2010 in Review: Long Subtitles

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

December 27, 2010

Longest Book Titles of 2010?

At 290 words and 1,433 characters, the longest book title in the world belongs to an Italian tome published in 2007. Still, we couldn’t help notice the growing length of titles this year. Memoir and biography are perhaps the guiltiest categories. What is the longest title of 2010? (At least among the LGBT-relevant category?) We created a list of all the titles that came across our desk over the past year to crown the longest of them all. Drum roll please…

	10th Runner up 81 Characters. 12 Words. THE BUCOLIC PLAGUE: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir By Josh Kilmer-Purcell Harper ( June 2010)
	9th Runner up 81 Characters. 17 Words. PARTY ANIMALS: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr By Robert Hofler Da Capo Press (March 2010)
	8th Runner Up 83 Characters. 14 Words. PLEASE SELECT YOUR GENDER: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism By Patricia Gherovici Routledge (January 2010)
	7th Runner up 86 Characters. 14 Words. SAWDUST CONFESSIONS: The Pleasures are Guilty as a Diva Disappears from Florida’s Gayest Campground By William A. Sievert Illustrated by Diana Lucas Createspace (February 2010)
	6th Runner up 87 Characters. 17 Words. SECRET HISTORIAN: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade By Justin Spring Farrar, Straus and Giroux (August 2010)
	5th Runner up 89 Characters. 19 Words. I WAS BORN THIS WAY: A Gay Preacher’s Journey through Gospel Music, Disco Stardom, and a Ministry in Christ By Carl Bean and David Ritz Simon & Schuster (June 2010)
	4th Runner up 91 Characters. 15 Words LIFE, LEATHER AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: Life, History and Culture in the Leather/BDSM/Fetish Community By Steve Lenius Nelson Borhek Press (May 2010)
	3rd Runner up 94 Characters. 14 Words. QUEERING THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN MEXICO AND BRAZIL: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies By Rafael de la Dehesa and Rafael de la Dehesa Duke University Press (April 2010)
	2nd Runner up 95 Characters. 17 Words. STRAIGHT FROM YOUR GAY BEST FRIEND: The Straight-Up Truth about Relationships, Work, and Having a Fabulous Life By Terrance Dean Agate Bolden (October 2010)
	1st Place Winner 277 Characters. 34 Words KISSING THE MASK: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines By William T. Vollmann Ecco (April 2010)

Honorable Mentions

74 Characters. 15 Words.
FROM THE CLOSET TO THE COURTROOM: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation by Carlos A. Ball; Michael Bronski  (Beacon Press)

73 Characters. 14 Words.
UNLIKELY ALLIES: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joel Richard Paul  (Riverhead)

70 Characters. 16 Words.
PALM TREES ON THE HUDSON: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating by Elliot Tiber (Square One Publishers)

67 Characters. 12 Words.
WHERE’S MY WAND?: One Boy’s Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by Eric Poole  (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)

Tristan Taormino: The Power of Erotica

Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable: Perspectives on the Media of Tyler Perry

'Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality' by Kristen Schilt

2010 in Review: Long Subtitles

2010 in Review: Long Subtitles

Longest Book Titles of 2010?

1st Place Winner

Honorable Mentions

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