Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Glamour, CNN, and Shondaland "Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable... every page twinkles with brilliance." -Refinery29.  Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror,...

A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty...

Tales from a Fully Packed Life No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything - an abuse,...

An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers.This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and...

A Family Tragicomic DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times. A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this....

Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture. A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between. All The Things She Said explores the nature of 21st century queerness. Lesbian and bi culture is ever-changing and here, journalist...

Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin-Fire Island: a slim strip of...

A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American"Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to find themselves--as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a queer person, and as a Wuhanese American in the middle of a...

Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism, 1970-2022Author of the Penderyn Prize-winning The Velvet Mafia, Fifty years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the performing arts...

Growing Up With a Closeted Gay DadIn 1937, at the age of nineteen, Ralph Hall, suicidal, revealed his sexual orientation to his grandmother, knowing she would comfort him. He was out for three years afterwards, until an indiscretion sent him back into the closet....

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright, revealing never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career Harvey Fierstein's legendary...

Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this...

A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and MasculinityShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Welcome Book Prize In this ground breaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling...

Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much A hilarious and whip-smart collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit and anyone who wants, and deserves, to...

A life of contradiction This superb memoir of a gay, working class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment to his faith. Spanning the late 1960s...

Two Women's Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs An LGBTQ memoir about one couple's struggles to defy the patriarchy and redefine the nuclear family, The Other Mothers dives into the history and social challenges queer couples face when trying to make...

For anyone struggling to conceive or have a child naturally, this straightforward self-help book could be the answer. Written in an easy-to-read style by consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician, Dr. Sean Watermeyer, the aim of the book is to enrich the knowledge of both individuals...

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told...

'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than...

Christopher Anstee grew up in the hidden and isolated coal mining valleys of Wales. He struggled to conform with the limitations of his small world, and by the age of eight, he had already been confronted with intolerance and the ridicule of the very...

A Saint's Testament Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality. In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The...

Journals, 1991-1994 'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour...

A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home A memoir by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (last name pronounced "Pee-EPP-shnah, Suh-muh-ruh-SINGH-hah"), a poet/activist who is well regarded within queer, South Asian, and disabled communities. While she has written essays and contributed to anthologies, this is...

A step-by-step guide to realizing the American dream, The Threesome Handbook: A Practical Guide to Sleeping with Three is the first book to give tri-curious men and women the inside scoop on threesomes. Having finally slipped into the mainstream, on MTV, Boston Legal, Entourage,...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald. I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just...

The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical. Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment, and...

'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though...

"Fresh, original, heartbreaking" Reni Eddo-Lodge. "Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic" Pandora Sykes. Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' like a poof" after school. Sick...

A wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition - a part of our...

This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years (using the name Michelle) working as a dancer at strip clubs. From her very first lap dance in a small-town bar to working at high-end clubs, Michelle learns...