Titres dans Biographies et mémoires

Lucky Jim is Jim Hart's memoir, the story of how he survived a violent childhood home, found incredible words inside him, created a love that was both so right and so wrong, and finally found the strength to be his true self. Jim is a master at building relationships. Charming, funny, and a...

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear glitter. Frankie Grande always knew he was different. He just didn't know it was his superpower. Growing up glittery in a grayscale world, he found refuge in the fantasy realms of rainbow belts, telepathic mutants, and intergalactic girlbosses. (Looking at...

Nothing short of an amazing story, Karma is the long-anticipated celebrity memoir from Boy George. The memoir delivers a searingly honest and captivating account of his extraordinary life. Take a front-row seat to the highs and lows of a life lived in the spotlight. Boy George's compelling...

In None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrasessome deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some celebratoryhave fundamentally shaped Alabanza, both for...

First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them—meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and...

Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs...

"Never-before-heard stories of the much-missed national treasure." Daily Express He was a campaigner, a political advocate, and a trailblazer. But most of all, he was a friend. And I’d like to share that person with you. It’s more than two years since the much-loved entertainer, broadcaster...

In the summer of 1936, twenty-three-year-old May Swenson boarded a bus heading east out of her Mormon hometown of Logan, Utah. Her destination was New York City, where she had a single goal: become a poet. Creature tells the story of how this small-town woman fought to achieve her dreams in the Depression-era big city, keeping a roof over her head and honing her craft as she pursued romantic relationships with both men and women. After decades of struggle, Swenson became one of mid-century America’s most beloved and prolific poets. What is it that makes her poetry so extraordinary?

A middle-class Roman Catholic Italian, hockey player, avid drummer, and popular kid, Monica Miatello (formerly Chris) knew she was different from the age of five. But it was the late 1960s—a time when information about gender dysphoria was practically non-existent. As a result, although she had many friends, her childhood and teenage years felt lonely and isolating. That is, until she met Sandy. Falling in love and getting married weren’t things Miatello ever thought would happen to someone like her.

"Evocative and realistic; captures the tangled feelings of young love and lust." Kirkus Reviews Magazine Northern Italy, 1993. Teenage Lee and Nico have been circling each other since childhood: enemies, best friends, and finally, a couple. But while fifteen-year-old Nico is ready for sex...

From the late 1960s until the early 1990s the Canadian government, assisted by the RCMP, conducted a comprehensive program of harassment of Gays and Lesbians in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Public Service. Several men and women targets of systemic intimidation committed suicide. When RCMP officers involved were stationed in other parts of the country, homophobic harassment continued. In No Backup: A Set Up and More, the author describes working as a young Gay Social Worker when RCMP Officers informed him that he would not receive “Backup' as the force”...

Raw, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, Sodomy Gods is the coming-of-age story of David Lauterstein, a young gay man finding his way in the dizzying world of 1990s New York City. From coming out amidst the devastation of the AIDS crisis, to falling in love and launching the iconic queer fashion brand Nasty Pig, David's journey is one of self-discovery, resilience, and the revolutionary power of queer identity and community. His path takes listeners across various subcultures, through moments of activist rage, and into today's White House.

Are you one of the millions of adults who got bullied as a child? The kind of everyday bullying that started in first grade and continued all the way through high school? For years I never told anyone I had been bullied. It was a shameful secret I carried with me most of my life. Then something happened in my early 30's which opened my awareness to the possibility that those experiences were impacting major life decisions. When I googled "long-term consequences of bullying" and didn't find much I knew I would have to chart my own course of recovery.

When twenty-two-year-old Joe flees landlocked Colorado for a gig at a remote Sri Lankan surf and yoga oasis, he’s newly out, hopelessly naive, and desperately seeking escape. He expects a sun-drenched paradise and an adventurous new beginning, but comes to find so much more as he learns to...

When twenty-two-year-old Joe flees landlocked Colorado for a gig at a remote Sri Lankan surf and yoga oasis, he’s newly out, hopelessly naive, and desperately seeking escape. He expects a sun-drenched paradise and an adventurous new beginning, but comes to find so much more as he learns to...

Em Da próxima vez que você cair do cavalo, Panayotis Pascot percorre suas angústias com rara lucidez. Por meio de uma escrita honesta e direta, com lampejos de ternura e humor, ele investiga a dificuldade em aceitar sua homossexualidade, a distância afetiva do pai, os relacionamentos que o marcaram e a sensação de estar sempre à margem do que se espera de um “homem”. Seu relato é uma confissão sem maquiagem, que expõe as fragilidades de um jovem amadurecendo diante da doença do pai e a perda iminente e que, ao fazê-lo, oferece ao ouvinte um espelho raro e necessário.

In The Good Inside the Grief, Jon Imparato takes listeners on a sixty-year journey where death is never far away—lurking, chasing, and shocking. Through stories that are outrageous, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly funny, Jon reveals how grief is more than mourning. It’s a wild dance partner, a mischievous teacher, and ultimately, a force that transforms.

From the award-winning author of Another Appalachia, an intimate portrait of queer motherhood and mother-loss—with meditations on grief, familial legacies, and selfhood In  Becoming Ammi, author and educator Neema Avashia reflects on a new stage of her life:  becoming a parent. Through...

Vibe with these laugh-out-loud and heartful essays about falling in love with the messiness of life and with yourself from a chef and community organizer who’s going through it too “Well, so, I’m gay.” Chef, writer, and community organizer Garrett Schlichte suspected his mom probably...

He wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in ‘about an hour’ in his childhood bedroom. He would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder. He was a pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and, at the same...