I Promise

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

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

Governor General's Literary Award finalist; BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Forest of Reading Evergreen Award finalist

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent ...

Hustling Verse

Edited by Amber Dawn & Justin Ducharme
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature, Anthologies, Poetry, Trans 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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans 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, 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, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's 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, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful ...

The Walking Boy

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