Hustling Verse

Edited by Amber Dawn & Justin Ducharme
Categories: Anthologies, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Trans Literature, Gay Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience ...

Scorpio Rising

By R.L. Cagle
Categories: Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award

The final book in the Queer Film Classics series is R. L. Cagle's take on Scorpio Rising (1963), Kenneth Anger's avant-garde short film that about gay Nazi bikers preparing ...

Death Threat

By Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Ness Lee
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Doug Wright Award

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated ...

Double Melancholy

By C.E. Gatchalian
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own identity. ...

Shut Up You're Pretty

By Tea Mutonji
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature
Series: VS. Books

CANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2024

Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

In Tea ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

By Arielle Twist
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful ...

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: Fiction, Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. ...

Sketchtasy

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils ...

The Tiger Flu

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...