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• We Are Everywhere

  Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

  Riemer, Matthew, 1982-

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  A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account @lgbt_history, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

• Untamed

  Doyle, Glennon

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  Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both a memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It offers a piercing, electrifying examination of the restrictive expectations women are issued from birth; shows how hustling to meet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  "Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rubyfruit Jungle

  A Novel

  Brown, Rita Mae

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  Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fairest

  a Memoir

  Talusan, Meredith

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  "Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Throughout her journey, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Throwaway Girls

  Contos, Andrea

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  Caroline Lawson is three months away from freedom, otherwise known as graduation day. That's when she'll finally escape her rigid prep school and the parents who thought they could "fix" her. Until then, Caroline is keeping her head down,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boy Erased

  a Memoir

  Conley, Garrard

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  As a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. At nineteen he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All My Mother's Lovers

  A Novel

  Masad, Ilana

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  Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause. When Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lot

  Stories

  Washington, Bryan

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  In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girls of Paper and Fire

  Ngan, Natasha

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  In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stonewall Reader

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  The Stonewall Reader is a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots. Most importantly the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Life

  A Novel

  Taylor, Brandon

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  Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a Biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sister Outsider

  Essays and Speeches

  Lorde, Audre

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  In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose are incisive, unflinching, and lyrical,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Katie Met Cassidy

  Perri, Camille

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  Katie Daniels, a twenty-eight-year-old Kentucky transplant with a strong set of traditional values, has just been dumped by her fiancé when she finds herself seated across a negotiating table from native New Yorker Cassidy Price, a sexy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sissy

  A Coming-of-Gender Story

  Tobia, Jacob

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  "A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above" - Publisher. Also available in print and eAudiobook…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take Me With You

  Gibson, Andrea (Poet)

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  "Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a fierce willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to heal and to be different in this strange age" -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Here for It

  A Read with Jenna Pick: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

  Thomas, R. Eric

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  Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went - whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city - he found…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

  North, Anna

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  Gripping and provocative, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is a story of the power of art to transform lives and to destroy them, and of an artist's drive to create something greater than herself, even if it means sacrificing everything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spoiler Alert

  the Hero Dies : a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-letter Words

  Ausiello, Michael

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  Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan. Diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer, Michael revisits the many memories…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Both Die at the End

  Silvera, Adam, 1990-

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  In a near-future New York City, where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day. Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation