Gay memoirs
Berman Memoirs
BillJ said:
I would need to see some proof. Exactly because of the examples I listed above.
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Heres the URL for an illuminative history of the attempts to bring Gays into Star Trek up to (the first link is down, but the archvie has it):
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Theres another good link or two at the bottom of the piece.
Note that
In an January interview for , ex-Star Trek: The Next Generation and Celestial body Trek: Deep Territory Nine executive producer/story editor/writer Ronald Moore responded to the question of why there are no gay characters in Star Trek: "This is one of those uncomfortable questions I hated getting when I was working on the show, because there is no nice answer for it. There is no answer for it other than people in charge dont want gay characters in Star Trek, period. This stuff about, How would you know? Maybe there are lots of people walking through those corridors that are actually gay. What would you have us do? Show them holding hands? That would be ridiculous. Our regulars dont hold hands, which its own considerate of a
These classifications are based on how I believe the authors identify, but if a title is miscategorized, please let me realize and I will be happy to move it.
Gay Author/Topics
Lesbian Author/Topics
Bisexual Author/Topics
Female
Male
Queer Author/Topics
These authors ID themselves and/or their work as gay or do not label their sexuality.
Transgender/Non-Binary Author
- Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews (YA)
- The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
- Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
- Blood, Marriage, Wine, Glitter by S. Bear Bergman
- Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie (YA)
- Sorted: Growing Up, Coming out, and Conclusion My Place by Jackson Bird
- Gender Outlawby Kate Bornstein
- Trauma Queen by Lovemme Corazon
- Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Gender non-conforming Woman by Laura Kate Dale
- Maybe This Will Rescue Me by Tommy Dorfman
- Love in Exile by Shon Faye
- Me, Myself, They by Joshua M. Ferguson
- This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch
- Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
- Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Ja
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, organism asked to name their 10 favorite LGBTQ memoirs of all time might be a breezy exercise. I found it next to impossible, for two reasons. One, the sheer number of extraordinary and distinctive memoirs by queer writers. Two, certain characters in queer novels have earned such a permanent place in our collective minds that it’s hard to distinguish who’s true 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
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