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  • A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

    A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery

    'On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between.'After his relationship with his girlfriend of 5 years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time - not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Queer History of the United States

    Series Book 1 - ReVisioning History
    Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfictionThe first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, changed her name to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Queer Brown Voices

    Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

    In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a “unified” agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Wild and Precious Life

    A Memoir

    A lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism."Brash, funny and brave." —NPR“A captivating and inspiring story of a queer woman who believed in her right to take up space and be seen.”—BuzzFeed"Windsor’s story fighting for what she believed in is one that will leave readers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Care Work

    Dreaming Disability Justice

    In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy

    Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

    by Lola Phoenix ...
    'Invaluable' RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL'Refreshingly honest, comprehensive and realistic' MEG-JOHN BARKEREmbarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that cause anxiety, fear and confusion, something Lola Phoenix knows about all too well.In this all-you-need-to-know guide to exploring non-monogamy, polyamory and open relationships, Lola draws upon their ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Radical Relations

    Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II

    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay men, Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations, gay and lesbian ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities

    An Interactionist Anthology

    Offering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, this book focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors, and sexual identities. The essays explore sexuality as a social process. As a whole, the book takes the perspective that what each of us understands to be sexual is constructed through everyday social processes and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Riddles of the Sphinx

    Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

    Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest.The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Jen Silverman: Three Plays

    The Roommate; The Moors; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.

    by Jen Silverman ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Three plays about transformation, intimacy and power from award-winning American Playwright Jen Silverman. Contains the plays The Roommate; The Moors and Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties - Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah”, falling in love in unexpected ways.The Moors - Two sisters and a dog ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Straight State

    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

    Series Book 64 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenshipThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Desired Past

    A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America

    by Leila J. Rupp ...
    With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining and entirely readable story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries."Most extraordinary about Leila J. Rupp's indeed short, two-hundred-page history of 'same-sex love and sexuality' is not ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness

    Writings, 2000-2010

    A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Persistence

    All Ways Butch and Femme

    Edited by Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman ...
    This anthology is inspired by The Persistent Desire: A Butch-Femme Reader, a 1992 anthology of historical and contemporary writing edited by well-known lesbian writer Joan Nestle and considered the seminal text for butch/femme studies. A documentary film based on Nestle’s book is in production as of this writing.As editors and fans of the original book, Ivan and Zena were inspired to produce a new ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gender Friend

    A 102 Guide to Gender Identity

    If you lifted this book from the shelf, you're probably interested in learning more about gender. You could be in the earliest stages of questioning, newly out, well into your transition, or an ally hoping to receive some extra tips and tricks. No matter your starting point, you're in the right place.Moving beyond pronouns, the basics of social and physical transition and how to be a good ally, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chicago After Stonewall: A History Of LGBTQ Chicago From Gay Life To Gay Lib

    Chicago After Stonewall: Gay Lib to Gay Life is a detailed account of how LGBTQ Chicagoans responded to the Stonewall Riots. This book pulls together jigsaw pieces of information from many sources, including a wealth of documents held in the McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, to reveal a picture of a raggle-taggle band of dysfunctional rebels with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around

    Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

    Series series SUNY series in New Political Science
    Silver Winner, 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category2015 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation2015 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction presented by the Publishing TriangleAs an organizer, writer, publisher, scholar-activist, and elected official, Barbara Smith has played key roles in multiple social ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Defiant Desire

    Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

    Edited by Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser ...
    Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • In the Spider's Room

    A Novel

    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    A sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt and Winner of the 2019 Prix de la Littérature ArabeHani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo’s Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lesbian Death

    Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer

    Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identityThe loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Orgasmology

    Series series Next wave
    For all its vaunted attention to sexuality, queer theory has had relatively little to say about sex, the material and psychic practices through which erotic gratification is sought. In Orgasmology, Annamarie Jagose takes orgasm as her queer scholarly object. From simultaneous to fake orgasms, from medical imaging to pornographic visualization, from impersonal sexual publics to domestic erotic ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Treating Trauma in Trans People

    An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach

    by Reese Minshew ...
    Treating Trauma in Trans People brings together key concepts from both gender-affirming treatment and trauma-focused care, with interventions focused on resolving physiological, intrapsychic, and interpersonal disruptions. Symptoms related to trauma and stress manifest in bodies, psyches, and interpersonal interactions. Gender, too, is impacted by bodies, psyches, and interpersonal interactions. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition

    A Guide for Parents

    by Irwin Krieger ...
    Going through puberty and adolescence presents unwelcome changes for many transgender youth, and this book provides advice to parents of transgender teens to help them understand what their child is experiencing and feeling during this challenging time.Addressing common fears and concerns that parents of transgender teens share, the book guides them through steps they can take with their child, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sister Outsider

    Essays and Speeches

    by Audre Lorde ...
    Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD