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• So Gay for You

  Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All

  Hailey, Leisha, 1971-

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  An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family, written and read by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of 'The L Word'--including never-before-shared stories from behind the scenes of the show and their personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• About Face

  Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art

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  D. Katz curates a tapestry of works that connect historical threads and reveal how gender and sexual identity have been interwoven by artists contemporaneous to and since Stonewall.

• Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend

  a Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints and Queerness Through the Ages

  Jones, Dan, 1981-

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  Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

• Super Gay Poems

  LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

  Burt, Stephanie, 1971-

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  Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse, tracing the flourishing queer lives from Stonewall to the present day.

• Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line

  Lovatt, Elizabeth

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  Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s while also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. 'Thank You for Calling the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cleavage

  Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

  Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 1958-

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  How does gender affect our sense of self? Our body image? The passage of time? The friends we lose and keep? Boylan considers her womanhood, reflects on the boys and men who shaped her, and reconceives of herself as a writer, activist, parent, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesbians

  Bindel, Julie

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  Julie Bindel examines what defines lesbian culture, love, friendship and happiness today. She distinguishes the particular challenges facing lesbians from the very different experiences of gay men, and asks: why do lesbians so often seem to face…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gay Shame

  the Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia

  Roberts, Gareth, 1968-

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  Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of 'gender identity'. The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to people of the same sex is 'hateful'. They argue that effeminate men and butch women can't just be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Language of Limbs

  Hardcastle, Dylin

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  On a quiet night in 1972, two teenage girls are caught kissing and one of them is kicked out of home by her father. The other girl decides to swallow it and all her feelings. Over the following three decades, these two unnamed women almost intersect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Gay Natural History

  Davis, Josh L.

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  Davis considers how, in many different organisms both animals and plants sexual reproduction and determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction between genes, hormones, environment and chance. We meet turtles whose sex is determined by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queer as Folklore

  the Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

  Coward, Sacha

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  Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Evenings

  Hollinghurst, Alan, 1954-

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  Our Evenings follows the life od Dave Win from a schoolboy and student days, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stag Dance

  a Novel & Stories

  Peters, Torrey

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  In Stag Dance, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No One Taught Me How to Be a Man

  What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals About Masculinity

  Kearns, Shannon T. L., 1980-

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  In 'No One Taught Me How to Be a Man', Kearns takes masculinity head-on. He uses his experience to "see" gender in ways cis men cannot, making masculinity visible. Without arguing that masculinity should be done away with, or that there is no real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The South

  Aw, Tash, 1971-

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  A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer - about family, desire, and what we inherit. Over the course of hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, different from him in every way except for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Confessions

  Airey, Catherine

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  It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before Mardi Gras

  Lesbian and Gay Activism in Australia, 1969-1978

  Willett, Graham

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  In the more than 40 years since the first Mardi Gras, Australian society and the lives of all those who live here have been transformed. This is the story of the 1970s: the Homosexual Law Reform Society of the ACT (1969), the Daughters of Bilitis…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Her Name Is Alice

  My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her

  Litman, Caroline

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  Alice Litman died by suicide in May 2022, aged just twenty years old, having already waited almost three years for her first appointment at an NHS gender-identity clinic. In beautiful prose, Caroline Litman captures the realities of an often-messy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Queer Little History of Art

  Pilcher, Alex

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  Featuring works by, among others, Egon Schiele, Duncan Grant, Claude Cahun, Hannah Hoch, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Glenn Ligon, Zanele Muholi, Allyson Mitchell and Tomoko Kashiki all of whom subverted the norms of their day via bold, new forms of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary Saints

  Ni Mhaoileoin, Niamh

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  An exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Can you imagine it? I'd say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter's Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint.Brought…Read moreRead more of this annotation