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Books of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interest

This page is a listing of UW Press titles of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender interest. Many of the titles are a part of the series Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies, dedicated to embracing the full range of LGBT experience and telling a larger, collective story.
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The Disintegrations: A Novel
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The Disintegrations
A Novel
Alistair McCartney
Fall 2017

The Off Season
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The Off Season
Amy Hoffman
Fall 2017

Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts
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Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne
A Life in Several Acts
Robert Hofler
Spring 2017

The Blind Masseuse:A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
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The Blind Masseuse
A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
Alden Jones
Spring 2017

The Black Penguin
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The Black Penguin
Andrew Evans
Spring 2017

The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris
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The Pox Lover
An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris
Anne-christine d'Adesky
Spring 2017

Treehab:Tales from My Natural, Wild Life
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Treehab
Tales from My Natural, Wild Life
Bob Smith
Fall 2016

A Thin Bright Line
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A Thin Bright Line
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Fall 2016

My Son Wears Heels
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My Son Wears Heels
A Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kickass
Julie Tarney
Fall 2016

Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
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Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
Natalie Clifford Barny
Spring 2016

Romaine Brooks
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Romaine Brooks
A Life
Cassandra Langer
Fall 2015

States of Desire Revisited
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States of Desire Revisited
Travels in Gay America
Edmund White
Fall 2014

Assault with a Deadly Lie
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Assault with a Deadly Lie
A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense
Lev Raphael
Fall 2014

Little Reef and Other Stories
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Little Reef and Other Stories
Michael Carroll
Spring 2014

In a New Century
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In a New Century
Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life
John D’Emilio
Spring 2014

Lawfully Wedded Husband
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Lawfully Wedded Husband
How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
Joel Derfner
Fall 2013

Our Deep Gossip
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Our Deep Gossip
Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire
Christopher Hennessy
Fall 2013

The Perils of Normalcy
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The Perils of Normalcy
George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History
Karel Plessini
Fall 2013

Identity Technologies
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Identity Technologies
Constructing the Self Online
Edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak
Fall 2013

The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov
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The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov
James Steffen
Fall 2013

A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories
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A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories
Glenway Wescott, Edited and with an introduction by Jerry Rosco
Fall 2013

Autobiography of My Hungers
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Autobiography of My Hungers
Rigoberto González
Spring 2013

A Heaven of Words
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A Heaven of Words
Last Journals, 1956–1984
Glenway Wescott, Edited and with an introduction by Jerry Rosco
Spring 2013

Centaur
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Centaur
Greg Wrenn
Spring 2013

A Horse Named Sorrow
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A Horse Named Sorrow
A Novel
Trebor Healey
Fall 2012

The Paternity Test
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The Paternity Test
A Novel
Michael Lowenthal
Fall 2012

Chicago Whispers
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Chicago Whispers
A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall
St. Sukie de la Croix
Spring 2012

Through the Door of Life
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Through the Door of Life
A Jewish Journey between Genders
Joy Ladin
Spring 2012

The Enemy of the New Man
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The Enemy of the New Man
Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
Lorenzo Benadusi
Fall 2011

The Last Deployment
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The Last Deployment
How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq
Bronson Lemer
Spring 2011

Ambientes
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Ambientes
New Queer Latino Writing
Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano
Spring 2011

Celluloid Activist
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Celluloid Activist
The Life and Times of Vito Russo
Michael Schiavi
Spring 2011

Remembrance of Things I Forgot
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Remembrance of Things I Forgot
A Novel
Bob Smith
Spring 2011

Gay Bar
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Gay Bar
The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s
Will Fellows and Helen P. Branson
Fall 2010

The Big Bang Symphony
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The Big Bang Symphony
A Novel of Antarctica
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Spring 2010

Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters
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Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters
Susana Chávez-Silverman; Foreword by Paul Saint-Amour, Afterword by Michael Shelton
Spring 2010

Travels in a Gay Nation
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Travels in a Gay Nation
Portraits of LGBTQ Americans
Philip Gambone
Spring 2010

Madre and I
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Madre and I
A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives
Guillermo Reyes
Spring 2010

Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander
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Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander
Film, History, and Cultural Studies
Edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland
Fall 2009

Sugarless
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Sugarless
A Novel
James Magruder
Fall 2009

Gay American Autobiography
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Gay American Autobiography
Writings from Whitman to Sedaris
Edited by David Bergman
Spring 2009

My Germany
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My Germany
A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
Lev Raphael
Spring 2009

The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750
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The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750
Volume 2, Queer Articulations
Thomas A. King
Spring 2008

The End of the World Book
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The End of the World Book
A Novel
Alistair McCartney
Spring 2008

Sex and Isolation
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Sex and Isolation
And Other Essays
Bruce Benderson, Foreword by Catherine Texier
Fall 2007

Honorable Bandit
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Honorable Bandit
A Walk across Corsica
Brian Bouldrey
Fall 2007

Writing Desire
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Writing Desire
Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography
Bertram J. Cohler
Spring 2007

Where Bones Dance
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Where Bones Dance
An English Girlhood, An African War
Nina Newington
Spring 2007

The Ice Cave
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The Ice Cave
A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Fall 2006

The Deaf-Mute Boy
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The Deaf-Mute Boy
A Novel
Joseph Geraci
Fall 2006

Butterfly Boy
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Butterfly Boy
Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto González
Fall 2006

Death of a Department Chair
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Death of a Department Chair
A Novel
Lynn C. Miller
Fall 2006

1001 Beds
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1001 Beds
Performances, Essays, and Travels
Tim Miller, Edited by Glen Johnson
Spring 2006

Secretly Inside
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Secretly Inside
A Novel
Hans Warren, Translated by S. J. Leinbach
Spring 2006

The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag
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The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag
And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
Edward Field
Fall 2005

Setting the Lawn on Fire
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Setting the Lawn on Fire
A Novel
Mack Friedman
Fall 2005

They Change the Subject
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They Change the Subject
Douglas A. Martin
Fall 2005

The German Officer’s Boy
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The German Officer’s Boy
Harlan Greene
Spring 2005

Things No Longer There
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Things No Longer There
A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
Susan Krieger
Spring 2005

Fred in Love
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Fred in Love
Felice Picano
Spring 2005

The Letters of Mina Harker
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The Letters of Mina Harker
Dodie Bellamy, New foreword by Dennis Cooper
Fall 2004

Laud Humphreys
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Laud Humphreys
Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, and David P. Keys
Fall 2004

How to Make Dances in an Epidemic
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How to Make Dances in an Epidemic
Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
David Gere
Fall 2004

Death Claims
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Death Claims
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Joseph Hansen
Fall 2004

Fadeout
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Fadeout
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
Joseph Hansen, With a new preface
Fall 2004

A Letter to Harvey Milk
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A Letter to Harvey Milk
Short Stories
Lesléa Newman
Fall 2004

Locked in the Family Cell
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Locked in the Family Cell
Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse
Kathryn A. Conrad
Spring 2004

Naked in the Promised Land
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Naked in the Promised Land
A Memoir
Lillian Faderman
Spring 2004

A Passion to Preserve
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A Passion to Preserve
Gay Men as Keepers of Culture
Will Fellows
Spring 2004

Wrestling with God and Men
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Wrestling with God and Men
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Spring 2004

The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750
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The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750
Volume 1, The English Phallus
Thomas A. King
Spring 2004

Tentative Transgressions
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Tentative Transgressions
Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil
Severino J. Albuquerque
Fall 2003

Don Juan in the Village
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Don Juan in the Village
A Novel
Jane DeLynn
Fall 2003

In Thrall
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In Thrall
A Novel
Jane DeLynn
Fall 2003

Body, Remember
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Body, Remember
A Memoir
Kenny Fries
Fall 2003

Telling Moments
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Telling Moments
Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories
Edited by Lynda Hall
Fall 2003

Cleopatra’s Wedding Present
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Cleopatra’s Wedding Present
Travels through Syria
Robert Tewdwr Moss, New introduction by Lucretia Stewart
Fall 2003

What History Tells
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What History Tells
George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe
Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice, Foreword by Walter Laqueur
Fall 2003

Mr. Bluebird
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Mr. Bluebird
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
Fall 2003

Wild Man
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Wild Man
Tobias Schneebaum, New foreword by David Bergman
Fall 2003

Queer in America
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Queer in America
Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power
Michelangelo Signorile
Fall 2003

Virginia Woolf’s Women
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Virginia Woolf’s Women
Vanessa Curtis, Foreword by Julia Briggs
Spring 2003

Beijing
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Beijing
A Novel
Philip Gambone
Spring 2003

Mercy Mercy Me
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Mercy Mercy Me
Elena Georgiou
Spring 2003

Sor Juana’s Love Poems
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Sor Juana’s Love Poems
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique
Spring 2003

Latin Moon in Manhattan
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Latin Moon in Manhattan
A Novel
Jaime Manrique
Spring 2003

Twilight at the Equator
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Twilight at the Equator
A Novel
Jaime Manrique
Spring 2003

Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality
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Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality
Charting the Connections
Edited by Toni Lester
Fall 2002

Colonial Affairs
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Colonial Affairs
Bowles, Burroughs, and Chester Write Tangier
Greg Mullins
Fall 2002

Surviving Madness
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Surviving Madness
A Therapist’s Own Story
Betty Berzon
Spring 2002

Body Blows
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Body Blows
Six Performances
Tim Miller
Spring 2002

Glenway Wescott Personally
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Glenway Wescott Personally
A Biography
Jerry Rosco
Spring 2002

AIDS in French Culture
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AIDS in French Culture
Social Ills, Literary Cures
David Caron
Fall 2001

You're Not from Around Here, Are You?
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You're Not from Around Here, Are You?
A Lesbian in Small-Town America
Louise A. Blum
Spring 2001

Dancing Desires
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Dancing Desires
Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage
Edited by Jane C. Desmond
Spring 2001

Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels
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Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels
Metaphors Men Live By
Peter F. Murphy
Spring 2001

Loss within Loss
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Loss within Loss
Artists in the Age of AIDS
Edited by Edmund White, In Cooperation with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a project of the Alliance for the Arts
Spring 2001

Stars in My Eyes
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Stars in My Eyes
Don Bachardy
Fall 2000

Bryher: Two Novels
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Bryher: Two Novels
Development and Two Selves
Bryher, With an introduction by Joanne Winning
Fall 2000

Reading and Writing the Ambiente
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Reading and Writing the Ambiente
Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture
Edited by Susana Chávez-Silverman and Librada Hernández
Fall 2000

The Isherwood Century
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The Isherwood Century
Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
Edited with an introduction by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, With a foreword by Armistead Maupin
Spring 2000

The American Byron
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The American Byron
Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck
John W. M. Hallock
Spring 2000

An Underground Life
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An Underground Life
Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Gad Beck, Written with Frank Heibert; Translated by Allison Brown
Fall 1999

In My Father’s Arms
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In My Father’s Arms
A Son’s Story of Sexual Abuse
Walter A. de Milly III
Fall 1999

Confronting History
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Confronting History
A Memoir
George L. Mosse
Fall 1999

Who Am I?
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Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Yi-Fu Tuan
Fall 1999

Queer Frontiers
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Queer Frontiers
Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations
Edited by Joseph A. Boone, Martin Dupuis, Martin Meeker, Karin Quimby, Cindy Sarver, Debra Silverman, Rosemary Weatherston
Spring 1999

Widescreen Dreams
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Widescreen Dreams
Growing Up Gay at the Movies
Patrick E. Horrigan
Spring 1999

Eminent Maricones
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Eminent Maricones
Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me
Jaime Manrique
Spring 1999

Taboo
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Taboo
Boyer Rickel
Spring 1999

Farm Boys
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Farm Boys
Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
Collected and edited by Will Fellows, With a new Afterword
Fall 1996

For You, Lili Marlene
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For You, Lili Marlene
A Memoir of World War II
Robert Peters
Fall 1995

Nell's Story
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Nell's Story
A Woman from Eagle River
Nell Peters, with Robert Peters
Spring 1995

Crunching Gravel
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Crunching Gravel
A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties
Robert Louis Peters
Fall 1993

Geography and Plays
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Geography and Plays
Gertrude Stein, Introduction by Cyrena N. Pondrom
Spring 1993