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Breaking the surface

1995
Greg Louganis, four-time Olympic gold medal diving champion, tells of his life and career.

Quarantine

stories
2011
A collection of short stories by Rahul Mehta that features openly gay Indian American men.

Spiral

2003
Nicholas Greer has immersed himself for years in researching and writing a biography of controversial British painter Frank Spira, but his task becomes even more complicated when he meets with one of Spira's ex-lovers and receives news that Spira's definitive work--believed to have been destroyed--may still exist and someone is willing to kill to possess it.

Gay marriage

1998
Collection of essays examines various viewpoints on gay marriages, touching on the areas of family, sexual morality, and social justice.

Swimming in the monsoon sea

2005
In 1980 Sri Lanka, fourteen-year-old Amrith's uneventful summer, filled with typing lessons and hopes of a part in his school's production of "Othello," is turned upside down when he falls in love with a boy.

Gravitation

the novel
2006
Shuichi Shindou, lead singer of the popular band Bad Luck, returns home to visit his boyfriend, romance novelist Eiri Yuki, and finds an alarming note and no sign of Eiri, sending Shiuchi on a wild search for answers.

Growing up gay

a literary anthology
1994
Contains over fifty coming-of-age stories, by a variety of famous and lesser-known authors, written specifically for gay and lesbian youth.

The boy with a thorn in his side

a memoir
2000
The author remembers his youth in mental hospitals, his disfiguring acne, his love affair with another hospital patient named Laura, and his time, at age sixteen, spent living in the 1970s Manhattan gay scene with his uncle, writer Edmund White.

Losing Matt Shepard

life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder
2000
Explores why the murder of twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matt Shepard ignited a media frenzy and struck a cord with American society.

Angels in America

a gay fantasia on national themes
1995
Presents the text of Tony Kushner's stage drama "Angels in America," including part one, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Millennium Approaches," which follows the thread of AIDS through the lives of several gay men; and part two "Perestroika," which continues the story after one of the characters has been declared a prophet.

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