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Count your lucky stars : a novel
by Alexandria Bellefleur
While touring a wedding venue with a friend, Margot Cooper unexpectedly runs into Olivia Grant, her childhood friend, first love, and forever the One that Got Away and the pair try to rekindle their friendship again.
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Mama's boy : a story from our Americas
by Dustin Lance Black
The Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist presents a candid, resonant memoir of his experiences as a young gay Mormon in Texas whose polio-disabled mother taught him about surviving against all odds.
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The death of Vivek Oji
by Akwaeke Emezi
In the wake of a southeastern Nigerian mother's discovery of her son's body on her doorstep, a family struggles to understand the enigmatic nature of a youth shaped by disorienting blackouts, diverse friendships and a cousin's worldly influence.
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Boy erased /
After being outed by his parents, the son of a Baptist preacher is forced to take part in a church-supported gay conversion program. DVD Movie.
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The deviant's war : the homosexual vs. the United States of America
by Eric Cervini
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. One of The Washington Post's Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2020. From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, a biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.
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The Queer Evangelist : A Socialist Clergy's Radically Honest Table
by Cheri Dinovo
A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada in 2001. From rights for queer parents to banning conversion therapy, her story will inspire people to not only resist the system—but change it.
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Exciting times : a novel
by Naoise Dolan
Millennial Irish expat Ava becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.
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The pink line : journeys across the world's queer frontiers
by Mark Gevisser
This global exploration of how the human rights frontier around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to a divide provides sensitive and sometimes starling profiles of the queer folk the author’s encounters on the Pink Line’s front lines across nine countries. Bibliography.
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Grace and Frankie
Two woman who have always been rivals are shocked when their husbands announce that they are in love with one another and are leaving their wives. DVD series.
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Boyfriend material
by Alexis J. Hall
Fabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father’s comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.
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The sweetness of water
by Nathan Harris
In the waning days of the Civil War, two brothers seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. When their secret is discovered, it unleashes chaos and murder with repercussions for the community. A New York Times bestseller, and one of President Obama's favorite books of 2021.
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Crosshairs : a novel
by Catherine Hernandez
The author of Scarborough presents a dystopian tale set in a near-future world where a queer Black performer and his allies fight an oppressive regime that is incarcerating the LGBTQ+ community, people of color and the disabled.
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Leaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
by Lauren Hough
The author, who has had many identities – an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club – recounts her childhood growing up in the infamous cult The Children of God, in this searing and extremely personal collection of essays.
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Gay like me : a father writes to his son
by Richie Jackson
The award-winning executive producer of Nurse Jackie presents a timely love letter to his son describing his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of LGBTQ citizens throughout the past 50 years.
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All in : an autobiography
by Billie Jean King
This autobiography from the tennis legend discusses not only her historic accomplishments on the court, but also her activism as a feminist and social justice fighter in the wake of her coming out as gay at age 51.
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Under the whispering door
by TJ Klune
After he dies, a curious and powerful being gives Wallace one week to cross over to the land of the dead, and Wallace, who finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life, sets about living a lifetime in seven days. A delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
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Yerba Buena
by Nina LaCour
When much sought-after bartender Sara Foster meets Emilie Dubois at the Yerba Buena restaurant, their connection is instant, but the damage they both carry, and the choices they made, keep pulling them apart.
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One last stop
by Casey McQuiston
Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible when meets Jane on the subway, a mysterious punk rocker she forms a crush on, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back. By the author of Red, White & Royal Blue.
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Polar vortex
by Shani Mootoo
"Some secrets never die... lesbian couple Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countryside town. What Alex doesn't know is that in moving, Priya is running from her past--from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash, who pursued her for many years, both online and off. Time has passed, however, and Priya, confident that her ties to Prakash have been successfully severed, decides it's once more safe to establish an online presence. In no time, Prakash discovers Priya online and contacts her. Impulsively, inexplicably, Priya invites him to visit her and Alex in the country, without ever having come clean with Alex about their relationship-- or its tumultuous end. Prakash's sudden arrival at their home reveals cracks in Priya and Alex's relationship and brings into question Priya's true intentions. Seductive and tension-filled, Polar Vortex is a story of secrets, deceptions, and revenge. It asks readers: Are we ever free from our pasts? Do we deserve to be?"
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Moonlight /
Follows an African American man as he grows up in a rough Miami neighborhood and tries to find his place in the world. DVD Movie.
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Tell me how to be
by Neel Patel
While packing up the family home, widow Renu embarks on an emotional affair with the man she almost married while her son slips back into old habits, forcing both of them to choose between the lives they left behind and the ones they’ve since created.
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Detransition, baby : a novel
by Torrey Peters
A trans woman, her detransitioned ex and his cisgender lover build an unconventional family together in the wake of heartbreak and an unplanned pregnancy, in a book by the author of the novella, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones. Simultaneous e-Book.
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Little fish
by Casey Plett
After her grandmother dies, thirty-year-old trans woman Wendy receives a phone call that reveals that her grandfather may have been trans himself and she resolves to uncover the mystery of her ancestor's truth
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Unprotected : a memoir
by Billy Porter
The incomparable Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner shares his life story of coming of age in a world where simply being himself was a constant struggle and how unbreakable determination led him through countless hard times to where he is now.
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High school
by Sara Quin
High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan's and Sara's points of view.
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The guncle : a novel
by Steven Rowley
When Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP) for short, takes on the role of primary guardian for his young niece and nephew, he sets “Guncle Rules,” but soon learns that parenting isn’t solved with treats or jokes as his eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility.
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The priory of the orange tree
by Samantha Shannon
A queen who would survive assassination attempts to continue her ruling line is protected with forbidden magic by a court outsider, while a secret society works to prevent a dragon war. By the best-selling author of The Bone Season.
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Young Mungo
by Douglas Stuart
In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him to protect them both from the danger their relationship brings. By the author of the Booker Prize winning Shuggie Bain.
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Filthy animals
by Brandon Taylor
Interconnected stories set among Midwestern artists and creative types center around a young man trysting with two dancers in an open relationship in a new work of fiction by the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life.
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The magician : a novel
by Colm Tóibín
An intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of writer Thomas Mann, a man profoundly flawed and unforgettable, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.
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The chosen and the beautiful
by Nghi Vo
Treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, Jordan Baker, queer and Asian, has the world of illusion, magic and mystery at her fingertips but the most important doors remain closed to her until she can figure out a way to open them.
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Memorial
by Bryan Washington
A Japanese-American chef and a Black daycare teacher begin reevaluating their stale relationship in the wake of a father’s death and the arrival of an acerbic mother-in-law who becomes an unconventional roommate. By the award-winning author of Lot.
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Jonny Appleseed : a novel
by Joshua Whitehead
Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, andlinkages - and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home for his step-father's funeral, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams
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