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< Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All > < The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception through Birth, 2nd Edition > < The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth > < The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children > < Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story > < For Lesbian Parents: Your Guide to Helping Your Family Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Proud >

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(Great for "other mothers" out there...)

(The other mother needs to read these!)

(Not Just For The Other Mother!)

(All is told... and it makes the world a better place!)

(Much Need Voice)

Very easy to read. Nice glimpses of a variety of moms (and babas) and how they fit in their roles and how families come together to make it work. As a future "other mom," I found this really helpful and validating.
We have read them together and it was helpful to start discussions about some of our fears for our family!
As the biological lesbian mom, reading this book; as our little boy still squirms around in my belly, has helped prepare me/us for some of the other issues or concerns we may face as a lesbian couple preparing to raise a child. It has been a wonderful tool for my partner and me to discuss topics and concerns that we hadn't yet thought of. It has also given me a new perspective and sensitivity to the issues she may be faced with as the other mother.

I especially enjoyed the variety in authors. Each chapter takes on a whole new personality, making it very diverse and quite entertaining. Each story is so well written and articulate, not to mention funny, heartbreaking, and touching.

A great read for anyone who is looking to be entertained and enlightened.
The book is funny and touching, honest and real. It is a reflection of a part of our society, that is often ignored from within.

This is not just a "lesbian mom" book. It is a "everyone" book. There is something for everyone and will touch you at some point in the book on many levels.

I could not put it down!

This book provides a much needed voice to the world of parenting essays and writing. The essays range from serious to hysterical, covering a wide range of experiences. I highly recommend the book for all parents, gay, straight, biological or non-biological. It's about being parents.
After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, "I'm your new mommy!" While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so how could her partner claim to be their child's mommy?

Many diapers later, Aizley began to appreciate the complexity of her partner's new role as the other mother. Together, they searched for stories about families like their own, in which a woman has chosen to forgo her own birth experience so that she might support her partner in hers. They found very few. Now, in Confessions of the Other Mother, Aizley has put together an exciting collection of personal stories by women like her partner who are creating new parenting roles, redefining motherhood, and reshaping our view of two-parent families. Contributors include Hillary Goodridge, who was one of the lead plaintiffs in the case for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, stand-up comedian Judy Gold, and psychologist and author Suzanne M. Johnson

This candid peek into a previously unexamined side of lesbian parenting is full of stories that are sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, but at all times celebratory. Each parenting tale sheds light on the many facets of motherhood, offering gay and straight readers alike a deeper understanding of what it means to love and parent in the twenty-first century.

Harlyn Aizley is the author of Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor. Her work has appeared in national journals, magazines, and anthologies and has aired on public radio stations nationwide. Aizley resides in the Boston area with her family, where she works as a writer and teacher.
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< Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All > < The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception through Birth, 2nd Edition > < The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth > < The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children > < Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story > freaks

< Split the Aces > < Night Call > < Uncharted Passage > < Run to Me > < I Dare You > < Designed for Love > Jove Belle

price： 478
Bold Strokes Books
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In the neon glare of Sin City, two women ride a wave of passion that threatens to consume them in a world of fast money and fast times.

It's lust at first sight for blackjack dealer Rae Sutherland and conventioneer Cori Romero. Rae wants more from life than the constant shuffling of cards in a smoke-filled casino, but for now, she revels in the excesses of life and appreciates the never-ending parade of women at the tables. Cori is looking for something besides her day-to-day grind and aching for a new adventure, but doesn't expect to find it on the Vegas strip. Fueled by the encouragement of friends and Captain Morgan, she auditions for a singing gig and her path inevitably crosses Rae's. In spite of themselves, their relationship develops into something deeper than the initial intoxication of attraction, but both wonder if it's worth the gamble.
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< Split the Aces > < Night Call > < Uncharted Passage > < Run to Me > < I Dare You > freaks

< Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age > < She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband > < The Lazy Crossdresser > < My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser > < Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls > < My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife > Richard J. Novic

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(Where is the beef? In the pages of this book.)

(Validation, and Then Some)

(First of Its Kind)

(Self indulgent)

(Brilliant, powerfully inspirational, and captivating!)

What an incredible story, lots of substance, real and enlightening. Finally a story close to my own. Very well written, entertaining as well as full of substance. The best book I've read this year!
The following is an excerpt from an email I sent to Alice about her book. I realised after writing it, it would make a good, if encapsulated, review.

"I know you are one busy person, and that little nugget of realization has kept me from writing you. However, your book is so enjoyable, so validating, and so full of life that I couldn't stand holding off writing you any longer. I haven't even finished it yet, but nonetheless, I had to express my thanks and my admiration to you for writing it - and baring your soul in the process."

The book is not just about being a crossdresser, but it explores Alice's path to realization, how she dealt with that realization, and how she leads her life as a result. It is written in a gregarious, friendly style, with lots of insight and detail, and is one tough book to put down once the first page has passed! It's intent is not as a "self-help" book, rather a peek into a life, but if you have any questions about your "identity", it is a must read. It is a "must read" even if you don't. Wonderful book!
I was surprised when I discovered a few years ago that no one had ever written a contemporary crossdressing memoir. Although there had been many transsexual memoirs and drag queen diaries, no one had ever written the story of a "heterosexual crossdresser."

Thus begins Alice in Genderland, and it's the story of one such individual who walks a path of exploration and ultimately discovers he's more bi than heterosexual and ends up finding fulfillment on both sides of the gender fence.

After introducing us to the rather unorthodox life he leads today, this Harvard-educated psychiatrist takes us back to an upper middle-class childhood punctuated by fantasies of being female and occasional forays into sisters' closets.

Like many crossdressers, he spends much of his early adulthood in denial, making excuses to himself for his behavior. But gradually he begins his journey toward self-acceptance, through books, counseling, and interactions with many colorful characters in and around the transgender community.

Alice in Genderland is an intelligent, well-written book that takes readers inside the life of a crossdresser who has done it all and lived to tell. Unlike so many transsexual stories that consist of intense struggle and costly triumph, Dr. Novic's tale is exciting and mostly upbeat. Richard/Alice forges ahead from one misadventure to the next, ending up with a life that many would envy and/or judge.

Though clearly not for anyone troubled by negotiated non-monogamy, Alice in Genderland is an educational and inspiring story for those wondering where they fit in the gender spectrum, those that love them, and those that are simply curious.
I came across this book as part and parcel of my research for gender studies. But to say this book is self-serving would be an understatement. The author essentially tries to justify how HE got to the state he is in now: a manipulating two-timing philanderer who wants the right to do whatever he pleases despite his marital vows. On the plus side, it does give some insight into those who desire to crossdress, that is for the good. However, he decides to bend (break ?) responsible boundaries and continue his explorations while married. I am amazed his wife tolerates this kind of life, one wonders if she has the words 'Welcome' printed on her forehead.

Moral implications aside, there is no question this book is revealing and no-holds bar. However, from the dearth of feedback from women and wives of crossdressers, I do not think many of the positive reviewers here have had the guts to show it to their wives and/or SOs. I suspect there would be more than this minority of less than positive reviews.

The conclusion of this memoir is troubling as the author does not really have a way forward from his current life, which is to say the least, pretty deadend on the gender side. Time catches up with us all. What happens when 'Richard' loses his looks ? Will his life be less fulfilled for not having a man in his life ? This book is a vanity piece mixed in with some insight but people will only see what they want to see to have their fantasies fulfilled.
I am so, so impressed with the way Richard/Alice Novic openly shared their personal journey ... expressed in a friendly, easy, intriguing conversational approach. Sensitive, honest, and revealing as the events in this true-life story are presented. Funny, witty, warm, and heartfelt. I am deeply thankful, and feel blessed, that I had this marvelous opportunity to "meet" and "get to know" a very special, unique, remarkable, lovely soul that entrusted and confided extraordinarily profound life landmarks to me. There is great, enjoyable energy from the first page all the way to the last ... and if you are like me, you will want more. Could there, possibly, be another book in the works ... some time in the future?

It is immensely inspirational and powerful, as Richard/Alice shows we can all create the sort of life we want, and need, conquering any obstacle or challenge, large or small. Be it transgender issues you personally confront, or any number of other conflicts, we discover it is very possible to find happiness, fulfillment, and joy in life.

I love it when good and happy things come to wonderful, generously caring and magical souls. Richard/Alice, thank you so muchly for sharing your amazing true-life story. My heart is joyfully dancing for you!
Alice in Genderlandtells the story of Dr. Richard Novic, Harvard-educated psychiatrist andcrossdresser. No memoir like it has ever been published. Most of the time, he is a man at the office or a husband and father at home. But one evening a week,sheis a woman about town, shopping, dining, dancing, and dating a man for over six years. And its all out in the open.

Although he now leads a richly expressive life, Dr. Novic suffered since childhood with a secret, a desire he was in no way equipped to handle, but one that eventually burst through his denial, a few months before his wedding day. Just once, he felt, while he still could, he had to know how it felt like to be a woman.

Like Alice in Wonderland, his curiosity led him to fall headlong down a rabbit hole, through desperate straits, mind-opening surprises, heart-rending changes, and boundless love. By the time he was back on his feet, he was a different person, living a lifestyle he hadn't known existed. Anyone who has struggled to figure out who they are and how they want to live will see themselves in this powerful life story.

Praise forAlice in Genderland

Few know the transgender scene likeGIRL TALKmagazines Alice Novic. This exciting new memoir by her male alter ego takes us along with him and the people he loves, as he encounters and explores each twist and turn around him and within him. As much Lewis and Clark as it is Lewis Carroll,Alice in Genderlandblazes a new trail in the world of crossdressing.

Linda Jensen, contributing writer,Transgender Forum

Alice bravely explores the limits of gender, sexuality, and relationshipsa sexy, poignant, and often hilarious memoir of transgenderism.

Vernon A. Rosario, M.D., author ofThe Erotic Imagination, clinical faculty, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute

Alice in Genderlandis a fascinating story, well worth reading.

Vern L. Bullough, Ph.D., author ofCrossdressing, Sex, and Gender, past president of the Society of the Scientific Study of Sex

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< Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes of Age > < She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband > < The Lazy Crossdresser > < My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser > < Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls > freaks

< Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law > < Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America > < Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It > < Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World > < Marriage and Caste in America: Seperate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age > < Taking Sex Differences Seriously > Nancy D. Polikoff

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(For anyone who wants a differing opinion on the marriage issue.)

(Equality and the Variation of the Definition of Family)

Marriage should wholly be a spiritual, religious, and cultural experience - in no point should it have any legal ramifications or even benefits, argues "Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing all Families under the Law". Author Nancy D. Polikoff, a professor of law, says that by legally recognizing some relationships, regardless of gender makeup, as legal and not others, many families suffer, arguing that the marriage movement rejects LGBT equality, no fault divorce, and childbearing and sex outside marriage. Cunningly argued, "Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing all Families under the Law" is enthusiastically recommended for any social issues or gay issues community library shelves or for anyone who wants a differing opinion on the marriage issue.
Nancy Polikoff, a professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law, has researched the very current topic of 'marriage rights' that for the most part are regarded by the general public as the battle between same sex and different sex marriage, an area where there is very little equality or respect to be gleaned from the media, and hence the public. Polikoff wisely approaches this disparity of human rights from an angle that allows every reader to become involved in her plea for reconsideration of what is labeled (and respected) as 'family'.

Too often books on the subject of gay rights are so skewed that they end up preaching to the choir or throwing fire on a malignant issue: the audience craving equality under the law for legalizing same sex marriage is balanced against the radical right who condemn the domestic partnership idea as a sin. Polikoff recognizes this schism and in her very natural manner of writing poses examples of units of people whose rights are denied by Social Security policies, child care conflicts resulting from the definition of 'parent', and even rights for visitation in hospitals or hospices when the allowed visitors are 'family only'. Why must the label 'marriage' be the deciding factor in units of loving people whose potential for and production of caring homes be the norm?

The subtitle of Polikoff's fine book - VALUING ALL FAMILIES UNDER THE LAW - is well chosen and in many ways is the major message of her book. She asserts that all family relationships and households deserve equal rights now saved only for married couples. This change in approach to the importance of re-defining 'what is a family' holds the value of her work: according to Polikoff, 'family' denotes unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, and the many variations of extended family units, each of which deserves recognition as mutually beneficial cohesive units entitled to the same benefits in the workplace, in government law, and in rights afforded to all citizens.

In what will rightly become a powerful resource for sociological studies Nancy Polikoff has elected to make this carefully researched and documented text as reader friendly as possible. Libraries should add this book to their shelves for student studies: the general public would greatly benefit from reading her concepts in hopes of expanding the understanding and appreciation of the transformation of the concept of 'family' today. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, March 08
Part of the Queer Ideas series, edited by Michael Bronski
QUEER IDEASâa new series of LGBT hardcovers that address important intellectual questions facing the movement.

The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for nine months is entitled to Social Security survivor's benefits when he dies; a woman living for nineteen years with a man or woman to whom she is not married receives nothing.

Polikoff reframes the debate by arguing that all family relationships and households need the economic stability and emotional peace of mind that now extend only to married couples. Unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended family units, and myriad other familial configurations need recognition and protection to meet the concerns they all share: building and sustaining economic and emotional interdependence, and nurturing the next generation.

Couples should have the choice to marry based on the spiritual, cultural, or religious meaning of marriage in their lives, asserts Polikoff. While marriage equality for same-sex couples is a civil rights victory, she contends that no one should have to marry in order to reap specific and unique legal results.

A persuasive argument that married couples should not receive special rights denied to other families, Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.

"A much-needed intervention in the contemporary debate about marriage and family. Polikoff's argument is provocative, illuminating, and original."
âJohn D'Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

"Polikoff mobilizes an impressive array of legal history and contemporary court cases to show how marriage, whether same-sex or heterosexual, has ceased to be the only place where people incur long-term obligations. She argues vigorously that our society needs to find new ways of determining when legally-enforceable responsibilities and entitlements have accrued in interpersonal relationships."
âStephanie Coontz, author, Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage

"This book really matters. It is brilliant and thoughtful, not simply about a set of laws, but as a manifesto to transform the way we understand, recognize and respect the reality of our diverse and complex family compositions. Polikoff grounds her arguments in the 35 year history of social change activism in this country to construct a passionate and nuanced argument for expanding our same sex marriage activism to include all of the ways people love, form families and build community."
âAmber Hollibaugh, Senior Strategist, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and author of My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming her Way Home

"Passionate but completely grounded in reality, Polikoff challenges LGBT rights advocates to see beyond gay equality arguments and question the fundamental fairness of limiting family recognition based on marriage, gay or straight. It is a powerful call for social justice."
âNan D. Hunter, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project and Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

"A provocative and perspicuous intervention in one of the most devilish recent debates in U.S. law and politicsâ¦In a principled yet pragmatic analysis, Polikoff mounts a compelling case against the continued grip of 'conjugalism' on our family law and policy. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage challenges us to imagine and build a political consensus that respects the realities of contemporary Americankinship and family life, in all its complexity."
âKendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Columbia University
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< Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law > < Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America > < Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It > < Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World > < Marriage and Caste in America: Seperate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age > freaks

< Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q) > < The Cultural Politics of Emotion > < The Transmission of Affect > < Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions) > < The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social > < Ordinary Affects > Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Duke University Press
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(amazing)

This is one of the best works of"post-"theory that I've read, and the essay on paranoia is a much-needed light in the haze of contemporary grad school education. My copy is dog-eared and dirty and filled with underlined passages / scrawled notes to myself (mostly reading"YES!"or"come back to this"). Sedgwick's essays are brilliant, quirky, challenging, and deeply moving. I really can't find words sufficient for my experience -- this is certainly one of the most synaesthetic and vertigo-inducing books I've read in a long time. The final essay, in particular, continues to call me back.
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time inTouching Feelingher most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion."

In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving,Touching Feelinginterrogatesâthrough virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and othersâemotion in many forms. What links the work of teaching to the experience of illness? How can shame become an engine for queer politics, performance, and pleasure? Issexuality more like an affect or a drive? Is paranoia the only realistic epistemology for modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment to the truth of happiness propels a book as open-hearted as it is intellectually daring.
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< Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q) > < The Cultural Politics of Emotion > < The Transmission of Affect > < Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions) > < The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social > freaks

< All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. > < My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story > < When You Are Engulfed in Flames > < Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star > < Blind Fall: A Novel > < NYC Go-Go > Craig Seymour

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(The Bare Facts)

(Great book)

(Informative and gossipy, sexy and intellectual all at the same time!)

(funny, well-rounded...coming of age story)

(Baring it All...and then Some)

Back in the early 1990s, a handsome, young, and affable African American graduate student and teacher found himself nervously attending his first gay strip club to see a live performance by his favorite porn star. Here, customers were allowed to freely fondle the naked dancers. Openly gay but a gay-sex virgin, nervous and slightly apprehensive, Craig Seymour gets his good friend Seth to accompany him.

Excitement soon replaces apprehension and Seymour finds himself falling in love with the clubs as well as his good friend Seth, to whom he ultimately surrenders his virginity. They become live-in lovers.

But as the strip clubs are becoming an ever growing obsession, our hero is able to appease both his lover and his jones by making strip clubs the topic of his master's thesis, with the cautious approval of his school advisor.

Now a club regular, Seymour interviews and gets to know a cast of characters as colorful and crudely affectionate as anything in a Bob Fosse musical.

His first interview subject is dancer Jake the Guess Model, a straight `gay-for-pay' former construction worker who tells his customers he is bi `because [they] like to think there's a chance.'

And then there is Dave, a customer just out of a twenty-one-year monogamous heterosexual marriage and now having the time of his life hanging at the clubs and fondling beautiful young male dancers dangling their eye-level rock hard jewels for his perusal approval.

Dave's favorite dancer is Matt who sports leather chaps publicizing everything usually known as `privates.'

Sassy drag queens, dirty old men, sugar daddies, and dis-effected club owners abound throughout this breezy, affectionate tome.

Author Seymour also learns of and writes about D.C.'s rich gay history, dating back to the 1800s. Then, knowledge of fifty-year-old poet Walt Whitman's love affair with Irish immigrant Peter Doyle, thirty years his junior, was as casual as the then published stories of sexual liaisons between black and white men in Lafayette Square "under the shadows of the White House."

The story of how the gay strip club scene began in the 1960s, where dancers could legally bare all, is beautifully told. The owner of a local bar on O Street, Chesapeake House, offers a pair of sailors $50 each to strip down and dance for his patrons. Soon the club is drawing huge crowds that include the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Rock Hudson. Other clubs (as well as bath houses) soon open and prosper on O Street, the city's gay red light district.

Although Mr. Seymour's depth and fascinating chronicle of how this charmingly tawdry industry evolves is both interesting and informative, it is his personal transition from thesis writer to booty dancer that makes his memoir a thoroughly entertaining read.

Likable and self-effacing, the author writes thoughtfully, ironically, and humorously about his second job:

"...get on stage, disrobe quickly, try to get a hard-on, and then walk out among the customers, who for a tip--generally a buck--got to stroke, fondle, poke, and prod [your] bod. It was more like sex than dancing, and it had become my job."

He also writes with great care and much soul-searching about maintaining his monogamous relationship with Seth while almost every night allowing strangers and regulars to feel him up.

Seymour's partner is more trusting than most, and it is admirable that the author repays that trust with honesty and a form of fidelity.

However, after six years of being with the only man he's known sexually, the author approaches his partner with a proposition that dooms the romance, if not the friendship.

With the cocaine bust of Mayor Marion Barry, a champion of D.C.'s liberal sexual exhibition laws, restrictions are shortly thereafter imposed on the strip clubs. Customers are no longer allowed to fondle dancers, and dancers aren't allowed to fondle themselves. This, of course, cuts into everyone's income, and author Seymour, now single and sparked on by the success of his thesis, embarks upon a career as an entertainment journalist, which eventually takes him to New York. Thanks to his unique literary gift and ability to ask his celebrity interviewee's frank and probing questions, he quickly ascends the ranks.

His ability to get such stars as Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, and Mariah Carey to open up and discuss such things as masturbation, size-queendom, secret babies, cheating boyfriends, and mental depression are shocking, revealing, and often quite poignant. His discussion with TLC's Lisa Lopez regarding her romance with Tupac, his death, her premonition of her own death, is particularly moving. Craig Seymour's keen observations of human behavior, particular with regards to his celebrity subjects, are empathetic and caring, always intelligent, never fawning.

Eventually, Mr. Seymour's busy schedule--writing for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, the Buffalo News, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, to name a few--become all-consuming, making it nearly impossible for him to have a personal life.

He re-thinks academia, and eventually returns to the University of Maryland to finish his Ph.D. While working as a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, he hears that the old strip clubs on O Street will be torn down. He returns for a bittersweet farewell that brings him full circle. The year is 2006.

Craig Seymour's warm, witty, and honestly rendered self-examination of his seemingly unlikely but totally plausible life as grad student turned gay stripper, turned journalist, turned college professor, is quite the odyssey, and quite a lesson for us all. There is so much life out there for all of us to enjoy. This story reminds me of the famous quote from Auntie Mame: "Life's a banquet but most poor sons-of-bitches starve to death!"

Author Craig Seymour definitely heard the dinner bell.Looker: A Novel

This was a very well written and entertaining book. This was the type of book I couldn't put down once I started to read it.

I feel that Craig is very brave writing this book seeing he teaches at the college level. I get so tired of people writing stories after they retire and have nothing to lose. It is great to see him write this type of autobiography.

I also learned several things I didn't know before so this book was also educational in a way. I never knew about the strip clubs being cracked down on the patrons touching the dancers at the end. I am ashamed to admit this, but I had no idea about Frank Kameny until I read the book and also learned a couple other things about gay history when he mentioned his research.

This is a very good book to read and you might even learn a few more things about gay history like I did:)
I just finished reading "All I Could Bare," and what a great read it was: poignant, smart and informative all at the same time. It's a genuine contribution to cultural studies about the sex industry but also a very moving portrait of what it's like to be in a relationship as a gay man. It' a rich book on so many levels and the run ins with Mariah and Janet don't hurt! You'll love this book.
This book was an instant favorite with me and several friends - its quick, witty prose and dialog was engaging and unique. Craig Seymour works in personal observation, history and commentary to make the memoir more entertaining than any other I've read in recent memory.
This was a excellant read. Now, that I've got that out. Let me quickly backtrack. I had the pleasure to sit on a PCA/ACA [popular culture association] panel with the author [Craig] at the annual conference hosted in San Francisco this past spring. Out of all four of us on the panel, his topic, at the time this soon to be released memior, captured everyone's attention in the small but packed room. And, let me just say, Craig is just as engaging in person, as well as his memior reads. If you looking for a memior thats, fun, light-hearted, insightful and filled with witty humor, then look no further. Craig bares it all and then some. Craig, and I only use his first name because I actually met him, introduces you the to the other side of stripping, the one that as a gay man myself, I [we] often forget exist. He puts a real human face to the eye candy filled world of stripping. In baring it all, Craig carefully crafts a memior that is deeply personal,and still scholary in nature. He meticulously devlops everything from his club days in New York, to his stripping in D.C, to his interviews with pop music royalty--working for Vibe Magazine. Lastly, all his experiences nicely merge and congeal to give his journey the most interesting flares. This is a must read for anyone interested in queer studies and enthongraphic research.
A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF.

I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass in a room of paying strangers, a stripper. After years of wondering what it would be like, I had done it -- faced a fear, defied expectation, embraced a taboo self. It was only the beginning....

All I Could Bareis the story of a mild-mannered graduate student who "took the road less clothed" -- a decision that was life changing. Seymour embarked on his journey in the 1990s, when Washington, D.C.'s gay club scene was notoriously no-holds-barred, all the while trying to keep his newfound vocation a secret from his parents and maintain a relation-ship with his boyfriend, Seth. Along the way he met some unforgettable characters -- the fifty-year-old divorcé who's obsessed with a twenty-one-year-old dancer, the celebrated drag diva who hailed from a small town in rural Virginia, and the many straight guys who were "gay for pay." Seymour gives us both the highs (money, adoration, camaraderie) and the lows (an ill-fated attempt at prostitution, a humiliating porn audition).

Ultimately coming clean about his secret identity, Seymour breaks through taboos and makes his way from booty-baring stripper to Ph.D.-bearing academic, taking a detour into celebrity journalism and memorably crossing paths with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige along the way. Hilarious, insight-ful, and touching,All I Could Bareproves that sometimes the "wrong decision" can lead to the right place.
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< All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. > < My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story > < When You Are Engulfed in Flames > < Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star > < Blind Fall: A Novel > freaks

< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 5: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 6: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 4: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 3: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 2: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 1: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > Shungiku Nakamura

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Blu(2008-02-05)
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(Complete beautiful story.)

(the bestest)

Ok, for those that love yaoi this is by far the best series I have ever read, the books are kind of explicit but the romance shown in this series is far the best. I have cried, I have Aawwed, I have laughed. At times the situations are so cute I just end up blushing. It isn't like other yaoi titles that just goes straight to the sex, this story is just that a story of pure romance which is what Junjo Romantica means. I highly recommend it.
omg. *dies* this series is just....wow! its funny, cute, interesting, and serious all at the same time! i cant really tell in words how cool it is. i give it THREE thumbs up! *drools* soooooo freaking kawaii! junjo Romantica ga daisuki desu!
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< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 5: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 6: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 4: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 3: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 2: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) > freaks

< Just Us Guys > < Side By Side: The Journal of a Smalltown Boy > < The Complete Kake Comics > < Hard Boys > < Gone To The Movies > < Manly > Michael Broderick

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Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh
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(Great Coffee Table Book)