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Candace Parker is a living legend. Her storied career includes three WNBA titles, two Olympic gold medals, and countless MVP Awards. Her career accolades are endless and her impact on the WNBA beyond measure, but Candace is even more inspiring off the court. A proud wife and mother of three, whose love story resonated with the LGBTQ+ community around the world, Candace is fiercely purpose-driven, paving the way for the WNBA’s rise in American culture, and for female basketballers to have the impact and platform that used to be reserved for the NBA. But this success didn’t happen by accident.

Uma das reportagens de maior repercussão nos últimos tempos, a história de Ricardo – apelidado ofensivamente de "Fofão da Augusta" – surge retrabalhada a partir de uma nova descoberta: a trajetória de Vânia, sua namorada.Em 2017, um leito do Hospital das Clínicas de São Paulo foi ocupado por um homem sem identidade. Há vinte anos, ele circulava pela região das ruas Augusta e Paulista, onde liderou uma trupe de palhaços, distribuiu panfletos e pediu esmolas. Sua aparência lhe rendeu a alcunha de Fofão da Augusta e o status de lenda urbana.

Pushing beyond the conventions of literary biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife is a bold, innovative examination of the nature of legacy and memory itself, in which Wade uncovers the origins of Stein’s radical writing and reveals new depths to the storied relationship that made it possible. A captivating, brilliant work of biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife is a groundbreaking examination of a true literary giant.

In AND SHE WAS, Rachel Dover takes listeners on a profound and deeply personal journey of self-discovery and transformation. Through candid reflections and poignant anecdotes, Rachel shares her experiences of transitioning, capturing the emotional highs and lows of her journey with raw honesty and humour. From the initial struggles of self-acceptance and the courage to come out, to navigating the complexities of surgical transition and finding peace in her new identity, Rachel's story is one of resilience, courage, and ultimate triumph.

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish refugees. German Margarete, born to a middle-class family, married the son of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber.

Bisexuality is often seen as something temporary, in spite of increasing openness around it: a sign of immaturity or a waystation on the road to a different sexuality altogether, rather than its own distinct entity. In this beautifully written cultural history, Sam Mills reclaims bisexuality as its own identity, interweaving her experience of being bisexual with illuminating portraits of a clutch of artists, writers and musicians, including Colette, Bessie Smith, Marlene Dietrich, Anaïs Nin, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna.

Uma tragédia que se abate sobre um ícone da política brasileira. Um crime ainda sem solução. Todos nós conhecemos os fatos que tiraram a vida da vereadora Marielle Franco junto com seu motorista, Anderson Gomes, em 14 de março de 2018. Marielle, ativista pelos direitos humanos, mulher negra, feminista, LGBTQIA+, cria da favela da Maré, como costumava se definir com muito orgulho, foi uma das vereadoras mais votadas na eleição em que concorreu, tornando-se um ícone e uma constante lembrança de que a sociedade buscava novos caminhos, mais justos e mais diversos.

Andrea de Mayo era a rainha-empresária. Proprietária de pelo menos doze imóveis na cidade de São Paulo, ela investia no aluguel para garotas trans de programa. Teve três boates, entre elas a lendária Prohibidu's, uma casa de travestis para travestis, além de ser agiota e "bombadeira", como chamavam as pessoas que injetavam silicone em mulheres trans. Jacqueline Welch, ou Jacqueline "Blábláblá", era a abelha-rainha. Construiu seu próprio "castelo", um bordel de luxo escondido atrás de um salão de beleza.

Black Enough Man Enough: Embracing My Mixed Race and Fluid Sexuality by Gee Smalls is an unflinchingly honest memoir that explores identity, resilience, and self-acceptance. Narrated by the author himself, this deeply personal audiobook takes listeners on a journey through Gee's experiences growing up in the Gullah Geechee culture of James Island, South Carolina, in the 1980s.

Hilarious and earnest, this collection of essays, how-tos, and more goes far beyond what we know of Bretman Rock from social media. Who is Bretman Rock Sacayanan behind the screen and how did he become the original superstar influencer and today’s beloved best friend of the internet?

Victoria Alonso takes listeners on her journey from Argentina to America to Hollywood and illuminates the ways everyone can live in a heightened state of possibility and use their voice for change. “If it has been done, you can do it. But if it hasn’t been done, you should.” It was these words from Victoria Alonso’s mother that imbued in her the power of possibility. First as a young person in Argentina living through a dictatorship, then as a nineteen-year-old alone in America, saying yes to possibility again and again laid the path for Victoria to become who she is today.

Through the lens of George Michael's life, Sathnam Sanghera, the prize-winning author of Empireland, writes a kaleidoscopic story of immigration; homophobia; fame; the 80s and 90s; creative and musical genius; the tabloids; addiction; obsessive fans; shame; and why the love for George Michael has only grown in the years since his tragic death on Christmas Day 2016.

Laurie Lee Hall’s growing-up years were defined by the conflict between her physical condition as a boy and her inherent identity as a girl. Unable to explain or resolve her gender dysphoria, she committed to living her adult life as a male. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eventually becoming chief architect of its temples and an ecclesiastical leader. In her church and community, rigid adherence to gender roles is not only the norm, but the defining issue of a faith that doctrinally declares one’s gender as an “eternal identity.

In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating, relationships and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Melissa, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship or another. It was time to focus on herself and examine the lifelong patterns that had got her to this point. When those three months ended, she decided to extend her celibate period, fearing that she had not yet gained the clarity she was searching for.

As the daughter of a rabbi raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, Yehudis struggled to conform to the strict expectations placed upon her and her siblings. Outspoken, curious and desperate to know more about G-d, she felt fenced in by arbitrary rules and questions left unanswered. As she grew older, these restrictions intensified and her questions for G-d hung heavier than ever. Wry and exhilarating, Chutzpah is a fearless exploration of what is possible when one person simply refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves.

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers.

An exploration of artistic freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination, including James Baldwin in Provence, Josephine Baker in Paris, Kevin Killian in San Francisco, and E. M. Forster in Cambridge, among other groundbreaking queer artists of the twentieth century. Nothing Ever Just Disappears is a radical new history of seven queer lives and the places that shaped these groundbreaking artists.

How I Became a Lesbian: And Other Stories is a captivating journey spanning the gamut of human experience. It blends autobiography into romance—and poetry, too— caressing the listener's mind. From a powerful opening depicting resilience in the face of adversity to the realization of love in one’s twilight years, each chapter feels like attending one’s own symphony.

Actor Johannes Lilleøre, author Markku Haussila and host Tyge Brink are very different at first glance—but actually have a lot in common. The conversation is based on the audiobook "Let Me Bloom" by Markku Haussila, but provides an honest picture of what it has been like to grow up "different".

Nach ihrem ersten Buch "Pinker Wanderflamingo trifft Arschtörtchen" entführt uns Franzi Langer nun in ihrem neuesten Werk auf eine Reise durch ihr eigenes Leben. Dabei beginnt ihr Lebenslauf wie in einem spannenden Krimi, der jedoch durch überraschende Wendungen zu einer kunterbunten Welt transformiert wird. In diesem mitreißenden Buch erlebst du nicht nur die einzigartige Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Charakters, sondern erhältst auch wertvolle Impulse für deine persönliche Reise der Selbstbefreiung.