Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul
10 best books like Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul (Jonathan Rauch): Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, Breaking the Surface, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, Kicked Out, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, Fat Sex: The Naked Truth, Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student, Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I
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...
| 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...
| 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...
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
| Author | Lori Duron |
| ISBN | 0770437729 |
Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron’s frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl...
| Author | Rebecca Jane Weinstein |
| ISBN | 1475261837 |
If there are two subjects that are universally fascinating and rife with controversy, they are sex and fat. Though our culture is obsessed with both, the two commingling are sometimes seen as offensive, obscene, or even grotesque. Fat people are not viewed as sexual beings. Of course, this perception...
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath
| Author | Andrew Holleran |
| ISBN | 0786720395 |
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...
| Author | Elizabeth Stone |
| ISBN | 1565123158 |
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's...
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...
In the mid-1920s, young children began to vanish from neighborhoods around New York City. It took the police a decade to find their abductor, an unassuming 64-year-old handyman named Albert Fish. Fish had committed crimes of unspeakable horror: He had not only abducted and murdered the children,...
| Author | Aimee Buckner |
| ISBN | 1571107827 |
The question I grappled with was how to move students from “couch-potato” readers who can answer basic questions with one word–to readers who think while reading–to readers who think beyond their reading.
–Aimee Buckner
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner demonstrated...
| 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...
| Author | Frank Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0758291329 |
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
| 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...
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...
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,...
Author Cris Beam left her mother’s home at age 14, driven out by a suburban household of hidden chaos and mental illness. Her mother, a distant relative of William Faulkner, told neighbors and family that her daughter had died. The two never saw each other again. Nearly twenty-five years later, after...
Synopsis: If you're over 30, you probably walked to school, played on the monkeybars, learned to high-dive at the public pool. If you're younger, it's unlikely you did any of these things. Has the world become that much more dangerous? Statistically, not at all. But our society has created pervasive...
| Author | J.L. Merrow |
| ISBN | 1615817549 |
This title is part of the 2010 Advent Calendar: Naughty or Nice
The First World War cast a long shadow, and in the winter of 1920, it's still at its darkest. When solicitor's clerk George Johnson moves into new digs, he's instantly attracted to friendly fellow lodger Matthew Connaught, who lost...
| Author | K.Z. Snow |
| ISBN | 9781623802 |
Daren Boothe's most significant secret centers on an unlikely object: a xylophone. That secret led him to develop his professional alter-ego, a sensual, androgynous dancer. When Dare begins his second (and considerably more wholesome) job playing clarinet in a polka band, he meets a young man who...
| Author | Charlie Cochrane |
| ISBN | 1426895127 |
France, 1915
Lieutenant Tom Donald envies everything about fellow officer Frank Foden—his confidence, his easy manner with the men in the trenches, the affectionate letters from his wife. Frank shares these letters happily, drawing Tom into a vicarious friendship with a woman he's never...
