memoir
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Brit Olympic Diver TOM DALEY : Coming Up For Air
The days of waiting until you were in a seniors home before you put pen to paper and wrote a memoir of your life, are well and truly over. But how old/young can you be when you have lived long enough to have a story to tell? According to British gay Olympic diver Tom…
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Queer Brit comic Tom Allen : No Shame
Young people need to come out in their own good time – no matter how many well-meaning people are willing you on to throw off those straight shackles and wrap yourself in the feather boa of gay pride! Tom Allen is a good example of this and as we skip lightly through his memoir, we…
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The Storm : One Voice From the AIDS Generation by Christopher Zyda
It is doubtful that anyone outside Christopher Zyda’s personal circle of friend or business associates could identify him as an author. Memoirs are usually attached to some kind of adjacent celebrity or renown in own’s chosen field. Though unknown, he has quite a story to share. Raised in typical, middle-class, Southern California, his early years…
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A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance : review by Jonathan Kemp
“Pakistani culture visits the crimes of the child on his parents. I would shame them more than myself. It would be them, not me, at the forefront of public scorn and ridicule”, writes Mohsin Zaidi in this powerful memoir, and to understand this is to understand the entire nature and timbre of his dilemma, and…
