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10 best books like Breaking the Surface (Greg Louganis): The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, The Best Little Boy in the World, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., Kicked Out, Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath, Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of An AIDS Activist, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
AuthorJudy Shepard
ISBN1594630577
The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist

Today, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but before his grisly murder in 1998, Matthew was simply Judy Shepard's son. For the first...
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
AuthorLoren Cameron
ISBN1573440620
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...
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
AuthorJoy Ladin
ISBN0299287300
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...
The Best Little Boy in the World
AuthorAndrew Tobias
ISBN0345381769
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...
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
AuthorMel White
ISBN0452273811
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...
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.
AuthorJonathan Ned Katz
ISBN0452010926
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[October is Gay History Month, and in commemoration of this I recommend this seminal work as the quintessential record of gay history in America]

About the author: Katz taught as an adjunct at Yale University, Eugene Lang...
Kicked Out
AuthorSassafras Lowrey
ISBN0978597362
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...
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0786720395
Andrew Holleran’s Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized...
Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of An AIDS Activist
AuthorLarry Kramer
ISBN0312114192
Kramer's work is awe-inspiring yet exhausting, it slaps the reader whilst it presents a sense urgency, fear, anger, rage, and fury, and sadness... The author refuses to hold back anything and shouts as loud as he can as he puts Reagan, Koch, The New York Times, Bush, Clinton, and many others to task for...
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060928050
The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor and, perhaps most importantly, he is deeply in love with his partner of many years, Wally Roberts. The harmonious existence...
Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul
AuthorJonathan Rauch
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...
How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-Of-Age Story
AuthorKirk Read
ISBN0142002992
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...
Diaries: Volume One, 1939-1960
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
ISBN0061180009
At times pious, at times profane but always unashamedly honest, "The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood" provide an inside look at the life and times of one of the most celebrated writers of the century. Chronicling Isherwood's life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, until 1960, these...
That's Mr. Faggot to You: Further Trials from My Queer Life
AuthorMichael Thomas Ford
ISBN1555834965
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
AuthorHelen Boyd
ISBN1580051936
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...
Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
AuthorLeroy Aarons
ISBN0062511238
Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey...
Openly Bob
AuthorBob Smith
ISBN0380732009
As an openly gay comic, Bob Smith broke barriers with an appearance on "The Tonight Show." Now Smith offers up his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay.In OPENLY BOB, the acclaimed comedian candidly, and humorously, tackles issues facing grown-up gays as they make their place...
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
AuthorJoel Derfner
ISBN0767924304
Joel Derfner is gayer than you.

Don’t feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life’s work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging, but the camp counselors wouldn’t let him, because, they said,...
Pee-Shy
AuthorFrank Spinelli
ISBN0758291329
In his stunningly honest and poignant memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life. . .

Frank Spinelli grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian-born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to...
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
AuthorPaul Monette
ISBN0156002027
...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...
The Confession
AuthorJames E. McGreevey
ISBN0060898623
In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he stepped before microphones, declared "My truth is that I am a gay American," and announced his resignation. The story made international headlines—but what led to that moment was a human and political drama more complex...
Hold Tight
AuthorChristopher Bram
ISBN0452262267
"Nazi intrigue in a homosexual brothel . . . a spy thriller that breaks new ground."--Kirkus Reviews

Hank Fayette, Seaman Second Class, had enlisted in his Texas hometown, used his shore leave to visit a movie house on 42nd Street, and ended up in a gay brothel near Manhattan's West piers. It...
Closet
AuthorR.D. Zimmerman
ISBN0385320043
It began with a brutal attack in a posh Minneapolis neighborhood.  And from the first killing to the next, Todd Mills was at the center of the story.  The son of Polish immigrants, Todd had changed his name and risen to the top of his field as a TV news reporter, winning two Emmy Awards along the way.  Then...
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