Got 'til it's Gone

By Larry Duplechan
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature

Winner of a Lambda Literary Award (gay romance)

As funny, warm, and sexy as its protagonist, Got 'til it's Gone is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter-ego ...

queersexlife

By Terry Goldie
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Evocative of writers Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories ...

Rat Bohemia

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat bohemia" of New York City, whose huddled masses include ...

The Carnivorous Lamb

By Agustin Gomez-Arcos
Introduction by Sharon G. Feldman
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Little Sister's Classics

The latest in the Little Sister's Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco's Spain, about a young ...

First Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Anthologies, Gay Literature

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Anthologies

Winner, Independent Publisher Award (GOLD), Gay/Lesbian

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest ...

The View from Here

By Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Biography & Memoir, Film & Media, Gay Literature

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Arts/Culture

One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2007

The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that became much larger with the recent success ...

Comfort Food for Breakups

By Marusya Bociurkiw
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Women's Literature, Cooking, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), ...

Seminal

Edited by John Barton & Billeh Nickerson
Categories: Poetry, Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Canada

A groundbreaking, comprehensive anthology of Canadian gay male poetry, the first of its kind, that reveals a national queer poetic that is equal parts eloquent, subversive, and moving. The material, from ...

The Future is Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, Gay Literature, Anthologies

Silver Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Science Fiction)
Silver winner, Independent Publisher Book Award (Fantasy/Science Fiction)
Winner, 2 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Best Book and Best ...

The Age of Cities

By Brett Josef Grubisic
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award
"Winston closed his eyes with relief. He heard muffled pulses of party noise, but still felt damp and uncomfortable. His brain had turned haywire. At the mirror ...