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• Gay Poems for Red States

  Carver, Willie Edward Taylor, Jr.,

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  A poet who won Kentucky’s Teacher of the Year Award, Carver has since left his job when he couldn't continue teaching as an openly gay man. These poems present both the harsh realities of being gay and an outpouring of love for a place…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homie

  Poems

  Smith, Danez,

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  A collection of poems about intimacy and joy as experienced by a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, and in the face of xenophobia, and disparity.

• Fieldwork

  a Forager's Memoir

  Regan, Iliana, 1979-

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  With elegant and poetic language, the author explores her how her early life in the forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula has informed her work as a chef and her complex gender identity.

• Awâsis - Kinky and Dishevelled

  Halfe, Louise, 1953-

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  A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this racous and rebellious work by an award-winning poet.

• Marry Me a Little

  a Graphic Memoir

  Kirby, Robert, 1962-

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  Recounts the author's experience of marrying his longtime partner just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage the law of the land.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• XOXY

  Zieselman, Kimberly M., 1966-

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  Charting her intersex discovery and her journey to self-acceptance, the author movingly portrays how being intersex impacted Kimberly's personal and family life, as well as her career.

• Secret City

  the Hidden History of Gay Washington

  Kirchick, James,

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  Through declassified documents, interviews, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives, the author and journalist illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesbian Love Story

  a Memoir in Archives

  Possanza, Amelia,

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  The author set out to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the 20th century. Along the way, discovers her own love and adds her record to the archive.

• When Brooklyn Was Queer

  Ryan, Hugh, 1978-

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  The story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.

• With Honor and Integrity

  Transgender Troops in Their Own Words

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  This book shares the experiences of transgender military personnel, past and present.

• I Felt the End Before It Came

  Memoirs of a Queer ex-Jehovah's Witness

  Cox, Daniel Allen,

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  The author examines his break with his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing in these elegant essays, addressing the "complex repercussions of his “disassociation” from the group after he came out as gay via a “breakup letter to Jehovah” mailed to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greedy

  Notes From a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

  Winston, Jen,

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  Funny memoir from a bisexual woman struggling with bi invisibility and not being “queer enough” to be part of the LGBTQ+ umbrella.

• Better Living Through Birding

  Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World

  Cooper, Christian,

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  Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper’s story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him.

• Jimmy Neurosis

  a Memoir

  Oseland, James,

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  A gay teen punk grows up to be a judge on Top Chef Masters in this coming of age memoir.

• Punch Me Up to the Gods

  Broome, Brian,

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  Struggling against addiction and searching for Black Queer spaces in this debut memoir.

• High-risk Homosexual

  a Memoir

  Gomez, Edgar (Writer),

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  A Nicaraguan man navigates machismo culture, life in Florida and PrEP.

• Red Rock Baby Candy

  Spector, Shira,

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  Beautiful illustrations mark this intense memoir about the loss of a parent and about trying to stay pregnant. Great for fans of Lynda Barry, David Small’s Stitches, or Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters.

• Gay Bar

  Why We Went Out

  Lin, Jeremy Atherton,

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  Has the gay bar outlived its usefulness? A history and memoir of when there were no other safe spaces.

• The 2000s Made Me Gay

  Essays on Pop Culture

  Perry, Grace, 1989-

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• Dear Senthuran

  a Black Spirit Memoir

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  "Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through…Read moreRead more of this annotation