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…
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1. Since I Laid My Burden Down
By: Brontez Purnell
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Whiting Award winner Brontez Purnell’s debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in … read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
3. 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
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- queer lit
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
4. Faggots
By: Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one … read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
By: Alan Downs
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more
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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
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- history
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- 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
7. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
8. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
By: Lou Sullivan
4.76
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more
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- history
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
9. 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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- history
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
10. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
11. Confessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
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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- history
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
13. 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
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- sexuality
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
14. 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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- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- 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
15. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
16. High-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
17. 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
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- essays
- queer
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
18. Four Squares
By: Bobby Finger
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
19. 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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- history
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
20. 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
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- history
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- essays
- gender and sexuality
- queer
21. The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America,1960 and After
By: Lucas Hilderbrand
4.25
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United State… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
