The World's Queer Frontiers. CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020. 'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil rights and the many people on whom it bears.' Colm Toibin, Guardian. 'Powerful......

Lights. Glamour. Action! Take a peek into the cultural phenomenon that is Drag, in this lusciously illustrated guide to the history of the phenomenon, from ancient theatre to the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race.Drag has been around for thousands of years. A fabulous mix...

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...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie?...

'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...

The History, the People, the Parades. Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of...

Feminism and the Subversion of IdentityOne of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female,...

From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow 'One of the greatest global creative change-makers and activists in the world right now brings his incredible charisma, provocation and personality into this important book.' Ruth Daniel, CEO and Artistic Director,...

The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience to this day. Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912....

The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler. A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY. We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there...

The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience to this day. Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912....

'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from...

Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day. 'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way, through the history and experiences of its gay...

A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected...

Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enough. For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient...

'One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times' The Quietus. Long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize. In 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Small town Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it. June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most significant event in the...

'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated?...

Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old...

Britain in the Time of AIDSWith a new introduction by Russell T Davies. A new edition of the award-winning, ground-breaking account of the early AIDS crisis in Britain. 'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out. 'Powerful... Indispensable.' Observer. 'Superb.' London Review of Books. Winner of the...

A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture "An invaluable resource for both new and veteran allies...obvious and necessary" (Library Journal, starred review) information for everyone who wants to learn more about how...

On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of submitting to the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that...

A Racial History of Trans Identity. Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary...

The Roots of Today's Revolution. Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in...

Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement.Before...

A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the...

My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on her life and how at 26 she came to finally realise she was 'trans...

Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020. At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways...

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...

How Not to Run a Club Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch...