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The American Boys project is an in-depth photographic book of young Americans across the country united through their expression of trans masculine gender identity.American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the...

As a gay man living in London and working as a nutritionist, Daniel O'Shaughnessy knows that the LGBTQ+ community has specific dietary and health needs.He works with individuals on matters you might expect: weight loss and muscle gain, addiction,...

An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them...

On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning...

States of Liberation examines gay persecution and liberation in both East and West Germany during the Cold War.States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering...

A guide to the music and multifaceted career of Canadian artists and songwriters Tegan and Sara.Through interviews with Tegan and Sara, their collaborators, journalists, and fans, this book explores the multifaceted career of one of music's most...

Garry Wotherspoon'sGay Sydney: A Historyis an updated version of his 1991 classic,City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since...

Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream - largely due to the intense,...

The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and...

Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognise that...

In a series of journal entries-some original passages, others revisited and expanded in retrospect-Cherri Moraga details her experiences with pregnancy, birth, and the early years of lesbian parenting.With the premature birth of her son-when HIV-related...

Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community's maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he's learned.In the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the...

Bobbie Scopa spent close to five decades working through nearly every challenge a firefighter can face.Scopa was a strike team leader for the Dude Fire in 1990, where six firefighters were tragically killed, and she served at Ground Zero immediately...

Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation.Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in...

'Never Silentis a gorgeous book . . .Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world.' - Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright ofAngels in...

A Mexican immigrant and rising star within the Christian community abandons his faith and comes out as a gay atheistIn this exceptionally moving and soul-searching memoir, Fernando Alcntar recounts his incredible journey from poor Catholic boy on the...

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an...

Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory.Beset by a new pandemic, fanning the flames of global uprising, these queers cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope...

Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of "we're queer and we're here to stay, cause we're every bit a piece of the...

A comprehensive overview of the movement that defined both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community.Through exclusive interviews with protagonists like Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, John Waters, and many more, alongside a treasure trove of...

An illuminating portrait of young LGBTQ people in China, the latest addition to the acclaimed photobook series celebrating LGBTQ communities around the worldSame-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only...

Groundbreaking: An anthology without peer in the marketplace.Builds on Proven Success:Words of Fire has sold over 30,000 copies and set a standard for accessible engagement with the political thought of Black women; Mouths of Rain, endorsed by Words of...

This Is How the Heart Beats is a portrait by acclaimed photographer Jake Naughton of a group of East Africans who have fled unimaginable abuse in their homeland for the United States, following this community from its darkest moments to an uncertain...

Edges of the Rainbow is a photographic celebration of the queer community in Japan. In a set of more than 150 color and black-and-white photographs, acclaimed photographer Michel Delsol and journalist Haruku Shinozaki have brought together a fascinating...

The photojournalist Misha Friedman is renowned for his efforts to capture life in contemporary Russia, documenting subjects as varied as political corruption, the dangers of coal mining, the tuberculosis epidemic, and the Bolshoi Ballet. In publications...

Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation is the powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist movement in New York City, and a moving testament to the enduring power of photography in activism, advocacy, and community.In...

Young New York, Ethan James Green's first monograph, presents a selection of striking portraits of New York's millennial scene-makers, a gloriously diverse cast of models, artists, nightlife icons, queer youth, and gender binaryflouting muses of the...

In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too...

Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. Tarot archetypes provide the reader with a window into present circumstances and future potential. But what if that window only opened up on a world that was...

From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

A collection of 500 quotes from RuPaul, actor, singer, producer and host of RuPaul's Drag Race, and the most influential drag queen of our time. Part of the In Their Own Words series.Get inside the head of RuPaul: award-winning TV personality, musician,...

LONGLISTED for the National Book Award 2019Michelin-starred chef Iliana Regan's (Elizabeth, Kitsune) culinary memoir, chronicling this intensely driven chef's upbringing in rural Northwest Indiana, her battle with addiction, and the development of her...

The first book on a fascinating mysterious death with art as big business at the center. Indiana's work is loved even by those unfamiliar with his name. Expect major review attention from mainstream and art news media. Robert Indiana's life, work and...

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutirrez's debut essay...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika "Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork...Details of specific...

"God's Heart is a play which dares to say very ugly things from a very moral place, which risks censure in an effort to reach an ugly truth; a play that's wise to its own inescapable shortcomings and addresses them as part of its subject; a play which...

Foreword by Bishop Karen Oliveto. Oliveto is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church. Resonates with young people as it is both a memoir of coming of age and of coming out. Readers looking for queer stories-Cultural...

"It deserves prominent placement on LGBTQ history bookshelves. . . . An indelible collection of wise voices resonating with experience, pride, resilience, and revolution." -Kirkus starred reviewForeword by Kate Bornstein and Barbara CarrellasIn The...

A reconsideration of Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking A Room of One's Own through a very modern lens, revisiting Woolf's now archaic politics and mining the text for lessons on how to be a writer. The central message of A Room of One's Own is that, to...

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if the majority of people will be disabled in the near future and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom become...

The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice.In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community,...

The follow-up to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy: new ways of imagining what LGBTQ+ health care should look like.What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the...

The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper.This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the name Michelle. From her very first lap dance in a small-town...

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for fiction, and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe...

Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious...

From Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai: a long poem full of rage, love, and despair seeking justice, seeking roots, seeking a 'po-ethics' by which to live. Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for...

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.Described as 'cultural rocket fuel' by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books...

Tomboy Survival Guide is a memoir told in stories and pictures, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past when they later identified as lesbian and...