The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
By: Sasha Velour
4.41
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende…
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1. The Diva Rules: Ditch the Drama, Find Your Strength, and Sparkle Your Way to the Top
By: Michelle Visage
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Michelle Visage is not your average diva. Powerful, positive, and polished, this diva's not only gl… read more
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2. Suck Less: Where There's A Willam, There's A Way
By: None
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The only lie told more often than "No, that looks totally cute on you" and "I got AIDS through oral… read more
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3. Be Gay, Do Comics
By: Matt Bors
4.22
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
4. 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
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- queer
- 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
5. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
6. 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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- history
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
8. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
9. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
By: Sasha Velour
4.41
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more
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- audiobook
- art
- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- drag
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
10. Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood
By: Trixie Mattel
4.01
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Drag superstars Trixie Mattel and Katya have long captivated fans with their stunning looks, onscre… read more
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- queer
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Chita: A Memoir
By: Chita Rivera
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chit… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The First Ten Years)
By: María Elena Fernández
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first dec… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- lgbt
- drag
- nonfiction
- queer
13. My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir
By: Alaska Thunderfuck 5000
4.25
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Alaska Thunderfuck spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag supersta… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- drag
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
14. Nikhil Out Loud
By: Maulik Pancholy
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor–winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, com… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- lgbt
15. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- audiobook
16. Disorderly Men
By: Edward Cahill
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
17. Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood
By: Trixie Mattel
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
18. Blame It on Bianca Del Rio: The Expert on Nothing with an Opinion on Everything
By: Bianca Del Rio
3.33
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic—"The Joan Rivers of the Drag World," (… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- drag
- nonfiction
- queer
19. The Art of Drag
By: Jake Hall
4.43
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Before RuPaul’s Drag Race propelled the cultural phenomenon into the global spotlight, drag had bee… read more
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- art
- history
- lgbt
- drag
- nonfiction
- queer
20. GuRu
By: RuPaul
3.70
Format: 208 pages, ebook
FOREWORD BY JANE FONDA A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the … read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"You have to find a tribe."-RuPaul, GuRu
"Happiness is wanting what you already have."-RuPaul, GuRu
"Drag for me has always been my superhero costume."-RuPaul, GuRu
"Willingly release the hurt. Don't let the heartache define you."-RuPaul, GuRu
21. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
22. Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
By: Adam Zmith
3.56
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, … read more
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- history
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
23. The T Guide: Our Trans Experiences and a Celebration of Gender Expression―Man, Woman, Nonbinary, and Beyond
By: Gigi Gorgeous
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Real talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and GottmikIn this fabulous, fashion-for… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
24. Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?
By: Zach Zimmerman
3.62
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
25. The Old Gays Guide to the Good Life: Lessons Learned About Love and Death, Sex and Sin, and Saving the Best for Last
By: Mick Peterson
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From America’s most beloved foursome—the TikTok sensation @theoldgays—a book of unexpected aspirati… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
26. All About Yvie: Into the Oddity
By: Yvie Oddly
3.60
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
#1 Amazon BestsellerThe world’s oddest drag artist This book is an intimate and in-depth look into… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
27. Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs
By: Dulce Sloan
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
WELCOME TO A COMEDIC TRIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST EXCITING COMEDIANS. MEET DU… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Duce. Don't you do that. You will get in trouble and it'll prove them right in their own mind. Say something that's gonna hurt their feelings instead."-Dulce Sloan, Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs
"So instead of hitting light switches, I switched lanes and that's when I joined the chorus. My mom taught me an important lesson that day: Don't let racist magnet school theater directors crush your …"-Dulce Sloan, Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs
28. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- lgbt
29. This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir
By: Eddie Chuculate
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boy… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
4.27
Format: 464 pages, ebook
MP3 CD Format "Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as f… read more
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- history
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
By: Tom Fitzgerald
4.17
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is Drag Race the queerest show in t… read more
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- history
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
