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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

A Biomythography

by Audre Lorde ...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps ... Read more

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Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps
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Out Proud

Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice

Edited by Douglas Gosse ...

Produced in partnership with Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Out Proud: Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice is the second in a series of essay anthologies designed to give attention to issues that are sometimes ignored in the mainstream media—and a voice to those most closely affected by them. Expertly edited by sociologist Dr. Douglas Gosse, Out Proud features more than fifty short ... Read more

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Produced in partnership with Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Out Proud: Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice is the second in a series of essay anthologies designed to give attention to issues that are sometimes ignored in the mainstream media—and a voice to those most closely affected by them. Expertly edited by sociologist Dr. Douglas Gosse, Out Proud features more than fifty short
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Queen and country

Same–sex desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939–45

by Emma Vickers ...

Series series Gender in History
The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally hostile towards same-sex activity within its ranks. Queen and country also tells a story of selective ... Read more

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The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally hostile towards same-sex activity within its ranks. Queen and country also tells a story of selective
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Prairie Fairies

A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985

by Valerie Korinek ...

Series series Studies in Gender and History
Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and ... Read more

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Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and
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You Are My Happy Ending

Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television

by Emily Garside ...

From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt’s Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships.Cultural analyst Emily Garside shows how this series fused classic romcom and sitcom tropes to create a world with a queer love story at its core, starting with Daniel Levy, the co-creator who ... Read more

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From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt’s Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships.Cultural analyst Emily Garside shows how this series fused classic romcom and sitcom tropes to create a world with a queer love story at its core, starting with Daniel Levy, the co-creator who
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This Is My Real Name

A Stripper’s Memoir

by Cid V Brunet ...

Cid V Brunet spent their twenties stripping in clubs across Canada. They received a degree in creative writing from Douglas College and went on to participate in the Quebec Writers Federation mentorship program, where they wrote their first book, This Is My Real Name. ... Read more

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Cid V Brunet spent their twenties stripping in clubs across Canada. They received a degree in creative writing from Douglas College and went on to participate in the Quebec Writers Federation mentorship program, where they wrote their first book, This Is My Real Name.
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The Humble Lover

by Edmund White ...

A wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich octogenarian **and the young ballerino he covets-**Edmund White at his funniest and most unrestrained.Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he ... Read more

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A wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich octogenarian **and the young ballerino he covets-**Edmund White at his funniest and most unrestrained.Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he
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Fat Activism

A Radical Social Movement

by Charlotte Cooper ...

What is Fat Activism and why is it important?Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with around 30 years experience, answers this question by lifting the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offering a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times.In her expansive grassroots study she:Reveals details of fat activist methods and approaches and explodes mythsCharts extensive ... Read more

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What is Fat Activism and why is it important?Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with around 30 years experience, answers this question by lifting the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offering a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times.In her expansive grassroots study she:Reveals details of fat activist methods and approaches and explodes mythsCharts extensive
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First Gear

A Motorcycle Memoir

by Lorrie Jorgensen ...

First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir is a compelling story of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse that unrolls as the author, at age 50 and living with Multiple Sclerosis, rides her 2009 Harley-Davidson — named Thelma D. — from Ottawa to Winnipeg and back with a stop off in northern Ontario and a detour into Quebec. During her ride through the stunning landscape of the Canadian Shield, she ... Read more

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First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir is a compelling story of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse that unrolls as the author, at age 50 and living with Multiple Sclerosis, rides her 2009 Harley-Davidson — named Thelma D. — from Ottawa to Winnipeg and back with a stop off in northern Ontario and a detour into Quebec. During her ride through the stunning landscape of the Canadian Shield, she
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Quatre filles et un toit | Roman lesbien, livre lesbien

by Julie Lezzie, Livre Lesbien - Homoromance Éditions ...

Series Book 3 - Série lesbienne "4 filles..." comédie romantique FxF
Alex, l’écolo et Maëlle, la romantique, forment un couple fusionnel que l’acquisition d’une vieille ferme à retaper avec leurs copropriétaires et amies Fred, la butch mécano et Estelle la citadine aux talons hauts, va beaucoup ébranler. Heureusement, pour déménager et les soutenir, elles peuvent compter sur la bande : Fab et Léa, le couple de nymphos toujours à la recherche de chair fraîche, Nat ... Read more

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Alex, l’écolo et Maëlle, la romantique, forment un couple fusionnel que l’acquisition d’une vieille ferme à retaper avec leurs copropriétaires et amies Fred, la butch mécano et Estelle la citadine aux talons hauts, va beaucoup ébranler. Heureusement, pour déménager et les soutenir, elles peuvent compter sur la bande : Fab et Léa, le couple de nymphos toujours à la recherche de chair fraîche, Nat
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A Two-Spirit Journey

The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

by Ma-nee Chacaby ...

Series Book 18 - Critical Studies in Native History
WINNER of Canada Reads 2025From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism.As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa ... Read more

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WINNER of Canada Reads 2025From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism.As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa
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Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan

by Amy Brainer ...

Series series Families in Focus
Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored MonographInterweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about ... Read more

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Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored MonographInterweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about
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Shame-Sex Attraction

Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy

by Lucas Wilson ...

We are survivors.We were subjected to dehumanizing practices by people who sought our erasure.We believe telling our stories is both powerful and political.This edited collection brings together the experiences of those who have been subjected to queer conversion therapy - it is an effort to expose conversion practices for what they are - pseudoscientific, bogus, ineffective, and wildly traumatic ... Read more

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We are survivors.We were subjected to dehumanizing practices by people who sought our erasure.We believe telling our stories is both powerful and political.This edited collection brings together the experiences of those who have been subjected to queer conversion therapy - it is an effort to expose conversion practices for what they are - pseudoscientific, bogus, ineffective, and wildly traumatic
... Read more
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film

Edited by Erica Joan Dymond, Salvador Jiménez Murguía ...

"A valuable reference guide for film collections and LGBTQIA+ studies." — Library Journal, Starred ReviewThe depictions of LGBTQIA+ characters in film have always varied immensely. However, the negative depictions often seem to outweigh the positive, perhaps because of the hurt they inspire or perhaps because they regrettably outnumber the positive films.The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in ... Read more

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"A valuable reference guide for film collections and LGBTQIA+ studies." — Library Journal, Starred ReviewThe depictions of LGBTQIA+ characters in film have always varied immensely. However, the negative depictions often seem to outweigh the positive, perhaps because of the hurt they inspire or perhaps because they regrettably outnumber the positive films.The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in
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Transgender Emergence

Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families

by Arlene Istar Lev, Arlene Istar Lev ...

Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clientsThis comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views assessment and treatment through a ... Read more

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Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clientsThis comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views assessment and treatment through a
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Sister Outsider

Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde ...

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, ... Read more

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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism,
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The Daughter of The CEO

by S. B. Sheeran ...

Bridgeport Marketing’s CEO is a difficult man to work for, but Carmen, his Executive Assistant has convinced herself that she can handle it. Things get more complicated when the CEO’s daughter, Bonnie, comes home and visit her dad often at the office. Bonnie is like a ray of sunshine in her father’s eyes and soon becomes one for Carmen, too. ... Read more

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Bridgeport Marketing’s CEO is a difficult man to work for, but Carmen, his Executive Assistant has convinced herself that she can handle it. Things get more complicated when the CEO’s daughter, Bonnie, comes home and visit her dad often at the office. Bonnie is like a ray of sunshine in her father’s eyes and soon becomes one for Carmen, too.
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Tomboy Survival Guide

by Ivan Coyote ...

Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Non-Fiction finalistIvan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and ... Read more

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Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Non-Fiction finalistIvan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and
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Girlish

Growing Up in a Lesbian Home

by Lara Lillibridge ...

***Finalist, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, LGBT Adult Nonfiction category******Award-Winning Finalist, 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest, LGBTQ Non-Fiction category***An honest, unfiltered memoir about a girl with an unconventional family.“The story everyone wants to hear isn’t the story I want to tell.” Lara Lillibridge grew up with two moms—an experience that ... Read more

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***Finalist, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, LGBT Adult Nonfiction category******Award-Winning Finalist, 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest, LGBTQ Non-Fiction category***An honest, unfiltered memoir about a girl with an unconventional family.“The story everyone wants to hear isn’t the story I want to tell.” Lara Lillibridge grew up with two moms—an experience that
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Backhanded Compliments

A Novel

by Katie Chandler ...

A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates—perfect for fans of Expiration Dates and Here We Go Again.Juliette Ricci dreams of only one thing: being the best women’s tennis player in the world. She’s worked nonstop with her strict father/coach to prepare for her big chance in the Australian Open. Unfortunately, she’ll be ... Read more

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A steamy sapphic romance with a fantastical twist about two bitter tennis rivals who realize they are reluctant soulmates—perfect for fans of Expiration Dates and Here We Go Again.Juliette Ricci dreams of only one thing: being the best women’s tennis player in the world. She’s worked nonstop with her strict father/coach to prepare for her big chance in the Australian Open. Unfortunately, she’ll be
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Big-Boobed Beth

by Anne Eton ...

Beth Collins’ oversized breasts make her the laughingstock of her high school. But when cool, worldly Katie arrives in town, she befriends the social outcast. The girls draw closer and closer together… until Beth discovers just how close girlfriends can be.First-time F/F erotic romance. Everyone in this fictional story is 18 or older.Adults only. Over 8,000 words. ... Read more

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Beth Collins’ oversized breasts make her the laughingstock of her high school. But when cool, worldly Katie arrives in town, she befriends the social outcast. The girls draw closer and closer together… until Beth discovers just how close girlfriends can be.First-time F/F erotic romance. Everyone in this fictional story is 18 or older.Adults only. Over 8,000 words.
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

A Novel

by Bob the Drag Queen ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle • Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub • Biggest Books of March by Book Riot • Most Anticipated Books of March by GoodreadsFeaturing two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!“Harriet Tubman: Live in Concer... ... Read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle • Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub • Biggest Books of March by Book Riot • Most Anticipated Books of March by GoodreadsFeaturing two new songs written for the audiobook and performed by Bob the Drag Queen!“Harriet Tubman: Live in Concer...
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Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

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In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a
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Burn It Down

Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

by Maureen Ryan ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited.It... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited.It...
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