Drag: The Complete Story (A Look at the History and Culture of Drag)
By: Simon Doonan
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is…
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1. This Book Is Gay
By: None , Juno Dawson
3.77
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more
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"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"-None, This Book Is Gay
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
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- queer
- 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
3. Queer: A Graphic History
By: Meg-John Barker , None , Jules Scheele
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
5. Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)
By: Rachel Reid
3.80
Format: 400 pages, ebook
New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. In this case, it’s… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"That would be the... Blue Moon Over Brooklyn?"-Rachel Reid, Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)
6. 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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"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
7. Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot
By: Élodie Durand
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
" Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d'un état. Chacun est libre de … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
8. Wicked Heat (Chicago Heat, #1)
By: Ella Frank
4.19
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Ryan Kind, caring, and protective. Those are the three qualities I’m looking for when it comes t… read more
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- lgbt
9. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
10. Beyond the Gender Binary
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
4.49
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"I learned about gender through shame."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
11. 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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- art
- history
- lgbt
- drag
- nonfiction
- queer
12. 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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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
13. Wicked Flame (Chicago Heat, #2)
By: Ella Frank
4.25
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
Jameson Life is hard. I learned that at an early age growing up on the South Side of Chicago. I ac… read more
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14. 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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- queer
15. We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation
By: Matthew Riemer
4.64
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Have pride in history. A rich and sweeping photographic history of the queer liberation movemen… read more
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- art
- history
- lgbt
- photography
- nonfiction
- queer
"Changing the social order in one fell swoop, Henry Gerber wrote in 1940, is “like trying to push over a big stone wall with your skull."-Matthew Riemer, We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation
"homosexuality is not a sickness, disturbance, or other pathology in any sense, but is merely a preference, orientation, or propensity, on par with and not different in mind from, heterosexuality."-Matthew Riemer, We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation
16. Salacious Park Avenue Prince (Park Avenue Princes #5)
By: Ella Frank
4.24
Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition
Who are we? Like you even need to ask. We’re the seven richer-than-sin legacies causing debauchery … read more
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17. Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
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"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to a…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
18. William
By: Mason Coile
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more
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19. Drag: The Complete Story (A Look at the History and Culture of Drag)
By: Simon Doonan
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is… read more
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- social science
- history
- lgbt
- gender
- photography
- drag
- nonfiction
- fashion
- queer
20. Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era
By: Jason Baumann
4.54
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
More than one hundred vivid photographs of the LGBTQ revolution—and its public and intimate moments… read more
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- history
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- queer
21. Notorious Park Avenue Prince (Park Avenue Princes #6)
By: Brooke Blaine
4.35
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Who are we? Like you even need to ask. We’re the seven richer-than-sin legacies causing debauch… read more
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