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Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of transgender and gender nonconforming people, with a focus on those who identified in other than a straightforward binary fashion; on communities in West Africa, Asia, and among Native Americans; and on cross-dressing in World War I prison camps and in entertainment.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society--she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From one of Japan's most notable manga artists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance that compares and contrasts the contemporary nature of gay tolerance in the East and the West. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares...
Author
Publisher
Vermont Pride Theater
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
108 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Early in 2019, Vermont Pride Theater commissioned playwright Maura Campbell to interview people around the state about their experiences growing up LGBTQ in Vermont. She wove into the script the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of 18 of these folks... Those interviewed were then urged to perform the play during Pride Theater's 2019 summer festival, telling onstage their own deeply personal stories. Overwhelmed audiences laughed with them, cried...
Publisher
Diamond Law
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, gender non-conforming, and transgender in the Pacific Northwest. Issues discussed include microaggressions, implicit bias, coming out, the gender binary, discrimination at the workplace, and family dynamics.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1987. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends, but it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that is off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she will have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the poems they used to exchange? Iris resolves to speak out against the rampant fear, misinformation, and prejudice...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.
28) Stay and fight
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--
Publisher
MITeen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In a society where the modification industry has transformed how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the 'reinvention' room to accept a gift from the dead. In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments, until distraction and inspiration arrive in the wake of a visitor. Entitlement-fueled drug use alters the landscape of white privilege, a robot remembers the earth,...
30) Loveless
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper – soon to be a major Netflix series.
It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean?
Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Popular author Picoult tackles the controversial topic of gay rights in her latest powerful tale. When music therapist Zoe Baxter�s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he can�t handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman. While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max falls off...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didn't understand why he was so... over the top. From choreographed carpet figure skating routines to the unavoidable fact that...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity -- and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
37) Memorial
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Nicholas Brink leaves New York City to join Clay Guillory in Italy, he thinks he knows what he's getting into. His more experienced boyfriend has come into a small inheritance from an eccentric bohemian artist: the windfall consists of counterfeit heirlooms as well as a share in a decrepit Venetian palazzo. Clay hopes to use Nick's connection to an antiques dealer to unload the fake silver on a brash, unsuspecting American. Clay's smarts and...
39) A child's introduction to pride: the inspirational history and culture of the LGBTQIA+ community
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An essential and empowering introduction to the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement throughout history with kid-friendly explanations of important terms"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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