A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
10 best books like A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student (Elizabeth Stone): Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness, Breaking the Surface, The Best Little Boy in the World, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, Kicked Out, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality, Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
| Author | Loren Cameron |
| ISBN | 1573440620 |
The idea of gender is no long as fixed as it once was: Tootsie, La Cage aux Folles, and Milton Berle saw to that. But none of this has prepared us for Loren Cameron's amazing portraits of transsexuals. Beautifully reproduced and complemented with notes and short essays, these portraits of women who are...
| Author | Joy Ladin |
| ISBN | 0299287300 |
After years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world by returning to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman: Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created...
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
With a foreword by Oliver Sacks
Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its...
| Author | Greg Louganis |
| ISBN | 0679437037 |
Beyond the mists of prehistory, back when the 7.5 meter platform was made of giant slabs of rock and the 10m was supplied by the pate of a cooperative apatosaur, this reviewer used to fantasize about making it to the Olympics as a diver when he should have been doing his mat exercises.
One might...
The Best Little Boy in the World
| Author | Andrew Tobias |
| ISBN | 0345381769 |
The classic account of growing up gay in America.
"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in...
| Author | Mel White |
| ISBN | 0452273811 |
Until Christmans Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as one of their most talented and productive supporters. He penned the speeches of Ollie North. He was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell, worked with Jim Bakker, flew in Pat Robertson's private jet, walked sandy beaches...
| Author | Sassafras Lowrey |
| ISBN | 0978597362 |
In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Diverse contributors share stories...
Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division
| Author | Jon Ginoli |
| ISBN | 1573443433 |
"We're the buttfuckers of rock-and-roll, We want to sock it to your hole!" With these words written in a notebook, Jon Ginoli sets off on a journey of self-discovery and musical passion to become the founding member of Pansy Division, the first out and proud queercore punk rock band to hit the semi-big...
Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
| Author | John R. Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1592407285 |
A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening story for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults.
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son,...
| Author | Gail Griffith |
| ISBN | 0060598662 |
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and...
A lighthearted look at how one woman learned to laugh at and cope with her spouse’s “second” passion. When Anita Salzberg marries her husband, Allen, she discovers that she’s also married his “little” turtle hobby. While sports widows merely get dragged to the stadiums or the links, the...
My bias... I am a straight male that views homosexuality as a choice, and a bad one at that with clear undeniably poor outcomes for people who choose it.
That said, I have an open mind, and I read this to try to put myself in the shoes of people on the other side of the ideological divide. This book provided...
| Author | Dale Peck |
| ISBN | 1616954418 |
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work, part memoir, part extended essay, is a foray into what the author calls 'the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic'. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over...
It is not surprising that the World War I experiences of Norman Thomas (1884-1968) form a major part of Louisa Thomas' new book: This long-lived peace advocate was, after all, the author's great grandfather and a six-time Socialist presidential candidate. Conscience does pay due attention to her...
| Author | Tonya Bolden |
| ISBN | 0375811222 |
Here’s the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about girls and women in the United States from the 18th century to the present. Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children’s librarian, historians, and many more,...
| Author | Kirk Read |
| ISBN | 0142002992 |
With bold Southern humor, journalist and performer Kirk Read takes readers on a guided tour of his precocious and courageous adolescence. Recalling his years as an openly gay high school student, Read describes how he navigated the hallways with his sense of humor and dignity intact. He fondly recalls...
| Author | Michael Thomas Ford |
| ISBN | 1555834965 |
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
| Author | Helen Boyd |
| ISBN | 1580051936 |
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her...
No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones
| Author | Carol Lynn Pearson |
| ISBN | 0963885243 |
In her best-selling "Goodbye, I Love You," Carol Lynn Pearson shared the moving story of her life with her homosexual husband Gerald--their Mormon temple marriage, the birth and raising of four children, their mutual anguish in realizing his orientation had not changed, their divorce and ongoing...
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0156002027 |
...I've been visiting my own grave for years now--pre-need, as they call it--and I don't require any further vigil from anybody. Unless it is some kind of safety zone. And as long as there's no piety in the gesture. I don't like flowers, but the deer do. Keats and Lawrence and Stevenson all died of their...
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had realized. Sure her father...
Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some
2016 SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN NONFICTION
AMAZON BEST SELLER IN LGBT, TRANSGENDER, AND HUMOR
Changing your gender from female to male takes balls. And if you’re going to do it in front of 500 coworkers at one of the top ad agencies in the country, you better have a pretty...
What’s a sweets-loving young boy growing up gay in North Carolina in the eighties supposed to think when he’s diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? That God is punishing him, naturally.
This was, after all, when Jesse Helms was his senator, AIDS was still the boogeyman, and no one was saying,...
The Man with the Electrified Brain
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 1614520836 |
“A GRIPPING DESCRIPTION OF A JOURNEY TO HELL AND BACK, ONE THAT WILL TAKE ITS PLACE BESIDE WILLIAM STYRON’S ‘DARKNESS VISIBLE’ AND KAY REDFIELD JAMISON’S ‘AN UNQUIET MIND.’” —OLIVER SACKS
“I glanced at myself in a mirror and, though unshaven, and my hair still morning-tousled,...
Why Straight Women Love Gay Romance
It’s one of the world’s biggest secrets, and it’s about to come out … Why do straight women love gay romance?
What is it that attracts straight women to the idea of two men falling in love? Is it the muscles? The mystery of the male mind? The idea of true love overcoming all odds? How has it...
