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The Riddles of the Sphinx

Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

by Anna Shechtman ...

"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."—New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir about anorexia and language, and history of the crossword puzzle as an ... Read more

$11.99 USD

"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."—New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir about anorexia and language, and history of the crossword puzzle as an
... 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

$42.89 USD

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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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
Bi

The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

by Julia Shaw ...

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is a provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist.Significant strides have been made in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. For psychological scientist and bestselling author Dr. ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is a provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist.Significant strides have been made in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. For psychological scientist and bestselling author Dr.
... Read more
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

$23.79 USD

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
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

$13.99 USD

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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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

$20.19 USD

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
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

$11.99 USD

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

$7.39 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
Ace Notes

Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World

by Michele Kirichanskaya ...

What is the ace lens?Is my relationship queerplatonic?Am I sex-favorable, sex-averse or sex-repulsed?As an ace or questioning person in an oh-so-allo world, you're probably in desperate need of a cheat sheet. Allow us to introduce your new asexual best friend, an essential resource serving up the life hacks you need to fully embrace the ace. Expect interviews with remarkable aces across the ... Read more

$15.59 USD

What is the ace lens?Is my relationship queerplatonic?Am I sex-favorable, sex-averse or sex-repulsed?As an ace or questioning person in an oh-so-allo world, you're probably in desperate need of a cheat sheet. Allow us to introduce your new asexual best friend, an essential resource serving up the life hacks you need to fully embrace the ace. Expect interviews with remarkable aces across the
... Read more
The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads

Everything You Need to Know About LGBTQ Parenting But Are (Mostly) Afraid to Ask

by Eric Rosswood ...

If You are Thinking of Becoming a Gay Dad, or if You are Already a Gay Dad ─ This Book is for You!Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, The Chicago Tribune reported that 10 ... Read more

$11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

If You are Thinking of Becoming a Gay Dad, or if You are Already a Gay Dad ─ This Book is for You!Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, The Chicago Tribune reported that 10
... 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

$15.39 USD

“[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
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold

The History of a Lesbian Community

by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis ...

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances,
... 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

$17.99 USD

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
Sounds Fake But Okay

An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else

by Sarah Costello, Kayla Kaszyca ...

***'***Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.'True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was normal?Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses - and rethink everything you thought you knew about society, ... Read more

$16.39 USD

***'***Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.'True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was normal?Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses - and rethink everything you thought you knew about society,
... 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

$12.99 USD

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
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

$13.99 USD

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
Queer Disability through History

The Queer and Disabled Movements through their Personalities

by Daisy Holder ...

Explores the intersecting histories of the Disabled and LGBTQ+ movements, highlighting shared struggles and landmark figures.Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is remarkably closely aligned to the experience of the Disabled community.This book examines the histories of these two movements are they ran alongside ... Read more

$13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explores the intersecting histories of the Disabled and LGBTQ+ movements, highlighting shared struggles and landmark figures.Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is remarkably closely aligned to the experience of the Disabled community.This book examines the histories of these two movements are they ran alongside
... 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

$33.29 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
No Modernism Without Lesbians

by Diana Souhami ...

A Sunday Times Book of the YearWinner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times.The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A Sunday Times Book of the YearWinner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times.The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal
... 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

$18.99 USD

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
Queer Intentions

A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

by Amelia Abraham ...

**'A landmark exploration into what it means to be queer today' – DAZEDShortlisted for the Polari First Book PrizeIn this immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book, journalist Amelia Abraham goes on a fascinating global journey to better understand the challenges and realities facing LGBTQ+ people today.**The freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West appear greater than ever ... Read more

$13.59 USD

**'A landmark exploration into what it means to be queer today' – DAZEDShortlisted for the Polari First Book PrizeIn this immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book, journalist Amelia Abraham goes on a fascinating global journey to better understand the challenges and realities facing LGBTQ+ people today.**The freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West appear greater than ever
... Read more
Queer Adolescence

Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth

by Charlie McNabb ...

Find out what it’s like to go through puberty as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or asexual teen.What do you do when Mom says, “You’re a woman now!” but you know you’re not a woman? Or when Dad keeps asking when you’re going to bring a girlfriend home, but you’re not interested in girls?Puberty is an awkward and confusing time for anybody, but for queer youth, feelings of social ... Read more

$22.19 USD

Find out what it’s like to go through puberty as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or asexual teen.What do you do when Mom says, “You’re a woman now!” but you know you’re not a woman? Or when Dad keeps asking when you’re going to bring a girlfriend home, but you’re not interested in girls?Puberty is an awkward and confusing time for anybody, but for queer youth, feelings of social
... Read more
Baby, You are My Religion

Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall

by Marie Cartier ...

Baby, You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall—when homosexuals were still deemed mentally ill—these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. Baby, You are My Religion explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and political ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Baby, You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall—when homosexuals were still deemed mentally ill—these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. Baby, You are My Religion explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and political
... Read more

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