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Gay Cuban Nation
by Emilio BejelWith Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Alfonso Hernández-Catá, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Reinaldo Arenas, whose heartbreaking autobiography, Before Night Falls, has enjoyed renewed popularity, Gay Cuban Nation shows that the category of homosexuality is always lurking, ghostlike, in the shadows of nationalist discourse. The book stakes out Cuba's sexual battlefield, and will challenge the homophobia of both Castro's revolutionaries and Cuban exiles in the States.
Out Of The Closet Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Our Gay/Lesbian Family Members
by Laura Siegel Nancy Lamkin Olson
The Gifts of the Body
by Rebecca BrownA woman volunteer who cares for people with AIDS narrates a poignant account of the clients she comes to love in her role as a home-care aide, in a bittersweet novel about life, illness, death, and remembrance. By the author of The Children's Crusade.
The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood
by Diana MclellanMcLellan's investigative account of the lives of Hollywood's most glamorous and uninhibited goddesses plunges deep into the rich stew of love, money, and passion that was the dawn of the movie business. The Girls reveals an early marriage to a communist spy that Marlene Dietrich fought all her life to keep secret and unearths an equally shrouded fling between Dietrich and Greta Garbo as starlets in Berlin. From the complex love life of the elegant Mercedes de Acosta through Isadora Duncan and Tallulah Bankhead to Garbo's lover Salka Viertel, McLellan untangles a passionate skein of connections that stretches from the theater in New York through brazenly bisexual socialites deep into the heart of the film industry.
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence
by Marion Dane BauerShort stories dealing with gay and lesbian teens etc.
A Lesbian Love Advisor
by Celeste WestWitty, yet also serious content, for lesbians and relationships. Some wonderful ideas and examples for various types of rituals.
Lesbian Couples
by D. Merilee Clunis G. Dorsey GreenWritten by two well-known lesbian psychologists, this book is a guide to developing and maintaining lesbian relationships. No matter how short or long your current relationship has been, a review of this book is always helpful.
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
by G. Dorsey Green D. Merilee ClunisMany topics covered, both in the areas of child raising, and raising children in non-traditional families. Wonderful support and education in this book. Written by psychologists who are the authors of "Lesbian Couples." (Also available on Bookshare.)
Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last
by Betty BerzonPsychologist offers counseling from her practice with long-term gay and lesbian couples. Topics, such as compatibility, internalized homophobia, communication, power and control issues, jealousy, fair fighting, money, sex, family, writing wills, etc, are all covered.
Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
by Joan Nestle Naomi HolochThird in this series of anthologies.
Healing Homosexuality
by Leanne PayneThis book is for: all who have endured or even now suffer the homosexual identity crisis, especially those who have feared there is no help to be found.
Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish
by Christie Balka Andy RoseEssays and stories by Jewish gay men a nd lesbians. Includes liturgical writings. Also includes glossary and resources, bibliography.
Vital Ties
by Karen KringleAn old-fashioned novel and a "good read," Vital Ties is an all-inclusive chronicle of farm life and the unexpected connections between neighbors. Lee and Clare are two independent women who both began working farms at a time when independence was suspect. Vital Ties traces their evolving relationship with each other and all the people touched by their lives. Most notable among the supporting cast of indelible characters are Marsh, the estranged brother who comes home to die of AIDS; Les and Wade, the local gay couple who run the restaurant in town; and Frances, the fundamentalist preacher's wife whose life begins when her husband dies. Clare and Lee learn about love and acceptance while learning about themselves during three decades of change in rural Wisconsin. Karen Kringle's first novel is an auspicious debut whose memory will linger long after the last page is turned.
Odd Girl Out
by Ann BannonFirst published in 1957; early lesbian fiction; first in Beebo Brinker chronicles.
Girl Walking Backwards
by Bett WilliamsSixteen-year-old Sky deals with irresponsible parents and her own life difficulties.
Staying Power: Long Term Lesbian Couples
by Susan E. JohnsonThis is the report of the first nation-wide study on long-term lesbian relationships. It includes interviews with couples, analyses, and what can be learned from these women.
Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium (Men on Men, No #8)
by Karl Woelz David BergmanThis is the eighth book in a series of fiction anthologies