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A Place of Our Own

Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

by June Thomas ...

A “riveting” and “indispensable” (Alison Bechdel) cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spacesFor as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the softball field, these spaces aren’t a luxury—they ... Read more

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A “riveting” and “indispensable” (Alison Bechdel) cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spacesFor as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the softball field, these spaces aren’t a luxury—they
... Read more
The Queer Thing About Sin

SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

by Harry Tanner ...

'BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' Tom Holland'MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS NEEDED. HISTORY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE ALIVE...' Russell T DaviesA gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love.In the early days of ancient Greece, queer love was celebrated. The most famous warrior in antiquity loved another man, the... ... Read more

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'BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' Tom Holland'MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS NEEDED. HISTORY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE ALIVE...' Russell T DaviesA gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love.In the early days of ancient Greece, queer love was celebrated. The most famous warrior in antiquity loved another man, the...
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Seeking the Straight and Narrow

Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America

by Lynne Gerber ...

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals—and that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow is a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter our strongest ... Read more

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Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals—and that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow is a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter our strongest
... Read more
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

A Biomythography

by Audre Lorde ...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps ... Read more

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Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

A Novel

by Bob the Drag Queen ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle • Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub • Biggest Books of March by Book Riot • Most Anticipated Books of March by GoodreadsFeaturing two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!“Harriet Tubman: Live in Concer... ... Read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle • Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub • Biggest Books of March by Book Riot • Most Anticipated Books of March by GoodreadsFeaturing two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!“Harriet Tubman: Live in Concer...
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Backhanded Compliments

A Novel

by Katie Chandler ...

A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates—perfect for fans of Expiration Dates and Here We Go Again.Juliette Ricci dreams of only one thing: being the best women’s tennis player in the world. She’s worked nonstop with her strict father/coach to prepare for her big chance in the Australian Open. Unfortunately, she’ll be ... Read more

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A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates—perfect for fans of Expiration Dates and Here We Go Again.Juliette Ricci dreams of only one thing: being the best women’s tennis player in the world. She’s worked nonstop with her strict father/coach to prepare for her big chance in the Australian Open. Unfortunately, she’ll be
... Read more
Sexual Minorities and Politics

An Introduction

by Jason Pierceson ...

The political representation and involvement of sexual minorities in the United States has been highly contested and fiercely debated. As recent legislative and judicial victories create inroads towards equality for this growing population, members and advocates of these minorities navigate evolving political and legal systems while continuing to fight against societal and institutional resistance ... Read more

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The political representation and involvement of sexual minorities in the United States has been highly contested and fiercely debated. As recent legislative and judicial victories create inroads towards equality for this growing population, members and advocates of these minorities navigate evolving political and legal systems while continuing to fight against societal and institutional resistance
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Bisexual Men Exist

A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men

by Vaneet Mehta ...

SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 BISEXUAL NON-FICTION LAMMY AWARD"You're just being greedy.""Are you sure you're not gay?""Pick a side."Being a bisexual man isn't easy - something Vaneet Mehta knows all too well. After spending more than a decade figuring out his identity, Vaneet's coming out was met with questioning, ridicule and erasure. This experience inspired Vaneet to create the viral #BisexualMenExist ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 BISEXUAL NON-FICTION LAMMY AWARD"You're just being greedy.""Are you sure you're not gay?""Pick a side."Being a bisexual man isn't easy - something Vaneet Mehta knows all too well. After spending more than a decade figuring out his identity, Vaneet's coming out was met with questioning, ridicule and erasure. This experience inspired Vaneet to create the viral #BisexualMenExist
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Queer Brown Voices

Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz ...

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a “unified” agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism, ... Read more

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In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a “unified” agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism,
... Read more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson ...

A New York Times bestseller: The "magnificent" memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—"A tour de force of literature and love" ( Vogue).One of the New York Times' "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the ... Read more

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A New York Times bestseller: The "magnificent" memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—"A tour de force of literature and love" ( Vogue).One of the New York Times' "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the
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Everyday Violence

The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People

by Simone Kolysh ...

Everyday Violence is based on ten years of scholarly rage against catcalling and aggression directed at women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of New York City. Simone Kolysh recasts public harassment as everyday violence and demands an immediate end to this pervasive social problem. Analyzing interviews with initiators and recipients of everyday violence through an ... Read more

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Everyday Violence is based on ten years of scholarly rage against catcalling and aggression directed at women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of New York City. Simone Kolysh recasts public harassment as everyday violence and demands an immediate end to this pervasive social problem. Analyzing interviews with initiators and recipients of everyday violence through an
... Read more
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have

Stories of Trans Joy

by Tash Oakes-Monger ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS - YA'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and the love and acceptance of their chosen families.Through a series of uplifting, ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS - YA'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and the love and acceptance of their chosen families.Through a series of uplifting,
... Read more
Prairie Silence

A Memoir

by Melanie Hoffert ...

A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its peopleMelanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that preceded the prairie: crop rows become the patterned sand ripples of the lake floor; trees are ... Read more

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A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its peopleMelanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that preceded the prairie: crop rows become the patterned sand ripples of the lake floor; trees are
... Read more
Queercore

How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History

Edited by Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser ...

Through exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photographs and reprinted zines from the time, Queercore traces the history of a scene fabricated by a few young queer punks to its emergence as a real revolution. Queercore is a first-hand account of the movement explored through the people that lived it - from punk's early queer elements to the emergence of riot grrrl as a sister movement - as well ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Through exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photographs and reprinted zines from the time, Queercore traces the history of a scene fabricated by a few young queer punks to its emergence as a real revolution. Queercore is a first-hand account of the movement explored through the people that lived it - from punk's early queer elements to the emergence of riot grrrl as a sister movement - as well
... Read more
The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

by Alison Bechdel ...

From the author of Fun Home—the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and othersFor twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at ... Read more

$14.99 USD

From the author of Fun Home—the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and othersFor twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at
... Read more
A Body Made Home

by Kai Marshall Green ...

A memoir and mythography of a Black trans man’s invention of self and home, through gender, race, and trans theory made personalIn a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people, on the rejection of queer and trans rights, how does a Black trans man become himself or find home? “Home is commonly understood as a place of bodily safety, a place where one can find ... Read more

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A memoir and mythography of a Black trans man’s invention of self and home, through gender, race, and trans theory made personalIn a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people, on the rejection of queer and trans rights, how does a Black trans man become himself or find home? “Home is commonly understood as a place of bodily safety, a place where one can find
... Read more
How to Understand Your Gender

A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are

by Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker ...

'Excellent' KATE BORNSTEIN'The compassionate, accessible manual the world has been waiting for' LAURIE PENNYHave you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel confused when people talk about gender diversity?This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history ... Read more

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'Excellent' KATE BORNSTEIN'The compassionate, accessible manual the world has been waiting for' LAURIE PENNYHave you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel confused when people talk about gender diversity?This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history
... Read more
Raising LGBTQ Allies

A Parent's Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground

by Chris Tompkins ...

“[A] powerful treatise on creating a more accepting world.” — Publishers Weekly**, Starred Review**Creating LGBTQ allies happens one child at a time. And it begins with each of us.Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper, multi-faceted layers of homophobia. It opens up a conversation with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child and shows how heteronormativity can be ... Read more

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“[A] powerful treatise on creating a more accepting world.” — Publishers Weekly**, Starred Review**Creating LGBTQ allies happens one child at a time. And it begins with each of us.Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper, multi-faceted layers of homophobia. It opens up a conversation with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child and shows how heteronormativity can be
... Read more
Gay Guerrilla

Julius Eastman and His Music

by Renee Levine-Packer, R. Nemo Hill, Ryan Dohoney, Mary Jane Leach, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, David Borden, John Patrick Thomas, Kyle Gann, Luciano Chessa0, Matthew Mendez1 ...

Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including ... Read more

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Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including
... Read more
Fighting for Survival

My Journey through Boxing Fame, Abuse, Murder, and Resurrection

by Christy Martin ...

If you were riveted by the Netflix documentary Untold: Deal with the Devil**, find out Christy Martin's whole story in this fascinating autobiography.**Boxing legend Christy Martin was a trailblazer in the ring and continues to be an inspiration to female fighters across the globe. She is without a doubt the most important woman in the history of female combat sports. But behind the scenes Martin ... Read more

$15.99 USD

If you were riveted by the Netflix documentary Untold: Deal with the Devil**, find out Christy Martin's whole story in this fascinating autobiography.**Boxing legend Christy Martin was a trailblazer in the ring and continues to be an inspiration to female fighters across the globe. She is without a doubt the most important woman in the history of female combat sports. But behind the scenes Martin
... Read more
We Could Be Rats

A Novel

by Emily Austin ...

A “one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A “one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of
... Read more
Non-Binary Lives

An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

by Jespa Jacob Smith, Vynn, Ynda Jas, LJ, Ludo Tolu, Mina Tolu, Kimwei McCarthy, Annelyn Janib, Dang Nguyen, Fred Langridge, Rev Rowan Bombadil, Calvin Hall, Ed Lord, Eli Effinger-Weintraub, Al Head, Chai-Yoel Korn, Karen Pollock, Igi Moon, Lucy / Luc Nicholas, mud howard, Eli, Cal Orre, Daniel Morrison, S. W. Underwood, H Howitt, Sam Hope, Francis Ray White, Drew Simms, Alex Iantaffi ...

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST'Essential reading' - THE INDEPENDENT'Vital and insightful' - OWL FISHERWhat does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century?Our gender identity is impacted by our personal histories; the cultures, communities and countries we are born into; and the places we go and the people we meet. But the representation of contemporary non-binary identities has been limit... ... Read more

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LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST'Essential reading' - THE INDEPENDENT'Vital and insightful' - OWL FISHERWhat does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century?Our gender identity is impacted by our personal histories; the cultures, communities and countries we are born into; and the places we go and the people we meet. But the representation of contemporary non-binary identities has been limit...
... Read more
The Disappearing L

Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture

by Bonnie J. Morris ...

Series series SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures
Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.A 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library AssociationLGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry-but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 1970s, 80s, and ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.A 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library AssociationLGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry-but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 1970s, 80s, and
... Read more
Welcome to Fairyland

Queer Miami before 1940

by Julio Capó Jr. ...

Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capó Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami’s transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding ... Read more

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Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capó Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami’s transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding
... Read more

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