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• Queer

  a Graphic History

  Barker, Meg-John, 1974-

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  Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wildes

  a Novel in Five Acts

  Bayard, Louis

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  A historical novel explores the life of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.

• The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  Brings together a new collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of a diverse group of lesbian friends.

• The Disenchantment

  Bell, Celia

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  This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost.

• The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

  a Novel

  Cameron, Briony

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  An epic tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.

• The House of Impossible Beauties

  Cassara, Joseph

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  Follows a cast of gay and transgender kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and 1990s.

• Survival Is a Promise

  the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

  Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-

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  This scintillating tour de force from poet Gumbs traces the life of feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) in a free-ranging style as distinctive as its subject. (Publishers Weekly)

• What I Know About You

  Chacour, Éric/ Strauss, Pablo (TRN)

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  A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.

• The Adventures of China Iron

  Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela, 1968-

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  China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

  Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

  Hartman, Saidiya V.

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  Traces a lesser-known time of radical transformation of black life in early 20th-century America, revealing how a large number of black women forged relationships, families and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to moral…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World and All That It Holds

  Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-

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  Rafael Pinto has returned to Sarajevo and his Sephardic Jewish family in 1914 after his glory days at college in Vienna. Enamored of other men, poetry, and altered states, he had hoped for a more exciting life than taking over his father’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nothing Ever Just Disappears

  Seven Hidden Queer Histories

  Hester, Diarmuid, 1982-

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  A personal and historical engagement with the places where queer art and culture have thrived.

• Before We Were Trans

  a New History of Gender

  Heyam, Kit, 1990-

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  This global history of gender nonconformity examines the stories of people from antiquity to the present who defied categorization and looks to the past to uncover new possibilities for possible trans futures.

• The Prophets

  a Novel

  Jones, Robert, Jr., 1971-

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  Two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation find refuge in each other while transforming a quiet shed into a haven for their fellow slaves, before an enslaved preacher declares their bond sinful.

• Gay Bar : Why We Went Out

  Lin, Jeremy Atherton

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  A writer’s intimate trans-Atlantic history of gay bars. (Kirkus)

• It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful

  How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

  Lowery, Jack (Writer)

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  By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild and Wicked Things

  May, Francesca

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  In the aftermath of WWI, Annie, while on Crow Island -- a place rumored to be rife with magic -- to settle her father's estate, is drawn into a glittering, haunted world when she is tempted by her new neighbor, a woman surrounded by rumors of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sleeping Car Porter

  Mayr, Suzette

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  Mayr’s dazzling latest tells the story of Baxter, a queer Black train porter, during a trip from Montreal to Vancouver in 1929. (Publishers Weekly)

• My Government Means to Kill Me

  Newson, Rasheed

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  A fierce queer coming-of-age story follows the personal and political awakening of a young gay black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of Narcos.

• Fire Island

  a Century in the Life of An American Paradise

  Parlett, Jack, 1992-

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  A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century.