Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Youth Culture, Fiction, 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. ...

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Health, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian 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 ...

Forward

By Lisa Maas
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book

A moving and intimate LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together.

Still smarting years ...

Jonny Appleseed

By Joshua Whitehead
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg ...

Little Fish

By Casey Plett
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the dead of winter in ...

Sodom Road Exit

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

Lambda Literary Award and Sunburst Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving ...

Manila by Night

By Joel David
Series edited by Matthew Hays & Thomas Waugh
Categories: Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on a controversial 1980 film by queer Filipino filmmaker Ishmael Bernal.

A Queer Film Classic on Ishmael Bernal's 1980 film that follows a dozen characters, all denizens of Manila's ...

Body Music

By Julie Maroh
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, Erotica, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Gay Literature

From the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a beautiful, bittersweet graphic novel on the complexities of love.

Julie Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it ...