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• Real Queer America

  LGBT Stories From Red States

  Allen, Samantha (Journalist),

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  In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day."

• Baldwin

  a Love Story

  Boggs, Nicholas, 1973-

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  This biography covers the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Choosing Family

  a Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance

  Royster, Francesca T.,

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  Choosing Family is an examination of all the facets of parenthood and adoption with a specifically black, queer, feminist perspective.

• Cleavage

  Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

  Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 1958-

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  How does gender affect our sense of self? Our body image? The passage of time? The friends we lose—and keep? Boylan considers her womanhood, reflects on the boys and men who shaped her, and reconceives of herself as a writer, activist, parent, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Einstein of Sex

  Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

  Brook, Daniel,

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  Brook retraces Hirschfeld’s rollicking life and reinvigorates his legacy, recovering one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. In an era when gay sex was a crime and gender roles rigid, Hirschfeld taught that each of us is their own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hijab Butch Blues

  a Memoir

  H, Lamya,

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  In this Stonewall Award winning memoir, Lamya hides her identity in plain sight while also coming to terms with what that means while growing up in the Middle East.

• It Rhymes With Takei

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  For the first time ever, George Takei shares the full story of his life in the closet, his decision to come out as gay at the age of 68, and the way that moment transformed everything.

• The Male Gazed

  on Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (desiring) Men

  Betancourt, Manuel (Writer),

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  Manuel Betancourt disassembles the conventions of toxic masculinity by combining personal stories with cultural criticism.

• Marsha

  the Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

  Tourmaline,

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  Marsha, a legendary Black transgender activist, embodied both the beauty and the struggle of the early gay rights movement. Her work sparked the progress we see today, yet there has never been a definitive record of her life. Until now.

• Pageboy

  a Memoir

  Page, Elliot, 1987-

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  Elliot Page’s highly lauded memoir is a story of startling self-acceptance and vile abuse from the Hollywood machine. Pageboy is a testament to stepping outside of expectations and into personal truth through strength and joy.