Against memoir

A queer countercultural icon divulges on all things artistic, romantic, and neurotic in this collection of essays.

American classicist

A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s...

Antiman

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the U...

Awkward

Startlingly imaginative nonfiction about a very particular if common and much-maligned state of being.

Boy with the bullhorn

Winner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ NonfictionWinner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/BiographyA coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York.From the moment ...

Doing time

Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael.

Frighten the horses

An Oprah Daily Best Book of FallA CLMP Firecracker Award FinalistA textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxesFrom the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living a...

Gay directors, gay films?

Recognizing the innovative work and distinct sensibilities of five major gay American and European film directors.

German, jew, muslim, gay

Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the his...

Hotshot

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“A beautiful reflection on justice, the environment, the self, and much more.”—George SaundersThe fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefightingFrom 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildla...

If you knew then what i know now

Coming-of-age is complicated by coming-out in personal essays leavened with humor, generosity, and all the awkward indignities of growing up.

Loving in the war years

An updated edition combining two classic works of Chicana and queer literature, with a new introduction by renowned writer and luminary, Cherríe Moraga. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this updated edition of Loving in the War Years combines Moraga’s classic m...

Mamaskatch

“Powerful and overdue . . . The hard and brilliant life breathing on [these] pages brought me to tears, to joy, and to grace.” —TERESE MARIE MAILHOT, AUTHOR OF HEART BERRIES

Morris kight: humanist, liberationist, fantabulist

Morris Kight fought for gay rights the only way he knew how—outrageously

My almost certainly real imaginary jesus

Nonbinary

In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationsh...

Of floating isles

An immersive journey into the author’s lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start again Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in ...

Out of the ordinary

Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

Peyakow

“Our histories, and our families’ truths, are mostly unwritten. The work [Darrel J. McLeod is] doing is powerful and overdue.” ―TERESE MARIE MAILHOT

Queer as all get out

“Unique in both format and content, this important book is a first choice to help diversify teen graphic nonfiction collections.” —Starred Review, School Library JournalFollow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people.The author sh...

Reading shakespeare reading me

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.

Sacred spells

The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements. In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and incantation, his Haitian heritage and a politics ...

Sinkhole

Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book AwardA sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a distur...

Something, not nothing

A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a ...

Spellbound

The meticulous artwork of transgender artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see the world through another lens.

The end of san francisco

An elegy for the dream of a radical queer community, and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.

The power of adrienne rich

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“A comprehensive biography of . . . one of the most acclaimed poets of her generation and a face of American feminism.”—New York TimesA major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) transformed herself from a traditional, Radcl...

This one looks like a boy

Inspiring and honest, this unique memoir of gender transition and coming-of-age proves it’s never too late to find your true identity.Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body.In this candid and though...

Violence girl

The birth of the 1970s' punk movement as seen through the eyes of Chicana feminist and punk musician Alice Bag.

Waiting in the wings

Featuring a new introduction from renowned activist and writer Cherrié Moraga, Waiting in the Wings (25th Anniversary Edition) is a thoughtfully tender memoir of lesbian motherhood.

Wishbone

Lambda Award–winning memoir is a surreal debut collection of coming out and coming of age, family rupture and life-changing love.