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Lies: A Diary 1986-1999
by Ned Rorem
Counterpoint Publishers
ISBN: 1-58243-057-8
We should all be grateful to Ned Rorem for writing about, "among a thousand other things, . . . old age, sickness and death, the three inevitable and edifying truths about life according to the Buddha, and the three great subjects Americans avoid--even consider shameful." The book tells of a fulfilled creative life and helps us to understand what love is as Rorem records the last days of his lover, Jim Holmes.
With energy and graceful wit Ned Rorem remembers and mourns the passing of old friends . . . and enemies. He gripes about the discomfiture's of old age and traces the grim course of AIDS as it devastates the gay community and claims victim after victim from the ranks of Arts and Literature. It's sad how they seem to mount up and they are by no means young; some are aged 70 and 80.
OUT for GOOD: The Struggle To Build A Gay Rights Movement In America
by Dudley Clendinen & Adam Nagourney
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0-684-81091-3
This is a sweeping narrative that defines the history of the last great civil rights struggle of the twentieth century. The reader learns about everything from the early days of the polite "homophile" organizations like the The Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis to the aftermath of the Stonewall riots that led to the formation of New York City's Gay Liberation Front and more.
Starry, Starry Night: Provincetown's Response to the AIDS Epidemic
by Jeanne Braham & Pamela Peterson
Brookline Books, Lumen Editions
ISBN: 9-781571-290-8.
In this small but beautifully written book are the first-person accounts from activists, community artists, doctors and couples who lives have been deeply affected by the virus. The book tells of the extraordinary communal responses in a close-knit community that is primarily gay. The title comes from the authors seeing the endless amount of stars twinkling under the night sky.
Bisexuality & The Eroticism Of Everyday Life
By Marjorie Garber
Routledge Publishers
ISBN: 0-415-92661-0
The reader finds out exactly what bisexuality is as opposed to a homosexual or a heterosexual. The author re-evaluates what normal might mean and poses the question "Is bisexuality a 'third kind' of sexuality . . . or is it something that puts in question the very concept of sexual identity in the first place?" She suggests that bisexuality is eroticism, an unpigeonholed sexuality--not a third choice, as some would have us believe.
Confessions of a Gender Defender
Randi Ettner, Ph. D.
Spectrum Press
ISBN: 1-886094-51-9
This slim book is filled with case histories of mostly male-to-female transsexuals and one or two histories of a female-to-male transsexuals. Included is the case history of an 84-year-old white male from Wyoming who said he wasn't a homosexual, had been previously married and had fathered
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