The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed By Shepard, Judy 2009-09 - Hudson Street Press 9781594630576 Check Our Catalog The mother of Matthew Shepard, the young man murdered in 1998 simply for being gay, shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist. …More

Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement By Gallo, Marcia M. 2006-11 - Carroll & Graf Publishers 9780786716340 Check Our Catalog Nearly fifteen years before the birth of gay liberation, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was the world's first organization committed to lesbian visibility and empowerment. Like its predominantly gay male counterpart, the Mattachine Society, DOB was launched in response to the oppressive anti-homosexual climate of the McCarthy era, when lesbian and gay people were arrested, fired from jobs, and had their children taken away simply because of their sexual orientation. It was against this political backdrop that a circle of San Francisco lesbians formed a private club where lesbians could meet others in a safe, affirming setting. The small social group evolved over the next two decades into a national organization that counted more than a dozen chapters, and laid the foundation for today's lesbian rights movement. "Different Daughters" chronicles this movement and the women who fought the church and state in order to change not only our nation's perception of homosexuality but how lesbians see themselves. Marcia Gallo has interviewed dozens of former DOB members, many of whom have never spoken on record. Through its leaders, magazine, and network of local chapters, DOB played a crucial role in creating lesbian identity, visibility, and political strategies in Cold War America. …More

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for By Bechdel, Alison 2008-11 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 9780618968800 Check Our Catalog For 25 years Bechdel's path-breaking "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, syndicated in alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. This collection gathers 60 of the newest strips. …More

The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy By Leleux, Robert 2009-01 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312361693 Check Our Catalog In a memoir studded with delicious lines and unforgettable set pieces, Leleuxdescribes his east Texas boyhood and coming of age, under the tutelage of hiseccentric, bewigged, flamboyant, and knowing mother. …More

Talking in the Dark By Merrell, Billy 2003-10 - Push 0439490367 Check Our Catalog In an amazing narrative of poems, Merrell tells an ordinary story in an extraordinary way--a remarkable memoir of a young gay man who's growing up, coming out, and exploring love. …More

Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir By Trope, Zoe 2003-10 - Collins 0060529377 Check Our Catalog I wrote a story about you. Well, sort of, see, it's mostly about me. Well, entirely about me, but here's the catch: I'm you. No, really, I mean it. Not like that transcendentalism stuff we're learning in English class, but really, truly, I'm you. I know what it feels like when your heart beats so hard against your white bone ribs, when you sing in the shower with soap in your eyes, when you run until you get a side ache. I wrote this story about you because I am so in love with you, your broken-fence teeth and your tissue-paper scars. I love you when you're so exhausted it could topple you to the ground, so in love it could snap guitar strings, so sickly sweet it could make lips smile. This is a reckless love story. This is my shameless confession. …More

When Dreams Tremble By Radclyffe 2007-01 - Bold Strokes Books 9781933110646 Check Our Catalog …More

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders By Boylan, Jennifer Finney 2003-08 - Broadway Books 076791404X Check Our Catalog The provocative bestseller "She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, "She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, "She's Not There provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves. "Probably no book I've read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I've never known and have never faced . . . The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that's the trick of "She's Not There. And with laughs, too. What a good book." --Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. …More

Mississippi Sissy By Sessums, Kevin 2007-03 - St. Martin's Press 9780312341015 Check Our Catalog Sessums is a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances, and running wild in the South. In a memoir that echoes bestsellers like "The Liar's Club," he brings to life the pungent American South of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew up there. …More

Trans-Sister Radio By Bohjalian, Chris 2001-08 - Vintage Books USA 9780375705175 Check Our Catalog With Trans-Sister Radio, Chris Bohjalian, author of the bestseller Midwives, again confronts his very human characters with issues larger than themselves, here tackling the explosive issue of gender. When Allison Banks develops a crush on Dana Stevens, she knows that he will give her what she needs most: attention, gentleness, kindness, passion. Her daughter, Carly, enthusiastically witnesses the change in her mother. But then a few months into their relationship, Dana tells Allison his secret: he has always been certain that he is a woman born into the wrong skin, and soon he will have a sex-change operation. Allison, overwhelmed by the depth of her passion, and finds herself unable to leave Dana. By deciding to stay, she finds she must confront questions most people never even consider. Not only will her own life and Carly's be irrevocably changed, she will have to contend with the outrage of a small Vermont community and come to terms with her lover's new body-hoping against hope that her love will transcend the physical. …More

Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary By Nolan, Monica 2007-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758214225 Check Our Catalog From the author of "The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories" comes this wickedly funny parody of gay and lesbian pulp classics that weaves sex, mystery, murder, and mayhem into a highly entertaining romp. …More

Red Audrey and the Roping By Malone, Jill 2008-05 - Bywater Books 9781932859546 Check Our Catalog Bywater's first foray into literary fiction launches an extraordinarily accomplished new talent. …More

The Target By Hill, Gerri 2007-04 - Bella Books 9781594930829 Check Our Catalog …More

Always By Griffith, Nicola 2007-05 - Riverhead Hardcover 9781594489358 Check Our Catalog Aud Torvingen--Sa hero who makes La Femme Nikita look like a Powerpuff GirlS ("Details")--returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting justice and to confront new adversaries: her own vulnerability and desire. …More

Women of Mystery: An Anthology By Forrest, Katherine V. 2005-01 - Harrington Park Press 9781560235439 Check Our Catalog A collection of fourteen stories of mystery and suspense by the best known lesbian mystery writers. …More

Line of Beauty By Hollinghurst, Alan 2004-10 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1582345082 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title 2004 Man Booker Prize Award This emotionally charged, disarmingly comic novel weaves the tale of a 20-year-old's private pursuit of beauty as expressed through his dangerous yet rewarding love affairs with a young black clerk and a Lebanese millionaire as he navigates within a world driven by rising fortunes, politics and money, and power and riches in 1980s Britain. …More

Odd Girl Out By Bannon, Ann 2001-08 - Cleis Press 1573441287 Check Our Catalog In the 1950s, Ann Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced their sexuality. With Odd Girl Out, Bannon introduces Laura Landon, whose love affair with her college roommate Beth launched the lesbian pulp fiction genre. …More

Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL By Tuaolo, Esera With Rosengren, John 2006-03 - Sourcebooks 1402205058 Check Our Catalog As a dirt-poor Samoan immigrant, Tuaolo won a football scholarship to Oregon State, was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, and played for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1999 Super Bowl. But Tuaolo carried with him an agonizing secret: he is gay. Now he shares his life story. …More

Man in the Middle By Amaechi, John With Bull, Chris 2007-02 - ESPN Books 9781933060194 Check Our Catalog Man In The Middle is a memoir by a former NBA star who will come "out" in the book and discuss his life as a gay man on and off the court. …More

Are There Closets in Heaven?: A Catholic Father and Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story By Curoe, Carol Author Curoe, Robert 2007-10 - Syren Book Company 9780929636795 Check Our Catalog It's always difficult for a child to tell her parents she is gay, regardless of how liberal or conservative her family might be. When the daughter is part of a devout Catholic family living in a small rural community, the parent-child relationship is exposed to even greater risk, often beyond repair. A revealing first-person dialogue between a lesbian daughter, who had always dutifully tried to please her parents, and her Catholic father, an 81 yr old Iowan farmer. Through their letters and reflections, we see how courage and love made it possible for them to navigate the twists and turns of such a dramatic shift in their lives. This highly personal and often emotional exchange offers a gift of hope and inspiration to families who struggle with learning their child is not what they expected. It lets us experience the real lives behind debates taking place in today's media on same-sex marriage, constitutional amendments, gays and lesbians raising children, and religion. …More