Waiting to Land by Martin Duberman
$59.95 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
The third collection of Duberman's memoirs brings his story up to the present day. As the historian's public engagement deepens, he finds himself increasingly at odds with the mounting assimilations of the mainstream gay movement - and with the left itself, which he believes is smugly oblivious to the r ...Show more
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallow ...Show more
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment
$36.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
By the long-time art critic of The Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the [Andy] Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a Bad Blood for the art world.
We Can Be Heroes - A Survivor's Story by Paul Burston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
"This memoir is brutally honest... Wonderful!" - Russell T. Davies Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man's journey from prejudice to Pride. Paul Burston wasn't always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London that he is today. Paul came out in the mid-1980s, when 'gay' still felt like a dirty word, especial ...Show more
Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine by Peter Coleman, Matt Fowles
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there s no better metaphor for life. Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion. It was at the bottle sh ...Show more
What We Lost: Based on a True Story by Dale Peck
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Dale Peck, Sr. grew up extremely poor in rural Long Island in the 1950s, sharing a one-room house with seven brothers and sisters, an abusive mother, and an alcoholic father haunted by his past. At fourteen, he was essentially kidnapped by his father and taken to his uncle's farm in upstate New York, an ...Show more
What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in my Life by Mark Doty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American - keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark wo ...Show more
When We Rise by Cleve Jones
$36.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics ...Show more
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the w ...Show more
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Canons | Reading Level: near fine
Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his ...Show more
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew by Eleanor Fitzsimons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that 'there should be no law for anybody' made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Throughout his life from his relationship with his extraordinary mother Jane and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death to his acco ...Show more