Living Out Series

This award-winning series aims to represent the full range of LGBT autobiography. It encompasses a diversity of autobiographies that cross all ethnic and national boundaries—from new autobiographies by fresh voices to memoirs by established contemporary writers, from posthumous and historically important autobiographies to reprints of classic autobiographies.

Dedicated to embracing the full range of LGBT experience, Living Out recognizes that autobiography is a crucial gay genre—an essential way of reclaiming individual lives and telling a larger, collective story.

Cloth $24.95
ISBN 978-0-299-31690-7

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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth
A Memoir of Brotherhood
Rigoberto González

“A powerful and moving portrait of a complex and troubled family and of memory and regret. González looks back not in anger but with great generosity of spirit.”
—Guillermo Reyes, author of Madre and I

Cloth $26.95
ISBN 978-0-299-31820-8

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Given Up for You
A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief
Erin O. White

“Reckoning with the rival claims of queer desire and Catholic faith, Erin O. White has written that rare and wonderful thing: an intimately personal page-turner that raises complex questions about the wider world and our future in it.”
—Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

Autobiography of My Hungers
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Rigoberto González
Fall 2018

Sex Talks to Girls
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Maureen Seaton
Spring 2018

The Black Penguin
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Andrew Evans
Spring 2018

Self-Made Woman
A Memoir
Denise Chanterelle DuBois
Fall 2017

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
Bob Smith
Fall 2016

Good Night, Beloved Comrade
The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver
Edited by Daniel J. Murtaugh
Fall 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Body, Remember
A Memoir
Kenny Fries
Fall 2003

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

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

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

Body Blows
Six Performances
Tim Miller
Spring 2002

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

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

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
A Son’s Story of Sexual Abuse
Walter A. de Milly III
Fall 1999

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

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

Taboo
Boyer Rickel
Spring 1999