The Trial of Pope Benedict

By Daniel Gawthrop
Categories: Biography & Memoir, History

On February 28, 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign. In abandoning a role that nearly every one of his predecessors had seen as a calling from God to be heeded until ...

How Poetry Saved My Life

By Amber Dawn
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Biography & Memoir

Vancouver Book Award winner; Lambda Literary Award finalist

A memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author's lifeline.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating ...

The World Is Moving around Me

By Dany Laferriere
Translated by David Homel
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies

On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferriere had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some 300,000 others did not. The quake caused ...

The Last Genet

By Hadrien Laroche
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Cultural Studies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Biography & Memoir

During the last eighteen years of his life (1968-86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them, the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. ...

Second Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Social Issues, Anthologies, Lesbian Literature, Biography & Memoir

First Person Queer, an anthology of non-fiction essays written in the first person by a variety of gay and lesbian authors, was a snapshot of LGBT life and experience in the modern age. Published in 2007, ...

Peter Flinsch

By Ross Higgins
Categories: Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Biography & Memoir, Erotica, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, History

Peter Flinsch, who passed away in March 2010 at the age of eighty-nine, was one of the art world's unsung heroes; for more than 60 years, he produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures which ...

queersexlife

By Terry Goldie
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies

Evocative of writers Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories ...

First Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Cultural Studies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Gay Literature, Anthologies, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Anthologies

Winner, Independent Publisher Award (GOLD), Gay/Lesbian

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest ...

The View from Here

By Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media, Lesbian Literature, Biography & Memoir

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Arts/Culture

One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2007

The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that became much larger with the recent success ...

Comfort Food for Breakups

By Marusya Bociurkiw
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Biography & Memoir, Cooking, Women's Literature

Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), ...