Screen legend Greta Garbo owes much of her success to her partner, Mercedes de Acosta, who taught the actress how to dress and speak like Hollywood royalty. Frank Merlo weaned Tennessee Williams off a diet of drugs and casual sex so the playwright was able to create his Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Iconic American poet Walt Whitman dotted his master work, Leaves of Grass, with references to his lover and his muse, Peter Doyle.
Outlaw Marriages tells the engaging and untold stories of fifteen prominent same-sex couples who defied cultural norms and made signifcant contributions to American history.
"Outlaw Marriages gloriously outs same-sex couples through history and celebrates their love and impact in theater, arts, and social change. If you love the guilty pleasure of reading People magazine for your celebrity-couple news, you'll love this book. And the fact-checking is flawless!" —Kate Clinton, humorist
Couples featured: Walt Whitman & Peter Doyle, Martha Carey Thomas & Mamie Gwinn, John Marshall & Ned Warren, Jane Addams & Mary Rozet Smith, Bessie Marbury & Elsie de Wolfe, J. C. Leyendecker & Charles Beach, Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas, Janet Flanner & Solita Solano, Greta Garbo & Mercedes de Acosta, Aaron Copland & Victor Kraft, Tennessee Williams & Frank Merlo, James Baldwin & Lucien Happersberger, Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg, James Ivory & Ismail Merchant, Audre Lorde & Frances Clayton
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"Essential for anyone interested in U.S. conservation history and the wildlife protection movement. Not only did William T. Hornaday save the bison from extinction, but he is also the spiritual progenitor of today's Endangered Species Act.…A smart, thoroughly researched, landmark biography." —Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt's Crusade for America
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The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today.
"Brave, funny, edgy, and enlightening…I loved it and learned from it. Kate Bornstein shares her fascinating journey…and it was a thrill to tag along on the ride. This book is unbelievably powerful and affecting. If Kate Bornstein didn't exist, we would have to invent her." —Dan Savage
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Winner of the James Madison First Amedment Award
"Reads like a mystery novel, but the facts it reveals are hauntingly true.…Siegal does a fantastic job of breaking down a complicated story…Finding Fernanda is a gripping read that offers glimpses of hope in what was an otherwise heartbreaking system."—The Christian Science Monitor
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