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Sister Outsider

Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde ...

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, ... Read more

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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism,
... 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

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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
Gay New York

by George Chauncey ...

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the ... Read more

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The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the
... Read more
Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography

by Anna Klumpke, Gretchen van Slyke ...

Hailed as one of the foremost painters of the nineteenth century, Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) lived to see her name become a household word. In a century that did its best to keep women “in their place,” she earned her own money, managed her own property, wore trousers, hunted, smoked, and lived in retreat with women companions in a château near Fontainebleau.Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto ... Read more

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Hailed as one of the foremost painters of the nineteenth century, Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) lived to see her name become a household word. In a century that did its best to keep women “in their place,” she earned her own money, managed her own property, wore trousers, hunted, smoked, and lived in retreat with women companions in a château near Fontainebleau.Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto
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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
... 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

$23.99 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
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

$15.59 USD

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
Moby Dyke

An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America

by Krista Burton ...

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a ... Read more

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A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a
... 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

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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
Burn It Down

Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

by Maureen Ryan ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited.It... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited.It...
... 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

$15.99 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
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
The Humble Lover

by Edmund White ...

A wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich octogenarian **and the young ballerino he covets-**Edmund White at his funniest and most unrestrained.Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich octogenarian **and the young ballerino he covets-**Edmund White at his funniest and most unrestrained.Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he
... Read more
Transgender Marxism

Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke ...

The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in ... Read more

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The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in
... 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
Our Work Is Everywhere

An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

by Syan Rose ...

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real and imagined queer and trans communities.In their ... Read more

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Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real and imagined queer and trans communities.In their
... 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

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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

$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
Lesbian Love Story

A Memoir In Archives

by Amelia Possanza ...

**Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/BiographyFor readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love**When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/BiographyFor readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love**When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded
... 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

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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

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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
Loud and Proud

LGBTQ+ Speeches that Empower and Inspire

by Tea Uglow ...

Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies that have changed our world, and the conversation.A sister volume to So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire, Loud and Proud places the voices of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community centre stage in the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ+ speeches. From equal marriage to the AIDS crisis, ... Read more

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Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies that have changed our world, and the conversation.A sister volume to So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire, Loud and Proud places the voices of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community centre stage in the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ+ speeches. From equal marriage to the AIDS crisis,
... Read more

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