I Promise

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

Two-time BC Book Prize finalist (Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes)

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, ...

Hustling Verse

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

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 for a race. The film marked ...

Death Threat

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

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's ...

Double Melancholy

By C.E. Gatchalian
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian 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: Women's Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature
Series: VS. Books

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

In Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

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

Finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. ...

Tonguebreaker

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

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 ...

The Walking Boy

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