | ISBN 10: 1786497263

    A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple’s attempt to adopt a child.   But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mercury and Me: An Intimate Memoir By the Man Freddie Loved by Jim Hutton, with Tim Wapshott
    Mercury and Me: An Intimate Memoir By the Man Freddie Loved - by Jim Hutton, with Tim Wapshott

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526614506 | ISBN 10: 1526614502

    The moving, remarkable story of the relationship between Freddie Mercury and his longtime partner Jim Hutton, as explored in the major, Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Bohemian Rhapsody.   The relationship between Freddie Mercury ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yay! You
    Yay! You're Gay! Now What? A Gay Boy's Guide to Life - by Riyadh Khalaf

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786031914 | ISBN 10: 1786031914

    Yay! You're gay! Or maybe you're bi. Or maybe you just feel different... in time, that difference will become the greatest gift you could ask for. It will bring you love, a sense of identity, a new community, and eventually the freedom to be yourself ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
    Who Killed My Father - by Édouard Louis

    £10.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787301221 | ISBN 10: 1787301222

    Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.   In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Help by Simon Amstell
    Help - by Simon Amstell

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705695 | ISBN 10: 1784705691

    "A beautiful and clever book about being human."(Russell Brand) COMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY.  Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Pocket Biography of Wilde by Tony Potter
    A Pocket Biography of Wilde - by Tony Potter

    £4.50   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780717179459 | ISBN 10: 0717179451

    Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland’s finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 1890s and is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the circ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family by Garrard Conley
    Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family - by Garrard Conley

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008276980 | ISBN 10: 0008276986

    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.   When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society
    Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame - by Matthew Todd

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780552778404 | ISBN 10: 0552778400

    WINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017   Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks ... more

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  • Cover image of book Standing in the Wings: The Beatles, Brian Epstein and Me by Joe Flannery
    Standing in the Wings: The Beatles, Brian Epstein and Me - by Joe Flannery

    £15.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750987608 | ISBN 10: 075098760x

    Joe Flannery has been described as the ‘Secret Beatle’ – as the business associate and childhood friend of Brian Epstein, he became an integral part of The Beatles’ management team during their rise to fame in the early 1960s.   Stand ... more

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  • Cover image of book Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes
    Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me - by Bill Hayes

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408890615 | ISBN 10: 1408890615

    A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.   Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir by Peter Gajdics
    The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir - by Peter Gajdics

    £17.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781941932087 | ISBN 10: 1941932088

    Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy (delivered in the form of primal therapy) that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man by Chike Frankie Edozien
    Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man - by Chike Frankie Edozien

    £11.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995516236 | ISBN 10: 0995516235

    From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, U.S.A. to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France; from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien offers a highly personal series of contemporary ... more

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  • Cover image of book Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero by Michael Ford
    Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero - by Michael Ford

    £15.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780809153084 | ISBN 10: 0809153084

    Now revised, with a new introduction and reflections on events since 9/11, this spiritual portrait of Father Mychal Judge is a remarkable testimony to the hope and courage that he brought to thousands of people, not only as the New York City fire cha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
    Before Night Falls - by Reinaldo Arenas

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781258682 | ISBN 10: 1781258686

    The heartbreaking memoir of artistic, sexual and political freedom in Castro's Cuba, with a new foreword by Garth Greenwell.  Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir by Joel Grey
    Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir - by Joel Grey

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781250057259 | ISBN 10: 1250057256

    Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story.   Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the th ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Mourning Year: A Memoir of Bereavement, Discovery and Hope by Andrew Marshall
    My Mourning Year: A Memoir of Bereavement, Discovery and Hope - by Andrew Marshall

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910453315 | ISBN 10: 1910453315

    In 1997 Andrew Marshall’s partner, and the only person to whom he had ever truly opened his heart, died after a gruelling and debilitating illness.   Unmoored from his old life, and feeling let down by his family, Marshall struggled not onl ... more

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  • Cover image of book When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
    When We Rise: My Life in the Movement - by Cleve Jones

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472126658 | ISBN 10: 1472126653

    A personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, and partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series When We Rise from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
    Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration - by David Wojnarowicz

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890276 | ISBN 10: 1786890275

    I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.   Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beau ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
    Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius - by Dermot Turing

    £6.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781841657561 | ISBN 10: 1841657565

    Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second Worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd
    Straight Jacket - by Matthew Todd

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780593069776 | ISBN 10: 0593069773

    Written by Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude, the UK's best-selling gay magazine, Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks bene ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
    Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father - by Adam Mars-Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846148774 | ISBN 10: 1846148774

    Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016   When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
    Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal - by Jay Parini

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349139401 | ISBN 10: 0349139407

    The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost thinkers and writers.  An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover
    Greek Homosexuality - by K. J. Dover

    £24.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474257152 | ISBN 10: 1474257151

    Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
    Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS - by Martin Duberman

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971925 | ISBN 10: 1620971925

    The Lambda Literary Awardwinning biography of two men fighting for their lives in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, from the celebrated historian. "A meticulously researched, nuanced, empathic and insightful portrait of two important artistic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolfenden
    Wolfenden's Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britain - by Brian Lewis

    £20.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781137321480 | ISBN 10: 1137321482

    The Wolfenden Report of 1957 has long been recognized as a landmark in moves towards gay law reform. What is less well known is that the testimonials and written statements of the witnesses before the Wolfenden Committee provide by far the most compl ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
    On the Move: A Life - by Oliver Sacks

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447264064 | ISBN 10: 1447264061

    An impassioned, tender and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went from Pop to Pulpit by Richard Coles
    Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went from Pop to Pulpit - by Richard Coles

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780226194 | ISBN 10: 1780226195

    The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live presenter and former member of the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles.  From the top of the pop charts to the priesthood via BBC Radio 4.   Fathomless Riches is the Reverend Richard C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o Lgbt Activism by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (Editors)
    Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o Lgbt Activism - by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781477307304 | ISBN 10: 1477307303

    In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their et ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual by Terry Sanderson
    The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual - by Terry Sanderson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781786102331 | ISBN 10: 1786102331

    In this funny, warm and touching book Terry Sanderson reveals how he the most unwilling and unlikely of activists - honed his skills as a campaigner at the very beginning of the struggle for gay rights in Britain. But this is more than just the sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
    The Essential Ginsberg - by Allen Ginsberg

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398990 | ISBN 10: 014139899x

    Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little underst ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
    More Fool Me - by Stephen Fry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781405918831 | ISBN 10: 1405918837

    Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.  'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Flaneur by Edmund White
    The Flaneur - by Edmund White

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408864760 | ISBN 10: 1408864762

    A flneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic.  Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who live ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
    Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris - by Edmund White

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408837764 | ISBN 10: 1408837765

    Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)
    Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology - by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780956971968 | ISBN 10: 0956971962

    A ground-breaking, provocative and diverse anthology of writing about black gay men's lives in the UK - essays, activist memoirs, (auto)biographies, poems and fiction, edited by multi-award-winning writers Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon.  Cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
    Alan Turing: The Enigma - by Andrew Hodges

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784700089 | ISBN 10: 1784700088

    The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley   Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote... by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
    Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote... - by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

    £15.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781936003372 | ISBN 10: 1936003376

    One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle was on the dawn of world fame Tennessee Williams for A Streetca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Becoming a Londoner by David Plante
    Becoming a Londoner - by David Plante

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408840115 | ISBN 10: 1408840111

    Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don't apply. It is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott
    Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father - by Alysia Abbott

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780393348903 | ISBN 10: 0393348903

    After his wifes death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott came out of the closet and moved, with his three-year-old daughter, to San Francisco. There they discovered a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation few of whom had responsi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oscar Wilde and His Circle by Simon Callow
    Oscar Wilde and His Circle - by Simon Callow

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781855144781 | ISBN 10: 1855144786

    One of literature's most flamboyant and witty personalities, the much-quoted Oscar Wilde captivated and scandalised late nineteenth-century society in Europe and America.   Wilde was a pioneer of celebrity, whose friends and contemporaries in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liberation: Diaries, Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
    Liberation: Diaries, Vol 3 - by Christopher Isherwood

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099575474 | ISBN 10: 0099575477

    Hilarious and often deeply moving, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary diaries chronicles the 1970s, with a preface by Edmund White.  In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word mast ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Ok To Be Gay: Celebrity Coming out Stories - by Alison Stokes (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781909624122 | ISBN 10: 1909624128

    Launched to coincide with National Coming Out Day, It's OK to be Gay is a collection of inspirational coming out stories from well-known figures from the LGBT community, who talk frankly about their own experiences and how their sexuality has shaped ... more

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  • Cover image of book Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
    Christopher and His Kind - by Christopher Isherwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561071 | ISBN 10: 0099561077

    Isherwood's candid memoir of his life in 1930s Berlin. A seminal book of gay liberation which made him the grand old man of the movement. In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bohemian Rhapsody: the Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones
    Bohemian Rhapsody: the Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury - by Lesley-Ann Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444733693 | ISBN 10: 1444733699

    This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sixties Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969 by Christopher Isherwood
    The Sixties Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969 - by Christopher Isherwood

    £25.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099565222 | ISBN 10: 0099565226

    A great writer nails the sixties, from California to swinging London, in his fearless, insightful diaries - with a preface by Christopher Hitchens.  This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal
    Point to Point Navigation - by Gore Vidal

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780349139104 | ISBN 10: 0349139105

    Point to Point Navigation refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest, I felt as if I were again dealing with ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freddie Mercury: The Biography by Laura Jackson
    Freddie Mercury: The Biography - by Laura Jackson

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780749956080 | ISBN 10: 0749956089

    This fascinating biography of Freddie Mercury which received outstanding acclaim from Queen and rock fans worldwide, has now been updated for reissue to coincide with the release of the film about his life. Laura Jackson addresses topics including: & ... more

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  • Cover image of book Autofellatio by James Maker
    Autofellatio - by James Maker

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9782919595143 | ISBN 10: 2919595148

    Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2011  Autofellatio is the memoir of singer, lyricist, writer and occasional actor James Maker.   It begins with his teenage years in punk-era London, moving through the counter-cultural 19 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography by Gok Wan
    Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography - by Gok Wan

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780091938383 | ISBN 10: 0091938384

    With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but its not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from.   Gok g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams by Christopher Stevens
    Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams - by Christopher Stevens

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848541979 | ISBN 10: 184854197x

    Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles.   Born Brilliant includes much previous ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East by Brian Whitaker
    Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East - by Brian Whitaker

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780863564833 | ISBN 10: 0863564836

    Homosexuality is still taboo in the Arab countries. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers, reluctant to address it directly, talk cryptically of 'shameful acts' and 'deviant behaviour.' Despite growing acceptance of sexual diversity ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer (25th Anniversary edition) by William S. Burroughs
    Queer (25th Anniversary edition) - by William S. Burroughs

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141189918 | ISBN 10: 0141189916

    Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
    Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love - by Sheila Rowbotham

    £32.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844674213 | ISBN 10: 1844674215

    Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, the gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate ... more

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  • Cover image of book King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin
    King of Shadows - by Aaron Shurin

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780872864900 | ISBN 10: 0872864901

    King of Shadows assembles twenty-one highly charged personal essays circling around the author's gay and literary life in San Francisco, a poet's excursion through identity, sensibility, and the dangerous joy of living in the open."King of Shadows is ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Person Queer: Who We are (so Far) by Edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
    First Person Queer: Who We are (so Far) - by Edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel

    £14.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781551522272 | ISBN 10: 1551522276

    In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans) experience: from coming out to "passing" as straight, to the devastation of meth addicti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lavender Locker Room: 300 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation Was Different by Patricia Nell Warren
    The Lavender Locker Room: 300 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation Was Different - by Patricia Nell Warren

    £21.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781889135076 | ISBN 10: 1889135070

    Some are legendary - such as pilot Amelia Earhart and golf champion Babe Didrikson. Others are less familiar - balloonist Alberto Santos-Dumont and javelin thrower Ana Maria Sagi.  Some went public - NFL running back David Kopay and downhill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love is Where it Falls: An Account of a Passionate Friendship by Simon Callow
    Love is Where it Falls: An Account of a Passionate Friendship - by Simon Callow

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599766 | ISBN 10: 1854599763

    When Simon Callow first met Peggy Ramsay he could hardly have suspected that his encounter with the play agent would blossom into passionate love. There was the age difference for one thing: Callow was barely 30, Peggy was in her seventies. And then ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Lives by Edmund White
    My Lives - by Edmund White

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747579649 | ISBN 10: 0747579644

    No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the factsin all their shocking ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Young Man
    A Young Man's Passage - by Julian Clary

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091908720 | ISBN 10: 0091908728

    A Young Man's Passage is Julian's telling of his own rise and fall as Britain's most famous, uncompromising queen.  After a happy suburban upbringing, only briefly ruffled by the brutality of the monks at his school, Julian packed his bags for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle
    Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir - by Edwin John Wintle

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781416511175 | ISBN 10: 1416511172

    When you are a fortysomething gay New Yorker with a stressful job as a film agent and the odd obsessive-compulsive tendency, you may not see yourself as an ideal parent. However, when Ed's sister asks him to take in her daughter - the beautiful, cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century by Edited by Ben Summerskill
    The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century - by Edited by Ben Summerskill

    £18.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780826487858 | ISBN 10: 0826487858

    The arrival of civil partnership in Britain in 2005 was welcomed with a Sun editorial celebrating the forthcoming wedding of Elton John and David Furnish. Beneath the headline 'Gay Pride' the newspaper - once doggedly hostile to homosexuality - claim ... more

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  • Cover image of book Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship by Chushichi Tsuzuki
    Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship - by Chushichi Tsuzuki

    £30.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780521019590 | ISBN 10: 0521019591

    This is the first full-scale biography of Edward Carpenter, an 'eminent Victorian' who played an intriguing role in the revival of socialism in Britain in the late 19th century.  'A worthy heir of Carlyle and Ruskin', as Tolstoy called him, Car ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
    Moab is My Washpot - by Stephen Fry

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099457046 | ISBN 10: 0099457040

    "Stephen Fry is one of the great originals- This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering confusion- That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Tibn
    Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar - by Colm Tibn

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330491389 | ISBN 10: 0330491385

    In this perceptive and rich collection of essays Tibn investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tibn looks at the life and work of some ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by A. B. Christa Schwarz
    Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance - by A. B. Christa Schwarz

    £16.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780253216076 | ISBN 10: 0253216079

    This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Counte Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hello Sailor! The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea by Paul Baker and Jo Stanley
    Hello Sailor! The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea - by Paul Baker and Jo Stanley

    £35.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780582772144 | ISBN 10: 0582772141

    When homosexuality was illegal and gay men were closeted there were few safe places to be. Apart from the theatre, passenger ships provided the only space where gay men could be not only out, but outrageously camp. Efficient, able-bodied seamen by da ... more

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