14 best-selling nonfiction books like Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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3. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

Similar categories in Huw Lemmey's Bad Gays: A Homosexual History book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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4. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • queer
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5. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

6. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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7. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

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

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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10. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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11. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • audiobook
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12. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • lgbt
  • queer
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

Cover of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

13. 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

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • social science
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

14. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Manywhere: Stories

By: Morgan Thomas

3.81

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • queer lit
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Betancourt's The Male Gazed book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Any Other City

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.14

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith

18. 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

Similar categories in Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

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19. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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20. 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

Similar categories in Hugh Ryan's When Brooklyn Was Queer book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza

21. Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime

By: Alex Espinoza

3.80

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to r… read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime book and Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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4.50

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