Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination by Sue Steve; Elliott Humphries
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives.This vital new oral history - to accompany a Channel 4 documentary of the ...Show more
Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir by Alan Cumming
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film--"one of the mo ...Show more
Not Quite Straight : A Memoir by Jeffrey Smart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Born in respectable (read: dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at age 4. By 5 he had discovered Sex (with a female classmate) and Crime. By 18 he'd decided he was the only person in Australia who was 'not quite straight'. The subsequent decades brought further enlig ...Show more
Not So Good a Gay Man A Memoir by Frank M. Robinson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Not So Good a Gay Man is the compelling memoir of author, screenwriter, and activist Frank M. Robinson. Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) accomplished a great deal in his long life, working in magazine publishing, including a stint for Playboy, and writing science fiction such as The Power, The Dark Beyond ...Show more
Notes on a Banana : A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression by David Leite
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD Born into a devoutly Catholic, food-crazed family of Azorean immigrants in 1960s Fall River, Massachusetts, David Leite had a childhood that was the stuff of sitcoms. But what no one knew was that this smart-mouthed, wise-ass dreamer also struggled with the frig ...Show more
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert MacFarlane 'Diarmuid Hester's beautifully written psycho-biography explores obscure corners of places as sites of hidden queer histories ... haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris Kraus At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloi ...Show more
Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes by Dorothy U. Seyler
$44.95 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
William John Bankes (1786–1855) was a pioneer in the nascent study of the language, history, and civilization of ancient Egypt. At the Abydos Temple he discovered the King List — a wall of cartouches listing Egyptian kings in chronological order — which was vital to the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. ...Show more
Oh, My God! Am I Alright? by Michael El-Bacha
$19.95 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Michael El-Bacha was almost like every other 19-year old son of Lebanese Christian parents growing up in the western Sydney world of Rugby League, fast cars, and hot chicks, when a visit to Lebanon led to him to being coerced into marrying his 16 year old cousin Fi. Two years later his son was born, but ...Show more
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society by Roderic Fenwick Owen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds of 'decency', for those bits are essential...' So begins the lively true story of aristocrat and travel writer Roderic Fenwick-Owen. Born in 1920, Fenwick-Owen had an extraordinary life, which careered between some ...Show more
On the Move : A Life by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with h ...Show more
On the Other Side of Freedom - Race and Justice in a Divided America by DeRay Mckesson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being. Now, in his first book, he draws on his own experiences - of growing up without his mother, ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A h ...Show more