February 24, 2026
Guess What? I Love You is a heartfelt, poignant memoir of a gay man’s all-too-brief but passionate relationship with the love of his life.
Mike Maimone, a musician and songwriter, meets public relations expert Howard Bragman on a dating app. After communicating and getting to know each other, they finally rendezvous for a blissful weekend […]
November 25, 2025
Author Bill Boushka’s Do Ask, Do Tell blends memoir, history, and political philosophy into one narrative
In his introductory pages, Boushka discusses his concerns about overreliance on government for personal fulfillment and other issues. He then moves generally chronologically throughout his life.
Boushka is expelled from the College of William and Mary in 1961 for […]
February 20, 2025
Trans Anthology Project is a deeply moving and thoughtfully curated collection that sheds light on the lived experiences of transgender individuals and their families. Designed to foster empathy, understanding, and support, the book blends educational content with firsthand narratives, bridging generational and ideological gaps to create a powerful resource for trans individuals, parents, and allies.
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April 30, 2024
In this memoir, author Kyle Thomas Smith uses his brief experience with François, a charming, French documentary filmmaker, as a jumping-off point to explore many topics, including his childhood and emotionally abusive family, education and literary aspirations, work and rambling career path, and discovery of self-help books.
François is an insightful narrative of associations and […]
January 19, 2024
Brenda Bradford Ward chronicles her lifelong struggles with gender identity conflict in this candid memoir. Spanning childhood to later life, she describes her painful efforts to suppress innate feelings of femininity to meet societal expectations of masculinity.
The book also examines the terminology, concepts, and estimated prevalence around transgender identities, arguing that gender identity is […]
March 1, 2021
As chief equality and inclusion officer at Procter & Gamble, Shelly McNamara addresses many groups. No surprise, then, that her slim, polished memoir resembles a TED talk for readers. Her entertaining, inspiring stories about processing grief and overcoming prejudices are a testament of personal growth.
McNamara grew up outside Cleveland, the youngest of 15 children. […]
April 6, 2020
HomoAmerican is an engaging memoir of an artist who has led a richly creative life as a ballet dancer, songwriter, escort, and actor who has lived all over the world.
Growing up poor in San Francisco in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Michael Dane falls in love with ballet and eventually moves to New York City […]
February 28, 2020
Mining his experience as a gay, Italian-American man raised in post-WWII America, David A.J. Richards uses art to explore how patriarchy damages boys as they develop into men.
Richards is a New York University professor of constitutional and criminal law. His meticulously researched book, with its wealth of secondary sources, weaves his life story with […]
January 21, 2019
In Orientation and Choice: One Man’s Sexual Journey, David Robinson examines his decision to eschew his homosexual desires for a heterosexual lifestyle.
Early in his teens, in the late ‘60s, Robinson was troubled by what he describes as homosexual urges. He was attracted to muscular classmates to the point of becoming sexually aroused […]
October 24, 2016
This engaging memoir tells the story of a man’s attempt to reconcile his sexuality with his religion. Through excerpts from an unpublished autobiography and journal entries, the author, a gay man and devout Catholic, reveals the often-painful struggle he faced to integrate these disparate parts of himself.
Gentilini discusses how his mother “believed that I […]