This June, as we observe LGBTQ Pri—the annual celebratn of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng muni—we wanted t...
Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- GAY BGRAPHY BOOKS
- GAY AUTOBGRAPHY BOOKS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Books shelved as gay-bgraphy: I Left It on the Mounta: A Memoir by Kev Ssums, Capote: A Bgraphy by Gerald Clarke, Ham: Slic of a Life: Essays... * best gay biographies *
In the memoir we meet Wachsberger, a boy New York Cy who dreams of storybook garns and grows to a a middle-aged gay man who has given up on fdg the one. Ksler, who never married, wrote posively about homosexualy, predictg 1907 that, a or two, "the movement" would achieve "a kd of sexual revolutn through which Germany will very quickly...
Although he's straight, Kasher has earned gay-adjacent cred by rporatg a queerish personaly to his stand-up rout ("If at any pot you do bee offend, that's jt you beg a bch"), Twter posts ("If i have a son I will send him to the Boy Suts so he n learn to tie a knot and to prevent gay people om tyg the knot"), and terviews ("What is your least favore qutn to answer? Caravagg's homosexualy is distilled om the numero naked boys he pated as angels and sats. The story of how this 50-year-old gay man me to live such a staable way, and the spirual moraly that still guis both his environmentalism and his beliefs about volunteerism, is a fascatg page-turner and a verible Waln for the 21st century.
GAY BGRAPHY BOOKS
* best gay biographies *
" In 1961, Hockney traveled to New York and was so moved by both the art and gay scen that he remaed the U. 95)Aaron Anson is a "largely self-tght" spiratnal speaker, nsultant, and "New-Thought ach" who chronicl his stggle to overe his nservative polil and relig doctratn as a vout Christian Southerner and embrace his gay sexualy this memoir that argu we don't have to be held ptive by others' expectatns. " But one of those "speculatns" has been that Toole was gay or at least bi-cur.
I found nothg substantive to dite he was homosexual. "Not knowg what would nstute substantive ditn of someone's homosexual orientatn, rears n choose to accept MacLchl's termatn.
GAY AUTOBGRAPHY BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-tobgraphy: Confs: The Autobgraphy by Rob Halford, A Humour of Love: A Memoir by Robert Montagu, The Betiful Room Is Empty ... * best gay biographies *
A gay man known for his fiery temper and budget-blowg sets, Hirsh died of AIDS plitns 's story is trsilly Canadian, and the thors' not beg Canadian themselv may have doomed the bgraphy to beg ls than uld be (as did, one uld argue, their stumblg upon his life story while rearchg war orphans).
Still, remas a fair troductn to the life of a fascatg and fluential gay man.
Raphael's experience is all the more tense as rrponds wh his g out as a gay book is part fay history and retellg of his mother's experienc a slave labor mp and part rellectns of a childhood where his parents didn't speak of their life-changg experienc. "I was a highly succsful bsman and I was brought down by mere allegatns of misnduct, pl beg gay. 99)Jock Soto is an acclaimed gay dancer who rose om nowhere to ballet fame and for two s (1985-2005) was a prcipal dancer for the New York Cy Ballet.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Yet, by his mid-teens, he was livg on his own New York Cy and dancg wh the New York Cy Every Step You Take, Soto, now teachg at the School of Amerin Ballet, wr about his reer, his creative procs, his Native Amerin herage, and his gay inty. 95)Jim Flt is a gay Chigoan bt known as founr of the Contental Pageant System.
He went on to own the Redoubt leather bar, head the Chigo Knights motorcycle club, found the Wdy Cy Athletic Associatn, and n ( 1987) for the Cook County Board of Commissners as an openly gay is the send bgraphy of an in om Chigo's LGBT muny thored by Tracy Baim and Owen Keehnen of the Wdy Cy Tim (followg Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow), a duo who seem to be sglehandly documentg Chigo's queer history, one book at a 500-pl pag clu 400 photographs and plac Flt's life story wh the broar historil ntext of LGBT Chigo. "Wh Jim, that story clus the trans world, gay sports world, polil world, activist world, bar culture, [and] pageantry world. Wisecracker: The Life and Tim of William Ha, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star.