I Promise

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

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, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Trans Literature, Poetry, Lesbian 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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, 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, Women's Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian 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 ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

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

Winner, Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human ...

The Walking Boy

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

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 ...

Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class ...