Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to…
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1. A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian… read more
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2. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
3. 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
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- queer
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
5. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
6. The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
By: Hugh Ryan
4.45
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window int… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
7. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
8. Here We Go Again
By: Alison Cochrun
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
9. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
10. Punk Rock Karaoke
By: Bianca Xunise
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A debut young adult graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartoonist, B… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
11. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
12. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2)
By: T.J. Alexander
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Urgent and intimate.” — The New York Times Book Review A fake dating arrangement turns to real … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
- adult
- audiobook
14. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
By: Grace Perry
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
"That’s the thing about being a queer millennial: it’s not about things getting better in any linear fashion but holding a painful past and an optimistic future together, one in each hand, at the same…"-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
"God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me . For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal j…"-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
"Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a w…"-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
" The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkne…"-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
15. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
By: Krista Burton
3.86
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- travel
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
16. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Oh, and it should go without saying, but fuck capitalism."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
17. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By: Sarah McBride
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
18. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
19. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
20. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
21. When Brooklyn Was Queer
By: Hugh Ryan
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
