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This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question: Are we friends, mybrother? The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.
Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man whodied of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.
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Noreen Antao went into her second marriage with high hopes-that the man she loved, and who loved her and her children, would be the light of her life, for the rest of her life.

Just before the marriage he revealed to her his deepest secret, something he had revealed to no one; he liked to wear women's clothes. "His coming out of the closet to me, put me in the closet with him." This led them on a 15 year journey of discovery, deeper and deeper into a world of crossdressing, trangenderism, homosexuality, and even B&D.

"It was very sad to watch Jason becoming more female than male; I...

From Shooting heroin in the slums of Staten Island to boating and building beach houses in the Bahamas, Slipping Into Darkness Blinded by the Light is a story of trials and triumphs, despair and faith, pride and shame. Once you embark upon this spiritual sojourn, as you laugh and you cry, one thing's for certain-you won't want it to end.

At the tender age of five, Melanie knew her mother's impending marriage was a mistake. She spent the following eight years in a home filled with domestic violence, which resulted in her becoming an adolescent heroin addict.

In rehab, she...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. How was this new parent who identified as "a complete woman now" connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she...

This new work of myths realizes the kind of radically inclusive ethos (here there are bees, ritual sex, mothers and other genderqueers, microbes, Venus of Willendorf, "accidentals in music," "the taste of a round thing's edge," and "real monks who wear both real and faux mink" not only in conversation but in a collective act of meaning-making) that makes goddesses and lesser gods, humans and arthropods, activists and earth-lovers, beasts and silence sing. Here we can be alive. All of us. - TC Tolbert

Thirty years after her father's death, Karen McClintock sets out to find the gay father she never really knew. As we follow the unraveling family secret, we find ourselves drawn into her story as they stumble into infidelity, grieve heartbreaking losses, and remain loyal in love.

Set in Columbus, Ohio, My Father's Closet tells the story of how just before the war, McClintock's parents fell in love and married, while overseas in Germany the man whom she believes became her father's lover was concealing his Jewish and gay identities in order to escape to America. A set of her...

Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.

Ivan writes movingly about many...