Biographies and Memoirs – Non-Celebrities

You’ll find a mix of biographies and memoirs on this page but the recent reviews will lean more toward memoirs of everyday LGBT people (as opposed to sports figures, celebrities, and politicians) who have lived anything but ordinary lives. Their books make for some interesting reading too. Please note: There are some well known names from the LGBT community here – like Josh Kilmer Purcell and Alison Bechdel for example – whose celebrity is not so well known by “mainstream” readers.

Please click here to see listings of the biographies and memoirs of the gay and lesbian celebrities, athletes and politicians we all love to hear about.

LGBT Biographies and Memoirs I’ve reviewed:

My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family by YouTube viral sensation, Zach Wahls. Please see my May 15th, 2012 post for my review.

The Tricky Part: A boy’s story of sexual trespass, a man’s journey to forgiveness by Martin Moran. Please see my March 31st, 2012 post for my review.

(No Cover Photo) Living in a Nightmare by Hamid Zeher. Please see my March 20th, 2012 post for my review.

Perking the Pansies – Jack and Liam move to Turkey by Jack Scott. Please see my February 23rd, 2012 post for my review of this memoir about two gay, British expats living and loving in Muslim Turkey.

Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick. See my February 18th, 2012 post for my review. This is a memoir of the not quite a year that Judd Winick knew Pedro Zamora prior to his death from AIDS in 1994. Pedro and Judd met when they were both cast in the 1994 version of the The Real World 3 – San Francisco. Please also consider the movie about Pedro’s life, simply titled Pedro.

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel by Bettina Aptheker. Please see my January 31st, 2012 post for my review.

Gourd Girls by Priscilla Wilson. This is a memoir of two people, Priscilla and her life partner Janice Lymburner but also a book about coming out in a small town and about building a business out of nothing except an offbeat idea. Please see my January 24th, 2012 post for my review.

All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. by Craig Seymour. Please see my January 19th, 2012 post for my review.

Circles in the Sand by E. J. “Samadhi” Whitehouse. Please see my January 18th, 2012 post for my review.

HomoSteading at the 19th Parallel: One man’s adventures building his nightmare dream house on the Big Island of Hawaii by David Gilmore. Please see my January 17th, 2012 post for my review.

The Purple Golf Cart: Stories of an Unconventional Grandma by Ronnie Sanlo. Please see my January 11th, 2012 post for my review.

Secrets Of A Gay Marine Porn Star by Rich Merritt. Please see my December 31st, 2011 post for my review.

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami. Please see my December 29th, 2011 post for my review.

Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler by Wade Rouse. Please see my December 1st, 2011 post for my review.

Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended Up Happening Instead by Joel Derfner. Please see my November 21st, 2011 post for my review.

Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway. Please see my November 12th, 2011 post for my review.

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave as adapted for the stage by Tommy Murphy. Please see my October 24th, 2011 post for my review.

DON’T SHOOT! I’m Coming Out ~ How to “Man-Up” and Set Heterosexuals “Straight” by Benn Setfrey. Please see my October 20th, 2011 post for my review.

You’re Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America by Louise A. Blum. Please see my October 11th, 2011 post for my review.

The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell. Please see my September 21st, 2011 post for my review.

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn by Catherine Friend. Please see my September 20th, 2011 post for my review.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Dykes to Watch Out For creator and cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Please see my August 8th, 2011 post for my review.

Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah by the Lady Chablis. Please see my August 15th, 2011 post for my review.

The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq by Bronson Lemer. Please see my August 14th, 2011 post for my review.

Living the Difference: an enlightening story revealed for people of all ages straight or gay by Joe Knudson. Please see my July 17th, 2011 post for my review.

BEYOND NORMAL: The Birth of Gay Pride by Gale Chester Whittington. Please see my June 9th 2011 post for my review.