Novedades

While struggling to find success as an actor and pay the bills, something accidentally happened to Jeff Hiller: he aged. And while it’s one thing to get older and rest on the laurels of success from the blood, sweat, and tears of your youth, it’s quite another to be old and have no laurels. At forty, stuck in a temp job making spreadsheets, the dream of becoming a star seemed out of reach. But after twenty-five years of guest roles on TV and performing improv in a grocery store basement, he finally struck gold with a breakout role on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, playing Joel.

In Worthy: The Memoir of an Ex-Mormon Lesbian, Davis tells her story of growing up in a Mormon household in Maine. Her nostalgic and sometimes humorous childhood memories of family and friends provide life lessons that influence her during the traumatic experiences she has as a woman and as a closeted queer person in the church. It isn't until one of her children comes out that Davis is forced to choose between religion and family. She chooses love.

In a small Texas town, Brent comes out to his parents, and on that night his place in the world cracks wide open. Unmoored from his family but unwilling to give up on his dream, Brent enters the Peace Corps with the incredible task of navigating an unfamiliar land, a new language, and a new identity as a gay man in post-Soviet Armenia. As he grapples with a religious past and a queer future, Brent finds himself immersed in a culture he’d never imagined.

My Illegally Blind Journey 2.5.

Tim Pocock was a born performer. At ten, he took to the stage as a professional opera singer. At twenty-two, he launched his acting career in the blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine and went on to star in the beloved series Dance Academy. But Tim's biggest role was one he never auditioned for - the role he played at home as a devout, straight son. Raised in a conservative Catholic family and attending a school with links to Opus Dei, Tim always knew that being gay was out of the question.

The burgeoning lesbian and feminist movements of the '70s and '80s created an impetus to form more independent and equitable social and cultural institutions—bookstores, publishers, health clinics, and more—to support the unprecedented surge in women's arts of all kinds. Olivia Records was at the forefront of these models, not only recording and distributing women's music but also creating important new social spaces for previously isolated women and lesbians through concerts and festivals.

Does peaking in high school ruin you for life? Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?) And what - scientifically - is the best way to mend a broken heart? Comedian Suzi Ruffell is considering life's big questions. In this brutally honest, funny, and often moving memoir, Suzi winningly tells her life story, and asks a host of experts to answer the tricky questions it prompts along the way. Diamond life advice comes from the likes of Elizabeth Day, Dolly Alderton, Charlene Douglas, Laura Bates, Dr Kirren Schnack, and more.

This short book aims to shed light on the insidious nature of addiction, using a powerful metaphor to illustrate its destructive grip.

This unique, lively and open memoir of gay male life in Minnesota in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first centuries captures the people, organizations, events, atmosphere, facts and flavor of those gay times. With honesty, humor, laughter and tears, wins and losses, lives and deaths, the author recounts the experience of being Minnesota gay men. The memoir includes many photographs, links to videos, sound recordings, reference materials, an extensive Bibliography and a Timeline. Utilizing these will lead the reader and researchers to many more materials, especially at the University of...

A raw memoir of a life requested by multiple people. You'd think the world was depressing enough... Update: I wrote some new stuff. Read Strength by Greg Ramsay today! Now I'm done.

"Matar una cucaracha de Osvaldo Calixto Amador es una memoria evocadora y profundamente introspectiva que captura el turbulento viaje del autor a través de importantes desafíos personales e históricos. Esta poderosa narrativa tiene como telón de fondo la Revolución Cubana, el exilio y la devastación provocada por la epidemia del SIDA. Amador entrelaza su odisea personal con temas más amplios extraídos de Matar a un ruiseñor de Harper Lee, utilizando la metáfora del ruiseñor para explorar la inocencia y los dilemas morales inherentes a su propia vida. Las memorias profundizan en ...

I Think I Like Girls shares everything that Rosie wishes she had known when she started dating women, offering answers to the questions that cross everyone's mind. From the first moment of coming out to finding community and navigating relationships, Rosie will offer her own stories and bring in those of other women, with warmth, humour and a happy helping of chaotic dates.

Dicen que el destino juega con los hilos invisibles de nuestras vidas, entrelazándolos sin permitir que se toquen hasta el momento preciso. ¿Y si ese instante llega más de veinte años después? Mariam y Medina han sentido su cercanía en varias ocasiones, rozándose, sintiendo el latido de algo que nunca llegó a ser. Medina ha amado con fuerza, ha aprendido del deseo, de la pasión y del cariño, pero también del desencanto, cuando el tiempo destruye lo que una vez parecía eterno. Mariam, por su parte, ha entregado su corazón sin reservas, solo para descubrir que no siempre el amor ...