Farewell My Concubine

By Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic
is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman ...

Fire

By Shohini Ghosh
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

Fire: A Queer Film Classic delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian
love story by Indian-born director Deepa
Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class
Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is ...

Finistere

By Fritz Peters
Introduction by Michael Bronski
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction
Series: Little Sister's Classics

Mechanically, watching the land disappear into the sea, the word Finstère came to mind. Finis-terre. Land's End. From here it really looked it . . . it was the end of Brittany, the end of France. The ...

Fame Us

By (photographer) Brian Howell
Commentaries by Stephen Osborne & Norbert Ruebsaat
Categories: Photography, Film & Media, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture

Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Photography category

In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell takes us into the world of celebrity impersonators--the faux famous ...

Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers

By Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Latin American Literature, Fiction

An extravagant, tragicomic novel, Flesh Wounds & Purple Flowers takes us into the world of Latino machos and cha-cha divas of Santiago's gay underground, full of dreamers and schemers looking for salvation ...

First Spring Grass Fire

By Rae Spoon
Categories: Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses ...

Fish For Thought

By Living Oceans Society
Categories: Cooking

Our planet's oceans have provided us with an enormous array of edible delectables. But recent experiences, such as declining stocks of specific fish species, have taught us the need for responsible fishing ...

Flat

By Mark Macdonald
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

A dead man is discovered in his apartment, surrounded by notes, books, and other assorted fragments of his life. A distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess, clear out the space, and try ...

Forbidden Love

By Jean Bruce, Gerda Cammaer
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, and Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Film & Media, Women's Literature, Canada, History
Series: Queer Film Classics

QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed series that launched in 2009, edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering some of the most important and influential films about and/or by LGBT people ...

Franny, the Queen of Provincetown

By John Preston
Introduction by Michael Lowenthal
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction
Series: Little Sister's Classics

In Franny, The Queen of Provincetown, John Preston created one of his most memorable characters from the more than 30 books he authored or edited over his storied career. Franny is a proud, protective ...