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Embodiment is not an easy business. From violence to illness, sexuality to racism, the fact of a body can be impossibly hard to inhabit. Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why. Laing’s exploration of the complexities of bodily life takes in some of the most significant and beguiling figures of the past century, among them the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, the painters Francis Bacon and Agnes Martin and the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

What happens when the unseen world reaches into our ordinary lives and changes everything we thought we knew? Three extraordinary encounters. Three spiritual awakenings. One woman's remarkable journey into the mysteries of consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the Divine. In Three Awakenings...

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas...

A fearless, taboo-shattering autobiography of a New England woman born in 1864, The Stone Wall confronts the damage done by silence around sex and the body. With a voice both candid and compassionate, Mary Casal recalls a spirited tomboy childhood, a mother’s punitive secrecy, and the...

Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator of Rainbow History Class (as seen on TikTok), is here to help us all with this crash course.

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin. A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha...

Offen, kraftvoll und berührend berichtet Alex Mariah Peter von Kindheit und Einsamkeit, Herkunft und Identität, von Schönheit und Schmerz, Übergriffigkeit, Verlust und einem medialen Rampenlicht, das nicht immer wärmt. In einer Welt, die ständig definiert, wer man sein darf, wagt sie den mutigsten Schritt: ihre Geschichte selbst zu erzählen, um als ganze Person gesehen zu werden – nicht trotz, sondern wegen allem, was dazugehört.

Kodo Nishimura ist ein buddhistischer Mönch aus einer langen Linie japanischer Mönche. Und er ist LGBTQ+-Aktivist sowie international bekannter Makeup-Artist. Er verbringt sein Leben zwischen einem Kloster in Tokio und den Fashion-Shows dieser Welt. An einem Tag trägt er traditionelle Mönchsgewänder und am nächsten glitzernde High Heels. Er ist stolz auf seine buddhistischen Wurzeln, seine Sexualität und seine Leidenschaft für Mode und Make-Up. Doch das war nicht immer so. Nishimura versteckt sein wahres Selbst viele Jahre vor seinen Lehrer:innen und Freund:innen.

In this unflinchingly honest documentary and memoir, comedian Josh Thomas asks the big question: how do I be gay? Irreverent but informative, Josh Thomas speaks to a party of hilarious and experienced queer storytellers as they share true tales and advice on how to be gay. When I was a teenager trying to work out how to be gay I would ask google impossible questions. 'Am I gay?' 'How can I test if I’m gay?' 'If I’m gay do I have to do anal?' It didn’t work....

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life. The...

Steffi ist lesbisch. Sie wünscht sich eine Familie – doch der Weg dorthin gestaltet sich schwerer als gedacht. Als sie endlich ihre große Liebe findet, scheint alles möglich. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne. Dieses bewegende Hörbuch erzählt die wahre Geschichte einer Frau, die trotz Schmerz und Verlust nie aufgehört hat zu hoffen. Eine Geschichte über Liebe, Mut und den Glauben an einen neuen Anfang.

The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller...and an unabashed lover of other women. In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it.

Get to know a national icon in Eddie Izzard's hilarious and dazzling autobiography 'Comic genius . . . Entertainment incarnate' Telegraph ______ Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Marathon runner. Political campaigner. Fashion icon. Human. There is no one quite like Eddie...

"Mode muss Teil einer Bewegung sein, das Gegenteil von Stillstand." In allem, was er tut, fasziniert und polarisiert Wolfgang Joop. Hier betrachtet er erstmals sein Leben, das alles ist, aber nicht Stillstand, Sättigung und Zufriedenheit: eine Kindheit in Potsdam, Verlust der Heimat, Neuanfang in Braunschweig, Autodidakt und Star der deutschen und bald der internationalen Modeszene, ein Leben in Hamburg, New York, Berlin und Potsdam, seine Rolle als Ehemann, Vater, Künstler.

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Jim Parsons—now streaming on Netflix! A “heartbreaking but surprisingly hilarious memoir” (People) about the lessons, love, and laughter of the fourteen years a respected TV columnist shared with his late husband before he succumbed to...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON ‘A necessary, beautiful book’ Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You ‘A brilliant memoir’ Guardian The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in...

“An immensely entertaining tribute to love and resilience.” —Kirkus "The audio format suits him perfectly. Eichner doesn’t simply narrate, he performs.... Listening feels like being (animatedly) cornered at a party, but in the best possible way." —Booklist (Starred Review) "Eichner...

Social media phenomenon and mental health advocate Chris Olsen invites readers into his therapist's office - and into the story he's spent years trying to understand - in this raw, fearless, and darkly funny memoir. For much of his childhood, Chris Olsen believed his family was ordinary, even...

"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winner For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the...