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Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
by Jim Downs
Re-examines the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that gay people developed a national community within the decade that focused on political identity, oppression, and literary achievements as main issues of the gay liberation movement
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My Queer War
by James Lord
A noted memoirist relates his time serving in World War II, during which he experienced the terrors of armed conflict, as well as came to terms with his sexuality, experienced the thrill of a first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man and made the acquaintance of a world-renowned artist. By the author of Mythic Giacometti.
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Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
by Amy Ellis Nutt
Presents the story of a politically conservative New England family whose son identified as a girl, Nicole, and how they overcame their confusion and fear to champion transgender rights and allow Nicole to be herself.
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
by Stephanie Schroeder
A provocative collection of texts and artwork by mental health consumers and providers alike, HEADCASE: LBGTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness breaks new ground in documenting issues in LGBTQ mental health care with superbly written and powerfully rendered personal and political stories and images.
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Born Both: An Intersex Life
by Hida Viloria
An intersex activist describes what it was like being raised a girl, but knowing that her genitals, reproductive organs, hormones and chromosomes failed to fit the standard definition of either sex and how she became an advocate for others in similar situations.
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A Year without a Name
by Cyrus Grace Dunham
Describes the author’s experiences as a gender-fluid individual who endured unbearable alienation and how the process of transitioning to their true gender shaped their views on queer identity, family and desire.
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Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love
by Mia Violet
This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on her life and how at 26 she came to finally realize she was 'trans enough' to be transgender, after years of knowing she was different but without the language to understand why. From bullying, heartache and a botched coming out attempt, through to counselling, Gender Identity Clinics and acceptance, Mia confronts the ins and outs of transitioning, using her charged personal narrative to explore the most pressing questions in the transgender debate and confront what the media has gotten wrong. An essential read for anyone who has had to fight to be themselves.
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Homie: Poems
by Danez Smith
Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. Inpoems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family--blood and chosen--arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez's friends and for you and for yours.
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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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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays
by Samantha Irby
The woman behind "Bitchesgottaeat.com' shares stories of her life from a failed "Bachelorette" application and awkward sexual encounters to a romantic vacation and ill-fated pilgrimage to scatter her estranged father's ashes in Nashville.
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Wow, No Thank You: Essays
by Samantha Irby
A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan.
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Pretty: A Memoir
by KB
Part powerful love letter, part call for change, a prize-winning, young black trans writer shines a light on the beauty and toxicity of black masculinity from a transgender perspective, in this memoir about queerness, race and coming to terms with always being perceived as“other.”
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Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
An activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost. Illustrations.
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
by Lillian Faderman
A biography of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city official in the nation, recounts the different stages of his life and how his experiences were informed by his Jewish identity.
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Mean
by Myriam Gurba
Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. We act mean because we like to laugh. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. Being mean to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Sisterhood is powerful, but being mean is more exhilarating. Being mean isn't for everybody. Being mean is best practiced by those who understand it as an art form. These virtuosos live closer to the divine than the rest of humanity. They're queers.
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
by Cleve Jones
The partial inspiration for a forthcoming ABC television miniseries from Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis and up to his present-day involvement with the marriage equality battle. TV tie-in.
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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
by Saeed Jones
The co-host of BuzzFeed's AM to DM, award-winning poet and author of Prelude to Bruise documents his coming-of-age as a young, gay, black man in an American South at a crossroads of sex, race and power.
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Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
by Paul Lisicky
When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time. At the same time, the community is consumed by the AIDS crisis. Later dramatizes a spectacular yet ravagedplace and a unique era when becoming one's self collided with the realization that staying alive from moment to moment exacted absolute attention.
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In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
The award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties shares the story of her relationship with an abusive partner and how it was shaped by her religious upbringing, her sexual orientation and inaccurate cultural beliefs about psychological trauma.
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Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
by Dale Peck
A memoir by the novelist and critic details the period between 1987 and 1996, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power was founded and combination therapy transformed AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable illness.
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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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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
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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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
An artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in an illustrated memoir that includes a colorful cast of characters, including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and more.
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Call Me By Your Name
by André Aciman
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
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Conventionally Yours
by Annabeth Albert
Stuck together on a cross-country road trip to the biggest fan convention of their lives, rivals Conrad and Alden find their goals to win an upcoming tournament challenged by their unexpected feelings for each other.
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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
An American, separated from his fiancé, becomes involved in an intense relationship with a young Italian bartender while in Paris.
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Trowchester Blues
by Alex Beecroft
Michael May is losing it. Long ago, he joined the Metropolitan Police to escape his father's tyranny and protect people like himself. Now his father is dead, and he's been fired for punching a suspect. Afraid of his own rage, he returns to Trowchester--and to his childhood home, with all its old fears and memories. When he meets a charming, bohemian bookshop owner who seems to like him, he clings tight. Fintan Hulme is an honest man now. Five years ago, he retired from his work as a high class London fence and opened a bookshop. Then an old client brings him a stolen book too precious to turn away, and suddenly he's dealing with arson and kidnapping, to say nothing of all the lies he has to tell his friends. Falling in love with an ex-cop with anger management issues is the last thing he should be doing. Finn thinks Michael is incredibly sexy. Michael knows Finn is the only thing that still makes him smile. But in a relationship where cops and robbers are natural enemies, that might not be enough to save them.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.
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Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown
Born out of wedlock and adopted by a poor, loving family, Molly Bolt finds the South and even bohemian New York a hostile world for a lesbian but manages to thrive and remain confident.
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Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel
by Emily M. Danforth
A highly anticipated adult debut from the award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the release of a best-selling book about an early 20th-century New England boarding school where gender-diverse students died under suspicious circumstances. 50,000 first printing.
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Patsy: A Novel
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described. By the award-winning author of Here Comes the Sun.
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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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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
by Emma Donoghue
A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin Suicides.Reader's Guide available.
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City of Laughter: A Novel
by Temim Fruchter
Recovering from the breakup of her first queer relationship and grieving the death of her father. Shiva Margolin, a student of Jewish folklore, decides to visit Poland to walk in the footsteps of the family members who went before her.
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Upright Women Wanted
by Sarah Gailey
A near-future exploration of queer identity, written in the style of a pulp western, finds a woman stowing away to escape her arranged marriage to a man who was once engaged to the late best friend she secretly loved.
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Less: A Novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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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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I Say a Little Prayer: A Novel
by E. Lynn Harris
On the brink of forty, Chauncey Greer, the bisexual owner of a thriving card company in Atlanta, is inspired by a minister to pursue his old dream of a musical career, a career that had ended in scandal thanks to a teenage love affair with his fellow bandmate in a popular boy band, until he and other gay members of his church decide to take a stand against the church's homophobia.
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Collide
by Riley Hart
There's no denying the attraction and emotion between Noah and Cooper, but can they overcome the ghosts of their pasts to have a future together?
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The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel
by Zeyn Joukhadar
Follows three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. By the author of The Map of Salt and Stars.
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I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel
by Khashayar J. Khabushani
An Iranian American boy named after a Persian king grapples with gay or bisexual feelings towards his closest friend, Johnny, while navigating life as the dutiful son of immigrant parents he is trying to make proud.
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Exhibit
by R. O. Kwon
Jin Han breaks a lifelong promise to keep the details of an old familial curse a complete secret when she meets and connects with a stranger at a party and must deal with the repercussions of their new relationship.
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The End of Eddy
by Édouard Louis
A U.S. release of an acclaimed coming-of-age story from Europe traces how a young gay man in a violent French factory village navigates his orientation and intellectually precocious nature while enduring pressure to become a strong man in accordance with local beliefs.
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The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories takeus through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
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All My Mother's Lovers: A Novel
by Ilana Masad
Shattered by revelations about the recently deceased mother who never entirely accepted her sexuality, a gay woman tracks down the men in her mother's hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.
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Michael Tolliver Lives
by Armistead Maupin
Reaching his mid-fifties in San Francisco, gay gardener Michael Tolliver cherishes his life after losing many of his friends and lovers to AIDS, finds romance with a younger partner, and attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida. By the best-selling author of Tales of the City.
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More Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin
The lives of the colorful residents of a San Francisco boarding house are comically intertwined as they search for themselves, their lovers, and families.
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Strength of the Pack
by Kendall Mckenna
Lieutenant Lucas Young doesn't know much about shifters. When Sergeant Noah Hammond is assigned to Lucas' platoon, the Marine Corps True Alpha werewolf challenges the Lieutenant’s authority and his self-control. As Lucas learns to dominate and command Noah, he struggles against a strong attraction and deepening emotional bond.
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After the Parade: A Novel
by Lori Ostlund
An ESL teacher seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth. A first novel by the award-winning author of The Bigness of the World.
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She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother's identity to claim another future altogether—her brother's abandoned greatness.
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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.
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A Clean Up Man
by M. T. Pope
From the author of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Both Sides of the Fence series comes a new tale of urban fiction.
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The Five Wounds
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
33-year old Amadeo Padilla, unemployed and seeking redemption by playing Jesus in a Holy Week procession in New Mexico, has his world turned upside down when his 15-year old daughter Angel shows up in his life pregnant and out of her mother’s house. This turn of events brings together 5 generations of the Padilla family, all with their own baggage and parenting expectations for Amadeo that he feels are too lofty for him to surpass. Can he break this generational curse once and for all?
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Come and Get It: A Novel
by Kiley Reid
A senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas accepts an easy yet unusual opportunity offered by a visiting professor and things get messy when her new side-hustle is jeopardized by strange new friends and illicit and vengeful dorm antics.
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It Takes Two to Tumble: Seducing the Sedgwicks
by Cat Sebastian
After an unconventional upbringing, Ben is perfectly content with the quiet, predictable life of a country vicar, free of strife or turmoil. When he's asked to look after an absent naval captain's three wild children, he reluctantly agrees, but instantly falls for the hellions. And when their stern but gloriously handsome father arrives, Ben is tempted in ways that make him doubt everything.
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Lavash at First Sight
by Taleen Voskuni
While at PakCon to promote her parents' food-packaging business and win an ad slot in the Superbowl, 27-year-old Nazeli meets Vanya, with whom she forms an instant connection, but when her parents recognize Vanya as the daughter of their greatest rival, the heat is on.
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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 Guncle Abroad
by Steven Rowley
It’s been 5 years since Patrick O’Hara first looked after niece Maisie and nephew Grant, and all seems well in the world. After relocating to New York to resume his film career, Patrick is informed his brother Greg is getting remarried in Italy, much to Maisie and Grant’s chagrin. Patrick must take the two under his wing again on the way to Europe, all while teaching them about love, facing his own life at the edge of 50, and continuing being the best guncle (gay uncle) to the kids he can be when life has got them down.
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Centuries after disappearing into the wilderness en masse, the sentient robots of Panga return to visit with a tea monk and answer their burning question,“What do people need?” in the first novel of a new series.
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel
by Hank Green
The first to document the appearance of the Carls, giant robot-like statues popping up around the world, April May finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight that puts her relationships, identity and safety at risk.
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In the Lives of Puppets
by TJ Klune
When an unwitting act of betrayal leads to the capture of his android Gio, who once hunted humans, Victor Lawson and his assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to the City of Electric Dreams to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon
Queen Sabran fights off assassination attempts to continue her ruling line and is protected with forbidden magic by a court outsider, while a secret society works to prevent a dragon war.
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Shuggie Bain: A Novel
by Douglas Stuart
A young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. A first novel.
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Cinema Love: A Novel
by Jiaming Tang
After emigrating to New York City's Chinatown Old Second and Bao Mei reminisce about their secret past in a rural Chinese cinema that taught them to navigate forbidden love, societal pressures and an uncertain future.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
by Ocean Vuong
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam war on their family.
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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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Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel
by Edmund White
A tale set against a backdrop of the sexual revolution in America traces the decades-long friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright, which is marked by Jack's secret love for Will, Will's marriage in spite of conflicted sexual feelings and the devastating rise of AIDS. By the author of City Boy.
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A Previous Life: Another Posthumous Novel
by Edmund White
A married couple who originally agreed to not speak of their past, failed prior relationships alternate reading from the memoirs they've written about their lives in a new novel that explores polyamory, bisexuality, ageing and love.
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Annabel
by Kathleen Winter
Raised as a boy but secretly nurtured as a girl by various family members, a hermaphrodite youth in 1970s Canada escapes his hometown and struggles to confront his dual identity as well as his allegiances to those he most loves. A first novel by the award-winning author of the story collection, boYs.
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
Two orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals. A first novel.
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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Fine: A Comic about Gender
by Rhea Ewing
Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town, where they anxiously approached both friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, their project has exploded into a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread across the country. Questions such as How do you identify? invited deep and honest accounts of adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns-and how these experiences can differ depending on culture, race, and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing's own visceral story growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themself through art-and by creating something this very fine.
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Stone fruit
by Lee Lai
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties -- Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn't fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Taking a leap of faith, each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew.
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