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MEMOIRS

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Gender Queer 

by Maia and Phoebe Kobabe

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Boy Erased

by Garrard Conley

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Mean Little Deaf Queer

by Terry Galloway

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Autobiography of My Hungers by Rigoberto González 

Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt 

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare

How Poetry Saved My Life: a Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn

Ike's Mystery Man: the Secret Lives of Robert Cutler by Peter Shinkle

I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: the Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s by Peter McGough 

Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker

Shift: a Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions by Penny Guisinger

Trans: Poems by Hilda Raz

What Becomes You by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz

FICTION

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What Burns 

by Dale Peck

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God in Pink

by  Hasan Namir

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Lot

by Bryan Washington

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Zipper Mouth 

by Laurie Weeks

INTERVIEWS

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Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World

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How to Punk a Revolution

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Semi Queer 

Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers

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Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum by Eva A. Mendes and Meredith R. Maroney 

Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle

Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

Transgender Voices: Beyond Men and Women by Lori B. Girshick

Trans People in Higher Education by Genny Beemyn  

Vastly More Than That: Stories of Lesbians & Gay Men in Recovery by Guy Kettelhack

Witness: Gay and Lesbian Clergy Report From the Front by Dann Hazel

LANTINX SPOTLIGHT

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Brown Trans Figurations

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies

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Reading Chicana Lesbians

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Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family 

ANTHOLOGIES

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Gender Outlaws 

The Next Generation

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Headcase 

LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness

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Mouths of Rain

An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

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Born This Way 

Real Stories of Growing Up Gay

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Affirming LGBTQ+ Students in Higher Education edited by David P. Rivera

The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice edited by Gerald Walton

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Queering Religion, Religious Queers edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon

When Language Broke Openan Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez

Who's Yer Daddy? Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff 

POETRY

PLAYS

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The Book of Daniel 

by Aaron Smith

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Gay Poems for Red States 

by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

A bewildered teenage boy wearing a suit holds a folder labeled “private.”

The Shy Manifesto 

by Michael Ross

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Angels in America 

by Tony Kushner 

ESSAYS

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by R. Eric Thomas

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by Stacy Jane Grover 

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by Audre Lorde

QUEER CINEMA

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Queer Cinema in America 

An Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Films, Characters, and Stories 

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The Bent Lens 

A World Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film

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Queering the Shakespeare Film 

Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Male Homoeroticism

NON-FICTION

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Art and Homosexuality

 A History of Ideas

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The Queer Games Avant-Garde

How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games

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David Bowie Made Me Gay 

100 Years of LGBT Music

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Disrupting Dignity 

Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ+ Lives

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Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality

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The Trans Generation 

How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution

Three laughing people in bold, diverse outfits wade through shin-deep water.

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language

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The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars

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A Labor History of Queer America 

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Bi 

Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

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The Path to Gay Rights 

How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion

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No Place Like Home 

Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas

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Queering the Countryside 

New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies

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An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings edited by Jason E. Black & Charles E. Morris

Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures & the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin

Before Lawrence v. Texas: the Making of a Queer Social Movement by Wesley G. Phelps

Between Sodom and Eden: a Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel by Lee Walzer

The Biology of Homosexuality by Jacques Balthazart

The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew Reynolds

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military by Randy Shilts

Feminism is Queer: the Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory by Mimi Marinucci

The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader edited by AnaLouise Keating

Go the Way Your Blood Beats: on Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst

Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods

Indecent Advances: a Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin

The Invisible Orientation: an Introduction to Asexuality by Julie Sondra

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People and the Criminal Justice System by Charlotte Knight

Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism by Jodie Medd

Make Your Own History:  Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century by L. Bly and K. Wooten

Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures by Sabine Lang

The Moral Defense of Homosexuality: Why Every Argument Against Gay Rights Fails by Chris Meyers

Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics by Ramon H. Rivera-Servera

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

Queer Wars: the New Global Polarization Over Gay Rights by Dennis Altman and Jonathan Symons 

The Savvy Ally: a Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate by Jeannie Gainsburg

Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities by Ed Cohen

To Make the Wounded Whole : the African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS by Dan Royles

Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion by Z Nicolazzo

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