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Nonfiction

I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall

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Lambda Award Finalist
“I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am [...]

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‘The Screwball Asses’ by Guy Hocquenghem

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As a self-professed queer theorist and pop culture aficionado, I will be the first to admit that I see queerness [...]

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The Spirit of It: Religion & Spirituality Books

by Thom Nickels Bio/Memoir

At the end of the day, when the big parties are over and when youth has long since vacated our [...]

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‘The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America’ by Margot Canaday

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Lambda Award Winner
For the vast majority of Americans, citizenship is something ultimately taken for granted, an inevitable “gimme” that—along with [...]

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‘Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women and Unorthodox Desires’ Edited by Miryam Kabakov

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The ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community closes itself off to outsiders and will only accept new ideas if they fit [...]

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‘Role Models’ by John Waters

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While drafting an introductory letter to Johnny Mathis in his new collection of writing, Role Models, John Waters thinks: “Explain [...]

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‘The Lavender Locker Room’ by Patricia Nell Warren

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This wonderful book is a collection of nineteen essays highlighting gay pioneers in athletics.  Originally written for Outsports.com, this book [...]

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‘The Judy Grahn Reader’ edited by Lisa Marie Hogeland

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Lesbian culture in the United States has a history which spans more than a century.  Within that time, at least [...]

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“Queer Political Performance and Protest” by Ben Shepard

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In the fall of 2007, hundreds of people—including drag queens, former Act Uppers, anarchist punks, policy wonks and transmen—stood on [...]

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‘Kicked Out’ edited by Sassafras Lowrey

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Comprised of first-hand accounts of queer people pushed out of their homes into the mean streets of the USA to [...]

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