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…
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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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- activism
- politics
- 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
3. Only This Beautiful Moment
By: Abdi Nazemian
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
4. 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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- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
5. 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
- queer
- lgbt
6. Gender Euphoria
By: Laura Kate Dale
4.11
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more
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- lgbt
- gender
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria
"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria
7. 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
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- nonfiction
- queer
- essays
- lgbt
"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
8. Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
By: Walt Odets
4.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live au… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"We don’t change just because we understand something, we change when we put our understanding to use."-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
"If our characteristic selves are not changing in response to new experience, it is because we have stopped learning and growing. We have stopped living."-Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
9. 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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- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- activism
- queer
"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
10. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
11. 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
12. 100 Queer Poems
By: Mary Jean Chan
3.82
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more
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- lgbt
- anthologies
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
13. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- 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
14. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
15. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
16. Rainbow Rainbow
By: Lydia Conklin
3.41
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the qu… read more
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- queer
- anthologies
- lgbt
17. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
18. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
By: Audre Lorde
4.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon "Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, wri… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"whatever was hidden out of fear could always be used either against the children or ourselves — one imperfect but useful argument for honesty. The knowledge of fear can help make us free."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surpl…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it.…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feelin…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
19. It's Not That Radical
By: Mikaela Loach
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more
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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
20. Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
By: Jason Okundaye
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
21. Light Carries On
By: Ray Nadine
3.84
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When Leon’s camera unexpectedly breaks, he is forced to borrow a used one from his mom’s antique st… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
22. Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis
By: Jill Nalder
4.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of … read more
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- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
23. 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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- lgbt
- politics
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
24. Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
By: Amelia Abraham
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the … read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
25. 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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- lgbt
- feminism
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
26. 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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- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- anthologies
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- essays
- activism
- queer
27. Wild Geese
By: Soula Emmanuel
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- lgbt
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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. Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty
By: Afua Hirsch
3.86
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
30. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
31. Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now
By: Carrie Mae Weems
4.50
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Weems’ writings, lectures and conversations, published here for the first time, “beautify the mess … read more
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