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 …
Want to Read $ 11.99"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"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
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
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1. 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
- 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
2. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
3. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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4. 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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5. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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6. 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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- audiobook
- biography
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- nonfiction
- queer
7. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
8. 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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- audiobook
- biography
- history
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- 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
9. 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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- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
10. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
By: Jack Parlett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more
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11. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- biography
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- nonfiction
- queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
12. Tweakerworld
By: Jason Yamas
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francis… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- audiobook
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
14. 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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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
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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- lgbt
16. The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
17. 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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18. 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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- audiobook
- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- 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
19. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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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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21. Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
By: Greggor Mattson
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of… read more
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- history
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- lgbt
