5 best-selling gay books like Out Now: Queer We Go Again! by Saundra Mitchell

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Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

QUEER WE GO AGAIN! A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seve…

"I don't get enough credit for using my genius only for personal gain and not all-out evil."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"... how everyone is made to believe white is good, pure, a ray of light while black is bad, tainted, the ugliest darkness, is ridiculous."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"Museums tell stories so much better than textbooks do. And that's what history is, isn't it? It's just a really big story. That's what makes it important. And museums get that. Textbooks don't."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"It's hard. Wanting the tea, but also not wanting the tea, but feeling like you should want the tea, but knowing you should protest the tea, so you put the protest on the teapot and throw all the tea in the harbor, and the teapot I guess. . . stays empty?"

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

If you liked the gay plot in Out Now: Queer We Go Again! by Saundra Mitchell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

By: Sarah Prager

4.00

Format: 191 pages,

This first-ever LGBTQ history book for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-cult… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Prager's Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

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2. Please Ignore Vera Dietz

By: A.S. King

3.87

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's Please Ignore Vera Dietz book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"No one living understands dying."

-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

"I was also built from delusional optimism and folly."

-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

"Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?"

-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

"I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for."

-A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

3. Barbed Wire Heart

By: Tess Sharpe

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From a powerful new voice in suspense fiction comes the unforgettable story of a young woman facing… read more

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4. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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5. Stage Dreams

By: Melanie Gillman

3.87

Format: 104 pages, Library Binding

In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award H… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Gillman's Stage Dreams book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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6. The Lost Girls

By: Sonia Hartl

3.49

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

Sonia Hartl’s The Lost Girls is laced with dark humor and queer love; it’s John Tucker Must Die wit… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Hartl's The Lost Girls book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Books had always been my bright spot away from the dark."

-Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

"Her smile was infectious. Like a light that only glowed for me."

-Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

"I’ve only recently gotten past thinking I didn’t need anyone. It might be a minute yet before I accept that people might need me."

-Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

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7. Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed

By: Marissa Meyer

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Love is in the air in this is a collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes and edited by #1 … read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology by Dhonielle Clayton

8. A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.73

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes a young a… read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"The Khawla historian says the people of this planet were like a virus—multiplying endlessly, consuming every resource they could wrench from land and sky, acting as if all they could survey was their…"

-Dhonielle Clayton, A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology

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9. The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

Format: 368 pages, None

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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11. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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12. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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13. The Well

By: Jake Wyatt

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A fantasy graphic novel about Lizzy, a girl who gets cursed by a wishing well, and her adventure to… read more

Similar categories in Jake Wyatt's The Well book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You don't become wealthy unless you care about money. And you don't stop caring about money just because you're rich."

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

"People like to say that hard work makes you rich. That isn't true. But if you like the work, and it keeps you and yours fed and warm, it can make you happy."

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

"Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to know that people seldom want what's good for them. Or anyone else, for that matter."

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

"Courage is doing what is right and necessary, regardless of peril. Your parents were brave. Your grandmother was brave. Endangering yourself or others for the sake of wealth? Risking lives for a chan…"

-Jake Wyatt, The Well

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14. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

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15. Aces Wild: A Heist

By: Amanda DeWitt

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What happens in Vegas when an all-asexual online friend group attempts to break into a high-stakes … read more

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Aces Wild: A Heist book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Just because you didn't experience sexual attraction didn't mean you didn't you didn't experience romantic feelings. But those romantic feelings didn't look like they did in the movies because, well,…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

"It felt like a puzzle, mostly put together but with a piece missing, waiting to be filled. There were plenty of pieces to fill it- gay, straight, bisexual- but none fit quite right. Sometimes I thoug…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

Cover of Out Now: Queer We Go Again! by Saundra Mitchell

16. Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

QUEER WE GO AGAIN! A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seve… read more

Similar categories in Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again! book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I don't get enough credit for using my genius only for personal gain and not all-out evil."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"... how everyone is made to believe white is good, pure, a ray of light while black is bad, tainted, the ugliest darkness, is ridiculous."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"Museums tell stories so much better than textbooks do. And that's what history is, isn't it? It's just a really big story. That's what makes it important. And museums get that. Textbooks don't."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"It's hard. Wanting the tea, but also not wanting the tea, but feeling like you should want the tea, but knowing you should protest the tea, so you put the protest on the teapot and throw all the tea …"

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

Cover of The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen  Ferguson

17. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. The Collectors

By: A.S. King

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-M… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's The Collectors book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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19. Spell Bound

By: F.T. Lukens

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in t… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Spell Bound book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Sometimes a family was a mischievous magical boss, her magical rival turned friend, a magical girl who used to be a babysitter and now was like an older sister, and the person you didn't understand i…"

-F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

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20. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. Okay, Cupid

By: Mason Deaver

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know e… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's Okay, Cupid book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

23. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

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24. Color Outside the Lines

By: Sangu Mandanna

3.79

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

This modern, groundbreaking YA anthology explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBT… read more

Similar categories in Sangu Mandanna's Color Outside the Lines book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The air grew charged, heat gathering around them as if instead of starlight and moonbeams, he held all the brilliance of a dying star, engulfing her with the pull of his gravity."

-Sangu Mandanna, Color Outside the Lines

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25. Bruised

By: Tanya Boteju

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an acci… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Boteju's Bruised book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales by Rebecca Podos

26. Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

By: Rebecca Podos

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Join fifteen bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming authors as they reimagine some of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Podos's Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

27. Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

By: Tanya Boteju

3.78

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Boteju's Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"But I told myself if I could just get past my house and hammock without being sucked in by the guaranteed comfort, something else might be waiting for me on the other side, something that might color…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"With each passing moment, I’d get that feeling you sometimes have the moment you’re about to flip the final page of a really good book, when your anticipation for what happens next overwhelms you, bu…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"As I said it, I immediately felt a twinge of desire for something else poking between my ribs, jabbing at the familiar emptiness. Like maybe, if I could change thing up somehow, I might be able to fi…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

Cover of Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Jessica Spotswood

28. Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

By: Jessica Spotswood

3.67

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic st… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Spotswood's Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
" The moon is full, and even the stars are scared of me. "

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

"He can't fill the empty spaces in her because there are none."

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

"Nothing is yours! The world wasn't made for you. The world was made ."

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

"There are too many people in this world who would rather see a woman burn than wield power."

-Jessica Spotswood, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Cover of Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions by A.R. Capetta

29. Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions

By: A.R. Capetta

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startl… read more

Similar categories in A.R. Capetta's Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of That Way Madness Lies by Dahlia Adler

30. That Way Madness Lies

By: Dahlia Adler

3.45

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen acclaimed YA writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics! … read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's That Way Madness Lies book and Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3) by Jess Everlee

31. A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3)

By: Jess Everlee

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love can make even the most buttoned-up bluestocking come undone… London, 1885 A lesbian in a… read more

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  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

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Please Ignore Vera Dietz

A.S. King

3.87

Transform Your Habits

A Scatter of Light

Malinda Lo

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Stage Dreams

Melanie Gillman

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Girls

Sonia Hartl

3.49

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

Matt Baume

4.35

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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Matt Singer

4.06

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The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

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