We Had No Rules

By Corinne Manning
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life.

A young teenager runs from her family's conservative home to her sister's NY apartment to learn ...

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

By Amber Dawn
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry

In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed ...

The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," ...

I Promise

Text by Catherine Hernandez
Illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Trans Literature, Gay Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, Asian Literature

Catherine Hernandez's literary career exploded with the 2017 publication of her award-winning novel Scarborough. Her latest, I Promise, marks her delightful return to children's literature, having published ...

Rebent Sinner

By Ivan Coyote
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Biography & Memoir

BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes)

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous ...

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: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media
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: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

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, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Biography & Memoir

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

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 Mutonji's disarming debut story ...