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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life was, many young black women created forms of intimacy, indifferent to the dictates of respectability.

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

$17.95

Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Reynaldo Rivera took personal photos of the Los Angeles that he lived in and knew.

Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City By Reynaldo Rivera

$34.95

Novelist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writing. Isherwood found fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and award winning film Cabaret. This collection of essays considers Isherwood’s diaries, vast personal archive, and published works.

American Isherwood

$27.50

Whether in Berlin in the 30s or in L.A. in the 60s and 70s, Isherwood reflected on his life and wrote perceptive commentary on European and American history and culture. His ties to California made him more American than British. "Los Angeles is a great place for feeling at home because everybody's from someplace else"

Conversations with Christopher Isherwood

$25.00

The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, in their own words. English novelist Christopher Isherwood was the already famous author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, in Santa Monica in 1952. 'Animals' is the testimony in letters to their extraordinary partnership.

Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

$30.00

“Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places,” muses the narrator of Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet (1945), written in his adopted home of L.A. In Isherwood in Transit, Berg and Freeman bring together Isherwood scholars to understand the challenges this writer faced as a consequence of his travel

Isherwood in Transit

$27.00

Show your pride with this State of California enamelled pin, decked out in rainbow stripes, designed by artist Kameron Peck. 1.5” high.

California Pride Enamel Pin

$9.95

To compose his stunning documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin’s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Contains more than 40 black-and-white images.

I Am Not Your Negro

$15.00

In this stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad, in a love story that evokes the blues.

If Beale Street Could Talk

$14.95

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