'Mom, I'm gay.' Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. What happened next is detailed with heartfelt sincerity here.
Kate Millett's hauntingly beautiful memoir begins with a telephone call from Minnesota where her mother is dying, and recounts the emotional tug of war that ensues between these two powerful women.
This unique and moving true love story, set against the horrifying backdrop of World War II Nazi Germany, is an enduring example of beauty surviving in the midst of unbearable ugliness.
Lesbian landowner Anne Lister (1791-1840), heiress, scholar, traveller, is best known to us through her diaries - an unusually vivid record of an extra-ordinary life.
This penetrating memoir reveals two months in the last year of Judy Garland's life, as told by the songwriter who was her intimate at the time. Much more than just a kiss-and-tell, this compassionate ...
Ani DiFranco's career as a singer-songwriter, recording artist and independent label ''executive' for Righteous Babe Records has given new meaning to the word ''alternative'.
"A gripping good read....This book also sheds new light on the biographies of dozens of other renowned women of the era--Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Ona Munson, and Eva Le Gallienne,...
Much has been written about the history of the gay rights movement and much more should and will be. But beneath the struggle for social and legal reform have been thousands of men and women trying si...