Books like Dirty Poole by Wakefield Poole

**From Goodreads:** A book of conversations with six men, now deceased, from the world of film and entertainment, including Rock Hudson. All were remarkably candid with Boze Hadleigh about their lives, careers, and how their sexuality--they were all gay--affected both.

A comprehensive study of the LGBT influence behind the scenes of studio-era Hollywood, exploring how gay and lesbian producers, directors, and designers shaped the film industry.

"Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny, and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility of the men around her. Her artwork is dense and confident, never wavering in the wit and humour of its owner... Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet collects the entire comic book series, including the acclaimed My New York Diary, as well as rare comics and previously unpublished material; a reproduction of the first Dirty Plotte mini comic; essays about her comics legacy and feminist influence by curator Dan Nadel and academic Martine Delvaux respectively; an interview by comics scholar Christian Gasser; and personal anecdotes from Jami Attenberg, Adrian Tomine, and more"--Publisher's website.

A candid biography of Rayya Elias, a punk rock musician, filmmaker, and house stylist, chronicling her journey as a Syrian American and bisexual woman navigating New York’s music and film scenes while confronting drug addiction.

Down and Dirty Pictures chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines--Sundance and Miramax-that have powered them As he did in his acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind profiles the people who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford.