| 1. |  | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
Read this book. It was both challenging and easy to read. compelling story, amazing vocabulary, a great gift for young people studying history, psychology, graduate students and people who were once graduate students. just wonderful. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Running with Scissors: A Memoir
from St. Martin's Paperbacks
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
First off let me state that the first half of this book was well written. When you get to the middle of the book it goes straight downhill. I really didn't need to experience the vivid details of his first gay experience. I don't care in what fashion it has to do with this bizarre story, and if the... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
from St. Martin's Griffin
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
Author Randy Shilts was a journalist before he became a best selling author ("And The Band Played On", "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military"). His chronicling of the life of Harvey Milk from New York to San Francisco bears witness to the everyman struggles of gay men of that... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
from William Morrow
Price: $16.47
Customer Review:
This book is not just about the women who supported the men leading up to our Declaration of Independence and the Revolution. It may be "fiction", but it is based on many first hand letters, and written history so that the reader learns (or,and) relearns some basic facts about our country's fight... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
from HarperOne
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
This is an extremely well written, heart wrenching story. It is also must read for parents grappling with their child's sexual orientation. Rick Warren and other religious leaders should read it before making any more pronouncements about the LGBT community. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
from Plume
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
Funny, talated, hopeful and uplifting as the author Dan Savage was the focus of my radio call-in show "Talk Is Cheap," where we discussed his own story of being married in Canada. Savage has managed to put humor on this very real subject with genuine universal appeal. As to why same-sex couples... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
from Da Capo Press
Customer Review:
This is the first book which dedicates its entire thesis to the concept around the trauma of growing up gay and it is very well done.
Before healing can truly be complete for gay men and lesbians to fully experience the benefits of deprogramming ourselves from the heterosexist mindset that we... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Anything Goes
from Michael O'Mara
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
I loved this book. Very open, honest and joyful. A real pick me up.
I thoroughly recommend this book. I wish I had his take on life and confidance. Infact his whole family, could live next door to me anytime.
Enjoy...!!!!!!!! | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
from Crossing Press
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
Amazon is a life saver. I needed this book in two days, after searching every barnes & noble and borders I could think of I went to amazon for help. There express one day shipping was a life saver. The shipping was costly but i learned my lesson for waiting until the last minute to get a book on... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
from Random House
Customer Review:
There have been several struggles in civil rights in the USA. Women suffrage, African American civil rights, and finally the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual cause.
Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, masterfully melds autobiography and legal scholarship in... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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