Nothing Looks Familiar

By Shawn Syms
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

Sharp-eyed tales about outsiders, non-conformists, and iconoclasts.

In Nothing Looks Familiar, Shawn Syms' debut story collection, characters from a wide swath of society chart paths from places of danger ...

She of the Mountains

By Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Raymond Biesinger
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail)

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she.

Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. ...

Look Who's Morphing

By Tom Cho
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Gay Literature

First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian-Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in pop culture. The book's ...

Artificial Cherry

By Billeh Nickerson
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Poetry

Finalist, Vancouver Book Award

Billeh Nickerson is one of Canada's showiest poets; colourful, witty, and wise, with undertones of sexy. By turns outlandish and poignant, Artificial Cherry heralds the return ...

Gender Failure

By Ivan Coyote & Rae Spoon
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues

Being a girl was something that never really happened for me. -Rae Spoon

Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted ...

Paris Is Burning

By Lucas Hilderbrand
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: Popular Culture, BIPOC, Latin American Literature, Black Literature, Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on the stunning 1991 documentary about the drag subculture in 1980s New York.

This latest addition to the Queer Film Classics series is an homage to Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston's ...

Universal Hunks

By David L. Chapman
Foreword by Douglas Brown
Categories: Visual Arts, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Photography, Popular Culture

A lively, wide-ranging visual history of muscular men from around the world.

Over the last 100 years, the image of the muscular man has known no boundaries; it has been the object of envy, admiration, ...

After Delores

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Sarah Schulman's surprising novel about a brokenhearted waitress looking for love in New York's Lower East Side.

In this new edition of Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel, the unnamed narrator is a ...

Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter

By S. Bear Bergman
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

The celebrated essayist sheds necessary (and humorous) light on gender, sexuality, and family.

S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer who travels regularly across ...

Blue Is the Warmest Color

By Jul Maroh
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Fiction, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

A New York Times bestseller

The live-action French film version of Blue is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.

Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur ...