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Award-winning author William J. Mann blends fact and fiction in this unconventional novel about the nature of celebrity The Biograph Girl is Florence Lawrence, who gets her first big break in vaudeville as a tiny tot who can whistle like a man. By 1910 she's a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she's all but forgotten, reduced to walk-ons at MGM. In 1938 she kills herself by ingesting a lethal...
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Welch's piercing, intimate, slightly fictionalized, and posthumously published work deals with the bicycle accident that would cause his death thirteen years later At age twenty, Denton Welch was bicycling from London, where he was studying art, to Surrey to pay a visit to his aunt and uncle when he was struck by a car. The next thing he knew, he was lying on his back, unable to move, gazing up at the sky, scarcely aware of anything but the sensation...
3) Bosie
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En su primer libro de ficción, el autor "rescata" un diario perdido de Lord Alfred Douglas, Bosie, "el joven inspirador" y el grande amor de Oscar Wilde. En su libro, Bosie cuenta su versión (más que honesta) de los hechos que siguen, y que hasta el día de hoy, siguen siendo material de escrutinio público. Muestra también por qué Bosie le llamó tanto la atención al más grande dramaturgo de su era. Es difícil leerlo y no tener las mismas...
4) Liminal
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At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother's bedroom. As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or dead. The sight of his mother's body, caught between these two possibilities, causes Jordan to plunge headlong into the uncertain depths of consciousness itself. From androids to cannibals to sex clubs, an unforgettable...
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“A lyrical and erotic reimagining of the gay Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy’s three-day trip to Paris in 1897 . . . dizzying, fevered and beautiful.” —The Millions
Winner of the 2019 National Translation Award
In June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will deeply shape his future
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The year is 1912, and the SS Birmingham is approaching India. On board is Edward Morgan Forster, a reserved man taunted by writer's block, attempting to come to terms with his art and his repressed sexuality. Damon Galgut's brilliant fictional biography lures readers into E.M. Foster's heroic journey of self-discovery, as the novelist confronts his fraught childhood, falls in unrequited love with his closest friend, and finds himself surprisingly...
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Before I finally reached the pinnacle of glory,
shinning brilliantly as one of world's top fashion designer,
I had learned to live with all the taunts, physical abuses and mental scars.
They taunted me, harassed me, beat me up, just because I'm gay!
I didn't ask them anything except for one; "Leave me alone! Let me be Myself"
I often lamented my fate and never stopped asking
"Why do people who feel themselves normal feel the.
Need to insult...
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Cracked Surface is the sequel to Surface Tension and continues exploring my personal struggle with the desire to lead a "normal" life through the eyes of David Mathew. In Surface Tension, David is sixteen years old, represents the USA, and wins the gold medal at the 1979 World Springboard and Platform Diving Championships in Tønsberg, Norway. David has a secret. In spite of his unprecedented victory, he attempts to hide his tumultuous journey of...
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The 1960's brought Seth and Payton all they'd fantasized about--perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another's arms. The two men carried each other and carried a group that created both a history and a future for rock. But at some point their music blurred with the news of their...
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Dès sa naissance, Charlie est différente. Le doute s'est installé et ne l'a plus quittée. Transsexuelle, elle le sait depuis sa tendre enfance. Les brimades, le harcèlement, la violence verbale et physique pousseront Charlie à s'enfoncer dans un bourbier nimbé d'alcool et de prostitution. Les différentes étapes de sa vie révèleront les questionnements, les aberrations scolaires, administratives, sociales, familiales et autres que rencontre...
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"A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated. Denton Moulton -- a shy, effeminate male professor -- lives inside his head, and inside his head he is really a long-dead movie star -- the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria's shocking secret before he dies. Does...
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For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903) is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of Stoddard's career as a poet and travel writer whose friends included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City is a pioneering novel that explores the ambitions of a young artist while illuminating the struggles of gay men in a society, that failed to accept them as...
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Une fresque o le destin des personnages se mêle à l'Histoire...
En 1938 le jeune et insouciant Rémo Valdi débarque à Perpignan. C'est un mondain oisif qui pourrait se satisfaire d'être un bellâtre.
Il croise le chemin de Maria Juan une aide-soignante anticonformiste qui aspire à toutes les libertés : citoyenne, sexuelle et intellectuelle.
Leur improbable association durera plus de soixante ans. Et puis il y a Victor, Consuelo, Rose, Pierre,...
14) Earth as it is
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"Charlene (aka Charlie) Bader is one of society's least understood people--a heterosexual cross-dressing man. It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a community of cross-dressers and begins to attend their...
15) Burden of Ashes
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The 20th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking Asian-American queer classic by celebrated author Justin Chin
Floating somewhere between fiction and memoir, Burden of Ashes is a beautiful and brutal series of short stories in which childhood, homeland, and lovers both real and imagined succumb to whimsy, revision, denial, and truthful embellishment. Within these pages, Chin artfully creates a personal world where snake killings, demonic possession,...
16) Majorité
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Quatre années complètes, une période prolongée à affronter les défis que la vie nous impose. Comment anticiper et se préparer à ce qui nous attend lorsque nous atteignons enfin l'âge adulte tant redouté ? Explorez le récit de la vie d'Alex Ognard, partagez ses moments difficiles, ses joies et ses peines, tout en réfléchissant sur la vie étudiante et les expériences de la jeunesse queer au sein de notre nouvelle génération.
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Entre joies et peines, amour et séparation, suivez une aventure familiale à l'ampleur universelle !
Oxen Lambert a choisi de raconter la genèse d'une aventure familiale qui, vous le lirez, ressemble furieusement aux histoires de toutes les familles. À l'aube de changements législatifs, au seuil et au cœur des bouleversements sociologiques et humains de l'évolution des familles, Oxen Lambert recentre le débat autour d'une réflexion humaine,...
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"On March 31, 1836, the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the words to accompany them were written by a young journalist who used the pen name Boz. The story of a club presided over by fat, loveable Mr. Pickwick, assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller,...
19) En Toi
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Je m'appelle Thomas Alderson, et le 14 novembre 1965, dans une verte plaine du Vietnam, je suis mort. J'avais tout juste vingt-quatre ans.
Puisque vous êtes là, puisque nous sommes seuls, installez-vous confortablement et offrez-moi quelques heures arrachées à la folie de votre quotidien. Permettez-moi de vous raconter comment l'Univers s'est joué de moi. Laissez-moi vous chuchoter mon histoire avant que les limbes de l'oubli ne l'emportent....
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The Piano Student centers on an affair between one of the 20th century's most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz rises to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist must hide his illicit love from his wife Wanda, the daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. The affair is narrated by Kaufmann in the...
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