Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> LGBTQ+

Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision and caused a doctor to try to cure her queerness. After the speed and...

COMES LOVE tells the story of three men caught in love's web as they struggle to share a life together with kindness and mutual support despite their differences in age and culture. The author recounts a decade of compassion and sexual obsession like watching a reality TV show, trying to make sense of their life together as they travel the globe. The three have joined in a love triangle, a kind of new age marriage years before the current flowering of gay life, and they ride that wave till it crashes on the shore. But as the blues song goes, "Comes love, nothing to be done."

See how a life spent largely outdoors-in the wilds of northern Canada, the underwater wonderland of the Caribbean, and throughout the untamed Himalayas-presented the challenges that shaped a timid mother's boy into a confident yogi and ambassador for self-transformation. Through humorous and poignant life stories--attending an all-male boarding school, coming out as a gay man, building a successful yoga career--here Yogi Aaron shares lessons in living with empowerment and authenticity.

From the creator of Hot Nude Yoga, a global phenomenon during the early 2000's, a story of...

See how a life spent largely outdoors-in the wilds of northern Canada, the underwater wonderland of the Caribbean, and throughout the untamed Himalayas-presented the challenges that shaped a timid mother's boy into a confident yogi and ambassador for self-transformation. Through humorous and poignant life stories--attending an all-male boarding school, coming out as a gay man, building a successful yoga career--here Yogi Aaron shares lessons in living with empowerment and authenticity.

From the creator of Hot Nude Yoga, a global phenomenon during the early 2000's, a story of...

In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson's Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues of our time. This poetic, journalistic memoir shines an intersectional beacon on the ambiguity and complexity of mixed heritage, transgender, and disability experience, and offers an intimate window into how current legislative and policy battles impact the lives of transgender people. Whether...

Praise for Chloe Caldwell:

"I read it a couple of months ago in one can't-put-it-down-even-though-it's-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It's as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come."--Cheryl Strayed

"I'll read anything Chloe Caldwell writes. She's a rare bird: fearless, dark, prolific, unpretentious, and truly honest."--Elisa Albert

"Nothing's sexier than first love and first intimacies, and Caldwell's brave autobiographical tale twists the trope into a powerful story about unexpectedly falling in love with a woman and the discoveries, sexual and...

-A brave and tender book about everything that matters most in life.---Cate Blanchett

-A remarkable memoir, that weaves the tragedy of twentieth century history into a personal narrative of coming to terms with family and self.---Christos Tsiolkas

-Riveting, overwhelmingly poignant...An extraordinary hymn to the tragic heroism at the heart of ordinary life and the soaring moral scrutiny of womankind.---Weekend Australian

-A beautifully written, heartfelt and illuminating family saga.---New Daily

Magda Szubanski's childhood in a suburban migrant family...