This book was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014. Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero, a sporting icon. He was a leader of men, captain of Wales and the British Lions. To him, rugby was an expression of cultural identity, a sacred code. It was no mere ball game. It gave him everything, except the freedom to be himself. This is the story of a man with a secret that was slowly killing him. There was something that might devastate not only his own life...
Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir of Institutionalization and Southern Hospitality
by Sam Peterson
***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew. When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions: Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it sa...
The author presents a collection of essays on how cinema contains important lessons about life events and uses examples from well-kown films and from her own life.
Recounts the author's conflicted journey as a scruple-ridden gay youth through Catholic schools in San Jose, California; his desperate search for a cure through psychotherapy, subsequent marriage, divorce, single-parenting two sons, and a thirty-three year career in classrooms from Washington to California.--Cover, p. [4].
"I have a dad who is a woman, much like me, but with better legs." Growing up, Noelle Howey hardly spoke to her distant, bad-tempered father. "After coming home, he'd mix up a twelve-consonant vodka and orange juice and then sleep, watch TV, drink, and sleep again. Occasionally, he'd shake up the routine by eating a salad." Instead Noelle drew all her comfort from her wonderful, tomboyish mother. Then, when she reached 14, Noelle finally discovered her father's secret: Dick Howey liked to wear w...
A coming-of-age memoir of a young swimmer's triumphs and heartbreaks on the path to winning Olympic gold at age 14. Some 50 years later, author Carolyn Wood embarks on a solo pilgrimage to walk the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago in an attempt to reclaim her "inner tough girl" as she reflects on coming out as gay in the 1970s after a brief marriage and motherhood, and the disillusionment and loss she experiences when her 30-year relationship suddenly ends. Â After several failed attempts a...
Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries. After being pressured to leave home at fourteen, and after fifteen years of estrangement, Joanne learns that her mother is dying. Compelled to reconnect, she visits with her, unearthing a trove of devastating secrets. Joanne relates her journey from child performer to Emmy Award–winning actor, from hiding in the c...
Servant Of Desire (One Hit Too Many, A Life Abused By Sex, Drugs And Insanity)
by Professor Stephen Williams
Softcover Cindi Jones chronicles her life as she banters with her squirrel muse. While her autobiography is about transsexualism, the story of love and struggle is universal. Cindi's compelling style is powerful as she pulls the reader in to her life walking the forbidden path alone. Her writing is fresh, inviting and engrossing. Join her as she details her sorrows and joys as she forges gold from lead, changing her gender in reassignment surgery, and culminating her story by leading a producti...
In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another, embarked on an ecstatic affair, exchanging letters and poems and even signing a marriage contract. After only a year, their happiness was destroyed by the Gestapo: Felice was taken away to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Lilly received a las...