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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist
£23.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781479818495 | ISBN 10: 1479818496
Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of a ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873875 | ISBN 10: 178487387x
A divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAING In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barre ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£11.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781594745997 | ISBN 10: 1594745994
Based on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares more than 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photographs are accompanied by sweet, funny, and at times heartbreaking personal stories. This intimate little har ... more
View book details£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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