Out of the Shadows - The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets
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Category: Queer
Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with intimate relationships. They also suffer from ongoing t ...Show more
Closer by Dennis Cooper
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Category: Queer | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Fr ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's hi ...Show more
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
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Category: Fiction
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit. Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was ...Show more
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: Queer | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
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Category: Poetry
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embody ...Show more
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
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Category: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST 'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers 'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert Everett Young, ...Show more
The Little Book of Pride Heroes: Icons of the LGBTQIA+ community by Jared Richards
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Category: Queer
A celebration of queer trailblazers! This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians, and pop-culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons, and radically increased queer visibility. Featuring trailblazing queer icons such as James Baldwin, Geo ...Show more
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey; Ben Miller
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Category: Queer
An unconventional history of homosexuality. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller ...Show more
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
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Category: Fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more