I Promise

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

Hustling Verse

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

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 ...

Double Melancholy

By C.E. Gatchalian
Categories: Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian 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. ...

The Walking Boy

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

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Youth Culture

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. ...

Jonny Appleseed

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

2021 CANADA READS WINNER

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; ...

Manila by Night

By Joel David
Series edited by Matthew Hays & Thomas Waugh
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay 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 Jul Maroh
Translated by David Homel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Erotica, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Fiction, Women's Literature, Gay Literature

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

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

Female Trouble

By Chris Holmlund
Series edited by Matthew Hays & Thomas Waugh
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on John Waters' 1974 dark comedy.

The first title in the Queer Film Classic series to focus on the work of legendary director and cinematic camp icon John Waters, best known for the ...