Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
By: Paul Baker
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, a personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law ba…
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1. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
By: Naomi Klein
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- politics
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- nonfiction
2. 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
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- history
- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- queer
3. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- politics
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- queer
- lgbt
4. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
5. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
By: Ryan Love
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more
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6. Boy Like Me
By: Simon James Green
4.55
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a… read more
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7. 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
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8. One Love
By: Matt Cain
3.76
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
Two men. Twenty years of friendship. One love. 2002. Danny arrives at Manchester University dete… read more
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9. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.08
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more
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- nonfiction
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10. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- history
- queer
- lgbt
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
13. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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14. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
15. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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- queer
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16. 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
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- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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?
17. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine
By: Arlo Parks
3.89
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning deb… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
18. Neon Roses
By: Rachel Dawson
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more
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- queer
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19. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
"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
20. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
21. A Short History of Queer Women
By: Kirsty Loehr
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more
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- history
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22. The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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- queer
"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
23. Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
By: Paul Baker
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, a personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law ba… read more
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- history
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- queer
24. Afterglow (Golden Boys #2)
By: Phil Stamper
4.05
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
After a summer of life-changing, these four friends are finally ready for senior year. Gabriel i… read more
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25. A Drag Queen’s Guide to Life
By: Bimini Bon Boulash
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bimini Bon Boulash is the nation's sweetheart, capturing hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, deat… read more
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26. All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture
By: Daisy Jones
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between. All The Things S… read more
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27. We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
By: Beth Ditto
4.24
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Di… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
28. Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
By: Munroe Bergdorf
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioni… read more
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"Everything is an attempt to flee if you can't love who you are."-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"You can't run away from yourself. The destination will always be you. I only stopped running away when I made myself into the home I no longer wanted to run away from. I wish I'd come to that realisa…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"Being conscious of our trauma, and recognising how it unavoidably manifests itself within our approach to romantic and platonic relations, skies is to strategise our connections. It helps us to it he…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. Be it through moving from childhood into adolescence, our sexuality, our gender, in our relationship with love, our racial identity or in…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
29. We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents
By: Eliza Hull
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism tre… read more
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- lgbt
30. Queer Life, Queer Love
By: Matt Bates
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A timely celebration of the best new and emerging writers from the global margins—now brought cente… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"In such a square context, we grow in bent shapes, our love made beautiful by our restraints."-Matt Bates, Queer Life, Queer Love
31. The Milkman's on His Way
By: David Rees
3.86
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Growing up gay, beginning as a teenager, to realize what you are: that's when you start to suffer. … read more
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