Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 741
Price: £14.99
Review The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for / Firebrand Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2007-06-01
RRP: £6.99
Price: £14.22
Review Holding the Man / Penguin Books Australia:
Authors
- Margarethe Cammermeyer
- Chris Fisher
Publication date: 1995-10
Dewey code: 305.489664092
RRP: £6.40
Price: £10.95
Review Serving in Silence / Penguin USA (P):
Publication date: 1992-11
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.75
Review Asphodel / Duke University Press:
Creator: Garry Wotherspoon
Publication date: 1987-12-31
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £16.04
Price: £14.80
Review Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day / Routledge:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-10-18
Dewey code: 921
RRP: £20.00
Price: £4.77
Review Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser / Faber and Faber:Robert Fraser is one of those very minor characters from the 60s, whose life nevertheless offers glimpses of many of the biggest names of the time, often from unusual angles. Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Dennis Hopper, Paul McCartney, Kenneth Anger, all crossed his path at one time or another. Fraser was a heady, contradictory mixture: an Old Etonian and an ex-officer of the King's African Rifles who, after having done his time in such conventional fields, arrived in Swinging London and became a noted art dealer and gallery owner. He lived in a flat in Mayfair and took a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce to work each day, only a few streets away. He was also a promiscuous homosexual, drug addict and fringe member of the pop circles of his day. The composition of the book is daring but very successful, made up almost entirely of the recollections of those who met, worked or partied with Fraser, arranged chronologically to form one of the most vivid portraits of the decade that I've ever read. It all comes across as an infuriating mix of excitement, irresponsibility, arrogance, self-indulgence, immaturity and thrills. And there are some nice one- liners, especially from the great Keith Richards. Recollecting a character from those mad times who eventually committed suicide, Richards explains, "He shot himself because he realised who he was. "-Christopher Hart.
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 979.461053092
RRP: £14.50
Price: £5.28
Review Harvey Milk Story, THE / Two Lives Pub:
Edition: Picador mass market pbk. e.
Publication date: 2006-03-01
Dewey code: 813.6
Price: £5.70
Review Running with Scissors: A Memoir / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir Running with Scissors that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours. " There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription medicines and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a paedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorises it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a cappella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs' perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs' survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. -John Moe, Amazon. [+]com.
Authors
- Sally M. O'Neil
- Barbee J. Cassingham
Publication date: 2008-06-13
Dewey code: 305.489664
RRP: £8.00
Price: £8.39
Review And Then I Met This Woman: Previously Married Women's Journeys into Lesbian Relationships / Booksurge Llc:
Publication date: 1999-10-31
Dewey code: 364.1536
RRP: £14.50
Price: £6.03
Review In My Father's Arms: A True Story of Incest (Living Out: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies) / University of Wisconsin Press:
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 362.19697920092
Price: £12.99
Review At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament / Hutchinson:
Publication date: 1989-07
Price: £18.00
Review Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography / Chatto and Windus:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.93
Review A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay / Harrington Park Press Inc:
Publication date: 1998-06-01
Dewey code: 792.086640973
RRP: £16.99
Price: £14.23
Review Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative) / Indiana University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 797.24092
Price: £6.93
Review Breaking the Surface / Plume Books:
Edition: 1st Perennial Ed., Updated Millenial Ed
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 791.43028086640973
RRP: £8.03
Price: £24.01
Review Open Secret: Gay Hollywood, 1928-2000 / William Morrow:
Publication date: 1995-06-04
Dewey code: 791.43028092273
RRP: £19.95
Price: £15.15
Review Hollywood Lesbians / Barricade Books Inc.,U.S.:
Publication date: 2003-05-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.69
Price: £11.98
Review Transactions / Periskop:
Publication date: 1991-12-31
RRP: £8.95
Price: £16.62
Review The Trouble with Harry Hay / Alyson Publications Inc:
Publication date: 1996-09-30
Dewey code: 305.389664092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £2.87
Review Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son / HarperSanFrancisco:
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