Titles marked *WANTED - the Archives is interested in obtaining any edition
Titles marked **WANTED - the Archives is interested in obtaining a hardcover edition

1. Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology.
   Charlotte Wolff [1986. London:Quartet Books. ISBN:0704325691]
2. Magnus Hirschfeld: Leben und Werk eines jüdischen, schwulen und sozialistischen Sexologen. *WANTED
   by Manfred Herzer [1992. BRD.]
   Fast 60 Jahre nach seinem Tode liegt zum erstenmal eine Biographie von Hirschfeld auf deutsch vor. "Ein Aufklärer war er: ein unermüdlicher und erfolgreicher Sammler, Beschreiber und Ordner von Tatsachen, auf die bis dahin der Blick gemeinhin nicht fiel oder fallen mochte"
3. Mark The Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein.
   Eric Gordon, A. [1989. NY:St. Martin's Press. ISBN:0312026072]
4. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
   Randy Shilts
   [1982. NY:St. Martin's Press. ISBN:0312019009]
5. Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey.
   Harold Norse [1989. NY:William Morrow. ISBN:0688067042]
6. Midlife Queer: Autobiography of a Decade 1971-1981.
   Martin Duberman
   [1996. NY:Scribner. ISBN:0684818361]
7. A Minority Of One: a journey with Friends. *WANTED
   by Harvey Gillman [1988. London:Quaker Home Service. ISBN:0852452071]
   "Born a Jew, discovering himself to be gay, and having become a Quaker, he is fascinated by minority culture and how it is reflected in language and spirituality. This book is an exploration of these themes. It is also a celebration of all aspects of the self, which are gifts we have to offer to the world around us."
8. The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965.
   Samuel R.Delany, [1988. NY:Arbor House/William Morrow/Masquerade. ISBN:0877959471 0452262321 1563331330]
   Although Delany is not Jewish he is bisexual and was married to Marilyn Hacker who is Jewish and bisexual. The autobiography includes the Delany's friendship with W.H. Auden and his Jewish lover, Chester Kallman.
9. Nazimova: A Biography.
   Gavin Lambert [1997. NY:alfred A. Knopf. ISBN:0679407219]
10. Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism.
    William Henry Chafe [1993. NY:BasicBooks. ISBN:0465001033 0465049850]
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme.
    Michael Feinstein [1995. NY:Hyperion. ISBN:0786860936 0786882204]
    review: 's wonderful by Michael Elkin
12. Nobody's Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye.
    Martin Cottfried [1994. NY:Simon & Schuster. ISBN:0671864947]
13. Not Like Other Boys: Growing Up Gay: A Mother and Son Look Back.
    Marlene Fanta Shyer & Christopher Shyer [1996. NY:Houghton Mifflin/Alyson. ISBN:0395709393 1555834493]
14. Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein.
    Steven Gaines & Sharon Churcher [1994. NY:Birch Lane Press/Avon. ISBN:1559722355 0380725002]
15. One Singular Sensation: The Michael Bennett Story.
    Kevin Kelly [1990. NY:Doubleday/Kensington. ISBN:038526125X 0821733109]
16. Playing For Time.
    Fania Fénelon [1977. NY:Atheneum Publishers/Syracuse University. ISBN:068910796X 0815604947]
    English translation of "Sursis pour l'Orchestre." The story of a Jewish lesbian who survives being in a concentration camp by playing in the camp orchestra for the Nazis.
17. Proust: A Biography.
    Ronald Hayman [1990. NY:Harper Collins/Carroll & Graf. ISBN:0060164387 0881848182]
18. The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.
    Wayne Koestenbaum [1993. NY:Poseidon Press/Vintage. ISBN:0671754572 0679749853]
19. Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood.
    Victor Perera [1986. London:Andre Deutsch. ISBN:0233979778]
    Perera recalls the turmoil of his childhood surroundings (a Jewish community in Guatemala), and the conflict between the Jewish family rites of his home and the crippling macho code of Latin America. It was not a safe world: the army, political strife, and homosexual prostitution soon claimed their victims from among his classmates.
20. The Seasons: Death and Transfiguration: A Memoir by Jo Sinclair.
    Jo Sinclair [1993. NY:Feminist Press/CUNY. ISBN:1558610561 155861057X]
21. The Second Seduction.
    Frances Lear [1992. NY:Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN:0679413456 0060975490]
22. Sex, Death, Enlightenment: A True Story.
    Mark Matousek
    [1996. Toronto, ON:Riverhead Books. ISBN:1573220329 1573225819]
    review: Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story Dwight Garner
    review: Tip of the week: Mark Matousek
    review: A post-Warholian quest for meaning Bill Goldstein
23. My Sister Roseanne: The True Story of Roseanne Barr Arnold.
    Geraldine Barr & Ted Schwartz [1994. NY:Birch Lang Press. ISBN:1559722304]
24. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein.
    Brenda Wineapple [1996. NY:G. P. Putnam/Johns Hopkins. ISBN:0399141030 0801858070]
25. Showtune: A Memoir by Jerry Herman.
    Jerry Herman with Marilyn Stasio
    [1996. NY:Penguin USA. ISBN:1556115024]
    review: Curtain Up Reviews Elyse Sommer
26. Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho.
    Diana Burgin, Lewis [1994. NY:New York University Press. ISBN:0814711901 0814712215]
27. Stephen Spender: A Portrait with Background.
    Hugh David [1992. London:Heinemann Ltd. ISBN:0434175064]
28. Sursis pour l'Orchestre. *WANTED
    by Fania Fénelon [1976. Paris, France:Opera Mundi.]
29. This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.
    Harold Brodkey [1996. NY:Metropolitan Books. ISBN:0805048316 0805055118]
30. Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness.
    George Hayim [1988. London:Quartet Books. ISBN:0704326906]
31. The Tibyan: Memoirs of Abd Allah B. Buluggin. *WANTED
    by Abd Allah [1986. Leiden:E. J. Brill.]
    The memoirs of Abd Allah, the last Zirid king of Granada.
32. Transformer: The Lou Reed Story.
    Victor Bockris [1995. NY:Simon & Schuster/Da Capo Press. ISBN:0684803666 0306807521]
33. Truth Serum: memoirs.
    Bernard Cooper
    [1996. NY:Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN:039574539X 0395859948]
    review: Total recall: Bernard Cooper blends fact with fiction in his new memoir Michael Bronski
34. Unconditional Love: "Mom! Dad! Love Me! Please!".
    Sylvia Goldstaub [1991. Melbourne, FL:Harbor City Publications/Cool Hand Comm. ISBN:0962941417 1567900682]
35. Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay.
    Arnie Kantrowitz
    [1978 ©1977. NY:William Morrow/Pocket Books/SMP. ISBN:0688031919 0671819658 0312144393]
    References to Judaism are found throughout this gay autobiography. Boldly presented is the conflict between the pressures in Jewish family life toward conventionality and the author's desire to be himself. Yet he never hides his Jewishness and, once out, never hides his gayness.
36. Verwandlungen: Eine Autobiographie.
    Alphons Silbermann [1991. Germany:Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch. ISBN:3404612116]
    The author describes his life as a gay German Jewish professor. "Der--schwule--Soziologe und Kommunikationswissenschaftler Alphons Silbermann mußte als deutscher Jude und Emigrant immer wieder ungewöhnliche Wege einschlagen. Unorthodox sind auch seine Gedanken, mit denen er seit Jahrzehnten Studenten, Kollegen und Freunde weit über sein Fach hinaus zu fesseln weiß. Mit Ironie, Sprachwitz und entwaffnender Aufrichtigkeit erzählt er in diesem Buch sein Leben."
37. What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Larry Rivers.
    Larry Rivers with Arnold Weinstein [1992. NY:HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN:0060190078]
38. What It's Like to Live Now.
    Meredith Maran [1995. NY:Bantam Doubleday. ISBN:0553096001 0553374931]
39. Witches' Sabbath.
    Maurice Sachs [1964. NY:Stein & Day. ISBN:0812861558]
    English translation of playwright and actor Maurice Sachs' autobiography, "Le sabbat"