Over the Rainbow Project book list

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At a time when laws barred gays from meeting in bars, a straight woman in her 60s provided a gay haven in her Los Angeles...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tries to find the truth when her father shocks her with the news of her sex-change surgery. Questions of identity, rage...

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Twenty years after Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York...

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From a gay teenager born with AIDS to an 85-year-old writer, the LGBTQ people in these 40 interviews come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds...

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The coming-of-age story of a young woman learning what it is to be who she is. Lesbian, Puerto Rican, New Yorker Juliet is running to...

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When Ahmed escapes his parents and an abusive anti-gay treatment center for teens, he finds temporary sanctuary in a so-called safe house in San Francisco...

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Nineteen authors introduce the reader to the great explosion of gay writing between the first Kinsey Report and the first collection of Tales of the...

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A richly crafted memoir about a gay son and his aging octogenarian mother. As her health declines, the son returns to the small Missouri town...

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The complex world of transgender is explored through the personal reflections of the author as she describes issues of employment, marriage, insurance, childhood, medical procedures...

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One month after her fiftieth birthday, the author becomes a quadriplegic after breaking her neck in a bicycle accident. In this memoir, she writes about...

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First-person accounts of 14 lesbians living at the intersection of conflicting sexual and religious identities describe their experiences as individuals and community members, reconciling their...

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Downs has written an essential historical text on gay life during the “forgotten” time between 1969 and the beginnings of the AIDS crisis. Using documents...

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Drawing on official security documents and interviews with the investigators and investigated, this book chronicles the campaigns of fear and lies that shattered the lives...

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A series of essays about lesbian life based on the advice column of the same name. Topics are written to address both queer and straight...

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A child grows up gay or straight as the result of interaction among genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain...

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Conley, a son of a pastor, tells how his struggle with his sexuality brought him to checking into an ex-gay conversion therapy program during his...

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Narratives inspired by the midrashim, homoerotic love poems, and present-day stories bring gay and lesbian narratives back into the 3000-year history of the Jewish people.

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A realistic, imaginative, well-drawn graphic novel exploring the life and death of the great mathematician and pioneer of artificial intelligence and computer science, Alan Turing...

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In a conversational question and answer format, Serwatka explores issues of religion, history, "reparative therapy," stereotypes, civil rights, and schooling in the ongoing cultural and...

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A chronicle of the friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pauli Murray: granddaughter of a mixed-race slave, lawyer, civil rights activist, minister, and co-founder...

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The misery of enforced closeting of patriotic gays and lesbians by the U.S. military is powerfully illuminated in these 20 photographic portraits accompanied by selected...

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More than a representation of a shallow decade, disco helped shape the culture of blacks, feminists, and gays in a time when they were searching...

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For August, friendship was everything. It was the 1970s in Brooklyn. She and her three best girlfriends lived confident of their talents, dreaming of the...

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A poet’s memoir that reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates her past and her future.

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Julie Sondra Decker outlines what asexuality is, counters misconceptions, provides resources, and puts asexual people’s experiences in context as they move through a very sexualized...

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The story of Henry Moss, a homosexual everyman whose life knows none of the limitations or abuses his predecessors experienced.

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Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. It includes well known news outlets as well...

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A discussion of gamer culture, specifically sexuality and gender through a feminist, queer, postcolonial lens.

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A biography of Georgia O’Keefe written in poetry that reads like a beautiful, subtle novel.

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A memoir told in multiple essays that tells the story of a woman awkwardly coming to grips with being a “grown up.”

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Tatonetti carefully describes the ties between queerness and Native American literature while showing how they critique understandings of indigeneity and sexuality.

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A fictional account of Focault’s 1956 stay in Sweden told through imagined letters in multiple languages.

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A set of essays that explores what it means to be a poet and cultural theorist in the world. These essays are deeply personal and...

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An in depth look at five contemporary gay male film directors that sets up a framework for what it means to make a gay film...

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A collection of poetry about relationships, emotions and love lost and found.

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A heart wrenching account of disowned and homeless LGBTQ teens and the man who tried to help them. These stories are complex, sad, and moving.

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“Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Striaght. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who’s ever dared...

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A historical novel set in the age of Jim Crow and the Great Migration. Ivoe Williams, the daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith...

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Essays detailing the status of black gay men in the new millennium, examining classism among black gay men, racism within the gay community, representations of...

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A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the...

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Addresses Asian American gay men in the American gay mainstream. The author travels from West Coast Asian drag shows to the internationally sought-after Thai kathoey...

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An updated version that takes into account recent changes in the law. Intended to educate and inform practitioners on the various laws and landmark court...

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A queer punk reimagining of the classic Peter Pan story, told from the point of view of Tootles, Pan’s best boi.

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This collection of lyric poems is a fugue of friendship: a straight girl and a gay boy coming of age in early 1970s America. Interwoven...

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An introdution to comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. Addresses the hyper-masculine world fo Japanese gay manga.

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WWII pilot James Hunter is shot down and sent to a German POW camp on his very first mission. While other prisoners play games and...

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Anthology of essays and non-fiction discussing marriage equality and LGBTQ rights.

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A romance set in Paris that mixes sexes and blurs genders. This is the first English translation of Garreta’s debut novel.

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Poetry that delves into the author’s loss and life and challenges readers to find beauty in the ordinary.

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A frank and sometimes difficult discussion of sexual practices of men who identify as straight but have homosexual encounters. The author argues that sexuality is...

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The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights—from the 1950s to the present—based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures...

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In this autobiographical graphic novel, Beldan Sezen revisits the various instances of her coming of age, and her coming out as lesbian, in both western...

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Follows the lives of Arleen Madigan and her children, a family from County Clare, Ireland, beginning in 1980 and continuing to the present day. Over...

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A book length poem that imagines two lovers surviving a shipwreck and lying together at the bottom of the ocean. A complex exploration of language...

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Provides practical advice on the problems that confront counselors, friends, and family members in our efforts to help gay or bisexual men with drug and...

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A sex-ed book told with humor and illustrations geared toward women. Graphic Novel.

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The biography of silent film actress and visual artist Wilna Hervey and her lifelong partner, fellow artist Nan Mason. Includes family photos, stills from several...

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The story of a student and his professor/psychologist and the way their lives are intertwined through issues of gender and difference. Explores issues of self-definition...

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A poetic expose of a plane crash that took the life of the author’s friend.

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Personal narratives that share the experiences of lesbians, gay men, and trans activits from a variety of Latina/o communities.

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“A richly evocative collection of photographs by internationally renowned photographer Kike Arnal, Bordered Lives seeks to push back against the transphobic caricatures that have perpetuated...

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The biography of a nearly forgotten member of one of Louisville, Kentucky’s most notable families. Deeply researched and beautifully written by her great niece, the...

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A gay teen who fantasizes about being a movie teen reimagines his world as a movie set. He tells his own story of the need...

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A biography of a fiesty, bawdy, grandmother told through the poetry of her granddaughter. Funny, powerful, and steeped in truth and love.

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Explores the relationship between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval culture, on the one hand, and those categories we today call gender...

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A year in photographs depicting the lives of a gay couple living in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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A funny, yet poignant view of life and accomplishment through the eyes of the Millennial generation. The author focuses on becoming an adult in the...

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A winding, intricate tale of a non-traditional family fighting for survival in the 1960’s.

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Private investigator Dash Malone can’t shake the feeling his lover, Johnny, is hiding something. Strange deaths start occurring throughout the city while a mysterious woman...

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A book of poetry in the Lillian Trilogy.

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An in depth examination of cross-dressing laws in San Francisco in the 19th Century. Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law...

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Acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a recent...

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After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood...

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An exploration of the lives of “warm brothers” in Berlin. A detailed historical look at the ways these lives influenced modern understandings of sexual orientation...

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An in-depth look at Asian American male sexual representation that uses the concept of bottomhood rather than masculinity to help portray gay Asian American men.

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A book of poetry seeking beauty in nature and in our bodies, despite the threat of violence. Powerful and beautiful.

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“A genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language...

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In the early 2000’s, Mark Achtemeier embarked on a personal journey with the Bible that led him from being a conservative, evangelical opponent of gay...

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Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve books of short stories, two...

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Gilder recounts the physical and psychological barriers she overcame as she transformed into an elite athlete who reached the highest echelon of her sport. Set...

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“To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men-chubs, bears, cubs-the anti-fat stigma that persists...

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A deep and provocative story told through poetry revealing memories and trauma that continue through generations. Deeply haunting and beautifully written.

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After the fall of Paris to the Nazis, the expatriate couple Julia and Pete Winters join others in flight to Lisbon to flee Europe. There...

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Told through a series of letters and novels by her friends, lovers, biographer, and acquaintances, the life of Lou Villars, athlete, cross-dressing lesbian, race car...

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Written from the point of view of gay soldiers and their partners, these poems reveal the horror of the recent wars and the lasting effects...

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A poetry anthology exploring lesbian and gay experiences in the American South.

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A look at LGB (and some T) history from the perspective of fashion, looking at how fashion contributes to movements and perceptions of groups of...

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Poems and conversations among gay, African-American poets reveal much about their work, mentoring, and their theories of poetry. Prime features poems by and dialogue between...

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Graphic telling of Brian Epstein’s life reveals his importance as the gay impresario who managed the Beatles from 1961-1967.

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In this thoughtful memoir, McBee recounts and confronts both childhood abuse and a more recent act of violence.

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A collection of color photographs of drag queens from all over the world. Photography.

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A fictional memoir by the queer, youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, who became a renowned psychoanalyst in her own right.

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With subject matter that is brimming with desire, love, romance unfulfilled, sex and pleasure, these poems are not romantic or sentimental. Herrera y Lozano’s poems...

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A look at 15 ‘activist’ gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims as they attempt to find ways to live out Islam with dignity and integrity, reconciling...

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A poetry anthology exploring lesbian and gay experiences in the American South.

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Often using a formalized structure, Mann’s poetry delivers creative images of growing up gay in Florida, the San Francisco gay scene, sex, and longing.

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Short stories about immigrant queer Somalis written in a lively style.

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Abused as a child by his Scoutmaster, Frank, now a successful doctor, partner, and author, is determined to see some resolution to the horrors of...

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Compilation of the works of queer comics artist Elisha Lim; part memoir and part biographies of friends.

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A fictional account of the woman who would eventually become St. Hilda of Whitby; this book is full of descriptions of the daily life of...

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Poems and brief observations on life and places are funny and fresh.

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Objects ranging from Ancient Egyptian papyri and the erotic scenes on the Roman Warren Cup to images by modern artists provide insight into the range...

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Poetry on the relationships between men focus on loss, love, and lust. The author draws the reader in with pop culture references and the demonstration...

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An in-depth look at problematic elements of feminist and queer movements, with suggestions on how to address those issues.

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Abused as a child by his Scoutmaster, Frank, now a successful doctor, partner, and author, is determined to see some resolution to the horrors of...

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Both Meissner and her wife get pregnant in quick succession in this beautifully written memoir about starting a family.

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When Jenny Bonnet, a secretive, pants-wearing woman, bikes down Blanche, a dancer of ill repute in 1870s San Francisco, she disrupts Blanche’s seemingly happy life...

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Poetry that explores historical and mathematical themes within a gay context.

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In a highly readable and personable style, Frank chronicles the legal fights for gay rights over the last 50 years, highlighting the individuals involved and...

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This behind-the-scenes look at the Lesbian Avengers speak to the activists’ efforts in making a difference and Cogswell’s persistent struggle to raise awareness and effect...

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Nguyen’s poems illuminate growing up gay and Vietnamese in Minnesota, touching on family, sexual abuse, abandonment and death.

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A collection of personal essays, song lyrics, and drawings recounting Coyote’s and Spoon’s lifelong experiences understanding and challenging gender.

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Set in New York during the fallout of the financial crisis, this novel follows a group of gay men in work and life.

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Snyder-Hill’s conversational account of his days in the army under DADT, his continued fight for equality in the armed services, and the elimination of DOMA...

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The daughter of Cuban and Colombian immigrants, Hernandez recounts growing up bilingual and bisexual.

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Told from the perspective of Peter as he grows from a child into a young adult identifying as a girl, despite his Chinese immigrant family’s...

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Eighteen gay small press publishers and editors show how talented they are in these memoirs, poetry and fiction.

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In this academic, yet accessible book, Boone reviews 400 years of Middle Eastern and the Western literature, travel writings, historical works, art, photography, and cinema...

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Ariel finds it hard to live according to her values as she becomes a caretaker for a very challenging mother who is dying of cancer...

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Hilarious and heart-breaking, the author shares her story of her life before she came out and the reactions of those around her on learning she...

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A look at 15 ‘activist’ gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims as they attempt to find ways to live out Islam with dignity and integrity, reconciling...

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After the fall of Paris to the Nazis, the expatriate couple Julia and Pete Winters join others in flight to Lisbon to flee Europe. There...

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Mahoney recounts the process of surrogacy and the obstacles facing gay parents with wit and humor.

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The founder of POZ magazine and AIDS and LGBT activist, the author looks back on his life and career in the midst of the 1980s...

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When Daniel receives a call from his father telling him his mother had been committed to a mental hospital, he must come to terms with...

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Calderwood’s poems speak to the longing for the love of one’s life only to discover that it is a minefield filled with faults and fractures.

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An in-depth look at problematic elements of feminist and queer movements, with suggestions on how to address those issues.

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Essays on nature and place, blended with reflections on relationships and politics.

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In this thoughtful memoir, McBee recounts and confronts both childhood abuse and a more recent act of violence.

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When the death of her brother turns her family upside down, Egg tries to cope. Being Japanese-Canadian in a rural community, she is isolated, bullied...

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A vivid recollection of growing up as the child of Cuban immigrants in mid-century Miami.

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By examining the marriage equality successes, religious approaches to changes in gay acceptance, scientific research of homosexuality, and other areas of social change, Walters argues...

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The final work in the Tales of the City series focuses on the life of Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady, now in her 90s...

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Refreshing, brutally real poetry that is honest in its depiction of contemporary relationships and love.

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An engaging account of the shocking 1892 murder of a teenaged girl by her spurned lover, also a teenaged girl.

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Blow’s coming of age memoir is his personal account of family, homophobia, racism, and poverty growing up in the Deep South.

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74-year-old Barrington Jedidiah Walker, a member of Britain’s Caribbean community, is still trying to decide how to leave his wife of 50 years and move...

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Waters’s characters (where even the house takes on a quality of character) are vividly portrayed in this novel of post-WWI England. The newly impoverished Francis...

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Told in dual narratives, the journey of committed queers Diane and Suzy as Suzy transitions to Jacob illustrates their difficulties, as well as the rewards...

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Focusing on Chicago’s gayborhoods of Andersonville and Boystown, Ghaziani looks at the origins of these enclaves and the impact on the future prospects, character, and...

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Three childhood friends reunite in rural New Zealand for a wedding and revisit haunting memories of growing up, after one of the friends has come...

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With great strength of the written and dramatic words, these three theatrical comedies of Xicana artist Adelina Anthony’s live work are outrageous and irreverent, honest...

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These thirteen well-documented essays outline the history of gay pulp fiction and the role it played in the lives of gay men through the 60’s...

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A collection of personal essays, song lyrics, and drawings recounting Coyote’s and Spoon’s lifelong experiences understanding and challenging gender.

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Waters’s characters (where even the house takes on a quality of character) are vividly portrayed in this novel of post-WWI England. The newly impoverished Francis...

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Writer Sylvia Case returns to Villa il Palmerino after her divorce to write a biography of Violet Paget, late 19th century writer, only to channel...

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Mock’s memoir describes her transition as a young, low-income, trans person of color.

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Well-documented and scholarly, these eleven essays shed light on the complex nature of sexuality, sexual practices and gender performance in Africa and dispute oversimplified tropes...

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When his identical twin brother and sister-in-law are killed in Israel in a horrific terrorist attack, Daniel is left to fulfill their wishes and raise...

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Bass makes the ordinary extraordinary with images of love and nature which illuminate what one sees differently.

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A graphic anthology of 33 different contributors telling stories of first dates, rejection, dreams, passions and what “queer” means to them

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Harris’s essays recount growing up gay in the Bible belt of Oklahoma, his search for fame on the music and Broadway stage, his battle with...

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These poems of Boy, growing up gay and African American in the South, are complicated, horrific, and metaphoric.

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74-year-old Barrington Jedidiah Walker, a member of Britain’s Caribbean community, is still trying to decide how to leave his wife of 50 years and move...

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Chapters in this memoir alternate between Theall’s memories of growing up queer and Catholic and her decisions about religion as she and her partner raise...

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Academic yet accessible, McCune takes to task the media’s contemporary discourse on the “down low” by examining the issue through interviews and surveys of 60...

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A collection of photographs and conversations with trans women in contemporary Cuba.

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Using his life as the subject, Xavier reflects on his past as well as his present state, looking at love, sex, family, writing, and life.

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Simple comics illustrate the moments when a series of young women realize that they also love women.

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Using the lives of Michael Callen, gay activist and singer, and Essex Hemphill, Black gay activist and poet, Duberman traces the history of the AIDS...

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A vivid recollection of growing up as the child of Cuban immigrants in mid-century Miami.

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Set against the backdrop of Florence in the 15th Century, Luca, writing from prison, tells the life of his half brother Agnolo, who is Donatello’s...

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A detailed look at the life, family, work, and loves of renowned playwright Tennessee Williams.

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Based on extensive archival research and 130 interviews conducted nationwide, this book documents the stories of lesbian mothers and gay fathers from the 1950s to...

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This collection of photographs shows an unexpected glimpse of same-sex couples in the early 20th century.

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These poems of Boy, growing up gay and African American in the South, are complicated, horrific, and metaphoric.

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This brief collection of three short comics tells of queer women who express themselves through their music and dance.

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WNBA player recounts a childhood and college basketball career in a homophobic environment.

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After 15-year-old Theo comes out at a school assembly, he asks his straight friend Wesley who is living with his gay father and lover to...

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Two perspectives -- one from a teenage girl and the other from her coming-out father -- make this a rich view into the lives of...

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Although LGBT rights suffered reversals during the last half of the 20th century and the first 11 years of this one, the progress has been...

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A polyamorous transman married to another transman who delivered their love child writes about the fluidity of gender and relationships.

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A family’s carefully constructed facade intended to protect their intersex child falls apart when he is the victim of a violent crime.

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This highly accessible book with accompanying CD covers just about every legal facet for LGBT people... valuable for everyone in the community.

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Youth, angst, lesbian bars, emoticons, and lost girlfriends -- these are a few of the issues that the poet navigates in this slim volume.

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Chaos reigns amidst a myriad of characters as dyke Detective Rebecca Feldblum, with the help of her straight sidekick, navigates the kinky world of sex...

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This unflatteringly portrayal of gay American author John Horne Burns (1916-1953) from his early prep school experiences through teaching at a boarding school and military...

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A female-bodied person telling of her identification with gay men and exploring other girlfags in the past addresses the question, "Do you want to be...

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A half-century of writings showing the historian's perspectives on the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and economics includes part of his 1993 book, Stonewall.

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Luis Negron transcribes Telemundo into print through witty, humorous, satirical stories that capture the Puerto Rican’s view of the world.

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Nine authors explore the evolving supportive same-sex policies in Latin America through case studies set in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and Central America.

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Inspired by and dedicated to Tyler Clementi, this poetry tells of LGBT bullying and suicide.

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This often comic collection of short stories focuses on working class Canadian characters whose sexually is often fluid.

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These memoirs illuminate the generation that came of age in the early 90’s, grew up with AIDS, sought change and created a radical queer community.

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Invited to speak at Tel Aviv University, the activist/novelist discovered and joined the Palestinian academic and cultural boycott of Israel as she explored the reasons...

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In the tradition of framing devotional images, these 13 essays honor those people who influenced the gay author's lifework and give hope to a future...

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Lesbians in China struggle between their same-sex desire and the need to conform to traditional family life in a country that restricts women's rights.

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This classic graphic read includes new material and the powerful, never-before-duplicated, realistic coloring of the artist.

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After the death of her free-spirited mother, Alysia is brought up by her gay father, poet and activist Steven Abbott.

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The rich vignettes about events and people of just one state, "queer... since the very beginning," tie in people from around the world who visited...

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Angry, witty, humorous poems use a gay voice to speak of everyday actions.

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An anthology of poems on the struggles and connections made in the classroom comes from the intersection of personal identity, teaching, and learning.

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A historical look at the growth of marriage equality acceptance through key speeches from Harvey Milk in 1977 to Bill Clinton's March 2013 speech includes...

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Clementine, a high school junior, finds an expected love for a young woman, but the relationship is made difficult because of Clem's homophobic family and...

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Starting at the age of 21, the author celebrated three decades of summers on an isolated Greek island where he bloomed as an artist and...

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With humor and poignant clarity, the author blends the rocky path of deciding marriage plans with his psychiatrist partner, Mike Combs, in 2010 with a...

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Poetry highlights personal and revealing experiences of a gay man of color.

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Chronological and comprehensive in scope, the editors document the wide expanse of queer cultural expressions that oppose normative heterosexuality from 1885 through the present.

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For over a half century, the author of the epic poem Howl fought conformity and capitalization in the world through his contacts with hundreds of...

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Episodic vignettes describe the author's pain-filled life between the age of two, when her mother told her that her father was dead, to the pursuit...

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From her childhood in a strict Presbyterian home and her crush on another young girl to her rejection for being a lesbian, Barth searches for...

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A collection of comics covers the range and nuances of bisexuality, showcasing the discrimination bisexuals face from both the gay and straight communities.

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During the 19th century, Scottish nobleman Stewart traveled from Murthly Castle in Perthshire to a wild life with other hunters and explorers living in freedom...

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Sensual without being erotic, these works are youthful, fresh, and filled with a sense of place.

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Color and b/w photographs flaunt gay and transgender men and women, mostly Latino and black, as they express their electric, effervescent selves.

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Various people in Munro's life describe their relationships with the man who brought together the queer world of Toronto through his career as DJ, activist...

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With minimal text, this graphic novel follows main character Julio from cradle to grave, illustrating how the gay experience has changed drastically over 100 years.

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As the editor wrote in his introduction, "the other man" comes, he sees, he conquers, and leaves behind something akin to a lingering, twenty-four hour...

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Chronological and comprehensive in scope, the editors document the wide expanse of queer cultural expressions that oppose normative heterosexuality from 1885 through the present.

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This compilation of intelligent, thought-provoking essays by film essayist and critic place the new queer cinema movement in its cultural/historical context.

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Young, smart poetry that begs to be spoken rather than read, shines a spotlight on everyday gay insecurities, desires, situations, pets, and sickness.

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Lust mixes with brutality when urban Tom attends the rural funeral of his lover and finds himself caught in the dysfunctional lives and expectations of...

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As a voice from both the past and the present, a man in his 70s shares his gay experiences and insights.

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The Cuban-American, Catholic-reared author reveals the angst of her youth in her combined text and art memoir that describes failure to fit into her culture...

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Searching for her family roots, the author leaves her city life in Minneapolis during her thirties to return to the family farm in North Dakota...

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In this creative, non-linear narrative, Borich traces the real, imagined, future, and past "maps" of families, cities, and lovers which intersect in Borich’s life.

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Pena investigates the changes in the Cuban ethnic and sexual community of Miami since the arrival of the male homosexual “undesirables” of the 1980 Mariel...

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A mature voice speaks to memory of the past loves, present feelings, and hopeful desires.

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A young woman, Theo, tries to get a new start in New York City where a new relationship starts her on the right path, but...

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The author's love affair with his partner Nikos Stangos for over 40 years provides the foundation of Plante's revelations during the first 20 years as...

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This examination of bisexual politics covers issues of biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism including the problems of labeling this sexual orientation/gender identity.

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Blog entries by the author about rearing two sons–the younger gender nonconforming–and maintaining their self-esteem begins with Duron’s discovery that C.J. wants only girl things...

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The culturally-rich poems from a queer, Samoan American bring the Samoan culture to life and point out the dichotomy of Fa'a Fafine, third-gendered life in...

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A transsexual man uses a variety of forms–letters, stories, interviews–to address different facets of his life.

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Feminist, survivor, queer identity, sex-worker -- these are the pieces of Dawn's life that guide her experiences on the streets of Vancouver and provide a...

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In a cut-and-paste novel, the author tells about his life, his boyfriend, his son, and his son's mother through single sentences taken from over 500...

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Photographs and text offer insight into the “gay” childhood of individuals across the globe.

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Although much attention has been paid to marriage equality in the nation's higher, state courts have been the catalyst that moved same-sex marriage forward, especially...

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Sex columnist Savage addresses a range of issues including same-sex marriage, monogamy, guns, health care, religion and even death in an often humorous and personal...

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Seven short stories set in the famous watering hole just south of El Paso on Avenida Juarez reflect the connecting place for Saenz's characters from...

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Highly closeted during his friendship with the openly out gay poet, Rumaker reflects on the North Beach literary culture after the publication of Howl but...

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Poems celebrate the heart of gay sex in all its forms.

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Providing a powerful transgender voice throughout the novel, Maria Griffiths, a trans woman in New York who finds her life unraveling, steals a car and...

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From rural Arkansas to leader of the band Gossip, this feisty, fat, sexually-confused lesbian-to-be nerd fights her way through a mental breakdown with humor and...

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Conclusions from interviews with queer youth and their allies in the Toronto area show the faults of the Canadian safe-school legislation and recommend effective strategies...

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Essays on gay love, sex, suicide, writers and writing, the diaspora of Caribbean peoples, and the love of Jamaica (with all of its faults) are...

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Comprehensive in scope and content, this history of GLBT print media incorporates interviews and essays by leaders in the field to trace the mainstream’s handling...

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The path of the legalization of federal marriage equality has been filled with political, legal, and culture issues.

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This collection of poems takes the reader through the author's experience as a gay child, adolescent, and adult in the southern United States.

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Winterson's painful childhood presided over by her difficult adoptive mother is followed by her search for and eventual reunion with her birth mother.

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Through her radical activism in gay rights and women's liberation of the 1970s, Córdova's personal life comes in conflict with her passion for changing the...

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Wilson's memoir explores her complex relationship with her mother, first as a child growing up in the shadow of a parent's mental illness and later...

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Bi-sexual William Dean Abbott narrates the stories of eccentric and lovable people covering a wide range of sexual identities who live in First Sister, Vermont.

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Seefried, an Air Force officer and cofounder of OutServe, collects the diverse personal accounts of LGBT men and women who served in the United States...

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Meet the trapped spirit of a sorceress who loved a queen, an editor who discovers her former lover is now the guardian of an ancient...

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The harassment and discrimination of LGBT students in schools and steps to implement positive change in the school’s culture toward LGBT students, including Gay/Straight Alliances...

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This companion to the exhibition of the same name at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art brings together work from 27 artists and poets...

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Short, honest vignettes describe the author's life growing up in rural Canada and finding a life in Vancouver (BC) beginning with "Kid I Was" and...

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Wahls' memoir about growing up with his lesbian mothers explains how their value system helped him to mature into a superb pro-LGBT activist.

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When Dawit, a poor but educated, gay, undocumented immigrant from Ethiopia after the fall of the Emperor, finds himself in Paris and befriended by M...

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Concise and well-documented accounts of the committed unions of same-sex couples (seven lesbian and eight gay) show the impact that these unions had on each...

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Broke and newly diagnosed with HIV, children's book author Davis Garner takes a job as a technical writer on a research mission to Antarctica, where...

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This collection of ten short stories explores coming of age, sexuality, and encounters with the fantastic, in our world and time and others.

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A highly readable and colorfully detailed account of the presence and visibility of LGBT people in Chicago from before its founding as a trading post...

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Brickell combined images of men taken by New Zealand photographer Robert Gant in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with biographical information and historical commentary on...

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Stories and poems of coming out, enduring, and overcoming by gay Asian, Latino and African American men speak of racism, sexual abuse, religion, HIV, and...

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The author tells in prose and art how his childhood dream of magic in a storybook garden comes true when he buys a home on...

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Before the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason, the gay man had a long history of trying to help...

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This account of supportive parents in coming to terms with their son’s gayness in elementary and middle school and his eventual coming out includes history...

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Carr follows the controversial artist's life through the culture wars of the 1980s and early 1990s.

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In 1927 Paris, a young American woman named Rafaela meets and agrees to pose nude for artist Tamara de Lempicka; this story of love, desire...

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At seventeen, a girl's answer to a single question – Do I dare to eat a peach? – sends her life down three very different...

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Four distinct LGBT organizations in Namibia and South Africa develop strategies of visibility or invisibility on various issues due to differing support or opposition within...

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Following Tim Lawrence's brief introduction to the culture of voguing, Regnault combines interviews of participants with evocative photos in a visual history of drag balls...

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A butch lesbian recounts her trials in her effort to get pregnant.

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This collection features twelve poets who detail diverse aspects of lesbian life.

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This novel of the Trojan War relates the story of Patroclus' love for the great warrior Achilles.

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In this first volume of his biography, Sykes covers gay artist Hockney's early life, years in art school, and his work, relationships, and life in...

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In this graphic memoir, writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel recounts her fraught relationship with her mother, as well as other significant female relationships, with musings...

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In this first volume of their adventures, all-gay superhero team Spandex faces super villains, pink ninjas, a fifty-foot lesbian, relationship issues, and secrets that may...

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This comprehensive and authoritative look at LGBT youth in our schools evaluates the research and analyses laws designed to protect these students.

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After teenage Sebastien Faure goes to live with a French aristocrat, despite the objections of his lover's mother, things do not go well because of...

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After fathering three children during her 25-year marriage, the author transitions and keeps teaching in an Orthodox Jewish school of higher learning.

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One hundred gay poets pay homage to the women that they admire.

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This fictionalized autobiography of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov spans the early days in pre-revolutionary Russia through the middle of World War II.

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Thirty-two mothers -- diverse in age, ethnic background, class, sexual orientation, and national origin -- describe their experiences and feelings when they discovered that their...

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In 1987, June Elbus, 14, overcomes her misery at the loss of her beloved artist uncle, Finn Weiss, by making friends with the uncle's lover...

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Discharged from West Point under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Kate Kane fights crime in Gotham City as Batwoman, this time dealing with a new relationship...

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In highly accessible language, the author traces the events leading up to, throughout, and following the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down U.S. sodomy...

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After surviving in the trenches of France during World War I, Tristan, under the premise of returning letters to the sister of his dead friend...

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Lynch details her life as a lesbian and her experiences in her education, theater, and entertainment career.

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These essays challenge gay mainstream culture, traditional masculine ideals, classism, racism, consumerism, and the desire for assimilation.

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A non-linear narrative of transgendered memories about growing up queer in a Pentecostal family with a psychologically disturbed father attests to the strength of surviving...

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These essays explore love, sex, and interpersonal relationships from the perspectives of transgender, genderqueer, and other gender-variant individuals

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Discontent is the theme that ties together these nine short stories–sometimes funny and other times poignant–in which the protagonists explore the issues of sexuality, rituals...

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International in scope, these biographies of over 70 gays and lesbians throughout history from ancient societies to the twenty-first century portray their lives and the...

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In this look at male-to-female and female-to-male cross-dressing and cross-dressers in the American frontier at the turn of the 20th century, Boag challenges the myths...

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Bessan concubines fight to regain their city and establish a democracy of women artists and craftswomen.

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As Mason copes with her mother's dying, she explores her relationship with her mother, the lives of the females in her family, and the toll...

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A collection of the author’s speeches addresses a wide spectrum of issues including racism, women’s health, family issues, economic justice, youth, the prison system, and...

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This fictionalized memoir about gay love lost and coming to terms with that loss within an Arab sensibility moves among settings in Morocco, Paris, and...

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The stories behind sexual research studies relate its problems, politics, and personalities, the misuse of findings, the assumptions regarding bias of the researchers, and the...

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Powerful, lyric poetry paints wonderfully brutal, sexual (LGBT), racial, and steamy pictures, mostly set in rural areas and the South.

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Conversations with Allison regarding her writings, her process of writing, her heroes, and her life demonstrate her feminist beliefs and lesbian relationships.

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One of the largest surveys in the U.S. on gender development and identity among transexuals, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals demonstrates a movement to a more...

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During the 1987 economic recession, wealthy Jason Prosper changes private schools following the suicide of his friend and lover, but the new school brings more...

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This new edition of the classic work contains Miller's original New York Times Magazine essay and 1971 afterward, with a new forward, afterward, and appendices.

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Thirty interviews show how lesbian life is defined by the interrelationship of urban density, regulatory issues, political and cultural organizations, social justice issues, and the...

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Jack's love of his straight best friend is never consummated, but the sexual tension is always on the back burner.

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The founder of Servicemember United, the largest organization of gay and lesbian service members, documents the battle to repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ legislation.

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Essays and memoirs from a culturally and racially diverse group of LGBT writers document the role NYC has played in their lives–a true love letter...

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Now 80, the author looks back on his life as “the biggest homosexual in Iowa” when he was sixteen, through two straight marriages, four children...

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During the past four decades, court cases surrounding the attempts of LGBT parents in the United States to legally keep their children have shifted the...

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A wife and mother in contemporary Los Angeles is forced to evaluate her beliefs when her Hindu husband falls in love with a single Muslim...

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In this collection of short essays, human rights activist Mixner writes about his brief retreat from the wider world, living in his country home in...

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The first, openly gay Episcopal bishop makes a case for gay marriage as he addresses the arguments that are usually supplied by anti-gay marriage advocates...

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In post-Katrina New Orleans, private investigator Micky Knight investigates a company selling natural remedies to the desperately ill, with potentially fatal results, while Micky's female...

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Using letters from ONE magazine, the first openly gay publication in the United States, Lofton analyzes how gay men and lesbians coped with the discrimination...

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Hall brings together an overwhelming variety of queer-themed comics written and drawn by western artists over the past forty years.

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In a hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, transgender author Bornstein recounts growing up Jewish in New Jersey, joining and breaking with the Church of Scientology as adult...

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Biographies of diverse gay men (king, painter, bathhouse owner, and blogger) against the backdrop of the cultural history of Singapore, Bali and Bangkok show how...

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Henry is a very talented college baseball shortstop whose openly gay roommate and teammate is having a secret affair with the college president.

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Often humorous and anecdotal, the memoir, written from Price's diaries, documents the time from 1961-1965 as the author publishes his first work, pursues gay affairs...

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Twenty-eight original stories provide differing transgender perspectives by U.S. and Canadian authors.

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An honest and moving anthology of lesbian memoirs, essays, drama, and poetry examines the many political, social, familial, and human aspects of gay marriage.

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A memoir of love, passion, isolation, pain, and longing, largely set in the atmospheric backdrop of Manila during the People Power Revolution, examines the crossroads...

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Bram links biographies of prominent gay writers–Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, and Edmund White–by their relationships, their writing, and their...

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A collection of works from thirty-six established and emerging writers in genres as varied as poetry, memoir, and fiction whose voices speak to the experience...

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Seamus transports his lover's ashes across the United States on a road trip that will lead to many eye-opening encounters and may ultimately cost him...

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Schulman weaves together the history of the gentrification of New York City neighborhoods in the years following the AIDS crisis with the current ongoing gentrification...

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Interrelated short stories told in first person by different narrators create a loose plot and feature a number of LGBT characters.

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Issues regarding intersex individuals and transsexuals include medical treatment protocol for intersex infants, legal action in relationship to marriage, the ability to change one’s sex...

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A series of vignettes featuring Mari, a writer, and Jonna, an artist, two women who live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, likely...

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Three people -- Sheriff Tom Rabbit, boy Tim Randall, and ex-Nazi Ernst Lange -- tell about the events that took place in Barnard, Texas, during...

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Includes every episode of Cruse’s groundbreaking comic strip Wendel, which ran in the pages of The Advocate during the 1980s, together for the first time...

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In her third Rehoboth Beach collection, humorist Fay Jacobs joins Twitter, survives the Snowpocalypse, and sort of witnesses the Obama inauguration, among other hilarious adventures.

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Meet a greenmage reuniting with her former partner for one last mission, a school nurse with a dark secret heritage, a witch with an unconventional...

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This comprehensive book about this important Indian photographer’s major works to date, including contemporary sexuality, gender, and gay life in India and other locales, documents...

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This inspiring coffee-table-style collection of photos and essays covers both beloved lesbian icons and the not-so-famous.

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A companion to the popular “It Gets Better” Internet campaign, and featuring a list of resources for teens and adults, this collection of essays and...

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Following Barack Obama from his early career as a young Chicago politician through his first two years as President of the United States, this book...

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Harvey tells the story of the battle for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts through the lens of his own relationship, chronicling his transformation from quiet bystander...

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In these ten stories, Ziya, a Turkish gay man, explains his life history, including a childhood growing up in Istanbul and college years in America...

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This companion volume to an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, follows the impact of gay and lesbian artists on American art from...

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Michaud combines extensive research, interviews, and rarely-seen photographs to provide a detailed account of Mineo's life, from his rise to teen-idol stardom, through his tumultuous...

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During the Cold War, Americans’ ideas about lesbianism changed, and rather than the masculine butch, the “invisible” femme, who could more easily pass as heterosexual...

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This comprehensive collection of essays, drawn from oral histories dating back to the turn of the century, covers a wide variety of aspects of this...

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A gay man in the near future has a series of life-changing birthdays, a cell phone salesman meets Pol Pot's daughter, a film writer discovers...

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Magnificent images and riveting narratives document the lives of 140 gay men from diverse environments across the United States in a celebration of men-loving-men lives.

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Now a lesbian rabbi, Myers, who grew up Lutheran on Long Island with a Sicilian grandmother, tells about her journey to Judaism and her definition...

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Leaving an unsuccessful writing career and his friends sickened by AIDS in New York, middle-aged Martin Owenby returns home to a small town in the...

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A developmental and clinical psychologist, Ehrensaft draws upon her years of working with gender-nonconforming children to offer an alternate approach to the current pathologicalization of...

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After Satchin Rai refuses to take over his father’s tea successful tea business and chooses instead to become an ornithologist at a bird sanctuary in...

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A former United Methodist minister and human rights activist, Jimmy Creech’s memoir begins when a longtime and respected parishioner comes out to the pastor in...

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Fifteen Victorian retro-science fiction featuring lesbian heroines as scientists, thieves, privateer airship captains, and more.

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Photographer Tomoaki Hata pulls the drag scene of 1990’s Osaka, Japan out of its secretive underground world for the world to see in all of...

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Whether it’s celebrating Easter with an engineer father with some very unconventional ideas about hiding eggs, or throwing a birthday party for Barbie, Rouse’s memoir...

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Jeffrey is an aging rent boy with a serious drug habit; Randal is the meth-using son of the founder of a major movie studio. When...

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Written by a clinical social worker, this accessible and compassionate guide provides concrete and detailed information for parents on how they can understand and support...

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In 1913, George Sawle brings his schoolmate and secret lover, the poet Cecil Valence, home to meet his family. The poem Cecil writes in George’s...

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Sex-positive educator, activist, and icon Susie Bright takes the reader on a journey through her childhood, teen years shaped by a difficult early involvement with...

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In this collection, Berman highlights the very best of the year in science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories focusing on gay men.

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Collecting over fifty first-person accounts, poems, and stories from members of the Radical Faeries, the spiritual movement founded by gay activist Harry Hay in the...

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This well-researched biography of Vito Russo solidly establishes him as a pioneering journalist and gay activist during the era of gay activism of the 60’s...

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An amazing myriad of characters trying to help each other are linked through proximity: Suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, restaurant-owner Paul prepares for his suicide...

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This historical overview makes the case that, despite some legal gains in recent years, LGBTQ people continue to face alarming discrimination and violence when interacting...

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Nine stories told from the perspective of second- and third-generation South Asian-American gay men at odds with their families' culture and expectations, describing their lives...

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The celebrated cabaret artist and performer recounts a childhood filled with blurring gender boundaries, sexual exploration, and the harsh reality of bullying.

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In a post-apocalyptic world ruled by demon magic, Deryn, a member of the Iron Wolf mercenary group, and Alana, a healer and empath forced into...

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A companion to the popular “It Gets Better” Internet campaign, and featuring a list of resources for teens and adults, this collection of essays and...

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In this debut novel, Maize and Robbie form a deep and powerful bond in high school and are inseparable friends as adults. Their complicated relationship...

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This three-volume collection of essays analyzes the unique impact that LGBT people have had on popular culture, dating from 1800s up to the present day...

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Asher is the beautifully androgynous new boy in school. Eu is the lonely dyke girl who befriends, and soon finds herself falling for, Ash, in...

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This biography of Chicago bar owner, leatherman, entrepreneur, and gay rights activist Renslow features over 300 full-color photographs and interviews with family, colleagues, and friends.

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In the near future, when the last of a dying alien race seeks refuge on Earth, Specialists Gwen Pierson and Basil Grey make Kalp, their...

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When Radek, a bisexual artist who creates miniature replicas of infamous urban fires, meets Dorota, a fellow pyromaniac, the two join together to protest homophobia...

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When twenty-year-old Charulata Apte accepts a teaching position at the British-run Miss Timmins’ School for Girls in Panchgani, she doesn’t anticipate falling in love with...

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Bob Smith’s comic imagination takes on the 1980s, in this clever science fiction novel that explores what happens when your physicist boyfriend invents a time...

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The Portuguese poet António Botto, one of that country's first openly gay writers, first published his collection Canções in 1920. This edition features Botto's poems...

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Twenty years after the publication of Joan Nestle's The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Coyote and Sharman continue the conversation of lesbian butches and femmes...

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This volume of the popular Love and Rockets series contains the continuing adventures of Maggie and Hopey as they revisit the past and explore the...

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Writing with and as Esther Garber, a fictional French Jewish writer, and her brother Judas Garbah, a French-Egyptian writer, both siblings gay and born in...

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Lives diverge and intersect as the novel follows young Ted Bridges, a law school dropout struggling with his sexual identity and sense of self as...

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Still undecided about going full-time as a private investigator, Jane Lawless takes some time off at her family’s lakeside lodge where she and her friend...

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Twenty-year-old Christian White moves to San Francisco, then New York, where he indulges in drugs and sex to try to escape a dysfunctional family and...

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A broad range of voices, experiences and spiritual paths and traditions are represented in this collection of poems from both established and new poets.

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Told from the point of view of the family dog, this novella about the romance between Argentinian Lala and her maid Guayi takes a strange...

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In 1968, when a baby both male and female is born to a rural Canadian couple, the child’s father makes a decision to raise the...

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This high fantasy novel, sequel to Companion of Wolves, further explores an iron-age world in which northern warriors link minds with their companion wolves to...

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Interwoven with the story of Richard Wagner’s opera, Tristan and Isolde, this sweeping novel connects four seemingly unrelated characters over centuries and continents through a...

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In the fifth installment of this series, Detective Lane returns to solve the murder of an Eastern European war criminal while also fighting for his...

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With each story told from a different character’s point of view, in this collection revolving around two brothers and their Russian father living in New...

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A woman confesses her darkest secret to novelist Henry James, a gay man attends to his dying aunt, two Pakistani workers find love and violence...

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In this slim but powerful volume of poetry, Ocean Vuong lays bare the wounds of the refugee experience and its effect on today’s generation alongside...

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In 1999, Yeros began a collection of photographs inspired by the works of Greek poet C.P. Cavafy. This gorgeous coffee table book presents Yeros’ photographs...

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In this gender-blending Southern-gothic tale, an infant adopted by two "sisters" (actually brothers) grows up and leads a fascinating life, encountering such fascinating people as...

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In this sequel to contemporary fantasy novel Black Blade Blues, Sarah Beauxhall, blacksmith, wielder of the reforged magical sword Gram, and dragon-slayer returns with her...

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When Benji Steiner, a twenty-seven-year-old Jewish gay man, forms an unlikely friendship with elderly Orthodox Rabbi Jacob Zuckerman, the connection results in surprising new revelations...

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In this sequel to First You Fall, Kevin Connors turns his sleuthing skills to a string of murders among his fellow male prostitutes. The secrets...

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To [examine] history though the lens of those groups whose stories have been excluded from the canon this first book in a series uses primary...

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Two siblings trespass against each other emotionally and physically in a disagreement over their family’s property in the south of France. Anthony Verey, an unsuspecting...

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Highlights both established and emerging Latino authors of short fiction with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters from all parts of the United States.

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Photographer Rebecca Swan presents intimate portraits of twenty-five individuals from a variety of cultures who exist outside of traditional gender identities. This collection features Swan’s...

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Growing up within a very conservative Dutch Reform Church family in South Africa, Nicholas learns to survive in a world where he faces scorn for...

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A gay man in the near future has a series of life-changing birthdays, a cell phone salesman meets Pol Pot's daughter, a film writer discovers...

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Instead of a personal problem, "familial homophobia," whether lgtbq people are in a straight or gay family/community, is a cultural crisis; the solution is for...

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After her mentally unstable mother attempts suicide, 13-year-old Jesse's ineffectual father moves the family to a rural village in the North of England where she...

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The lives of lesbian restaurateur Jane Lawless and her niece are endangered by the return of Hart's ex-husband -- who turns out not to be...

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Shunned by family and friends after succumbing to a mysterious plague, the afflicted spend their last days in a former beauty salon, tended by an...

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This memoir of nontraditional parenting covers a lesbian's journey through artificial insemination, pregnancy, delivery, and the beginning of a new family, with all of its...

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After Liv saves Claire's son from drowning, the two women fall in love, but their relationship turns tumultuous as Claire grieves the death of her...

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From the author's self-involved childhood ruled by wealthy self-centered parents through his relationship with an atheist dying of AIDS, Burroughs uses his wry wit to...

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For Seamus O'Grady, only his friendship with Tressa and his dream of escaping to London to live like punk-rocker Johnny Rotten, keep his life from...

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The introductory Zen proverb, "Fall down seven times, get up eight," reflects the spirit of Dumesnil's passionate poems that celebrate life, past and present, in...

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By turns comic and tragic, this gay love story follows two men, one a successful English poet fleeing a scandal and the other a feral...

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Gender identity and Jewish identity intersect in these poignant, humorous essays reflecting the transmutations of the author from butch and husband of a woman to...

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A few weeks after open-heart surgery, Adrien English, who lives above his Cloak and Dagger Bookstore, hears someone trying to break into his apartment. Then...

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Characters in these jewel-like short stories set in an impoverished section of New Orleans come together over a 20-year period as a teenager gives up...

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Frustration and secrecy marked the life of famous author E.M. Forster whose gay sexual orientation was not widely known until the 1970 posthumous publication of...

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The child Elijah brings together his family who have been estranged by a series of disasters.

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Lesbian shapeshifter, Ayla Hammond, returns home to mend fences with her parents and solve a missing persons case while she debates whether she wants to...

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Seven essays written between 2002 and 2009 move from a search for the grave of Castle's great-uncle, who died in World War I, to a...

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After being expelled from a pretentious prep school, wealthy New York teen Arthur MacDougal finds himself attending a down-at-heels private school in the wilds of...

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Smart, sexy poems tell LGBT stories about the political and the sensuous from street demonstrations to bedroom romps.

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In these short stories accompanied by poignant, sometimes abstract, illustrations, a young boy chronicles his confusion about sexuality, gender, race, religion, and belonging as he...

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In New Orleans, lovers Ricky and G-man overcome their families' attempts to separate them, learn to cook, and find that the problems of running a...

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Following Hurricane Katrina's destruction of her beloved New Orleans, private investigator Micky Knight tries to put her life back in order, but at loose ends...

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For the last four years of Norman Mailer's life in Provincetown, Raymond, a gay man, was his personal assistant, a job that covered researching, cooking...

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Richard Rossi's discovery of a text message revealing his partner Conrad's affair leads Rossi into a world of confusion and pain despite his own affair...

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From a master storyteller and performer come these funny, wistful tales about growing up in the Canadian north as a lesbian butch, examining others, and ...

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The lives of Chicago gays from street kids to the high-powered movers and shakers form the background to this collection of writings that addresses the...

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Thirteen tales of Mormon men struggling with their gay desires range from a young LDS man stripping to his Mormon underwear in public to a...

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Love, lust, religion, race, sadness, and memory are the focus of these sometimes raw but always honest poems, both personal and universal, that make the...

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Rather than the snobbish misanthrope people believed Waugh to be, Byrne describes him as loving and complex, a nature that shaped his famous novel Brideshead...

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In the sweltering Chicago summer of 1965, lesbian Chan Parker–tall, handsome, and Black–decides to leave the mob and go legit as a private detective. With...

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This award-winning playwright tells the moving and funny story of his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant and his struggles as...

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Middle-aged Andy Nocera didn't expect to come out as a gay man during an anonymous tryst at an Interstate rest area, but his arrest led...

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Peter's "ideal" life with his wife, Rebecca, in Manhattan's SoHo is turned upside down when Rebecca's beautiful 23-year-old brother comes for a visit.

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A melange of essays, commentary, comic art, and conversation reflects the diverse group of trans-spectrum transpeople, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals who follow barrier-breaking lives.

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Linda's life in Boiling Springs (NC) and her relationship with her family and friends is affected by her synesthesia, a condition in which she experiences...

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Bisexual Moirin, devoted servant of the goddess of desire, crosses Tatar territory to find Bao, who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine...

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Singer-song writer and producer of the groundbreaking 1973 Lavender Jane Loves Women, Dobkin chronicles her life living as a child and an adult under FBI...

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Before World War I, poet Rupert Brooke woos a variety of women, including housemaid Nell Golightly, and loses his virginity to a male friend. Distressed...

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When Jennifer Towers is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decode the artwork and infiltrate the underground graffiti culture to...

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Career lows, an adopted cat from hell, drag queens, a mother with wiseacre chutzpah, and coming out to Grandma are only a few of the...

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In Vietnam, a twenty-something Japanese woman and teacher named Hiro falls in love with her student, Yun, in their first woman-to-woman love affair, but Yun...

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Donoghue traces the history of lesbian literary passion from ancient times to the present, discussing "texts in which the attraction between women is undeniably there...

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Complexities of lesbian love, sex, and spirituality are highlighted in Grahn's fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction in this assemblage that spans the past 45 years.

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Divorced Maggie pursues Vivian while both Hopey and Ray pursue Maggie. The focus of these graphic vignettes is a variety of colorful characters including Maggie's...

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As society teeters on the brink of magical ruin and revolution, government hostage negotiator Will Forest interrogates Astrid Lethewood, whose ability to enchant ordinary objects...

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Known as a plain and simple Regionalist painter, most famously of the pitchfork-wielding farmer and his dour companion in American Gothic, Grant Wood is anything...

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Recuperating at his father's small-town Vermont home after a car accident, photographer Burke Crenshaw finds himself drawn into a mystery of a Civil War infantryman...

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Explore the issues surrounding gender-neutral marriage, backed by analysis of data from several countries and the personal stories of couples from the Netherlands.

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Best known for her novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith published 32 other books and wrote over 8000 pages of autobiography during her tormented...

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The Southern Gothic -- and sometimes violent -- plots of these gems trace the people of a fictional Shenandoah Valley town for 30 years beginning...

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In preparing this collection of 100 photographs, Page Hodel, a San Francisco DJ used a diversity of objects, organic and otherwise, to create one heart...

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A radio program that began as a six-week experiment in Columbia (SC) is now a weekly half hour that has run continuously since October 9...

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Hot, steamy New Orleans nights bring out vampires, succubi, and other netherworld predators who connect with the–temporarily–living, in stories of love, death, and the "living...

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In an alternate universe reminiscent of India during its final days as a British colony, bisexual adventurer Valentine Strange and witch Aleister Grimshaw develop a...

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Was he gay or not? No one told, not even his four wives, but he wore eye makeup, had "close" relationships with other men, and...

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The 20-year relationship between Robbie and Carlo falls apart when a strange young man mysteriously comes into their lives and then dies.

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Among the many legal battles surrounding LGBT rights, five U.S. cases have changed history.

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The day that Matthew Shepard, a young student at the University of Wyoming, was violently attacked and left for dead was a turning point for...

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In this tongue-in-cheek novel of the 1950s, Roberta Blanchard, forced to leave the glamorous field of professional hockey, finds a job at a private high...

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Voices of current homeless LGBTQ youth (currently 40% of the homeless youth in the U.S.) blend with older people who also share their stories of...

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Twenty journeys, both fictional and actual, span the globe of the heart as often as through geography.

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In this wicked universe, a boy transforms into lightning and illuminates his emerging sexuality, a nurse finds herself working in a retirement home for vampires...

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Fifteen linked short stories set in an alternate Earth meld magic and the mundane through the exploits of heroic and complex characters, including the intrepid...

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During Somerset Maugham's life, a blend of public accomplishment and privately whispered secrets, he produced literary masterpieces and wealth but ended in tragedy. [MB]

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At the end of her life, Nora Lynch has decided that she will die alone until she takes a young woman and her just-born daughter...

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A safe and supportive educational environment for all students is possible when people recognize the First Amendment right to express an identity and the Fourteenth...

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Steward -- author of both literature and gay erotic books, confidante of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, gay witness for Alfred Kinsey, shy sadomasochist and...

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The author weaves her experiences of teaching English and living overseas into these eleven short stories, which subtly explore the complexity of romantic and familial...

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A deaf man uses these poems to tell about the frustrations of his silent world when trying to communicate with other men.

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Following the Civil War, Pinkerton detective Ed Murrow infiltrates a renegade Confederate gang to investigate the hexslinging abilities of Rev. Asher Rook and his psychopathic...

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Norse mythology meets the Pacific Northwest in this tale of dragons posing as investment bankers, as lesbian blacksmith Sarah Beauhall battles demons both without and...

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After a stint as a nightclub drag queen, the author, with his successful advertising career, and his partner Brent Ridge, an ex-medical doctor turned Martha...

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Ambitious young banker Doug Fanning fights Charlotte Graves, a retired history teacher, for the right to build an ostentatious mansion on land that Graves' grandfather...

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Images of the muscular American male shown in popular culture from 1860 to 1970 demonstrate how masculine imagery has been used to sell everything from...

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The center of queer life over two tumultuous decades, White gossips about the rich and famous, artists, writers, and poets.

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Ivy-educated, HIV-positive African-American poet Yale Battle tells about his New York life from the innocent 80s through the World Trade Center's destruction as he is...

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After the death of Nikos Stangos from cancer in 2004, the author, his partner for almost 40 years, created an intimate, insightful memoir of Nikos's...

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Three skater bois live in The Creamsickle, a notorious run-down Victorian in the San Francisco’s Mission District, hopping from bed to bed in pursuit of...

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Returning to Saskatoon from a vacation in Hawaii after becoming engaged to Alex, private investigator Russell Quant finds himself hunted while investigating a mysterious treasure...

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In a near-future New York the charismatic mayor decrees that there will be no public advertising, no chain stores, and no homelessness. Citizens begin to...

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At the age of 20, Lord served in the U.S. Army during World War II, witnessing combat and atrocities in France and Germany and learning...

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Twenty-something part-time hustler, Simon, tells about his friends in contemporary Manhattan: boyfriend model Louis who becomes agoraphobic after a gay bashing, gorgeous Aiden who begins...

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Through letters and interviews, the author explores the romantic lives of Canadian lesbian upper-middle-class professionals from the first half of the twentieth century and lower-middle...

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The author of nine novels, including Gods and Monsters, has selected 17 essays written over the past 30 years that he says form an accidental...

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Dylan Rutledge, 18, believes that he will be the greatest composer in the rapidly approaching twentieth century, but his love (that dare not speak...

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After the "don't ask don't tell" policy forces Kate Kane out of West Point, she joins Batman and battles a crazed cult called the Religion...

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In England on business, master gardener Jo Bellamy investigates her beloved grandfather's recent suicide, discovering links to the Bloomsbury group, a World War II spy...

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Canadian PI Russell Quant goes undercover and explores the Middle East from Dubai glitz to the sand dunes of Saudi Arabia as he tries to...

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The vows of Micaela Campos, a Chicana lesbian cowgirl, to avenge the murder of her father and her younger siblings in the aftermath of the...

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The lives of author Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, best known as the subject of Ruth McKenney's My Sister Eileen, were short, but separately and...

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Shy Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore just coming out, develops a sexual relationship with a speech coach from a rival high school, only to...

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Gender-bending comedy pieces debate who owns a body -- self, family, or community -- and struggle with the age-old issue of gender categorization.

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In this fictional account, American poet Elizabeth Bishop and her Brazilian lover, architect Lota de Macedo Soares, lead a tumultuous life against the uncertain political...

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Seventy poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet's growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys...