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• A Cup of Water Under My Bed

  a Memoir

  Hernández, Daisy

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  A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, this memoir is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia

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• This Book Is Gay

  Dawson, Juno,

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• We Have Always Been Here

  a Queer Muslim Memoir

  Habib, Samra,

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  The author grew up in Pakistan as an Ahmadi Muslim, considered blasphemous by other Muslims, and gay. Not until her family was able to emigrate to Canada was she able to start finding herself.

• We Play Ourselves

  a Novel

  Silverman, Jen,

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  "Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as "a fierce new voice" and "queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea." But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Like Us

  a Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction

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  Chronicles one hundred years of African-American homosexual literature, from the turn-of-the-century writings of Alice Dunbar Nelson, to the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes, to the emerging sexual liberation movements of the later postwar era…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rick

  Gino, Alex,

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  Award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world . . . and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be.

• Trans Mission

  My Quest to a Beard

  Bertie, Alex, 1995-

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  The YouTube personality and social advocate presents a courageous firsthand account of his life, struggles and victories as a transgender youth, discussing his private battles with identity, the challenges of the healthcare system and what he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• El Canto Del Colibri - Latino Immigrant Men and Their LGBTQ Family Members

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  "El Canto del Colibri," is a story of Latino fathers dealing with issues of immigration, faith, marriage equality, machismo, culture, and the process of their LGBTQ children coming out.

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

• In the Dream House

  a Memoir

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  In this extraordinarily candid memoir, the author articulates her experiences in an abusive same-sex relationship.

• Lawn Boy

  a Novel

  Evison, Jonathan,

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• Golden Gate Girls

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  This is 2014 documentary tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930s.

• Me, Myself, They

  Life Beyond the Binary

  Ferguson, Luna, 1982-

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  Combining private and personal stories alongside an analysis of emerging trends in popular culture that signal a massive shift in our understanding of gender and sex, Me, Myself, They promises to counter non-binary trans exclusion, erasure, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moonlight

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  A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

• I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?

  Kazār, Murtaḍá,

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  The author grew up in Iraq knowing he was gay. During the US occupation while a student at the University of Baghdad, he met Morise, an African American soldier, and they fell in love. Told in flashbacks interspersed with stories of his life in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Year We Thought About Love

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  The Year We Thought About Love goes behind the scenes of the oldest queer youth theater in America. In a twist on the common image of LGBTQ youth as victims, the film reveals the troupe members as artists and activists, celebrating the fullness of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Here

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  This 2011 documentary offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crosshairs

  a Novel

  Hernandez, Catherine, 1977-

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  In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled and the LGBTQ2S into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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  'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' follows the titular character as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth.