2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist  The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David France's How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activism In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration,...

The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us From the eunuchs in the royal courts of ancient China to the booming market for 'elixirs' of youth in nineteenth-century Europe, humans have been obsessed with identifying and manipulating what we now know as...

Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockton explores the fascinating, fraught, intimate, morphing matter of gender. Stockton argues...

Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives.Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear...

A Story of Identity and Worth When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. 'Are you this?' she asked, cupping her hand. 'Or are you this?' she motioned with a poking finger. If you're the poker, she...

A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and...

A Life of James Baldwin James Baldwin was born into the squalor of a Harlem tenement and transcended an early life of setbacks and racism. A storefront preacher at the age of fourteen, he supported his entire family - mother and eight siblings - before...

An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer...

Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s A new reading of the sexual politics of 1930s leftist prose genresIt is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with leftist politics. Why, then, has there been no...

Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans life has become front and...

Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of "we’re queer and we’re here to stay, cause we’re every bit a...

The Hidden History of Gay Washington Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City.For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay...

From Foundations to Futures This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally. The authors engage with a wide range of developments in...

Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man! Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of cripgay voices rising to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression...

Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the...

The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be Making a baby through love and science? Get the guidance you need to navigate the conception process with confidence and ease. "[A] a well-researched, deeply comprehensive (and readable!) guide to building a queer family in...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town....

A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood, conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson, eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As...

From contributors to The Conversation, a look at gender diversity in the twenty-first century and the intricate and intersecting challenges faced by trans and nonbinary people. With media amplifying the voices of anti-trans legislators and critics, it is important to turn to the stories,...

A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it...

The Woman I Am traces Samantha's story from her birth, childhood, teenage years and the first two and half decades of her life as Richard. We learn the pain of realising she was a woman trapped in male body. The total freedom she felt...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 22 May 2025A gorgeously illustrated, accessible celebration of queer activism, by the creator of the award-winning Suffragette, David Roberts. Touching on major moments in the story of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights including the Stonewall Uprising, the first Gay Pride Rally...

Sexuality and the State in the Middle East The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the...

If you lifted this book from the shelf, you're probably interested in learning more about gender. You could be in the earliest stages of questioning, newly out, well into your transition, or an ally hoping to receive some extra tips and tricks. No matter...

'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson. 'Jim is as eloquent and elegant with words as with the camera... Read it and drink it in!' Helena Bonham Carter, In Solid Ivory, a...

What is socialist feminism and why is it needed to fight the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism? Frieda Afary brings the insights gained through her study of feminist philosophy, her international activism and her work in community education as a public librarian in...

The hilarious memoir from everyone's favourite Scottish drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Lawrence Chaaaaaaney.'Gorgeous, hugely talented, funny, charismatic, adorable, Chaney is a goddess and brings us joy.' - Lorraine. Lawrence Chaney is a testament to the strength that comes from drag. Lawrence (Drag)...

Black Icons in Herstory features colourfully illustrated portraits and inspiring biographies of 50 of the most admired women in the fields of music, film, literature, politics, human rights, and more. This second book in our Icons series focuses exclusively on extraordinary Black women and...

'It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors . . . But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.'   In the wake of...

Two Dads, One Adoption and the Meaning of Parenthood A pause. 'Ah, Herr Fergusson. It's Frau Schwenk.' Our social worker, I now understood.'Thank you for getting back to me. I'm calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.'...