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Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS

10 best books like Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS (Dale Peck): Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, Kicked Out, Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality, Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath, Eavesdropping, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student, Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul, Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I, How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-Of-Age Story

Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
AuthorJohn M. Hull
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...
Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
AuthorNora Gallagher
ISBN0307592987
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.

One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that...
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...
Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
AuthorJohn R. Schwartz
ISBN1592407285
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,...
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...
Eavesdropping
AuthorStephen Kuusisto
ISBN0393349586
Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two...
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
AuthorElizabeth Stone
ISBN1565123158
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...
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...
Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I
AuthorLouisa Thomas
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...
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...
Totempole
AuthorSanford Friedman
ISBN1590177614
Totempole is Sanford Friedman’s radical coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen’s evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-two-year-old...
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...
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 Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman
AuthorSue Townsend
Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time all welcome. Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for "Sainsbury's Magazine", which covers everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants...
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
AuthorThomas Lynch
ISBN0393321649
I love a good surprise book. I don't know where I got this one from, if it was given to me or if I picked it up at a bookstore and put it on the shelf but I recently picked it up and I couldn't have been more impressed.
It's a memoir / collection of essays. He gives his thoughts on life, death, marriage, divorce,...
The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption
AuthorMonty Don
The face of British gardening Monty Don and his wife Sarah tell the magical story of the garden they have built over the last decade THE JEWEL GARDEN is the story of the garden that over the past decade has bloomed from the muddy fields around the Dons' Tudor farmhouse, a perfect metaphor for the Monty and...
How to Become a Virgin
AuthorQuentin Crisp
ISBN0006357997
This is the sequel to The Naked Civil Servant, in it Mr. Crisp tells of his life after the book was published, and how the TV version came about, and then his first trip to the U.S. The many little tours and theatre appearances of “An audience with Quentin Crisp” are described as sometimes disappointing...
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
AuthorMerle Miller
ISBN0143106961
Originally published in 1971, On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in America. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled "What It Means To Be a Homosexual" in response to a homophobic article...
Out In The Army: My Life As A Gay Soldier
AuthorJames Wharton
ISBN1849545405
Out in the Army follows the extraordinary career journey of James Wharton, one of the first ‘out’ soldiers in the armed forces as he becomes a man, joins the Army and learns to deal with his sexuality in a sometimes hostile environment prior to coming to terms with it and, in turn, helping the army itself...
After the Blue Hour
AuthorJohn Rechy
ISBN0802125891
John Rechy’s first novel, City of Night, an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among America’s most important writers. The author’s most daring work, After the Blue Hour is narrated by a twenty-four-year-old writer named John Rechy....
The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth
AuthorFanny Howe
ISBN1555977561
A meditation on time, violence, and chance by "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine)

Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth is a sequence of essays, short tales, and lyrics that are intertwined by an inner visual logic. The book contains filmic images...
Quarantine: Stories
AuthorRahul Mehta
ISBN0062020455
“The stories in Rahul Mehta's Quarantine amplify a surprising new voice: gentle, even tender, but powerful." —Pankaj Mishra, author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana

Reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and the work of Michael Cunningham, Rahul Mehta’s debut short...
Hood
AuthorAlison Kinney
ISBN1501307401
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed...
Children of the Sun
AuthorMax Schaefer
ISBN1593762976
1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by Britain’s neo-Nazi movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. It’s an environment in which he must hide his sexuality, in which every encounter is potentially deadly.

2003: James is a young writer, living...
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