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I am my own wife

studies for a play about the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
2004
A one-man show based on the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East Berlin transvestite who survived World War II and received the Order of Merit from the German government after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Dancer from the dance

a novel
2001
Malone, a young, gay man living in New York, struggles to find true love and his true identity in the gay bars and clubs in Manhattan.

The velvet rage

overcoming the pain of growing up gay in a straight man's world
2005
Explores how the happiness and contentment of gay men has been destroyed by deep-rooted shame that can be traced to childhood experiences of feeling different and of being abandoned by their fathers.

Together forever

the gay man's guide to lifelong love
2005
Offers advice to gay men on how to develop long-term relationships, discusses boredom, sexual problems, anger, fear of commitment, self-absorption, and other dangers to lasting love, and presents a model of a great relationship.

Blind eye

2003
Benjamin Justice, discredited as a journalist for inventing the subjects of his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, is drawn back into the investigating business over ten years later when his closest friend's fiance, a columnist who has been asking questions for Justice about a priest from his past, is killed in a too-convenient hit-and-run accident.

Firebird

a memoir
1999
Mark Doty discusses what it was like to grow up as a homosexual, how his parents and siblings reacted to the news, and how he came to terms with his sexuality.

Directions to the beach of the dead

2005
In this collection of poetry, Richard Blanco explores the ideal of home and the connections we seek through place, culture, family, love, and art.

Just as I am

a novel
1995
Attorney Raymond Winston Tyler, Jr. and actress Nicole Marie Springer break off their romance after Ray reveals he is gay, but they remain friends and both continue their quest to find the men of their dreams.

The Laramie Project

and The Laramie Project, ten years later / Mois?s Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris, and Stephen Belber
2014
"On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in a shocking act of hate. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Mois?s Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people"--Provided by publisher.

The unreal life of Sergey Nabokov

a novel
2011
A novel based on the life of Vladimir Nabokov's gay brother Sergey, from his wealth and position in pre-revolutionay Russia, Cambridge University, and to the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein, Sergey lives the life of an opium addict with a troubling love life in the shadow of his brilliant brother when he takes to to living in Berlin, he is eventully arrested and sent to a camp in 1945.

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