Five New Nonfiction LGBT Books

     

Editors Noreen Giffney, Michelle Sauer, and Diane Watt have collected fifteen essays in The Lesbian Premodern, including Lillian Faderman's "A Usable Past?" and Anna Klosowska's "Medieval Barbie Dolls." Karma Lochrie writes the foreword and Robyn Wiegman contributes the afterword, "The Lesbian Premodern Meets the Lesbian Postmodern."

Pulitzer-finalist and recent Publishing Triangle lifetime achievement honoree Martin Duberman examines two early queer activists in this dual biography beginning in the 1960s, in A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds [[Kindle]]. The NYT Book Review critic called it "refreshing and inspiring."

Felice Picano's True Stories: Portraits from My Past [[Kindle]] mixes memories of his childhood and adult encounters with Tennessee Williams, W.H. Auden, Charles Henri Ford, Bette Midler, and Diana Vreeland.

To the long list of closeted celebrities who wait to come out until after their careers are over and they have a book to sell, add 80s sitcom star from Family Ties Meredith Baxter Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering [[Kindle]].

Humorist Wade Rouse's fourth memoir in six years pulls together memories of family get-togethers, It's All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine [[Kindle]].