13 Top queer books like Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies by Deborah T. Meem

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Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Queer: A Graphic History book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• nonfiction
• history
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's A Room with a View book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

Similar categories in None's Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

Similar categories in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3) book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

"Yet dawn is ever the hope of men."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

"Are we riding far tonight, Gandalf?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

Similar categories in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Similar categories in Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• nonfiction
• history

"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

"Are you going to do it?"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she'd finally cried at a movie."

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his p…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

Similar categories in Erik J. Brown's All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1) book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton."

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

"Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?"

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

"When he kisses me, my chest feels lighter again, like he's taking on some of my sorrow but passing on some of his love."

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

"We're going to be okay,' I repeated to him. If things get hard again, I'll carry him. And he'll carry me. And we'll be okay."

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2) book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"You could launch us to opposite ends of this solar system, and we'd find our way back to each other."

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

"Ben shoots me a quick sideways smile, but it’s cool, because who even needs lungs? Why are we all so obsessed with breathing?"

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

"Then we just kind of stare at each other for a minute. Or ten minutes. Or ten hours. I don’t know how to measure time when Ben’s looking at me."

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

"People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe it quiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the ache never quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurk…"

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

Similar categories in Aaron H. Aceves's This Is Why They Hate Us book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"What a horrible weight it is to be silent when you want to shout, to hold back when you want to reach out, to freeze when you want to melt."

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"I guess it's true that us queers are starved for stories that mirror our lives. I can't remember a time when I saw a queer person in a movie or TV show or book that I didn't have to actively seek out…"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive becaus…"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's If This Gets Out book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"Yeah but he's my- Ruben"

-Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

"I slow my step as a spark of realization pricks in the back of my mind. Shut it down. Crush the thought. Is the truth that I don't get strong crushes on guys the way I get on girls? Or is the truth t…"

-Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1) book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

Similar categories in A.L. Graziadei's Icebreaker book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"I don't wanna be just another one of your former teammates."

-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

"I get through the first few weeks of college without dropping out, but that's only because I don't want to deal with Dad whining about it for the next twenty years."

-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

"Gdyby @mjames17 dodał sobie te jedenaście punktów do wzrostu, może wtedy bym się przejął.' Siedzę obok niego, podjadam ze wspólnej paczki czipsy solone z octem i odpowiadam: 'Mickey James III @mjames…"

-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's The Sky Blues book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"A part of me knows that someday soon I'll miss moments like these."

-Robbie Couch, The Sky Blues

Similar categories in Adam Sass's The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"Wow,"

-Adam Sass, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

"A weary world deserves a little dreaming."

-Adam Sass, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

"I don’t need ninety-nine boys. I just need one."

-Adam Sass, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

"Why is it so much easier to execute someone else’s vision than to realize your own?"

-Adam Sass, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers

Similar categories in Timothy Janovsky's Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1) book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"With only the stars as my witness, I kiss him again, deeper, and to my surprise, it doesn’t feel like scratching an act off a list or completing a quest: it feels like coming home."

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

"Because I know for certain the cardboard version of himself he’s been asked for years to display in the storefront of his family life has been incinerated for good. He’s flesh and blood right now, fl…"

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

"It’s nice to hear him so self-aware. To know that the seismic waves of coming out are still rippling through him too. I thought I was alone in that. Everyone makes it seem like coming out is crossing…"

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

Similar categories in Brian Zepka's The Temperature of Me and You book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• queer
• lgbt

"One ingredient for love might be when the person you are with starts loving the people in your life who came before them."

-Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You

"When you lose that many parts of yourself, it hurts. And when you realize those parts are irreplaceable, you become lost too."

-Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You

"Jordan and I were each part of a story, a hug, a kiss, and a friendship. None of those things can exist without the other part. When you lose that many parts of yourself, it hurts. And when you reali…"

-Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You

Similar categories in Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies book and Deborah T. Meem's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies

• history
• lgbt
• gender
• read for school
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• reference
• textbooks
• gender and sexuality
• queer