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	A Product of the System: My Life in and Out of Prison	The autobiography of a man who has been in and out of penal institutions since he was eight years old. He has won two Arthur Koestler awards for his plays, and writes for "The Guardian" on prison reform.
	Mark Leech
	Autobiography
	1993
		Book#: ABIOC058
	A Way Of Life	Peter Wildeblood shares his story as a gay man in Britain.
	Peter Wildeblood
		Book#: ABIOC108
	Autobiography, Gay
	1956
	A Young Man's Passage	One of Britain’s most loved comic entertainers; this is Julian Clary’s story, in his own words — a touching, beautifully written and wryly-witty account of a unique progression from shy child to comedy icon.
	Julian Clary
	Autobiography, Humour/Comedy
	2005
		Book#: ABIOC021
	Against the Law	A riveting account of what it meant to be a homosexual in 1950s Britain, by a central figure in the celebrated Montagu Case. In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu Case, as it came to be known. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months for homosexual offences, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen's Evidence. In this book, first publishe...
	Peter Wildeblood
	Autobiography, Gay, Law
	1955
		Book#: ABIOC109
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	Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence	The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat...
	Andrew Hodges
	Biography, Gay
	1983
		Book#: ABIOC094
	All the Queen's Men	This book is the result of my fourteen years as a bandsman in a British cavalry regiment, ending up as a Trumpet Major. Within a year of enlisting, I'd discovered a gay military world and experienced my first gay sex; many squaddies and bandsmen were partial to a bit of cock fun. I was out for most of my career and was at various times protected by both peers and senior ranks. There were no threats and rarely any hostility. I had numerous flirtations and love affairs, and when I got "engaged" to...
	Nick Elwood
	Autobiography, Gay
	1999
		Book#: ABIOC035
	An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond	Paul Bailey's remarkable account of growing up working class and gay in south London just after the war. His father had come back from WWI to find that he'd been abandonned by his wife, and in early middle age, working as a road sweepeer, he married a young servant girl. Bailey was one of three children brought up in such poverty that up to the middle of his adolescence he slept in the same bed as his father because of lack of space in the house. Nevertheless it was a happy, secure home which he...
	Paul Bailey
	Autobiography, Gay
	2004
		Book#: ABIOC004
	Anything Goes	From his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his starring role in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, this memoir traces the life and career of actor John Barrowman. John made a name for himself with remarkable West End achievements, including an Olivier Award nomination and success in the movies The Producers and De-Lovely. Television success was also assured when Torchwood won a Best Drama BAFTA. John also lays bare his personal life: his emigration as a child, coming out to his fam...
	John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
	Autobiography, Film/Cinema, Gay, Television
	2008
		Book#: ABIOC006
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	Anything is Possible	The final of the Pop Idol show was the most anticipated TV event of the year. Over 13 million people tuned in to see Will Young win the show with over 4.6 million votes - Will Young the middle-class University graduate with the looks of Robbie Williams and the voice of Sinatra consistently turned in a professional performance week after week and was finally crowned Pop Idol 2002. Viewers only saw a fraction of Will on the show and this book completes the picture - detailing all the moments fro...
	Will Young
	Autobiography, Music
	2002
		Book#: ABIOC115
	At My Mother's Knee . . .: and Other Low Joints	In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O'Grady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a virtuous altar-boy ("my first drag") to Britain's best loved entertainer. It's a life that includes, varyingly, stints in an abbatoir, as a social worker, in a high-class Mayfair brothel, and traipsing down to London to chase his dreams. By 23, Paul O'Grady had been a father, husband, drag queen, gay lover, divorcee, and degenerate. He did it all with a smile on his ...
	Paul O'Grady
	Autobiography, Drag, Humour/Comedy, Religion, Television
	2009
		Book#: ABIOC074
	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story	He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant round of ventriloquism as he played the joker and pretended to be the same as everyone else. For Paul Monette was gay. BECOMING A MAN is about growing up gay, and about the tyranny and self denial of the closet - one man's struggle, for half his li...
	Paul Monette
	Autobiography, Coming Out, Gay, Religion
	1992
		Book#: ABIOC069
	Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball	Pallone's "double life"--a gay working as an umpire in the macho world of professional baseball--led to his release in 1988 by the National League, which claimed he had exhibited "unprofessional behavior." Pallone talks honestly about his controversial career, including his confrontation with Pete Rose during a 1988 Mets game, which cost Rose a 30-day suspension and a $10,000 fine; unfortunately, it cost Pallone his job. Pallone provides interesting comments about calling the pitches of such gre...
	Alan Steinberg, David Pallone
	Autobiography, Gay, Sports
	1990
		Book#: ABIOC076
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	Beside Myself	Actor, author, artist, Antony Sher grew up with a profound sense of being an outsider, uncomfortable at home in South Africa, and totally out of place as Rifleman 65833329 during conscription in Namibia. Small, weedy, Jewish, painfully conscious of his unfulfilled homosexuality, Ant, as his mother called him, found refuge in art, later in theatre and escape to London. Initially turned down by RADA and Central, he went on to create a series of triumphant stage performances - including Richard III...
	Antony Sher
	Art/Photography, Autobiography, Gay, Religion, Theatre/Play
	2001
		Book#: ABIOC087
	Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams	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 will include much previously unseen material from Williams's candid daily journal and also draw on rare in-depth interviews with friends and colleagues. Since the publication of edited extracts from his diaries, much controversy has surrounded Williams's personal and professional ...
	Christopher Stevens
	Biography, Diary, Film/Cinema, Humour/Comedy, Television
	2011
		Book#: ABIOC110
	Borrowed Time: An Aids Memoir	For almost two years, day and night, Monette helped Roger Horwitz, his friend of twelve years, fight the AIDS calamity with courage and dignity. His is more than a testimony to the ravages of this plague, it is a love story - one that explores the fullness of human connection and the pain of separation.
	Paul Monette
	AIDS/HIV, Autobiography, Death
	1990
		Book#: ABIOC071
	Bowie	A very readable biography of Bowie up to 1983. Hopkins' riveting study gets behind the many images that have concealed the elusive David Jones of Brixton, London. Drawing on interviews with family members, ex-lovers, friends and associates, he describes Bowie early struggle and eventual breakthrough, and his development as an artist: the albums, videos, films and tours. It is illustrated with rare black & white photographs and contains a discography, filmography and videography. The tone is info...
	Jerry Hopkins
	Biography, Music
	1986
		Book#: ABIOC012
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	Breaking the Surface	The champion diver presents a candid account of his life and sports career, detailing his troubled youth, the highs and lows of athletic competition, the need to conceal his homosexuality, life in a post-Olympics era, and his day-to-day battle with AIDS.
	Greg Louganis, Eric Marcus
	AIDS/HIV, Autobiography, Gay, Sports
	1995
		Book#: ABIOC060
	Charles Laughton	Hailed as one of the great actors of the century, immortalised in such film classics as Mutiny on the Bounty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Charles Laughton is a name remembered with affection by theatre and cinema goers all over the world. But there was a dark and troubled side to the Loughton magic. Moody, irascible, prone to hopeless affairs with younger men, Laughton was a man at war with himself. Hating his own ugliness, he sought release in acting - but ...
	Charles Higham
	Biography, Film/Cinema, Gay, Theatre/Play
	1979
		Book#: ABIOC056
	Christopher and His Kind	Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels-who appeared again, fictionalized to an even grea...
	Christopher Isherwood
	Autobiography, Gay
	1978
		Book#: ABIOC045
	City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s	In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning...
	Edmund White
	Autobiography, Culture, Gay
	2010
		Book#: ABIOC098
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	Commandant of Auschwitz	Rudolph Hoess was Commandant of Auschwitz during the war. He was taken prisoner by the British. Between his trial and his execution he was ordered to write his autobiography. This is it.
	Rudolf Hoess
	Autobiography
	1961
		Book#: ABIOC043
	Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America	This is a series of autobiographical essays which provide critical commentary on leading figures, personalities, events and issues in the worlds of identity politics, AIDS and the arts in post-World War II America. It probes the interconnectedness of gay, Jewish and musical subcultures. The book is set against the backdrop of AIDS, when every sexually-active gay man is forced to confront his own mortality. To understand the fear that the disease had touched, the author faces the reality that his...
	Lawrence D. Mass
	AIDS/HIV, Autobiography, Gay, Religion
	1994
		Book#: ABIOC061
	Derek Jarman: A Portrait	The power of Derek Jarman's visual imagination has touched every one of his projects. In the various roles of painter, stage designer, film-maker and gardener, his intensity forged a compelling view of the world in many different media. However, it was as a painter that he was trained, graduating from the Slade School of Art in the 1960s to almost immediate acclaim, and exhibiting widely both in London and abroad. His career as a film-maker never entirely exposed his importance as an artist. The...
	Roger Wollen
	Art/Photography, Biography, Film/Cinema
	1996
		Book#: ABIOC047
	Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love	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 of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women¬s suffrage and prison reform, his work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Sheila Rowbotham¬s highly acclaimed biography situates Carpenter¬s life and thought in relation to the social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of his day, and explore...
	Sheila Rowbotham
	Biography, Gay
	2009
		Book#: ABIOC019
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	Ellen: The Real Story of Ellen DeGeneres	All Ellen DeGeneres wanted to be was funny. She kept her humor clean and steered clear of politics and social agendas, instead honing a quirky, off-center, mistrustful view of the world. I was coming home from kindergarten - well, they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. If ever there was a more unlikely comic to become a symbol of controversy, it was Ellen DeGeneres. Throughout her career, ...
	Kathleen Tracy
	Biography, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	2005
		Book#: ABIOC031
	Elton John	He was born Reginald Kenneth White in 1947, and he began his career in his teens pounding the piano in a pub. The world, though, would know him as Elton John, the name that for the past three decades has epitomized rock-music superstardom. From blockbuster albums like Friends and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in the 1970s to award-winning scores in the nineties for the film and Broadway show The Lion King and the current stage hit Aida, Elton John has never failed to dazzle his audiencesand never mo...
	Philip Norman
	Biography, Gay, Music
	1992
		Book#: ABIOC048
	Emlyn: A Sequel to George	The further autobiography of Emlyn Williams, picking up where "George" left off.
	Emlyn Williams
		Book#: ABIOC113
	Autobiography, Theatre/Play
	1976
	Family Outing	From Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny & Cher, heroine of the gay community: the first comprehensive guide to the coming-out process from the perspective of both gays & lesbians & their parents.
	Billie Fitzpatrick, Chastity Bono
	Autobiography, Coming Out, Family, Gay, Lesbian
		Book#: ABIOC009
	1998
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	Famous Trials: Oscar Wilde	Four days after the opening of Oscar Wilde's most popular and witty play "The Importance of Being Earnest", the Marquess of Queensberry threw down a gauntlet to the playwright in the form of a card - the catalyst for one of the most bizarre contests ever staged at the Old Bailey. Wilde's prosecution for libel and his own subsequent prosecution by the Crown for gross indecency showed a man completely at odds with a class-ridden society that was rife with snobbery and narrow-mindedness. This book ...
	H. Montgomery Hyde
	Biography, Gay, Law
	1962
		Book#: ABIOC106
	Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life	Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development.
	Federico Garcia Lorca, Ian Gibson
	Biography, Gay
	1990
		Book#: ABIOC041
	Frankly Kellie: Becoming a Woman in a Man's World	Not many people have had as unique a journey as Kellie Maloney. Born Frank Maloney into a tough working class family in the 1950s, the young man gravitated towards the world of boxing, where he became a very well respected boxing promoter and worked with the likes of undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and European champion Tony Jeffries. Decades later, Frank decided the time was right to become the person he was always destined to become, and in this enthralling autobiography, recalls ...
	Kellie Maloney
	Autobiography, Transgender
	2015
		Book#: ABIOC049
	Freddie Mercury: The Biography	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:* The reality behind Queen's flamboyant front man and lead singer* Mercury the star of mystery - amusing, loyal and generous, yet revealing a dark side to his personality* His frequent use of cocaine and how it heightened his tendency to excess - both ...
	Laura Jackson
	Biography, Music
	2011
		Book#: ABIOC065
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	Free Spirit	Now Angie Bowie tells her own extraordinary story: the strict upbringing; expulsion from college for an affair with another girl; the life with David; the strain his stardom had on their marriage; the struggle for an independent career. With Angie's poems and sixteen pages of revealing photographs, Free Spirit is as outrageous, moving, funny and uninhibited as Angie Bowie herself.
	Angela Bowie
	Art/Photography, Autobiography, Bisexual, Poetry
	1981
		Book#: ABIOC011
	Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us	I know I'¬m not a man . . . and I¬'ve come to the conclusion that I¬'m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we¬re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.¬ With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein¬s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance ...
	Kate Bornstein
	Autobiography, Gender, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Transgender
	1995
		Book#: ABIOC010
	George: An Early Autobiography	In this early autobiography, Emlyn Williams chronicles his childhood and early life being educated in Fance and at Oxford, leading up to his career as an actor and writer.
	EMLYN WILLIAMS
	Autobiography, Theatre/Play
		Book#: ABIOC112
	1976
	Gypsy Boy on the Run	The incredible sequel to Gypsy Boy GYPSY BOY: ON THE RUN picks up from where Gypsy Boy left off, and tells the gripping, page-turning story of Mikey's battle to escape the Romany gypsy camp he grew up on. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave, you can never come back. Torn between his family and his heart, Mikey struggles to come to terms with his ancient inheritance and dreams of finding a place where he can really belong. He eventually finds th...
	Mikey Walsh
	Autobiography, Culture, Gay
	2011
		Book#: ABIOC096
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	I Am What I Am	Written with John’s trademark style, I Am What I Am is filled with juicy titbits from behind the scenes of Doctor Who and Torchwood, alongside heartwarming family anecdotes and personal revelations, including John’s perspective on fame and how it has affected him. Intimately exploring aspects of John’s current life, this memoir gives fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with exclusive anecdotes from recent and ongoing projects, all told with John’s trademark charm and humor—an unmis...
	John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
	Autobiography, Gay, Television
	2009
		Book#: ABIOC007
	I, of All People	Bohemian bisexual, poet and pacifist, dedicated disturber of the status quo, Kirkup in his third autobiographical work provides plenty of material that is bound to outrage, stimulate--and, more often than not, delight--almost every reader. The only child of an English middle-class couple, Kirkup was an outsider from his earliest years. Rather than retiring from the conventional world surrounding him, the young man decided early on to confront what he saw as an all-pervasive hypocrisy with flambo...
	James Kirkup
	Autobiography
	1990
		Book#: ABIOC054
	Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde	The original transcript of the famous Wilde vs Queensberry trial, containing previously unseen details and exchanges. With extensive footnotes and a new introduction, this definitive account is a dramatic read that will delight Wilde enthusiasts and the general reader. One of the most famous love affairs in literary history is that of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas. When it became public, it cost Wilde everything. Merlin Holland has discovered the original courtroom transcript of t...
	Merlin Holland
	Biography, Gay, Law
	2004
		Book#: ABIOC102
	Jail Diary	Albie Sachs was arrested on 1st October 1963 under South Africa's Ninety Days Law. During the 168 days of his imprisonment he was kept in solitary confinement. This book is a study of the effect on a friendly young man of being deprived of all human contact and rational occupation.
	Albie Sachs
	Autobiography, Diary, Law
	1969
		Book#: ABIOC083
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	James Dean: A Biography	Five decades after the death of James Dean, he is still revered as a distant myth and remains an enigma to a generation that hardly knows him. Yet it is this generation that has made him the most idolized actor of all time. While his film career lasted only sixteen months, it produced three cinematic greats: "East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant." John Howlett has conducted extensive research and interviews with actors and directors who knew Dean, to produce a revealing portrait of a ...
	John Howlett
	Biography, Film/Cinema
	1975
		Book#: ABIOC026
	James Dean: Boulevard of Broken Dreams	No more than a promising actor with a handful of films to his name when he died in 1955, James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. And his image - a blend of '50s cool and tough-guy charm - has been vigorously marketed in the race to cash in on a legend that, forty years later, shows no sign of abating. But until now, no serious biography has looked beyond the studio-manufactured cliches to the volatile polarities of this complex...
	Paul Alexander
	Biography, Film/Cinema
	2002
		Book#: ABIOC028
	James Dean: The Mutant King	James Dean: The Mutant King is an exceptional biography. It presents the complete story of James Dean's life based on lengthy research and interviews with people he worked with, his family, friends and many lovers, as well as his work in television, the theatre and cinema, with particular emphasis on the filming of East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant. But most of all it defines the way James Dean himself mutated from farmer's boy to star, creating his own myth and becoming one of the m...
	David Dalton
	Biography, Film/Cinema
	1974
		Book#: ABIOC027
	Jeremy Thorpe: A Secret Life	The trial of Jeremy Thorpe on charges of incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder was the climax of a political scandal that contained all the classical elements: sex, money, power, violence. Thorpe was acquitted, yet the Old Bailey verdict left many disturbing aspects of the story unresolved, raised many questions that remained unanswered. This book is an account of the real conflicts in Thorpe's life, of the private struggle to survive, of the sacrifices and betrayals along the way. It a...
	Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater, David May
	Biography, Law, Politics
	1979
		Book#: ABIOC091
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	John Hurt: An Actor's Progress	Most actors, when offered the role of a grotesquely deformed fugitive from a Victorian freak show - with the added assurance that their own face would not once appear on the screen - would rapidly make their excuses and leave. But then John Hurt is not most actors. Such was the depth of humanity that he brought to his portrayal of The Elephant Man that he managed singlehandedly to transform what set out to be "just a good weepy" into a cinematic triumph. This is the first ever study of a career...
	David Nathan
	Biography, Film/Cinema, Television
	1986
		Book#: ABIOC044
	Just Take Your Frock Off: A Lesbian Life	The daughter of a mill worker in Lancashire, Barbara Bell had her lesbian 'initiation' the year after Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" (1928) Since then, she has never had the time to be lonely. Her Uncle Jack was the first in a long line of gay men who befriended her - one workmate even taught her about French kissing in the lunchbreaks. But always Barbara was on the look-out for women like herself. She found them in Girl Guide camps, Paris clubs, Park Lane tea rooms, Hitler's Germany,...
	Barbara Bell
	Autobiography, Lesbian
	1999
		Book#: ABIOC008
	Last Watch of the Night	With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man-the 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction-this collection completes Paul Monette’s autobiographical writing. Brimming with outrage yet tender, this is a “remarkable book” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
	Paul Monette
	Autobiography, Gay
	1995
		Book#: ABIOC070
	Lions and Shadows	Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London’s bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, “Christopher Isherwood” works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and...
	Christopher Isherwood
	Autobiography, Fiction, Gay
	1979
		Book#: ABIOC046
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	Living on the Edge: Experience of AIDS	Written by a young Christian man who is open about having AIDS this book tackles the disease from an autobiographical and individual angle. From the original diagnosis, via the development of his illness, it tells of learning to live with the disease and of the value of the support he has received.
	Michael Kelly
	AIDS/HIV, Autobiography, Religion
	1993
		Book#: ABIOC052
	Look Who it is! My Story	The brilliantly funny Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Alan Carr tells his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton to his rise as one of Britain's best-loved comedians. 'Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in the night and left the other boys with chiselled, stubbly chins and deep masculine voices, I'd been left with a huge pair of knockers and the voice of a pensioner.' Alan Carr Alan Carr grew up in one of the most boring towns in England -...
	Alan Carr
	Autobiography, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Television
	2008
		Book#: ABIOC020
	Marlon Brando	The definitive account of this elusive actor, MARLON BRANDO offers a penetrating look at Brando's evolving persona and legendary roles: the volcanic Stanley Kowalski of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, the sensitive rebel of THE WILD ONES, and the iconic Don Corleone of THE GODFATHER, achieving unparalleled critical acclaim for his many memorable characters. Bosworth probes the influence of Brando's alcoholic parents on his acting, his decades of psychoanalysis, and his tumultuous personal relationship...
	Patricia Bosworth
	Biography, Film/Cinema
	2002
		Book#: ABIOC015
	Memoirs	For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story. When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media. Though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest livi...
	Tennessee Williams
	Autobiography, Gay, Theatre/Play
	1976
		Book#: ABIOC111
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	Moab is My Washpot	Stepehn Fry was born in 1957, and after a year or so of comparative silence, began to talk coherently in 1960. His first written work 'Mummy' was awarded the Sunnyvale Primary School Gold Star for Neatness in 1961. There followed years of neglect from the literary establishment until the Stout's Hill Preparatory School Senior Greek Prize of 1969 of 1969. A play Latin! won the Edinburgh Fringe First Prize ten years later. Four years after this Fry wrote the script for the award-winning musical Me...
	Stephen Fry
	Autobiography, Gay, Humour/Comedy
	1997
		Book#: ABIOC038
	Mr. Madam: A Great Novel of the Gay Life	Kenneth Marlowe's Mr. Madam is the famous story of a queen of slaves who rules over his/her subjects with erotic devotion. This is a strartingly candid human document. Mr Madam started life as an unwanted child. In his teens he was kept by a sugar-daddy. In the Army he was used and abused by its personnel. In the strip clubs he became a female impersonator. In his adult years he was a brothel employee, keeper of a call-boy house, and a hair-stylist to some of the world's most celebrated women.
	Kenneth Marlowe
	Autobiography, Drag
	1973
		Book#: ABIOC062
	My Animals and Other Family	I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learnt through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine'. Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life...
	Clare Balding
	Autobiography
	2012
		Book#: ABIOC005
	My Father and Myself	When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witt...
	J. R. Ackerley
	Autobiography, Gay
	1971
		Book#: ABIOC001
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	Nineteen Seventy-Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town	Nineteen Seventy-nine takes place in a small fishing town called Musselburgh, situated on the east coast of Scotland. It's about a young girl who is very naive yet incredibly self-aware in the year that changed her life forever - an evocative, moving and at times hilarious true-life story about growing up gay in a small town, finding out you're adopted, and losing your father at the age of 14. Always an outsider, the Rhona of 1979 was desperate to fit in at any cost, and here lies the bitterswee...
	Rhona Cameron
	Autobiography
	2003
		Book#: ABIOC018
	Noel Coward: A Biography	To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker, Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. His biographer, Philip Hoare, given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, has produced the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and controversial figures.
	Philip Hoare
	Biography, Film/Cinema, Music, Theatre/Play
	1995
		Book#: ABIOC022
	Not for Your Hands: An Autobiography	Not For Your Hands is a no-holds-barred autobiography by a gay man. It is David Rees own story: childhood during the Second World War, a Roman Catholic upbringing, marriage and children, coming out as a gay man, gay life, a writer's career, AIDS. It's an unusual tale, sometimes very amusing, always intelligent, and often painfully honest in his portrayal of himself and the men and women who have affected his life most deeply.
	David Rees
	AIDS/HIV, Autobiography, Coming Out, Gay, Religion
	1992
		Book#: ABIOC079
	Older: Unauthorized Biography of George Michael	The whole, complicated, troubled and triumphant story of a man who was once a Greek Cypriot fat boy, became an Eighties pin-up as the driving partner of WHAM!, danced with Princess Diana, perfected the art of designer stubble-culture and, incidentally, became a singer along the way. By painfully and expansively insisting upon his rights as a performer and taking Sony to and through the courts to establish this, Michael not only fought for his own artistic freedom but set an important precedent f...
	Tim Wapshott, Nicholas Wapshott
	Biography, Music
	1999
		Book#: ABIOC066
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	Oscar Wilde	A biography of Oscar Wilde describing is life. Philippe Jullian tells with joy and passion the business, love, success and failure of the author of the Portrait of Dorian Gray. Jullian is able to return the brilliant ingenuity, the scandalous and irreverent poses, the restless feeling that made Wilde one of the most important personalities of a whole age.
	Philippe Jullian
	Biography, Gay
	1969
		Book#: ABIOC103
	Oscar Wilde: A Biography	In this long-awaited biography, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions - is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. Based on fresh material from many hitherto-untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. His Irish background, the actress...
	Richard Ellmann
	Biography, Gay
	1988
		Book#: ABIOC101
	Out in the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier	Seeking escape from the quiet Welsh countryside, James Wharton joined the British Army. Along the way, he faced a battle of his own: finding the courage to tell his fellow soldiers he is gay. Written with searing honesty, James charts his incredible journey from punch bag to poster boy, along the way describing the tribulations of coming to terms with his sexuality. Late nights in the clubs of Soho to early mornings guarding the Queen; rocket attacks in Iraq to tank rides with Prince Harry on t...
	James Wharton
	Autobiography, Gay
	2013
		Book#: ABIOC097
	Owning-up	An account of the author's life from childhood in middle-class Liverpool in the thirties, through national service in the navy as an ordinary seaman to his emergence as a connoisseur of surrealist art and his career as a jazz singer.
	George Melly
	Autobiography, Music
	1977
		Book#: ABIOC063
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	Parallel Lives	Involved in the gay press from Jeremy (1969) to Gay Times (1985), Peter Burton is uniquely qualified to survey twenty years of rapid change in the gay world. This witty and entertaining memoir covers a multitude of themes, including the mod clubs of the 1960s; a teenage literary apprenticeship; reminiscences of Gerald Hamilton and Michael Davidson; collaboration with Robin Maugham; touring with Rod Stewart; and the rise and fall of Gay News.
	Peter Burton
	Autobiography, Gay
	1985
		Book#: ABIOC017
	Portrait of a Marriage	One of the love stories of our century which has become a literary classic. It tells the story of Harold Nicolson's forty-nine year marriage to Vita Sackville-West, a union based on mutual trust, shared interests, deepening love, total frankness and reciprocal infidelity. It is also the journal of Vita's love affair with Violet Trefusis, the crisis which nearly broke the Nicolsons' unconventional, but extraordinary successful marriage.
	Nigel Nicolson
	Biography, Diary, Lesbian, Relationships, Romance
	1974
		Book#: ABIOC072
	Prick Up Your Ears: Biography of Joe Orton	Prick Up Your Ears is a watershed biography; it paved the way for Orton's revival and ensured his rightful place in the English repertoire. John Lahr traces the career of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalized and delighted the public and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death.
	John Lahr
	Biography, Gay, Theatre/Play
	1980
		Book#: ABIOC075
	Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins	An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with some of the ...
	Rupert Everett
	Autobiography, Film/Cinema
	2007
		Book#: ABIO036
	Reflections Of A Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing Up Gay	Part coming-of-age story, part love story, part courtroom drama...and ALL TRUE! This is a moving account of what gay pride can really mean in a small New England town.
	Aaron Fricke
		Book#: ABIOC037
	Autobiography, Gay
	1981
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	Ruling Passions	"Driberg's posthumous autobiography is a classic of its kind: always, as far as I can judge, commendably frank, often highly readable and sometimes literally shocking, even to those normally neither squeamish nor censorious about sexual matters." - Alan Watkins, Spectator
	Tom Driberg
	Autobiography, Gay
	1991
		Book#: ABIOC033
	Rum, Bum and Concertina	Rum, Bum and Concertina is the outrageous new volume of autobiography by George Melly, ex-Able Seaman, sometime anarchist, connoisseur of Surrealist Art, spearhead of fringe Revivalist Jazz, blues vocalist, writer, pop, TV and film critic - and much else besides.
	George Melly
	Autobiography, Music
	1978
		Book#: ABIOC064
	Scottsboro' Boy	You could say that what happened to Patterson was inevitable. The future hung like a millstone round his neck from the very day of his birth. Haywood Patterson was born in Alabama USA. He was born a black man. In Alabama USA, when any cheap slut of a white woman gets caught in ambiguous circumstances she has an easy out. She merely screams: "A n*****! A n***** assaulted me!" It could be this black man right here, or that one over there. It's of no account. In Alabama, any black person is expenda...
	Haywood Patterson, Earl Conrad
	Biography, History, Law
	1950
		Book#: ABIOC077
	Second Son: Transitioning Toward My Destiny, Love and Life	Second Son is a unique lens on life and love, intimately exploring the transition experience of Ryan Sallans - born Kimberly Ann Sallans. Ride alongside Ryan's transition from a child to a body-obsessed young woman with an eating disorder; from female to male, daughter to son, and finally a beloved partner to a cherished fiancee. Ryan candidly shares his struggle to find love and acceptance; a struggle that transcends through every layer of society. He nearly died from an extreme case of anorexi...
	Ryan Sallans
	Autobiography, Transgender
	2013
		Book#: ABIOC084
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	Secret Life: An Autobiography	At the age of five, Michael Ryan was molested by a neighbor. Nearly 40 years later, he found himself methodically preparing to seduce a girl who was barely more than a child. As Ryan describes his free fall into sexual obsession, he creates an autobiography that is at once harrowing and redemptive, heartbreaking and profoundly moral.
	Michael Ryan
	Autobiography
	1997
		Book#: ABIOC082
	Seriously...I'm Kidding	I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you'll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I've put together for you in this book. I think you'll find I've left no stone unturned, no door unopened, no window unbroken, no rug unvacuumed, no ivories untickled. What I'm saying is, let us begin, shall we?
	Ellen Degeneres
	Autobiography, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	2011
		Book#: ABIOC030
	Sita	Presents moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. This book follows the disintegration of the author's love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior, a veteran of several marriages, and the mother of grown children.
	Kate Millett
	Autobiography, Lesbian
	1977
		Book#: ABIOC068
	So Me	Hugely entertaining and refreshingly honest, So Me is the memoir everybody has been waiting for. Graham Norton, whose impish charm and quick wit has earned him a place in our hearts, looks back at his life so far, a personal journey that begins in a remote village in Ireland forty years ago. Packed with anecdotes about his time at Cork University before dropping out and joining a commune of hippies in San Francisco, about his disastrous attempts at becoming a serious actor and about the rise of ...
	Graham Norton
	Autobiography, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Television
	2004
		Book#: ABIOC073
	Socrates, Plato, and Guys like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher	Eric Rofes is a gay school teacher - and openly so. In Socrates, Plato and Guys Like Me Rofes tells the candid story of his life as a gay teacher in suburban Massachusetts. The American public has already heard a number of opinions on the issue of gay schoolteachers. From the Briggs initiative in California and Anita Bryant's national "Save Our Children" crusade, to recent US Supreme Court decisions, the topic has been highly controversial - and promises to remain so. We know what the legislato...
	Eric E. Rofes
	Autobiography, Education, Gay
	1985
		Book#: ABIOC081
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	Spectacles	Spectacles is the hilarious, creative and incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins. When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?' Sadly, a recycling 'incident' dest...
	Autobiography, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian, Television
	2015
		Book#: ABIOC078
	Stephen Gately and Boyzone: Blood Brothers	Stephen Gately was a singer, songwriter and actor, who, alongside Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers in one of the biggest pop bands in the world, Boyzone. With all of their albums reaching number one in the UK chart and a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles in the top 5 UK Singles chart they were a huge pop phenomenon. After the initial break up of Boyzone in 2000 Stephen released a successful solo album which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles. He then w...
	Emily Herbert
	Biography, Music
	2010
		Book#: ABIOC040
	Straight	The autobiography of one of the UK’s most flamboyant and charismatic stars, guaranteed to shock, amuse and tantalize. In the thirteen years since the conclusion of the first part of his memoirs, Take It Like a Man, Boy George has reinvented himself. As that story closed, George was coming to terms with the fall-out from his drug addiction, the failure of his relationship with Jon Moss and the collapse of Culture Club. For lesser men this would have been the end, but for George it became the sta...
	Boy George, Paul Gorman
	Autobiography, Music
	2005
		Book#: ABIOC013
	Straight Face	Having just completed his autobiography, Nigel Hawthorne died on Boxing Day 2001. His ambitions to be an actor when a young man in South Africa were strongly discouraged by his father. He came to England alone and struggled for many years to make his name - eventually joining the Royal Court, starring in the West End, and finally having his great television break as Sir Humphrey in "Yes, Minister". He won many awards for his role as King George III in Alan Bennett's play at the National Theatre ...
	Nigel Hawthorne
	Autobiography, Film/Cinema, Gay, Television, Theatre/Play
	2002
		Book#: ABIOC042
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	Straight Jacket: How to Be Gay and Happy	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 beneath the shiny facade of contemporary gay culture and asks if gay people are as happy as they could be – and if not, why not? Meticulously researched, courageous and life-affirming, Straight Jacket offers invaluable practical advice on how to overcome a range of difficult issues. It also recognizes that this is a watershed momen...
	Matthew Todd
	Autobiography, Coming Out, Gay, Homophobia, Queer, Relationships, Self-help
	2016
		Book#: ABIOC091.01
	Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton	For 50 years the world - and three wives - believed that Billy Tipton, professional jazz musician, was a man. Writer Diane Wood Middlebrook lifts the lid on jazz's greatest cross-dresser in her biography that covers the musician's early years in Oklahoma, the nights playing with Louis Armstrong's partner and his/her extraordinary relationships.
	Diane Wood Middlebrook
	Biography, Transgender
	1998
		Book#: ABIOC092
	Tainted Life: The Autobiography	Marc Almond's story features a larger than life cast of characters. It recounts his "de rigeur" plunge into drink, drugs, and debauchery as well as being an intimate portrait of the star-making personalities of the 1980s.
	Marc Almond
	Autobiography, Gay
	2000
		Book#: ABIOC002
	Take it Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George	When he was a little boy growing up in Woolwich, the 'pink sheep' of his working-class Irish family, George wanted to be like Shirley Bassey. As a man, famous for his gender-bending clothes and elaborate make up as much as for his success as the lead singer of Culture Club, he became a media darling and pop icon. And then came fame, and drugs, and a spectacular fall from grace ...Writing with complete honesty, and with his usual biting wit, Boy George chronicles his extraordinary life and times ...
	Boy George, Spencer Bright
	Autobiography, Music
	1995
		Book#: ABIOC014
	Teardrops on My Drum	Teardrops on My Drum is an autobiographical novel of Jack Robinson's boyhood in Liverpool, UK, in the 1930s. It is a story of the sexual adventures of a young gay boy growing up in poverty and with parental neglect.
	Jack Robinson
	Autobiography, Gay
	1986
		Book#: ABIOC080
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	The Autobiography of Billie Jean King	Billie Jean King's life has been as colourful and as determined as her performance on the tennis courts. Now she tells her own story in a forthright autobiography that is at once a moving personal history and a behind-the-scenes look at the world of women's sports.
	Frank Deford, Billie Jean King
	Autobiography, Sports
	1982
		Book#: ABIOC055
	The Fry Chronicles	Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen Fry's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday.
	Stephen Fry
	Autobiography, Gay, Humour/Comedy
		Book#: ABIOC039
	2011
	The Funny Thing Is...	Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a book that is both ea...
	Ellen Degeneres
	Autobiography, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	2003
		Book#: ABIOC029
	The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade	This classic book is on the life and ideas of the Marquis De Sade, the notorious sexual libertine and controversial writer, and will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
	Geoffrey Gorer
	Biography
	1964
		Book#: ABIOC025
	The Life of Oscar Wilde	The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament.
	Hesketh Pearson
	Biography, Gay
	1960
		Book#: ABIOC105
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	The Marquis de Sade	De Sade has given his name to a perversion that is especially prevalent today. Simone de Beauvoir, in a shattering yet sober and supremely informed analysis of his work, insists that this strange man's imagination should become more widely known. Only by revealing and disseminating de Sade's long-banned words will the original ignorance that creates perversion be cleared. This is a remarkable book by and about one of the most controversial figures in history.
	Simone de Beauvoir
	Biography, Fiction
	1972
		Book#: ABIOC024
	The Mayor of Castro Street	This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk: an emotionally compelling story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US political office. '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 community as a political power in 1970s America. It is an emotionally-charged story of person...
	Randy Shilts
	Biography, Gay, Politics
	2009
		Book#: ABIOC067
	The Only Child	This unique autobiography covers the first six years in the life of a boy. James Kirkup today known as a poet of distinction, was born in South Shields, the son of a carpenter, and in this book he evokes in the most vivid and convincing manner the life he lived in that north-east town.
	James Kirkup
	Autobiography
	1957
		Book#: ABIOC053
	The Reverie Bubble	Feeling confined by his conservative and religious Mid-western upbringing, closeted Jason, who has created a career of being a globe-trotting gypsy since graduating from college, prepares to fly away to a new life in The Reverie Bubble on the day the world changed forever, 9/11. While others scramble to the safety of home and family with this fateful and powerful event, Jason carries on to find his paradise, finally landing in a bohemian beach colony along the California coast. Certain that he ...
	Jason Anthony
	Autobiography, Gay, Religion
	2014
		Book#: ABIOC003
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	The Sage of Sex: A Life of Havelock Ellis	A comprehensive and revealing biography on the man who has had such enormous influence on the sexual attitudes of society in the twentieth century.
	Arthur Calder-Marshall
	Biography
		Book#: ABIOC034
	1959
	The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde said of himself, “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my work.” Now, for the first time, Neil McKenna focuses on the tormented genius of Wilde's personal life, reproducing remarkable love letters and detailing Wilde's until-now unknown relationships with other men. McKenna has spent years researching Wilde's life, drawing on extensive new material, including never-before published poems as well as recently discovered trial statements made by male prostitutes a...
	Neil McKenna
	Biography, Gay
	2003
		Book#: ABIOC099
	The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia	Apart from Winston Churchill, Lawrence of Arabia is probably the best known Englishman of the 20th century. Yet until recently it has been impossible to disentangle the reality from the Lawrence myth; in death as in life he has remained an enigma. Was his reputation as a champion of Arab independence, acquired during the bloody desert fighting against the Turks during the Great War justified? When Lawrence was captured by the Turks did he really suffer the tortures and sexual assaults he later ...
	Phillip Knightley, Colin Simpson
	BDSM, Biography, Gay, History
	1971
		Book#: ABIOC057
	The Sins of Jack Saul - The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal	The true story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street scandal. The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, a working class Irish Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart, e...
	Glen Chandler
	Biography, History, Religion
	2016
		Book#: ABIOC086
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	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	A fictionalised account of the trial of Oscar Wilde, in the form of a play.
	John Furnell
		Book#: ABIOC107
	Biography, Fiction, Gay, Law
	1960
	The Truth About Oscar Wilde	In the closing decades of the last century Victorian England was convulsed by a scandal that shook it to its foundations and which has been a matter of fierce controversy and speculation to this day. From the height of his success and popularity as the country's most brilliant playwright, conversationalist and wit, Oscar Wilde was reduced in a week to ignominy and degradation. As a result of his notorious friendship with Lord Alfred Doulas, younger son of the Marquis of Queensberry, and of his f...
	Lewis Broad
	Biography, Gay
	1957
		Book#: ABIOC104
	The World, the Flesh and Myself	Davidson's 1962 autobiography 'The world, the flesh and myself' begins: 'This is the life-history of a lover of boys.' In the book, he recalls not only his reporting from various war zones, but also his encounters with adolescent boys in those areas.
	Michael Davidson
	Autobiography, Gay
	1977
		Book#: ABIOC023
	The Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood	Part reconstructed autobiography, part truthful short story, part coming-of-age-coming-out novel, this is a poignant collection of related stories about a high-strung, assimilated Jewish childhood.
	Andrea Freud Loewenstein
	Autobiography, Religion
	1993
		Book#: ABIOC059
	This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death	A noted author and novelist presents a selection of essays and journals that explore his sexuality, relationships, and the advance and effect of the AIDS virus within him from which he eventually died.
	Harold Brodkey
	AIDS/HIV, Autobiography, Diary, Essays
		Book#: ABIOC016
	1996
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	Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography	Inspirational autobiography by every woman's favourite, Gok Wan. With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves -- but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love -- and Gok was so well loved that by the time he was a teenager he weighed...
	Gok Wan
	Autobiography, BEM, Gay
	2010
		Book#: ABIOC095
	Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger	TOAST is top food writer Nigel Slater's eat-and-tell autobiography. Detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked his passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer. In December 2010 the BBC will bring out a film of Toast starring Helena Bonham-Carter and directed by Lee Hall, who won an oscar nomination for Billy Elliot. Britain's most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother's weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by ...
	Nigel Slater
	Autobiography
	2010
		Book#: ABIOC088
	Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions	A mysterious, influential and often extremely dubious man of affairs, Tom Driberg embodied many of the contradictions and ambiguities of his time. At Oxford, he was the friend of Auden, Betjeman, Hugh Gaitskell and his old school-chum, Evelyn Waugh; working on Beaverbrook's Express in the Thirties, he invented the modern gossip column; a close friend of Burgess and Maclean, he was widely suspected of being a double-agent, working for both British Intelligence and the KGB. As Chairman of the Labo...
	Francis Wheen
	Biography
	1990
		Book#: ABIOC032
	Tom of Finland: His Life and Times	Traces the life history of the influential gay artist whose illustrations of gay men became a shaping influence on the homoerotic imagination of our time, while also examining the impact of his art on the world at large.
	F. Valentine Hooven
	Art/Photography, Biography, Gay
		Book#: ABIOC093
	1993
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	Under a Crescent Moon	Written in jail, Under a Crescent Moon presents characters and situations as varied as life outside prison. Here the famous and infamous, Turk and foreigner, mass-murderer and petty crook rub shoulders and in some strange, if improbable way, get on. Readers expecting a book-of-the-film Midnight will be disappointed, for the author's vision of a country, a jail and its inmates is both heartfelt and richly empathetic. In this, his first published work, Daniel de Souza experiences and transcends pr...
	Daniel de Souza
	Autobiography, Law
	1989
		Book#: ABIOC089
	Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?	Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl loc...
	Jeanette Winterson
	Autobiography, Family
	2012
		Book#: ABIOC114
	Wilde Century	For 15 years in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde was able to carry on like the famous camp queen of our imaginings - effete, leisured, aesthetic, amoral, decadent, dandified. This work explores how Wilde was seen before the trials that ended his career and made him the most famous queer man since Socrates. In particular, it examines the concept of effeminacy and asks how Wilde's effeminacy was perceived. In examining these points, Sinfield ranges over issues of identity, subculture, race, style, m...
	Alan Sinfield
	Biography, Culture, Gay, Gender, History, Lesbian
	1994
		Book#: ABIOC100
	Will Young: The Biography	In February 2002, a star was born. Will Young was crowned the first ever Pop Idol, voted for by 4.6 million people and watched by nearly 10 million more. It was the start of a music career which has since been astonishing, both in its critical acclaim and consistent popular appeal. Will is not only successful because of his unique and outstanding voice—it is also the charisma and elegance of the man which has captivated his millions of fans worldwide. His inimitable sound, an extraordinary mix o...
	Erica McPhee
	Biography, Music
	2005
		Book#: ABIOC116
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	Wonder Bread & Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano	Drugs, Sex, and Unbridled Ambition: These were the main ingredients in the lethal cocktail that killed gay porn's brightest star, Joey Stefano. As pornography's marketable gay face and body, he was filmed having sex in more than 35 hard-core videos, danced an unforgettable striptease in clubs across America and Europe, and hustled his way through thousands of dollars paid to him by clients around the globe. But none of this filled the void inside Nicholas Iacona, a.k.a. Joey Stefano. From his ch...
	Charles Isherwood
	Biography, Gay, Pornography
	1996
		Book#: ABIOC090
	Wrong Rooms: A Memoir	In 1992 Mark Sanderson met the love of his life. A Lonely Hearts ad in Time Out may not have promised much, but a long and detailed letter from an Australian called Drew marked the beginning of a relationship Mark is still struggling to come to terms with. They moved in together in May 1993; in April 1994 Drew was diagnosed with skin cancer. He was told it would be a miracle if he were still alive in two years; three months later he was dead. "Wrong Rooms" is Mark and Drew's story: a love story,...
	Mark Sanderson
	Autobiography, Death, Gay
	2002
		Book#: ABIOC085
	k. d. lang: All You Get Is Me	Rare childhood photographs and behind-the-scenes interviews with family, friends, and industry peers give flesh to the first full-scale biography of the controversial performer-activist.
	Victoria Starr
	Biography, Music
	1994
		Book#: ABIOC051
	k.d. lang: Carrying the Torch	Since the release of her first album, a truly western experience in 1984, k.d. lang has galvanized listeners with her amazing voice, while battling for a place in the music industry and fighting off prejudice against her appearance and attitude. This compelling biography explores everything from her tomboy girlhood in Consort, Alberta, through her entry into show business and the making of her first five albums and her first film, to her move away from country music to easy listening jazz and ad...
	William B. Robertson
	Biography, Music
	1993
		Book#: ABIOC050
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