Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
By: Walt Odets
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live au…
Want to Read $ 12.99"We don’t change just because we understand something, we change when we put our understanding to use."-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
"If our characteristic selves are not changing in response to new experience, it is because we have stopped learning and growing. We have stopped living."-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
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1. The Lost Language of Cranes
By: David Leavitt
3.72
Format: 78 pages,
David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about famil… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
2. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
3. A Boy's Own Story
By: Edmund White
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A B… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and Walt Odets's Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- american
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
6. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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7. Holding the Man
By: Timothy Conigrave
3.99
Format: 32 pages,
Los anos setenta seran recordados, entre otras cosas, por ser la epoca en que el "glam" irrumpe con… read more
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8. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
By: Alan Downs
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more
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9. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
10. Swimming in the Dark
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"Little sparks cause fires too."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
11. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
12. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
13. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
14. The Kingdom of Sand
By: Andrew Holleran
3.51
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
15. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
16. Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
By: Walt Odets
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live au… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Walt Odets's Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives book and Walt Odets's Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
- audiobook
- american
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- sociology
- queer
"We don’t change just because we understand something, we change when we put our understanding to use."-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
"If our characteristic selves are not changing in response to new experience, it is because we have stopped learning and growing. We have stopped living."-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
17. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
By: Jack Parlett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
18. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
19. Play Boy
By: Constance Debré
3.25
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
20. Rainbow Milk
By: Paul Mendez
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more
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- lgbt
- gay
- queer
21. Straight Jacket
By: Matthew Todd
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John WINNER BOYZ BEST LGB… read more
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- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- queer
"Love is fundamentally pivotal to the survival of all human beings."-Matthew Todd, Straight Jacket
"Your spirituality is simply the positive, loving side of yourself, the energy of joy and togetherness. It's the feeling you have when your dog bounds up wagging its tail, or the biggest laugh you hav…"-Matthew Todd, Straight Jacket
