Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story Book Club edition by Wilson, Steve; Florenski, Joe (2005) Hardcover

Biographies & Memoirs

Steve and Florenski Wilson

Arts & Literature

Advocate Books

Chastity Bono has faced her share of battles as a spokesperson for gay and lesbian rights, both as the controversial former entertainment and media director for GLAAD, and before that in the early '90s when a national tabloid maliciously outed her. In this riveting memoir she recounts a story of love, commitment, and tragedy lived out beyond the glare of the cameras. At 23, Chastity was well on her way to establishing her own life separate from her superstar parents, Cher and Sonny Bono. Geffen Records had just signed her band, Ceremony, and she was poised for musical stardom. And best of all, a love affair began to blossom with Joan Stephens, one of Cher's friends whom Chastity had known all her life. In what began as an unlikely relationship, Chastity and Joan found and nurtured the sort of tender, loving partnership they had both been seeking. But Chastity's aspirations for a life in music were soon thwarted by internal struggles and record company machinations that threatened to destroy Ceremony. These problems, however, paled in comparison with the devastating news of Joan's diagnosis with life-threatening non-Hodgkins lymphoma. As Joan fiercely battled her illness, Chastity's musical career imploded. Chastity became both caretaker and lover, discovering a depth and beauty that intensified the feeling of loss as Joan succumbed to the ravages of cancer. A story of love won and lost, of dreams fulfilled and destroyed, Joan is a coming-of-age story that provides a deeply personal look into the private struggles of a very public and courageous woman.
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Chastity Bono is the former Entertainment and Media Director for GLAAD a former reporter at large for The Advocate. She is also the author of Family Outing. Michele Kort is a freelance writer whose writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Shape, Redbook, Self,

The End of Innocence: A Memoir

Bono, Chastity

Twenty-three years after publishing his story, David Kopay remains the only NFL player who has publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. From psychotherapy to hypnosis to heartbreaking family confrontations to finally surprising acceptance from former teammates and coaches, this is a story of denial leading to acceptance, and finally to pride. As inspiring today as it was upon publication, Advocate Books is proud to make The David Kopay Story
 available to a new generation of readers.
David Kopay has been involved in a variety of business ventures since his decision to leave professional football. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

The David Kopay Story: An Extraordinary Self-Revelation

Kopay, David

Young, Perry Deane

Featuring the uncensored words of 15 controversial, ground-breaking celebrities who drop their masks and empty their hearts to Advocate Editor in Chief, Judy Wieder, The Advocate Celebrity Interviews, Volume One is unmatched in providing readers with the kind of compelling revelations and insights that no traditional biography can provide. Taken from the pages of The Advocate with beautiful new photographs and bonus, never-before published updates and accounts of all the dishy behind-the-scene dramas that went into getting the interviews, The Advocate Celebrity Interviews, Volume One will be a classic addition to any gay or straight person's library. Rediscover the early struggles of Melissa Etheridge, Mark Wahlberg, Chastity Bono, and Gore Vidal. Learn from George Michael's own account of being a closeted pop teen star what it was like fall in love with a man for the first time. Read Liza Minnelli's shocking narrative as she describes what it was like to discover that the man she married, the man her mother Judy Garland introduced her to, was gay. Marvel as the great French diva Catherine Deneuve confesses what it was like to become a lesbian icon after making love to Susan Sarandon in The Hunger. Whether the stars are gay or straight, Ellen DeGeneres, Bruce Springsteen, Rob Halford, Liz Smith, Steve Kmetko, Sting, Tony Kushner, Emma Thompson, Larry Kramer, and Diana Ross all have outrageous, amazing, uncanny stories to tell. And, in a longstanding tradition of trust and adventure, they've told them to The Advocate. 
Judy Wieder is editor-in-chief of The Advocate, the nation's oldest and most widely read gay and lesbian magazine. Prior to working at The Advocate, she was an associate editor at Creem magazine and one of the founding editors of Genre.
STAR POWER: An Interview
Why it Matters When Celebrities Talk About Gay Issues. A Conversation with The Advocate's Editor In Chief, Judy Wieder.For over 30 years, The Advocate has been the voice of record for the gay and lesbian political and social movement. Within its pages, readers encounter, often for the first time in th

Celebrity: The Advocate Interviews, Vol 1

Wieder, Judy

For the first time, Chastity Bono shares the moving story of her early adulthood: how her traumatic tabloid outing as the openly gay daughter of Sonny and Cher threatened her burgeoning musical career, and how her first true love was taken from her by cancer. At an early age, Chastity survived challenges many of us never face. A story of love won and lost, of dreams fulfilled and destroyed, The End of Innocence is a coming-of-age story that provides a deeply personal look into the private struggles of a very public and courageous woman.
Chastity Bono was first known as the daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher, when she made appearances on her parents' TV show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. She established her own identity after coming out on the cover of The Advocate in 1995 and went on to become a reporter for the magazine. Since then, she's worked as the 1996 National Coming Out Project's spokesperson for the HRC. From 1997 to 1998, she was the Entertainment -Media Director for GLAAD. She is also the author of the bestselling Family Outing and continues to lecture around the country. 
Michele Kort is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Shape, Redbook, Self and The Advocate. A Los Angeles resident, she is also the author of Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.

Kort, Michele

"An indispensable tool for Net 'newbies' who may need guidance in the digital domain . . . could cause information junkies to log on for interminable hours." That's how The Washington Blade has described Gay &amp; Lesbian Online. Encyclopedic in scope, Gay &amp; Lesbian Online charts the entire spectrum of gay and lesbian interests found in the ever-growing digital world of the Internet. Join the exploding queer presence in cyberspace with this user-friendly, incredibly detailed, and enormously entertaining manual for people of all levels of computer skill.
Jeff Dawson has written for Macworld, The Net and MacHome Journal. He lives in Northern California.

Gay & Lesbian Online, 5th Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web

Dawson, Jeff

Computers & Technology

A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life—from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004—by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts from contemporary and historical writings, and the text is illustrated with photos and line drawings.
Neil Miller is the author of Sex-Crime Panic and winner of the 2003 Randy Shilts Award for nonfiction and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. He is also the author of In Search of Gay America, winner of the 1990 American Library Association prize for gay and lesbian literature. He teaches journalism and nonfiction writing at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present

History

Miller, Neil

Americas

"A brilliant and inspirational vision of love, death and spiritual redemption in 20th Century America. Ron Nyswaner's account of his struggle with real life demons great and small is gripping, harrowing and sometimes shockingly intimate. It is heartbreaking and yes-it is also very, very funny indeed. It delivers an emotional intensity that fiction, by comparison, can only hope to achieve."-Jonathan Demme
"Ron Nyswaner's courageous and exquisitely written memoir speaks to us all on the mysteries of whom we love and why. The book reminds me most of Somerset Maugham's classic, Of Human Bondage-for true passion has an involuntary nature, so well depicted here. Ron Nyswaner is a poet of the secret self, and his first book marks a stellar debut."-Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of Sleeping Arrangements, Beautiful Bodies, A Place In the Country, and Dreams of Rescue
A wrong turn down a one-way street in the shadow of the Sunset Strip's Chateau Marmont leads Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, Soldier's Girl) on a journey that will nearly drown him in the intoxicating, impulsive, maddening, tragic, and transformative nature of love. Despite the success of his latest film, Ron has been fighting depression and contemplating self-destruction. "I don't want a mediocre, empty life," he tells his psychiatrist-acupuncturist-herbalist after halfheartedly attempting to hang himself with a belt. Then, on a trip from his home in upstate New York to Los Angeles, Ron meets and falls for world-weary Johann, a Latin-quoting, leather-clad hustler with a vague, European accent. In the next year Johann will teach him many things: how to make a crack pipe out of a soda can, how to come down from a crystal meth binge, how to walk down a city street as if he owns it, how to beg for "more" in Hungarian, and how to lose oneself utterly in reckless passion. If he can survive it, loving Johann might be Ron's salvation.
Ron Nyswaner wrote the screenplays for Mrs. Soffel, Swing Shift, Philadelphia, (for which he received an Academy Award nomination,) and Soldier's Girl. He lives in Woodstock, N.Y.

Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir

Nyswaner, Ron

In her remarkable 62-year career, Katharine Hepburn starred in over 40 films, appeared in over 10 Broadway plays, and was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning four. Her relationship with actor Spencer Tracy is one of Hollywood's most famous romances; it lasted 25 years until Tracy's death in 1967-never mind that Tracy was married to another woman. In her life Hepburn was an icon of feminism and New England-style forthrightness; as an artist she was a national treasure. Hepburn's death on June 29, 2003, at the age of 96 did little to silence the almost -century-long conversation about her. But one topic remained taboo, despite Hepburn's reputation as being fearlessly honest. Was Katharine Hepburn a lesbian? This biography directly addresses and documents the numerous accounts of Hepburn's lesbian affairs, including her relationships with Laura Harding, Jane Loring, Elissa Landi, Irene Mayer Selznick, Phyllis Wilbourn, and others. In addition, it provides an eye-opening re-examination of the star's most noted "love affairs." Parrish details how Hepburn spun her relationship with billionaire Howard Hughes to appear to be a romance, when in fact it wasn't, and most explosively reveals what caused Hepburn to accept a masochistic, platonic relationship with alcoholic, bisexual actor Spencer Tracy, and to allow it to be characterized as one of the "great loves of the twentieth century." Extensive research and interviews with numerous friends, journalists, and acquaintances separate myth from fact to reveal the real, sometimes conflicted, frustratingly complicated, and always amazing woman behind the painstakingly self-crafted image. James Robert Parish is the author of 20 books on Hollywood, including biographies of Whoopi Goldberg, Gus Van Sant, Rosie O'Donnell, and Whitney Houston. He lives in Los Angeles.

Katharine Hepburn: The Untold Story (Advocate Life Stories)

PARISH, James Robert

He conquered the known world. He united it for the first time with a common language. His military tactics are still being studied-and used-by today's warriors. He is considered the most courageous and heroic warrior in history. But (and more importantly): He was hot. His boyfriends were hotter. He could throw hissy fits that would take Liza Minelli's breath away. He traveled with an advance publicity team. He was so vain, if Preparation H had existed, his enemies would have rubbed it on his ego. He had fag hags hanging off him like laundry. We're approaching 2,350 years after his death and people are still fascinated by Alexander the Great. Even Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the people who gave us language, math and philosophy, didn't have Oliver Stone making movies about them. All the great conquerors that followed Alexander tried to emulate him-Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Jeff Striker. Michael Alvear presents a most unusual biography of history's greatest warrior.
Michael Alvear is a syndicated columnist whose commentary has been heard on NPR. He is the author of Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon.

Alexander the Fabulous: The Man Who Brought the World to Its Knees

Alvear, Michael

Historical

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Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story Book Club edition by Wilson, Steve; Florenski, Joe (2005) Hardcover

The End of Innocence: A Memoir

The David Kopay Story: An Extraordinary Self-Revelation

Celebrity: The Advocate Interviews, Vol 1

The End of Innocence: A Memoir

Gay & Lesbian Online, 5th Edition: Your Indispensable Guide to Cruising the Queer Web

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present

Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir

Katharine Hepburn: The Untold Story (Advocate Life Stories)

Alexander the Fabulous: The Man Who Brought the World to Its Knees