11 must-read nonfiction books like Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani

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Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

By: Amin Ghaziani

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but it’s definitely…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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2. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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3. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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4. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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6. 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

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

Similar categories in Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
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9. A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #2)

By: Rebecca Thorne

4.30

Format: 444 pages, ebook

While searching for stolen dragon eggs, newly engaged couple Kianthe and Reyna find themselves smac… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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10. 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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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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?

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11. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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12. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more

Similar categories in C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • lgbt
  • queer
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13. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

By: Ruby Hamad

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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14. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure

By: Mx. Sly

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender divers… read more

Similar categories in Mx. Sly's Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

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  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
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19. Bad Witches

By: H.B. Akumiah

3.72

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In H. B. Akumiah’s lively and charming debut, three young women discover the unbelievable: they’re … read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

By: Amin Ghaziani

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but it’s definitely… read more

Similar categories in Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution book and Amin Ghaziani's Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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21. Know Your Newlywed

By: Hillary Nussbaum

3.74

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

Listening Length: 4 hours and 54 minutes Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) and Mary Mouser (Cobra Kai) sta… read more

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  • audiobook

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