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“An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love’s underside…This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one’s inner thigh with an old serrated knife.” —André Aciman, author...

There's no straightforward path to LGBTQ2 parenthood and just as every queer person has their own coming out story, every LGBTQ2 family has a unique conception or adoption story. In Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories, creative non-fiction writers celebrate LGBTQ2 families and...

"A sensitive and empowering exploration of identity and expression that both educates and celebrates."—School Library JournalThe Gender Identity Workbook for Kids offers fun, age-appropriate activities to help your child explore their identity and discover unique ways to navigate gender expression at home, in school,...

Joyce is eighteen, a freshman at a fashionable school for girls; suddenly all that matters to her is a woman twice her age. This beautifully written pulp novel from 1957 is widely considered a historic milestone for its openly lesbian, feminist content.Includes an appendix...

Nyandoro was born the favorite. As the only girl of her parents’ six children, she gets everything she wants without even asking for it. When the latest thing she desires is the wife of a village elder, she faces consequences she never had to...

Part of a groundbreaking series of photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world, a moving portrait of a group of queer East Africans who fled their home countries for the United StatesSame-sex relations are illegal in thirty-eight African countries, often under colonial-era laws. One...

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate...

Examining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy, whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, and all things queer.Dodie Bellamy (b. 1951, in North Hammond, Indiana) has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area's avant-garde literary scene, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work...

Coming in May 2024: A stunning repackage of the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series.Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population.But, having...

Zoey Cohen spent a lifetime learning to hide disappointment and loss behind a mask of unshakeable calm and control, even when her longtime friend-with-benefits lover moves on for true love.Declan Black returns to Philadelphia Medical Center after an accident costs her the life she’d...

Body art can tell personal stories. When linked to a difficult or traumatic life, it can even restore one’s sense of well-being. As director of a community health center for twenty-seven years and as a nurse practitioner for over forty years, Donna Torrisi became...

A Publishers Weekly Notable Book49th Shelf Recommended ReadA modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page.“This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery — raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe...

"[A] warmly appealing romance." —BookPage on The Love StudyAll Mason wants to do is fall in love, get married and live happily ever after.The hunt is beginning to wear him down…until he meets (slightly) famous fashion designer Diego. Everything sparks between them—the banter, the...

Intrigue, romance, and magic abound in The Hollow Heart, the heart-stopping conclusion to Marie Rutkoski’s Forgotten Gods duology.At the end of The Midnight Lie, Nirrim offered up her heart to the god of thieves in order to restore her people’s memories of their city’s...

A Best Book of 2023 - Publisher's Weekly, Electric Literature, Chicago Public LibraryLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE"Alejandro Varela’s The People Who Report More Stress: Stories is a master class in analyzing the unspoken." —The New York...

A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life?especially queer and neurodivergent life?as a journey of continuous self-realization. These poems...

Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens.*Winner of the 2023 Bronze Foreword INDIE Book Award*85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the world is seen through men’s...

Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ FictionFor fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and griefFrom one of...

Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also “one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City” (Dwight Garner,―New York Times).Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel,...

NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022.'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle – may they never give me peace' –...

The action takes place in a bar near the deserted waterfront of a large American city, where the regular patrons look for compatible love, the occasional customer hopes for a quick sexual fix, and the female and transvestite hookers ply their trade

A master of science fiction introduces a world where everything is large and the problems of survival even larger in this exciting new novel.Hella is a planet where everything is oversized—especially the ambitions of the colonists.The trees are mile-high, the dinosaur herds are huge,...

Centered on one of Jaime's peaks, "The Death of Speedy," the second comprehensive "Locas" collection (with stories not in the hardcover) alternates between wrestling action and the triangle of Maggie, Hopey and Ray D.

* As Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez continue to delight readers new and old with the continuing adventures of their characters in the annual Love and Rockets: New Stories, Fantagraphics continues to collect their earlier stories in these fat, handy, and inexpensive collections. In this...

Wren Hanks' Lily-Livered is a stunning portrayal of trans experiences, mixing deft prose poetry and lush lyricism to profound effect.Wren Hanks' new collection is a lyrical and narrative masterpiece, examining his own trans experiences against the larger context of difficult-to-navigate modern world.Told primarily in...

“A magical anti-capitalist adventure.” ―Annalee NewitzNino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all...

The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—and “a modern masterpiece” (The Baltimore Sun)—narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met  the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka.  Convinced...

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art.Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were selected...

The final installment of the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, finds Shigekuni Honda an elderly wealthy man in the 1960s, adopting a teenage orphan whom he is convinced is the reincarnation of his childhood friend. • "One of the best final scenes in the history of...

"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world...

A damaged ship, a dying shipmate–can she save them both?Under attack! The flight back to Hyvilma should have been the easy part for the crew of the Majera–until a deadly ambush by pirates sends them reeling through hyperspace. Now getting to the planet in...

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of lifeThe morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad’s lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he...

As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing our opportunity to understand the reality behind the conflict's myths, machines and iconography. From filmmakers, writers, artists and ordinary people (including his own...

A new perspective on Tom of Finland, documenting his formative years in 1970s HamburgAlthough Tom of Finland’s iconic portrayals of sensual and powerful cowboys, farm hands, soldiers and leathermen are closely associated with American culture, it was in early 1970s Hamburg that the artist...

This special issue brings together scholars, artists, and activists working at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and radical movements to consider prison abolition as a project of queer liberation and queer liberation as an abolitionist project. Pushing beyond observations that prisons...

Drawing on critical theory, minimalism, constructivism and more, Alexandro Segade reimagines the superhero comic book as a queer parable of belongingA graphic novel by New York-based artist and My Barbarian member Alexandro Segade (born 1973), The Context follows six powerful beings from different worlds...

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...

Bicycling as a sport, a means of transportation, and a passionate pursuit is explored here by transgender, nonbinary, and intersex authors and artists. This groundbreaking volume includes a diverse range of experiencesA woman sets off on a long-distance tour across the desert, where she...

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit...

Reunited with Mike Smith in London, young American Gil Graham attempts to pursue his career in movies through script writing, while Mike's younger brother Will pursues Gil with all the guile and determination he possesses in abundance. Against the frantic backdrop of London's gay...

Songs of the Phoenix is a selection of rhythm and rhyme encompassing over three decades. My passion for poetry, reading, and writing began very early on. Enchanted by the fluidity and expressiveness of poetry I was compelled to delve into the mystical and magical...

Jason K. Friedman investigates art, sexuality, love, and religion in seven unconventional and engrossing short stories. A gay man attends his high school reunion in Savannah, where he's pursued by the now-married former football star. An awkward teenager grapples with notions of God and...

This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will help you navigate your gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.If you are a transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) teen, you may experience unique challenges with identity and interpersonal relationships. In addition to experiencing common teen...

Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writersOne Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a t-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows...

From the “basement / of that suburban church with its sad paint / job in Texas” to an old drag queen’s “parlor,” “that bazaar of flounce, chintz, feathers,” Clean, the award-winning collection by David J. Daniels, tears back the curtain of life to expose...

Using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism, this “provocative and pleasurable romp through contemporary gender politics . . . is as fun as it is illuminating” (Ariel Levy, New Yorker)Why are so many women single, so many men resisting...

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015Roberta Kaplan’s gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the Supreme Court.Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense...

Newly promoted Detective Lieutenant Rebecca Frye once again assembles her unorthodox team of lovers and friends to bring a deadly informant in the police department to justice.Aided by JT Sloan, a cyber-sleuth with a personal score to settle, Rebecca soon discovers that the conspiracy...

Literary agent Emily May is in danger of losing everything she’s worked for—her job, her home, her friends, and the security she provides her older sister back in Singapore—all because she doesn’t have a green card. Racecar enthusiast, high-flying, fast-living Derian Winfield is called...

After surviving a devastating car crash, Bryce Donovan is plagued by crippling nightmares that leave her terrified to close her eyes. She still bears the scars from that night, both emotionally and physically. Her job at Tweedy Contractors brings the diversion she is desperate...