This Auction is for Two Books on Gay Couples: 

Hide by Matthew Griffin

Paperback

ABA Indies Introduce Pick
Indie Next List Selection
Amazon Best of the Month Book

Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he’s loitering around Wendell’s taxidermy shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love―a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they make a home for themselves on the outskirts of town, a string of beloved dogs for company. Wendell cooks, Frank cares for the yard, and together they enjoy the vicarious drama of courtroom TV.

But when Wendell finds Frank lying outside among their tomatoes at the age of eighty-three, he feels a new threat to their careful self-reliance. As Frank’s physical strength and his memory deteriorate, the two of them must fully confront the sacrifices they’ve made for each other―and the impending loss of the life they’ve built.

Tender, gently funny, and gorgeously rendered, Hide is a love story of rare power.

Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter

Hardcover with Dust Jacket

For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many as fifty—years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any husband and wife.

In Outlaw Marriages, cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter reveals how some of these unions didn’t merely improve the quality of life for the two people involved but also enriched the American culture.

Contents:

• Walt Whitman & Peter Doyle
• Martha Carey Thomas & Mamie Swinn
• Ned Warren & John Marshall
• Mary Rozet Smith & Jane Addams
• Bessie Marbury & Esie de Wolfe
• J.C. Leyendecker & Charles Beach
• Alice B. Toklas & Gertrude Stein
• Janet Flanner & Solita Solano
• Greta Garbo & Mercedes de Acosta
• Aaron Copland & Victor Kraft
• Frank Merlo & Tennessee Williams
• James Baldwin & Lucien Happersberg
• Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns
• Ismail Merchant & James Ivory
• Frances Clayton & Audre Lorde

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