Author: | David Hallberg; To Be Announced Staff |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in the western world," presents an intimate journey through his artisti... read more
December 2017
Author: | Anna Thomasson |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
'I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy StrongThe winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought h... read more
Author: | Jim Davidson |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.' In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritaria... read more
Author: | Matthew Spender |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father's copious unpublished archives. Stephen Spe... read more
July 2016
Author: | Donald McRae |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
'I kill a man and most people forgive me. However, I love a man and many say this makes me an evil person.'
On 24 March 1962, when Emile Griffith stepped into the ring in Madison Square Garden to defend his world title against Benn... read more
August 2016
Author: | Donald McRae |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
'I kill a man and most people forgive me. However, I love a man and many say this makes me an evil person.' On 24 March 1962, when Emile Griffith stepped into the ring in Madison Square Garden to defend his world title against Benny Paret,... read more
October 2015
Author: | Robert Dessaix |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
Adopted as a baby towards the end of World War II, Robert Dessaix grew up haunted by 'a shaft of silence' surrounding the question of his natural mother's identity, and of his own identity and sexuality. In this touching memoir, he recounts the story of a most unusual... read more
July 2017
Author: | Michael Kirby |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired public figures. At a time of spin and obfuscation, he speaks out passionately and straightforwardly on the issues that are important to him. Even those who disagree with him have been moved by the ... read more
Author: | Ian Buruma |
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Gay Male & Bi Biography |
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre... read more
April 2019
Author: | Ian Buruma |
Category: |
Gay Male & Bi Biography |
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments.
Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde thea... read more
Author: | Simon Goldhill |
Category: |
Gay Male & Bi Biography |
"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordi... read more
October 2016
Author: | David Bennett |
Category: |
Gay Male & Bi Biography |
David Bennett came out to his parents as gay when he was fourteen and entered Sydney's active gay community a few years later. In A War of Loves, he shares his growing desire as a gay rights activist to see justice f... read more
January 2019