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To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)

Rae Garringer · 112 pages

The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves

James Lecesne, Armistead Maupin, Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Woodson, Mayra Lazara Dole, Amy Bloom, Gregory Maguire, David Levithan, Rakesh Satyal, Eileen Myles, Jasika Nicole, Doug Wright, Stacey D'Erasmo, Jennifer Camper, Erik Orrantia, Brian Selznick, Malinda Lo, Richard McCann, Ali Liebegott, · 281 pages

Collects letters from such famous contributors as Brian Selznick, Michael Cunningham, and Amy Bloom to offer hope and support in the face of prejudice.

Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women

Candace Walsh, Laura Andre · 270 pages

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

Dan Savage · 338 pages

A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman · 312 pages

In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is *Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme*. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotype

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel · 199 pages

PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation.

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman · 302 pages

Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers.

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson · 160 pages

Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journe

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

Lois Lowry, Francesca Lia Block, Nancy Garden, James Cross Giblin, Ellen Howard, M.E. Kerr, Jonathan London, Jacqueline Woodson, Bruce Coville, Gregory Maguire, Leslea Newman, Jane Yolen, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, C.S. Adler · 273 pages

A collection of short stories about homosexuality by such authors as Bruce Coville, M.E. Kerr, William Sleator, and Jane Yolen.

Boys Like Her: Transfictions

Taste This, Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, Lyndell Montgomery, Zoe Eakle · 224 pages

Boys like her us an adrenaline-rush road movie of young queer life and gender transformation. First stop, the Canada-U.S. border, four young queers in a borrowed car pulled over, notebooks, make-up, clothes and violin flung out on the concrete. The car is checked for drugs, contraband, fruit - and declared clean. The four in a borrowed car are smuggling dangerous goods. But what they're smuggling

YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American

Vickie Nam · 336 pages

Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology

Sfe R. Monster, Taneka Stotts · 271 pages

BEYOND the queer sci-fi & fantasy comic anthology features 18 stories by 26 incredible contributors, celebrating unquestionably queer characters hailing from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality, front and centre as the heroes of their own stories. The softcover edition of the Beyond Anthology is 272 pages of black and white comics from a diverse roster of contributors, with stories star

Note to Self

Connor Franta · 308 pages

In his first memoir, A Work in Progress, Connor Franta shared his journey from small-town Midwestern boy to full-fledged Internet sensation. Now, two years later, Connor is ready to bring to light a side of himself he has rarely shown on or off camera. In this diary-like look at his life since A Work in Progress, Connor talks about his battles with clinical depression, social anxiety, self-love, a

No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics

Justin Hall · 306 pages

Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together a collection of excellent stories that can be enjoyed by all. No Straight Lines showcases major names su

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Cherrie L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldua · 261 pages

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. from Google Books

How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

Francesca Lia Block, David Levithan, Ron Koertge, Eric Shanower, Julie Anne Peters, Jennifer Finney Boylan, William Sleater, Emma Donoghue, Jacqueline Woodson, Ariel Schrag, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire · 350 pages

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an accidental romance." And a forgotten mother writes a poignant letter to the teenage daughter she hasn

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Loraine Hutchins, Lani Ka'ahumanu · 408 pages

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde · 191 pages

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—differe

What We Left Behind

Robin Talley · 384 pages

Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They're deeply, hopelessly in love. When they separate for their first year at college--Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU--they're sure they'll be fine. The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected.

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

Joan Nestle · 503 pages

Surveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy

Binge

Tyler Oakley · 307 pages

"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal misha

Naked

David Sedaris · 305 pages

Naked, published in 1997, is a collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. The book details Sedaris’ life, from his unusual upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, to his booze-and-drug-ridden college years, to his Kerouacian wandering as a young adult.

Boy Meets Boy

David Levithan · 185 pages

This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows

How to Grow Up

Michelle Tea · 287 pages

"A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as "impossible to put down" (People) As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled for the minimum wage; and she dated men and women, and sometimes both at once. But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks a