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Gay Lives & Histories - See also booklist: Lesbian & Gay History.

Related categories: History & Biography / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexuality & Transgender / Men & Masculinity /
Related booklists: Bisexual Lives and Histories, Transgender Lives & Histories, LGBTQ+ Lives, Histories and Biographies,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps
    Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - by Roland Philipps

    £25.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781847927071 | ISBN 10: 1847927076

    Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.  'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett
    Fire Island: A Queer History - by Jack Parlett

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783787029 | ISBN 10: 1783787023

    Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.   Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here we ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt
    All Down Darkness Wide - by Sean Hewitt

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114478 | ISBN 10: 1529114470

    A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.  'Beautiful' Colm Tóibín 'Rapturous' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Stunning' Sunday T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
    Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781839763281 | ISBN 10: 1839763280

    An unconventional history of homosexuality.   We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual hero ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Life Stories by Robert Aldrich
    Gay Life Stories - by Robert Aldrich

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780500297032 | ISBN 10: 0500297037

    A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today’s varied gay culture.  This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major conti ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale Of Two Omars by Omar Sharif Jr
    A Tale Of Two Omars - by Omar Sharif Jr

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781640095588 | ISBN 10: 1640095586

    “A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery... Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and homophobia, this is an essential book that shines a much-needed light on the intersection of Arab and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé
    Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex - by Gilles Dauvé

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781629639451 | ISBN 10: 1629639451

    In a fascinating and radical critique of identity and class, Your Place or Mine? examines the modern invention of homosexuality as a social construct that emerged in the nineteenth century. Examining “fairies” in Victorian England, transmen in ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Difference Is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society by Michael Handrick
    Difference Is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society - by Michael Handrick

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780750999021 | ISBN 10: 0750999020

    In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surround ... more

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  • Cover image of book Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys by Jeffrey Weeks
    Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys - by Jeffrey Weeks

    £15.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595097 | ISBN 10: 1914595092

    Jeffrey Weeks has been called ‘the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s’. Yet behind the titles and acclaim lies the story of a hugely fascinating, inspirational life ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O
    All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying - by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409189121 | ISBN 10: 1409189120

    'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS : A Memoir by Derek Frost
    Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS : A Memoir - by Derek Frost

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786784964 | ISBN 10: 1786784963

    This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story.  Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
    And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic - by Randy Shilts

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788167734 | ISBN 10: 1788167732

    An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film.  Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1981, the year when AIDS c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
    Naturally Tan: A Memoir - by Tan France

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780753553732 | ISBN 10: 0753553732

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
    Who Killed My Father - by Édouard Louis

    £10.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787301221 | ISBN 10: 1787301222

    Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.   In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Pocket Biography of Wilde by Tony Potter
    A Pocket Biography of Wilde - by Tony Potter

    £4.50   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780717179459 | ISBN 10: 0717179451

    Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland’s finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 1890s and is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the circ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family by Garrard Conley
    Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family - by Garrard Conley

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008276980 | ISBN 10: 0008276986

    The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.   When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual by Terry Sanderson
    The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual - by Terry Sanderson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781786102331 | ISBN 10: 1786102331

    In this funny, warm and touching book Terry Sanderson reveals how he the most unwilling and unlikely of activists - honed his skills as a campaigner at the very beginning of the struggle for gay rights in Britain. But this is more than just the sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
    More Fool Me - by Stephen Fry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781405918831 | ISBN 10: 1405918837

    Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.  'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oscar Wilde and His Circle by Simon Callow
    Oscar Wilde and His Circle - by Simon Callow

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781855144781 | ISBN 10: 1855144786

    One of literature's most flamboyant and witty personalities, the much-quoted Oscar Wilde captivated and scandalised late nineteenth-century society in Europe and America.   Wilde was a pioneer of celebrity, whose friends and contemporaries in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sixties Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969 by Christopher Isherwood
    The Sixties Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969 - by Christopher Isherwood

    £25.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099565222 | ISBN 10: 0099565226

    A great writer nails the sixties, from California to swinging London, in his fearless, insightful diaries - with a preface by Christopher Hitchens.  This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography by Gok Wan
    Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography - by Gok Wan

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780091938383 | ISBN 10: 0091938384

    With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but its not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from.   Gok g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams by Christopher Stevens
    Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams - by Christopher Stevens

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848541979 | ISBN 10: 184854197x

    Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles.   Born Brilliant includes much previous ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
    Moab is My Washpot - by Stephen Fry

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099457046 | ISBN 10: 0099457040

    "Stephen Fry is one of the great originals- This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering confusion- That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should ex ... more

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