WOW Chuck, that is quite a resource! I'm going to have fun digging through it.
I've already had my first find from it, indirectly. I was looking to see if the second book on page 2,
A Marriage Below Zero by Alan Dale was on Archive or PG (sadly no). But I did find, from the same author:
Familiar Chats With Queens of the Stage by Alan Dale.
https://archive.org/details/familiarchatswit00coheuoft/page/n5
This may not belong in this thread since it doesn't sound like it likely has any overtly LGBTQ content, although given his novel on the bibliography list, he may have been gay.
Maybe it's the context under which I found it, but I can't help hearing the voice of a gossipy "bitchy queen" when I read the bits I've skimmed, like this bit from the opening paragraph:
"LET nobody who takes up this book for perusal, imagine that
I am about to assume the role of a biographer, or that I have
the very smallest ambition in that direction. I am afraid
that I could never be a Boswell to anybody's Johnson, for the simple
reason that I was born without the bump of veneration.
Pity me, kind readers, all of whom, I sincerely trust,
are possessed of every beautiful phrenological attribute known to Dr. Gall.
The ability to venerate is a delightful gift ; the inability a veritable disaster,
bringing forth enemies by the score."
Sure sounds like he is saying, 19th century style, "I'm about to spill some tea, y'all, grab your martini and your feather boa and sit down here next to me!"
...and the book as a whole looks like a hoot.
I've been thinking that I want to get my feet wet with BC-ing and this might have to be my first project!
Meanwhile, I'm going to enjoy digging through this bibliography. Chuck, thanks so much for finding and sharing this! It's a treasure!
Colleen