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The Intimacy Dance: A Guide to Long-Term Success in Gay and Lesbian Relationships
by Betty BerzonGuide to same-sex relationships.
Just A Mom
by Betty DegeneresThe mother of comedian Ellen DeGeneres explains ways parents can help themselves and their homosexual children to deal with homosexuality.
Behind The Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910-1969
by William J. MannWhether in or out of the closet, gays and lesbians played an essential role in shaping studio-era Hollywood. Gay actors (J. Warren Kerrigan, Marlene Dietrich, Rock Hudson), gay directors (George Cukor, James Whale, Dorothy Arzner), and gay set and costume designers (Adrian, Travis Banton, George James Hopkins) have been among the most influential individuals in Hollywood history and literally created the Hollywood mystique. This landmark study-based on seven years of exacting research and including unpublished memoirs, personal correspondence, oral histories, and scrapbooks-explores the experience of Hollywood's gays in the context of their times. Ranging from Hollywood's working conditions to the rowdy character of Los Angeles's gay underground, William J. Mann brings long overdue attention to every aspect of this powerful creative force.
The Well Of Loneliness
by Radclyffe HallOriginally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by "polite" society. When an unconventional woman named Stephen Gordon falls in love with an ingenue named Mary, their love affair gives Stephen her first taste of happiness. However, the pleasure the lovers find in each other is quickly tarnished by the disapproval of friends and family who refuse to welcome the "scandalous" couple in their homes. But the most difficult test of the women's love for each other comes when a young man offers to give Mary the "respect-ability" that Stephen can not. The Well of Loneliness is the thinly disguised story of Radclyffe Hall's own life. Shockingly candid for its time, this novel was the very first to condemn homophobic society for its unfair treatment of gays and lesbians. Banned outright in 1928, its publication marked an act of great courage which almost ruined Hall's literary career. Although half a century has passed since its initial publication, the issues of prejudice and persecution that Radclyffe Hall addresses remain sadly relevant today
Out For Good: The Struggle To Build A Gay Rights Movement in America
by Dudley ClendinenThis is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and until now untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America's culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever
Where My Love Lies Dreaming
by Christopher Hawthorne MossAs the famous riverboat Le Beau Soleil lazily steams down the mighty Mississippi into the heart of the South, distractions of every sort attempt to pull agent for the Treasury Johnny Stanley away from his assignment. While liquor and gaming are no great temptations, his fascination with Le Beau Soleil’s owner, the debonair Frankie Deramus, means Johnny’s steadfast denial of his attraction to men is no longer feasible. Johnny fights his lust, but when he must come to Frankie’s aid, he can’t ignore his urges any longer. Their passionate love affair falls apart when Johnny refuses to admit two men can be in love. A bitter confrontation between the lovers at a Mardi Gras masquerade forces Johnny to run north. Frankie tries to follow, but the Southern states secede one by one, making it impossible to track Johnny down. The Civil War pits brother against brother and separates lover from lover. When at last the lovers meet again, it’s on the battlefield….
The Little Less
by Angela Du MaurierThis is a novel about a lesbian relationship. The author is the sister of Daphne Du Maurier.
The Green Scamander
by Maude MeagherThe story of Penthesilea, noble and doomed last Queen of the Amazons.
Lip Service: Alluring New Lesbian Erotica
by Jess WellsFrom the dark, foggy streets of New Orleans to the back room of a sex shop to a turn-of-the-century brothel to a church in a small Norwegian town, editor Jess Wells takes readers on a sexy, freewheeling ride through today's hottest lesbian erotica.
Mukt Zale Manvi Ashru: मुक्त झाले मानवी अश्रू
by Rahul Shindeया संग्रहातील कथा लेखकाच्या जशा बाहेरच्या अभ्यासातून, माणसांना भेटण्यातून आल्या आहेत, तशीच त्याला आंतरिक अवस्थेची आणि अनुभवांची जोड आहे. काही अवस्था, वेदना, दुःख आयुष्याचा नेमका अर्थही सांगू पाहतात, खोलवर जाऊन काहीतरी शोधायला प्रवृत्त करतात, त्यातून या कथांचा जन्म झाला आहे. काही कथांना स्पर्धेत पारितोषिकांची थाप मिळाली आहे. कोंडलेल्या वेदनांना मोकळं करण्याची वाट नसली की त्या तीव्र वेदना शरीर-मन पोखरून टाकतात. यातील कथा कोंडलेल्या वेदनांना आणि अश्रूंना मुक्त करणाऱ्या आहेत. वेदनेच्या वादळात ज्यांना आंतरिक अवस्थेचा शोध लागला, अशा ट्रान्सजेंडर, एकल पालक, विधवा, LGBT आणि इतर व्यक्तींच्या कथा समृद्ध करणाऱ्या आहेत. मानवी जीवनाचे, वेदनेच्या पलीकडे काय अस्तित्व आहे, याचा लेखकाने शोध घेतला आहे, याची प्रचिती प्रत्येक कथा वाचताना येते.
The Web
by Andrew HarveyThis novel follows homosexual Englishman Charles Hallam to New York as he searches for clarity regarding a previous relationship he had with the charismatic Richard Hughes. Exploring the intersections and deviations of memory and reality, Charles meets many memorable characters as he searches for Richard, including Adolphe the aging transvestite, and Anna the seeker of all spiritual things.
Legacy and The Janus Equation (Binary Star #4)
by Joan D. Vinge Steven G. SpruillLegacy: Dartagnan licked enough boots to outfit a centipede in pursuit of his one big chance--then on a frozen outpost of the Heaven Belt, he was asked to throw it all away--for someone else's doomed dreams. The Janus Equation: Essian's work could change the future--and the past--and to capture it the world's largest corporations pursued him with bribes... and with killers.
The Heart's Progress: A Memoir
by Claudia BepkoLike many lesbians, Claudia Bepko was a young woman when she first admitted to having homosexual feelings--but it took a lifeless heterosexual marriage and a fierce attraction to a female colleague before she was able to live openly in a relationship with another woman. In this moving memoir she relives the painful and poignant awakenings she experienced in her early life: from her blue-collar Catholic upbringing to her confusing college days, during the height of the sexual revolution, when she encountered her first male and female lovers. Having built a career in the early years of the women's movement, she found the courage to question her heterosexuality. Approaching middle age in the midst of "lesbian chic," she finds herself finally able to move from an identity shrouded in otherness to a life that celebrates the freedom and normalcy of loving whomever one is destined to love.
Either is Love
by Elisabeth CraiginFirst published 1937. After the death of her husband, the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him about her earlier intense love affair with another woman. This beautifully written "memoir" is an almost unequaled treatment of a lesbian romance.
The Tree and the Vine
by Dola De Jong Nona KinzerBea and Erica meet in 1938, before Germany has come to power. Bea, who has had very few, but mostly violent sexual encounters in the past, finds herself attracted to the boyish Erica. However, the coming years will be hard on the women, as Hitler's forces draw ever nearer to the land they call home.
Winds of Fortune
by RadclyffeFor Provincetown local Deo Camara, the only winds that have ever blown her way have been cold and lonely. Despite a decade of estrangement, Deo can't turn her back on the call of blood, no matter how high the price in heartache. Dr. Nita Burgoyne has her own family secrets, a past so painful she starts a new life in hopes of leaving it behind. She has a rewarding new job and an historic sea captain's house in need of renovation-all she needs to be content. Or so she thinks, until she hires Deo to head up the renovations. They have nothing in common except a shared legacy of betrayal by those they'd trusted the most, and an impossible attraction they would both prefer to ignore. Meanwhile, Nita's new associate, Dr. Tory King, and her partner, Sheriff Reese Conlon, must cope with the aftermath of the winds of war and the approaching fury of a very real gathering storm.
Demon's Fire
by Emma HollyFans of erotic romance will find it difficult to do better' than Emma Holly and her dazzling novels of the Demon World, where no law of desire goes unbroken.. Taking the routine life her family mapped out for her, Beth joins rchaeological dig with her long-time friend Charles. For such intruders, the desert city of Bhamjran is perfect-especially when it comes to exploring forbidden appetites like Charles's shameful e for a Yamish demon. And as he and Beth are about to learn, - Yama find humans equally irresistible. As a sexual captive, Prince Pahndir now exploits his talents as irietor of the most infamous and successful brothel in Bhamjran. content with simply selling fantasy to others, he's long dreamed fulfilling his own erotic fulfillment. He believes these two young humans may hold the key to answering his secret demon needs. Soon Beth and Charles are ushered into a passionate triangle that redethe limits of pleasure-and unexpectedly challenges the means of love. Inly a few authors can successfully blend storytelling, romance, and eroticism-and Emma Holly is definitely one of them." -The Romance Reader
The Front Runner
by Patricia Nell WarrenBilly Sive is the most exciting thing to happen to U.S. sports in years. He is a champion long-distance runner, idol of American youth and best Olympic runner. Billy Sive is young, proud and gay and he doesn't care who knows it... In this riveting breakthrough novel of homosexual love in the sports world; a bestseller that has won coast-to-coast acclaim as a love story as moving as any ever written... as a candid look into the psychological and physical experience of the new gay world...as a joyous, painful, touching and triumphal novel of love. The first honest popular novel about homosexual love.
Bliss
by Fiona ZeddeFrom the outside, Bliss Sinclair's life seems very glamorous-a high- profile job with a publishing house, a fashionable boyfriend who looks good on her arm, and ultra-chic parties where the come-ons are as hot and thrilling at night as they are empty as an air-kiss greeting the next day. It's a world Bliss wanders through with blinders on, all the while craving more. And she finds it in the most unlikely of places. Embarking on a series of carnal adventures with a notorious bad girl as her guide, Bliss opens herself to every new experience and every taboo. In abandoned warehouses, private fetish clubs, even her own office, Bliss is skating on the thin ice of desire-until her world comes crashing in. Now, broken and wanting, Bliss decides to spend a summer in her birthplace, Jamaica, where she hopes to reconcile with her estranged father and rediscover herself. There, in a land of lush ripeness, of heat, warm breezes, easy smiles, and the family she left behind, Bliss will discover what she didn't know was missing. It's a journey that will awaken every one of her senses and take her to the edge of known pleasure and far beyond it, to a love that is as sexy as it gets, as real as can be, and more surprising than she can imagine-a place of total bliss.
The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica
by Rose CollisFrom the pens of today's leading female writers of lesbian erotica come tales of passion and lust, anticipation and regret, ecstasy and bliss. The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica brings together a dynamic selection of new erotic fiction by women writers from around the world. Their writing covers the emotional spectrum. from intimate reminiscences and intensely personal experiences. to humorous tales and magical encounters. Location and cultural setting are fascinatingly diverse star-crossed lovers in contemporary Vancouver are juxtaposed with fiery encounters in snowbound Iceland: a Japanese girl prepares for the return of her warrior queen by baking a ceremonial cake while in the remote midwest of America a lonely old woman quietly mourns the passing of her lover. The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica, edited by Rose Collis, offers forty-eight rewarding tales from a little-explored genre, most of which have been specially commissioned for this unique volume.