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Best gay autobiographies

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Biographies and memoirs are ordered by last name of subject.

Children&#;s/Middle Grade

Biography/Memoir
History
How-To/Self-Help

Young Adult

History
Identity/Orientation
Memoir
How-To/Self-Help

General/Reference

Anthologies
Biography
Culture

Ballroom/Dance

Culinary Arts

Drag/Performance

Film and Television

Lifestyle/Hobbies

Literary Arts

Music

Nightlife

Theatre

Travel

  • Real Lgbtq+ America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
  • Moby Dyke: a Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
  • *(Out) on the Road: How Queer Tour is Different and Why it Matters by Lindsey Danis
  • The Pride Atlas: Iconic Destinations for Queer Travelers by Maartje Hensen
  • *Edge of the World: an Anthology of Lgbtq+ Travel Writing ed. by Alden Jones

Visual Arts

Gender Identity
History

Cities/Countries/Eras

  • Queer City: Male lover London from the Romans to the Present Day b

    11 Must-Read LGBTQ+ Memoirs

    If you’ve seen the film Milk or the miniseries When We Rise (which is partially based upon this book), or simply grasp anything about queer history, then you know Cleve Jones. Jones is a social justice pioneer who championed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and awareness alongside Harvey Milk and other revolutionaries in the early days of the movement. In When We Rise, Jones vividly captures s and ’80s San Francisco, offering a journey back in time that queer folks and allies alike should take. And while Jones’s memoir delivers a powerful lesson in LGBTQ+ history, it also serves as a adore letter to San Francisco, a tragic chronicle of the ways AIDS devastated queer life, and a valuable guide to discovery family, support, and community.

    There are so many more outstanding LGBTQ+ memoirs that may not have made our list but still deserve your attention. These include Chasten Buttigieg’s I Have Something to Say You, Precious Brady-Davis’s I Have Always Been Me, Edie Windsor’s A Savage and Precious Life, Augusten Burroughs’s Lust and Wonder, a

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    • Available via Hoopla as an ebook. A collection of unapologetic, tangled, tender, funny, bruising, and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love each other on the continent. In these unafraid stories of affection, sweat, betrayal, and…

    • Available at TCCL as a book, ebook via Hoopla and cloudLibrary, and downloadable audiobook via cloudLibrary. Written by a gay Chinese-American male author. A journalist for Time magazine, after coming out to his parents as a queer man, documents his…

    • Available at TCCL as a book and ebook via Hoopla. Written by a white lesbian female author. While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she'll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually…

    • Available at TCCL as a book and ebook via Hoopla. Written by a white transgender male author. Man Alive engages an amazing personal story to tell a universal one--how we all struggle to build ourselves, and how this struggle often requires…

    • Available at TCCL as a novel and downloadable audiobook via cloudLib

      10 Essential LGBTQ Memoirs

      Anne Hull is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Her debut memoir, Through the Groves, about coming-of-age and coming-out in Florida in the s, will be released by Holt in June.

      Maybe for some, creature asked to name their 10 favorite LGBTQ memoirs of all time might be a breezy practice. I found it next to impossible, for two reasons. One, the sheer number of extraordinary and distinctive memoirs by homosexual writers. Two, certain characters in queer novels own earned such a immortal place in our collective minds that it’s tough to distinguish who’s genuine and who’s not. Carol in The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Little Dog in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Isaiah and Samuel in Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” David in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Molly Bolt in Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle, Celie in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, J