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Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love,

Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love,

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd,...
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer

Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer

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'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer 'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of...
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present

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OUT OF THE PAST is the first book of its kind to encompass the history of homosexuality from 1869 to the present, drawing on the experience of ordinary men and...
Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of

Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of

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Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 'Unique, dreamlike and poetic. I loved it.' DEBSEY WYKES, SAINT ETIENNE AND DOLLY MIXTURE It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North...
'You Dirty Old Man!': The Authorised Biography of Wilfrid Brambell

'You Dirty Old Man!': The Authorised Biography of Wilfrid Brambell

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The first definitive biography of one of Britain's most complex actors, Wilfrid Brambell. A Dirty Old Man is the first definitive account of one of Britain's most loved and complex...
Karma: My Autobiography: 'The most entertaining music memoir since

Karma: My Autobiography: 'The most entertaining music memoir since

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THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS 'Funny, smart and heartbreaking. Incredible... go listen to it or read...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

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"A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian ' Breath-taking courage and compassion [...]a beautiful book' The Sunday Times...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories

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How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

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In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....
Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the '90s

Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of

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'I love this book!' SARAH CRACKNELL, SAINT ETIENNE'Poignant and wonderfully warm' CATHY NEWMAN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS'Shows us how music has the power to change everything' JUDE ROGERSIt is 1994. In...