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The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans
by Jamie Raines
A practical and highly accessible guide for those navigating society as a trans person or trying to gain understanding of the trans experience, from psychologist, content creator, and LGBTQ+ advocate Jamie Raines, with over one million YouTube subscribers.
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
by Anthony Veasna So
Gathering together the late author's comic, soulful essays along with previously unpublished fiction, this astonishing final expression explores family, queer desire, pop culture and race.
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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
by Jill Gutowitz
This collection of personal essays from the New Jersey-based writer looks at queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet and identity as well as the mainstreaming of lesbian culture.
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Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Hunt Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
by Krista Burton
Burton set out in 2021 on a pilgrimage to visit the 20 self-identifying lesbian bars left in the U.S. Along the way she makes friends, studies lesbian behavior, and discusses reasons for the closure of “dyke bars,” including gentrification, the pandemic, and the growing acceptance of the queer community in mainstream culture.
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Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
by Matt Baume
From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from Ellen’s culture clash and Will & Grace’s mixed reception to Modern Family’s primetime power-couple, Hi Honey, I’m Homo! is the story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favorite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America.
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We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution
by Martha Shelley
“This is an invaluable memoir by one of the founders of gay liberation—a poet, a novelist, and a radical activist who remembers our history. Shelley was there at the beginning, and she remembers it all: growing up ‘different,’ the Mafia-run gay bars, the sit-ins, the jail-time, the protests, and the ideological clashes. This may be one woman’s story—but it is also the story of an American uprising that continues on to this day.” —Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness
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The LGBTQ+ History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Jon Astbury
What it's about: Showcasing the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience, this diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements and phenomena, celebrating the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution.
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
by Lillian Faderman
A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America
by Martin B. Duberman
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. At a little after one a.m. on the morning of June 28, 1969, the police carried out a routine raid on the bar. But it turned out not to be routine at all. Instead of cowering-- the usual reaction to a police raid-- the patrons inside Stonewall and the crowd that gathered outside the bar fought back against the police. The five days of rioting that followed changed forever the face of lesbian and gay life. In the years since 1969, the Stonewall riots have become the central symbolic event of the modern gay movement. Renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of what happened at Stonewall, focusing on the lives of six people involved in the struggle for LGBTQ rights, and recreating in vivid detail those heady, sweltering nights in June 1969, revealing a wealth of previously unknown material
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The Queer Bible: Essays
by Jack Flynn
Contemporary queer heroes pay homage to those who helped pave their paths. Contributors include Vogue columnist Paris Lees (writing on Edward Enninful), singer and songwriter Elton John (writing on Divine), comedian Mae Martin (writing on Tim Curry), author Joseph Cassara (writing on Pedro Almodóvar), and many others, honoring timeless queer icons through illuminating essays paired with stunning illustrations.
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Karma: My Autobiography
by Boy George
The long-anticipated celebrity memoir from Boy George delivers a searingly honest and captivating account of his extraordinary life, shining a light on his encounters with legendary figures like David Bowie, Prince, and Madonna, and providing an intimate peek into the music industry's glittering world.
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Talking to My Angels
by Melissa Etheridge
The Grammy and Oscar award-winning rock star and trailblazing LGBTQ+ icon shares how numerous, life-altering tragedies served as a catalyst for growth, and what the past two decades have taught her about the value of music, love, family and life in the face of death.
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
by Michael G. Long
Explores the surprising and complicated legacy of the brilliant strategist of the civil rights movement--Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, organized the 1963 March on Washington.
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Inverse Cowgirl
by Alicia Roth Weigel
In this funny, thought-provoking collection of essays. a celebrated activist born intersex with both female and male reproductive organs fights back against the hate and fearmongering to protect the rights and lives of everyone, exploring how we can reclaim bodily autonomy and encourages us to amplify our voices to be heard.
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The House of Hidden Meanings
by RuPaul
From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy
by Charles Busch
Both humorous and heartfelt, and featuring rare photos, the playwright, LGBT icon, drag actor, director and cabaret performer shares extraordinary journey into the worlds of Off-Broadway, Broadway and Hollywood and his colorful and sometimes outlandish interactions with film and theatrical luminaries.
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Hijab Butch Blues
by Lamya H
A queer Muslim immigrant recalls her coming of age and how she drew inspiration from the stories in the Quran throughout her lifetime search for safety and belonging.
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The Race to Be Myself
by Caster Semenya
Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are.
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Learned by Heart
by Emma Donoghue
Based on a true story and a five-million-word secret journal, this extraordinary work of fiction follows an orphaned heiress, banished from India to England, and a brilliant, troublesome tomboy who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in 1805 York where they fall secretly, deeply and dangerous in love.
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Blackouts
by Justin Torres
A young man tends to the dying soul of a person he knew only briefly and the pair trade stories as they wait for the end, in a metaphorical depiction of how queer identity has been suppressed from the records throughout history, in this 2024 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
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You Should Be So Lucky
by Cat Sebastian
Ordered by the team's owner to give a bunch of interviews to reporter Mark Bailey, baseball shortstop, Eddie O'Leary, during the 1960 season, slowly gives in to the attraction between them, and when it's just them against the world, they must decide if that's enough.
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Idlewild
by James Frankie Thomas
In Thomas’s intoxicating debut, two estranged friends look back on their high school years at a Manhattan Quaker school in the early 2000s. Equal parts funny and insightful, this is a propulsive exploration of gender identity, sexuality, and self-discovery.
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Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go: Stories
by Cleo Qian
Exploring the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today, this electrifying, unnerving and often surreal collection of stories jolts readers into the reality of lives fragmented by screens, consumer culture and the pressures of modern society.
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Based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the magical road to self-discovery.
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Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
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In 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
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The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes smitten with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
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A deeply repressed man, the uninhibited young man that gives him a happy ending, and all the lives they ruin along the way.
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Examines the story of Casa Susanna, a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men in the 1950s and 60s.
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Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
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Documents the history and impact of lesbian fiction from the 1920s through the 1990s. Narrator Lillian Faderman recounts the impact key world events had on LGBTQ history throughout the decades. With interviews from numerous trailblazing lesbian authors including Ann Bannon, Rita Mae Brown, Jewel Gomez and Sarah Waters, we learn how these world events helped shape their stories and to what extent the stories were reflections of the authors’ own lives as they looked for affirmation and their place in the world.
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Explores the stories of LGBTQ+ hate crime survivors and the impact of their decisions to bring their stories to public attention.
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Focuses on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly were.
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