Memoirs and Collections By Identity, Occupation, and/or Experience

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Abusive Relationships

Actors

  • Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
  • Baggage by Alan Cumming
  • Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
  • Pageboy by Elliot Page
  • Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
  • Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

Adoptee

African

Arab

Asian

(See also: Middle-Eastern)

Atheist

  • On Your Right, Fire and Brimstone by Zach Zimmerman

Athlete

  • Coming Up for Air by Tom Daley (Diving)
  • One Life by Megan Rapinoe (Soccer)
  • Beautiful on the Outside by Adam Rippon
  • The Yards Between Us by R.K. Russell (Football)
  • Silence All the Noise by Caster Semenya (Running)
  • Make it Count by Cecé Telfer
  • Spinning by Tillie Walden (YA, Skating)

Author (Novelist)

  • Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson
  • *Pull by Alex London

Autistic

Black American

Chef

Director

Drag Queen

Eating Disorders

  • The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
  • Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi

Exvangelical

Fashion Designer

Foster Child

  • Slum Boy by Juano Diaz

Immigrant

Indigenous

Jewish

Latinx

Middle-Eastern

Mormon

  • *Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself by David Archuleta
  • Wolf Act by AJ Romriell

Musician/Singer

  • *Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself by David Archuleta

Muslim

Politicians

  • Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank

Reality TV Personality

  • Memoirs of a Gay Shah by Reza Farahan
  • Naturally Tan by Tan France
  • Nice Girls Don’t Win by Parvati Shallow

Refugee

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