Biographies and Memoirs – Celebrities

The hottest activist, author, celebrity, military and political lesbian and gay biographies and memoirs on the market today (including ones I’ve reviewed, as noted):

First up, a compilation:

Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals by Keith Stern. This book is a biographical history of 850 famous and infamous admitted and suspected LGBT people throughout world history. It belongs in this category as well as the history category. Please see my May 24th, 2012 post for my review.

Next, the list of individual biographies and memoirs:

• John Amaechi (Former NBA Athlete): Man in the Middle
•  Reinaldo Arenas (Author, famed Cuban exile) Before Night Falls: A Memoir (I reviewed it April 3rd, 2012)
• Lance Bass (Singer – N-Sync) Out of Sync: A Memoir
•   Meredith Baxter (Actress): Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering (I reviewed it July 19th, 2011)
• Billy Bean (MLB Athlete/GM): Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and out of Major-League Baseball
•  Chaz Bono (Trans Advocate/Activist): Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man (I reviewed it May 19th, 2011) and, as Chastity, The End of Innocence: A Memoir
• Mark Bingham (Hero – Flight 93): Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham (An Advocate Books Life Story)
•  Kate Bornstein (Well know Author of Gender Studies and Trans issues): A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today (I reviewed it May 12th, 2012)
•  Susie Bright (Author/Sex Expert) Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir (I reviewed it April 5th, 2012)
•  Rita Mae Brown (Author): Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser (I reviewed it February 16th, 2012)
•  Dan Bucatinsky (Actor/Producer):Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad (I reviewed it July 7th, 2012)
• Margarethe Cammermeyer (Former Military Officer): Serving In Silence Staceyann Chin (Poet/Performer): The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir - Staceyann, most commonly known as a poet and spoken word artist, was featured at the 2011 Ohio Lesbian Festival.
•  Anderson Cooper (CNN Anchor/War Correspondent):Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival (I reviewed it July 10th, 2012)
• Ellen Degeneres (Actress/Host): My Point…And I Do Have One
• Portia (De Rossi) Degeneres (Actress): Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain (I reviewed it September 6th, 2011)

• Alix Dobkin (Musician): My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement

•  Melissa Etheridge(Rock Musician/Activist): The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music (I reviewed it May 26th, 2011) and Melissa Etheridge: Our Little Secret
•  Boy George (Pop Musician): Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George (I reviewed it April 12th, 2012)
• Sylvester James (Disco Legend): The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco (I reviewed it April 21st, 2012)
•  Fenton Johnson (Fiction/Memoir Author): Geography Of The Heart (I reviewed it May 17th, 2012)
• Cleve Jones (Activist): Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist
• David Kopay (Athlete – Football): David Kopay Story
• Reichen Lehmkul (Former Military Officer/Actor/Activist): Here’s What We’ll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy
•  Greg Louganis (Olympic Diver): Breaking the Surface (I reviewed it February 9th, 2012)
• Jane Lynch (Actress): Happy Accidents
• Ricky Martin (Singer): Ricky Martin: Me
• James McGreevey (Politician – Former NJ Governor): The Confession
•  Harvey Milk (Politician/Activist): The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk ( I reviewed it June 14th, 2011)
•  David Mixner (Presidential Campaign Advisor/Activist) ( At Home with Myself: Stories from the Hills of Turkey Hollow (I reviewed it March 28th, 2012)
•   Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History’s Most Notorious Women (A mix of many famous women including some women loving women and bisexual women) by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (I reviewed it May 1st, 2012)
•  Alan Shayne (retired actor/casting director/Warner Bros Television President) and Norman Sunshine (Acclaimed artist/former high profile ad agency exectuive):Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywood (I reviewed it April 26th, 2012)
• Mark Tewksbury (Olymic Gold Medalist – Swimming/Athlete): Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock
• Esera Tuaolo (Former NFL Athlete): Alone in the Trenches
•  Johnny Weir (Figure Skating Athlete): Welcome to My World (I reviewed it November 1st, 2011)
• Oscar Wilde (Author): The Exquisite Life of Oscar Wilde
•  Chely Wright (Country Musician/Activist): Like Me: Confessions Of A Heartland Country Singer (I reviewed it August 20th, 2011)