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A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
The First Time I Met Frank O' Hara: Reading Gay American Writers
Those who first met Rick Whitaker through his unrepentant memoir know that he was not a typical prostitute. This "Wittgenstein- and Freud-quoting" hustler is at core a thinkerand a voracious...
Miracle of the Rose
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"One of the greatest achievements of modern literature." -Richard Howard "A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiri tual exercises and hoodlums into bearers...
Virtually Normal
Virtually Normal is an exploration of today's principal arguments about homosexuality, from the Catholic church to Michel Foucault. It is a book not about individual feelings but about the way...
Family Secrets: Gay Sons - A Mother's Story
As a clinical psychologist, Jean Baker had always considered herself open-minded and tolerant, but found she wasn't prepared for the revelation that her only two children were both gay. Family...
Bless the Messy: Life Lessons from a Work in Progress
For readers of Hyperbole and a Half and Am I There Yet ?, Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers...
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Public Policy Issues: A Citizen's and
In response to the cultural war declared upon gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people by the radical right, this book gives you an inside look at the gay community's perspectives...
The Book Of Gay And Lesbian Quotations
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A Collection of 3,000 Thoughts, Insights, Views, and Perceptions from Antiquity to the Present Organised by hundreds of subjects that range from youth and aging and love and loss to...
Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science
The study of human sexuality within the social sciences is not a recent innovation. Why then do many people think of sociology, anthropology and psychology as latecomers to the study...
Affirmations for Queer People: 100+ Positive Messages to Affirm,
Celebrate your resilience and bravery in the face of discrimination and empower yourself and your community with these 100+ affirmations for queer people that celebrate being LGBTQIA+. Queer people are...
Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from
'The compelling stories in this book are funny, uplifting and at times poignant and sad, but always honest. I learned such a lot. ' - Lorraine Kelly 'A beautifully heartfelt...
Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of
'I love this book!' SARAH CRACKNELL, SAINT ETIENNE 'Poignant and wonderfully warm' CATHY NEWMAN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS 'Shows us how music has the power to change everything' JUDE ROGERS It...
The Educator's Guide to LGBT+ Inclusion: A Practical Resource for K-12
The rates of bullying, truancy due to lack of safety in schools, and subsequent suicidality for LGBT+ youth are exponentially higher than for non-LGBT+ youth. As a result, many American...
Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from
'The compelling stories in this book are funny, uplifting and at times poignant and sad, but always honest. I learned such a lot. ' - Lorraine Kelly 'A beautifully heartfelt...
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer
'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer 'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of...
Frighten the Horses: A Memoir of Transition
'This book is as sharp as razors, but it also pulses with a passionate, desperate, human urgency for truth and liberation. I am deeply grateful to have read it' Elizabeth...
Planet Drag: Uncover the Global Herstory
Travel to Planet Drag and explore the styles, influences, artists and events that have made the art of drag so outrageously popular in 15 countries around the world. Exquisitely styled...
The Dry Season: Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'S o full of wisdom and pleasure that you don't want it to end' MAGGIE NELSON In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa...
The Dry Season: Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'S o full of wisdom and pleasure that you don't want it to end' MAGGIE NELSON In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa...
The Koran and the Flesh: The Pilgrimage of a Gay Imam
'A moving, courageous voice ... Muslims and others alike need to listen to him' - Observer Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay. In this...
Frighten the Horses: A Memoir of Transition
'This book is as sharp as razors, but it also pulses with a passionate, desperate, human urgency for truth and liberation. I am deeply grateful to have read it' Elizabeth...
The Koran and the Flesh: The Pilgrimage of a Gay Imam
'A moving, courageous voice ... Muslims and others alike need to listen to him' - Observer Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay. In this...
The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are
Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village,...
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain's First King
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...
Queering Autoethnography
Queering Autoethnography articulates for the first time the possibilities and politics of queering autoethnography, both in theoretical terms and as an intervention into narratives and cultures of apology, shame and...
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out
* A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often...
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out
* A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often...
The Queer Bible
'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out
In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ' , it was signed by...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love,
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd,...
Yr Dead
Author: Sam Sax Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 I can't make heads or tails of it, the goat on the corner of Union and Metropolitan. It is 2016 and...
Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
Author: Paul Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR 'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times 'The following things have seemed...
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer
'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer 'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of...
Paper Doll: Notes From A Late Bloomer
'AN ESSENTIAL READ FOR ANYONE WITH A HEART' JOE LOCKE, star of Heartstopper 'SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO EXPAND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY' Kristin Chenoweth...
Shoulder to Shoulder: The Best Queer History Book You'll Read This
The best queer history book you'll read this year. LONGLISTED FOR THE BREAD & ROSES AWARD Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and...
The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop
A GUARDIAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Fascinating.' NEIL TENNANT ' The missing story of the heart of pop.' JOHNNY MARR 'Superb.' Alexis Petridis 'Dazzling.' GUARDIAN 'So...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to
In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the...
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain's First King
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...
The Glass Closet
I wish I had been brave enough to come out earlier in my tenure as CEO of BP. I regret it to this day. I know that if I had...
The Queer Bible
'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis
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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and...
Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences
Homosexuality is not what it used to be. When the modern lesbian and gay movements errupted on the world wide cultural and political stage during the early 1970s few could...
Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of
Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 'Unique, dreamlike and poetic. I loved it.' DEBSEY WYKES, SAINT ETIENNE AND DOLLY MIXTURE It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North...
The Drive
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Trisha Todd, the actress who starred in the classic lesbian film, Claire of the Moon presents an account of her own intimate journey to herself. With honesty and insight, she...
Lesbians in Committed Relationships: Extraordinary Couples, Ordinary
Four lesbian couples celebrating long-term, monogamous relationships detail their lives together through a series of candid and emotional narratives that are at once heart-warming and heart-wrenching. Their stories define relationships...
Testimonies - Updated And Revised: Lesbian Coming-Out Stories
Back in print for a new generation of young lesbians, in this collection nearly two-dozen women from widely varying backgrounds and age groups give accounts of their journeys toward self-discovery....