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The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets. In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the...

"Why? Why can't we all live free?" -H. Lee"How can you blame me for surviving?" -Mecca"Why do we always want to hurry? And do we really gotta go?" -FullerThis collection of poems by incarcerated writers poses these questions and more - exploring love, loss...

After the death of Christopher Davis, Louis McKay who was Chris's best friend gets in touch with Chris's brother, Will Gordan and informs him about the death of his brother. Will is suspicious about Louis information because as far as Will is concern, Chris...

Christopher Davis grew up in the mean streets of Flint, Michigan. He never knew his mother or father because he was given up at birth. Chris had been shuffled from one foster home after the next. At the young tender age of 12, he...

Thirty-two strangers arrive at a Church-owned retreat facility on Saturday to work with some of the best trainers in the field of sexuality. They're told that by the end of the week, they'll know more about sex than ninety percent of the population. What...

Curtis Black is back with more than just his career as an actor but he has found himself in a position of having to choose between who has his mind, his body or his heart. Curtis has a woman name Joan and she has...

Malik is back and have become very successful in his modeling career. However, when he goes to celebrate his success with Ru, he is shocked and heartbroken to find the love of his life in a compromising position. Will that end their relationship for...

A long-overdue analysis of how Black lesbians have asserted their lived experience through creative practice, pushing back against heteropatriarchal systems that deny them visibility. "We Must Document Ourselves Now" examines the essential but oft-ignored importance of Black lesbian literature and film in queer literary...

#girlgaze is on a mission to close the gender gap by creating visibility and tangible jobs for girls behind the lens and this timely book, from photographer and media entrepreneur Amanda de Cadenet's visionary focus, features a beautiful and powerful collection of images capturing...

Fill the void. Lift your voice. Say Her Name.Black women, girls, and femmes as young as seven and as old as ninety-three have been killed by the police, though we rarely hear their names or learn their stories. Breonna Taylor, Alberta Spruill, Rekia Boyd,...

$pread, an Utne Award-winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011.This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply traumatic to totally hilarious, analysis of media and culture, and fantastic...

Imani Sims' magical (A)live Heart brings the reader into a sacred space where language invites us to "gather in the living room and story-tell the dead exploits of Black women." These poems explore the political, the personal, the public, and the private, all while...

Glyph Award winner Juliana "Jewels" Smith and illustrator Ronald Nelson have created an unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force on the most pressing issues of the day-- including gentrification, police violence, and the housing crisis--with humor and biting satire. (H)afrocentric tackles racism, patriarchy, and popular...

(On Un-)Becoming is a collection of stories, reflections, forgivenesses and offerings rooted in conversations and conflicts with FreeQuency's mother, chosen family & other selves. The anti disciplinary project liberates the concept of "transitioning" from the realm of Westernized notions of gender and expands exploresexplodes...

Queer people spend around $100 billion annually on travel, and are twice as likely as the general population to hold a passport. In short, they love to travel! Despite their lavish spending, queer travelers are often underserved. They are either overlooked when it comes...

The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an...

"Brilliance on every single page."--CHRISTINA LAUREN, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, for Boyfriend MaterialFAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS.Sam Becker loves--or, okay, likes--his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets...

Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of...

100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that already hold significant places in queer film canons, this volume examines often-overlooked titles. By...

This guide from the Michigan State University School of Journalism is designed to be a starting point for learning about gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, and other sexual orientations. It answers basic questions in order to facilitate deeper conversations and has sections on terminology, identity,...

Tanya is no ordinary girl. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. Evil fairies who cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her out of bed. At wit's end with her daughter's inexplicable behavior, Tanya's mother sends...

A novel-in-verse about life after loss, 13 Ways to Say Goodbye beautifully renders the power of sibling bonds, the depth of grief, and the strength of learning to love again, perfect for fans of Everywhere Blue and The Distance to Home, from the author...

Chad meets Joel. It's practically love at first sight. The only problem? Chad is dating Nikki, his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years.Awkward...What's a boy to do when he's in love with another boy but doesn't want to break his girlfriend's heart?Follow Chad Walker's life after...

Levithan, David

Published as a companion piece to their debut story collection, Bread and Water, 1969 recounts with wry exuberance a year in the emotional life of the poet Eileen Myles, or their canny stand-in, at the louche age of nineteen turning twenty. Writing of early boyfriends, witnessing Woodstock,...

1973 held all of life's possibilities before me. I had graduated high school in 1972 and begun theatre school in the fall. That August, I had left behind my lover -- a married woman more than twice my age -- back in my hometown...

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman A Lambda Literary Award Finalist "Honest, funny,...

Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume--have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of...

People and places come and go, but the after-party never stops when it's 2AM Eternal.Your host, Eric Kostiuk Williams, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto's queer community, from basements to the backstage to back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to...

These three novellas could not be more different, yet they are tied together by a unified theme: Gay Love. They run the gamut from the spiritual (The Transplanted Heart) to the Profane (Eternal Love) to murder and suspense (Death on the Hudson).The Transplanted Heart...

A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Greek and Roman love stories that reclaim and celebrate homosexual love and sensuality, from artist Luke Edward Hall and award-winning poet Seán Hewitt. For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world has either been ignored or...

An amusing, uplifting and thought-provoking collection of inspirational quotes and everyday wisdom to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community. The perfect gift for celebrating Pride month. "If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities - the expression...

45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver's seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the political climate to focus on his own self destruction. When...

Val Montague travels back to her childhood home of Hemlock, Oregon, to handle the estate of her dead mother. All she wants to do is follow her mother's wishes, liquidate the assets, and leave town. Cam Nelson, a high school dropout and town outcast,...

Sumiya, Zeniko

Arthur who is better known as Art, seems to have an attraction for the different type of men. The first type is the young brotha. Those that are at least over 21 but yet, they have nothing in common but sex. Then there's the...

Tristan Taormino can tell you everything you want to know about the world of kink, and more! Operating on the pleasure principle, 50 Shades of Kink is a truly helpful how-to that is the perfect beginner's guide to the realm of kinky sex and...

McGlynn, Karyna

Winner of The 2024 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize, selected by Carolyn Hembree6 Lineage Poems is a debut poetry collection rooted in the body and the world. Half the collection is lush and evocative, lingering in the sensuous. The other half sits in stillness and...

"Pop your favorite Agatha Christie whodunnit into a blender with a scoop of Downton Abbey, a dash of Quantum Leap, and a liberal sprinkling of Groundhog Day and you'll get this unique murder mystery." --Harper's BazaarTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER!The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is...

Kat Cataclysm is an ethically non-monogamous bisexual woman and absurdist short fiction writer who embarks upon writing a book called 99 Erics, chronicling her experiences dating ninety-nine different people named Eric. The book is largely comprised of humorous anecdotes from Kat's dates with various...

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving presentThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and...

Nguyen, TrinityAugust 20, 2024

The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day Gender and sexual expression have always been part of the Black freedom struggle In this latest book in Beacon's award-winning ReVisioning...

A memoir and mythography of a Black trans man's journey from Baby Girl to Black Boi, through gender, race, and trans theory made personalIn a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people, on the rejection of queer and trans rights,...

Simpson, JayeApril 15, 2025