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Dancer from the Dance: A Novel

Andrew Holleran
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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels "A hymn to gay liberation in the city, and to male beauty." — Darryl Pinckney, T, The New York Times Style magazine "Nothing could be more beautiful than Holleran's tableaux of New York, those hot summer city nights when lonely men sit on th ... Read More about
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The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition

Jericho Brown
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In this special edition of Jericho Brown's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Tradition, you are invited to participate in an urgent dialogue-sparked by poetry-about what it means to be human. Including a discussion guide and an interview with the author, The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Editionis meant to cat ... Read More about
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Detransition, Baby: A Novel

Torrey Peters
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time)“Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—VultureOne of the New Y ... Read More about
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A compelling look at the challenges facing LGBTQ+ professionals as they navigate their careers – with advice from many senior figures who have smashed their own rainbow ceilings.There are currently only four LGBTQ+ CEOs across all Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies who are out at work, and just 0.8% ... Read More about
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Notes of a Crocodile (NYRB Classics)

Qiu Miaojin
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WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZEThe English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award.An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the post-martial-law era of late-1980 ... Read More about
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Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding

Maia Kobabe, Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD
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A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling Gender Queer author MAIA KOBABE and University of Michigan professor SARAH PEITZMEIER. Breathe arose from the need for a resource for folks considering chest binding as gender-affirming care. Dr. Peit ... Read More about
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Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine

Nicole Melleby
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In this powerful novel by an award-winning author, 12-year-old Winnie Nash is forced to live with her grandma for the summer and finds herself torn between her family’s secrets and the joy of celebrating Pride. Winnie Nash never used to have so many secrets. But then she agreed to stay with her gra ... Read More about
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A Single Man: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)

Christopher Isherwood
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When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider. Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern C ... Read More about
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An empowering cross-genre YA anthology that explores what it means to be a monster, exclusively highlighting trans and queer authors who offer new tales and perspectives on classic monster stories and tropes.  Be not afraid! These monsters, creatures, and beasties are not what they appear.&nbsp ... Read More about
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City of Night

John Rechy
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" Rechy's] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling and liberating achievement."--James Baldwin When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 19 ... Read More about
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor
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"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine“HOT” (Maggie Nelson) • “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) • “DEEP” (Michelle Tea)It's 1993 and Paul Poly ... Read More about
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About Ed

Robert Gluck
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A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene.Bob Glück met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men in San Francisco at the high tide of sexual liberation an ... Read More about
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Ponyboy: A Novel

Duncan Eliot
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Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening ch ... Read More about
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Sarahland

Sam Cohen
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"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * LAMBDA LIT ... Read More about
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin
Current price: $19.99
Los Angeles Times bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum * “Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson "Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discus ... Read More about
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Another Country (Vintage International)

James Baldwin
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From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.“Brilliant and fiercely told.”—The New York TimesOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsStunning ... Read More about
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Afterparties: Stories

Anthony Veasna So
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK  WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Libra ... Read More about
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Permafrost

Eva Baltasar
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Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hat ... Read More about
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