LibGuides: Dentistry: LGBTQ+ Pop-Up Library

What is the LGBTQ+ Pop-Up LIbrary?

Pop-Up Libraries are themed collections of books the Tufts libraries owns that are brought to places students, faculty, and staff are to help facilitate discovery of reading material.

In the fall of 2019, the TUSDM LGBTQA Club wanted to do something special to celebrate LGBT History Month in October. Amanda Nevius, our dental liaison, suggested curating an LGBTQ+ Pop-Up Library for use first with this group and then to "pop-up" with other groups on this campus. The student club was excited and so our first Pop-Up Library was on!

You can see the complete list of the books curated for the collection below. If you missed the Pop-Up Library, don't despair! You can still check-out the books later - even if they're from another campus. You can simply request to have the book delivered to Hirsh for you, and that's totally free.

*Our thanks to Tish librarians Ari Gofman and Leo Settoducato for their work spearheading Pop-Up Libraries at Tufts.

History

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
ISBN: 9780312374631

Publication Date: 2007-11-27

Upon its first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition,And the Band Played On remains one of the essential books of our time.
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
ISBN: 9781452955865

Publication Date: 2017-12-05

In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials--early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films--Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable.
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis
ISBN: 9781421405834

Publication Date: 2012-01-15

Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day. It considers how Americans have interpreted and handled ambiguous bodies, how the criteria and the authority for judging bodies changed, how both the binary gender ideal and the anxiety over uncertainty persisted, and how the process for defining the very norms of sex and gender evolved. Bodies in Doubt breaks new ground in examining the historical roots of modern attitudes about intersex in the United States and will interest scholars and researchers in disability studies, social history, gender studies, and the history of medicine.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Madeline D. Davis; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
ISBN: 9780415902939

Publication Date: 1993-02-19

Traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, nevertheless became powerful agents of historical change. Based on 13 years of research, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold ranges over such topics as sex, relationships, coming out, butch-fem roles, motherhood, aging, racism, work, oppression and pride. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians.
Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Berube
ISBN: 9780029031001

Publication Date: 1990-04-01

Despite the many histories of the fighting men and women in World War II, none has been written about the estimated one million homosexuals. Here is a dramatic story of these people, revealing the history of the anti-gay policy pursued by the U.S. military authorities in World War II. Two 8-page photo inserts.
Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by A. B. Christa Schwarz; Claude A. Clegg (Editor); Darlene Clark Hine (Editor); John McCluskey (Editor)
ISBN: 0253342554

Publication Date: 2003-06-01

This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing.
A History of Bisexuality by Steven Angelides
ISBN: 0226020894

Publication Date: 2001-09-15

Why is bisexuality the object of such skepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, theory, and politics of sexuality. With A History of Bisexuality, Steven Angelides explores the reasons why, and invites us to rethink our preconceptions about sexual identity.
Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton
ISBN: 9780674022331

Publication Date: 2006-10-31

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution.
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson
ISBN: 9780226401966

Publication Date: 2009-02-13

The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least as frequently, if more discreetly: "Information has come to the attention of the Civil Service Commission that you are a homosexual. What comment do you care to make?" Historian David K. Johnson here relates the frightening, untold story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Relying on newly declassified documents, years of research in the records of the National Archives and the FBI, and interviews with former civil servants, Johnson recreates the vibrant gay subculture that flourished in New Deal-era Washington and takes us inside the security interrogation rooms where thousands of Americans were questioned about their sex lives. The homosexual purges ended promising careers, ruined lives, and pushed many to suicide. But, as Johnson also shows, the purges brought victims together to protest their treatment, helping launch a new civil rights struggle.
Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution by Omar G. Encarnación
ISBN: 9780199356645

Publication Date: 2016-02-01

Known around the world as a bastion of Catholicism and machismo, Latin America has emerged in recent years as the undisputed gay rights leader of the Global South. In Out in the Periphery, Omar G. Encarnacion breaks away from the conventional narrative of Latin America's embrace of gay rights as a by-product of the global spread of gay rights from the developed West. Instead, Encarnacion aims to "decenter" gay rights politics. His intention is not to demonstrate how the "local" has trumped the "global" in Latin America but rather to suggest how domestic and international politics interacted to make Latin America one of the world's most receptive environments for gay rights.
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
ISBN: 0805000593

Publication Date: 1986-09-01

This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. In this Nazi crusade, homosexual prisoners were confined to death camps where, forced to wear pink triangles, they constituted the lowest rung in the camp hierarchy. The horror of camp life is described through diaries, previously untranslated documents, and interviews with and letters from survivors, revealing how the anti-homosexual campaign was conducted, the crackpot homophobic fantasies that fueled it, the men who made it possible, and those who were its victims, this chilling book sheds light on a corner of twentieth-century history that has been hidden in the shadows much too long.
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Andrea Ritchie; Joey Mogul; Kay Whitlock
ISBN: 9780807051160

Publication Date: 2011-02-15

A groundbreaking work that turns a "queer eye" on the criminal legal system, and winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justiceis a searing examination of queer experiences--as "suspects," defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes--like "gleeful gay killers," "lethal lesbians," "disease spreaders," and "deceptive gender benders"--to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the streets to the bench to behind prison bars, the authors prove that the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities.
Queer: a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker; Julia Scheele (Illustrator); Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781785780714

Publication Date: 2016-09-08

Vice Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas gettangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal' - Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media. Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp
ISBN: 9780814775929

Publication Date: 2009-12-01

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library Staff; Edmund White (Foreword by); Jason Baumann (Editor)
ISBN: 9780143133513

Publication Date: 2019-04-30

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, with a foreword by Edmund White. June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader is a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots. Most importantly the anthology spotlights both iconic activists who were pivotal in the movement, such as Sylvia Rivera, co-founder of Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), as well as forgotten figures like Ernestine Eckstein, one of the few out, African American, lesbian activists in the 1960s. The anthology focuses on the events of 1969, the five years before, and the five years after.
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
ISBN: 9781580056892

Publication Date: 2017-11-07

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 the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990-the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s.
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Ru Paul by Leslie Feinberg
ISBN: 9780807079409

Publication Date: 1996-05-01

In this fascinating personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg - one of the most prominent transgender rights activists today - unearths a vast body of evidence that throughout history there have always been people who defy cultural boundaries of sex and gender.
Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman
ISBN: 9780061965500

Publication Date: 2012-06-05

Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman details the stunning story of how a resourceful and dedicated minority transformed the notion of American marriage equality and forged a campaign for cultural change that will serve as a model for all future political movements.

Health

"I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me" : Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US by InterACT, author, issuing body
ISBN: 1623135028

Publication Date: 2017

This report examines the physical and psychological damage caused by medically unnecessary surgery on intersex people, who are born with chromosomes, gonads, sex organs, or genitalia that differ from those seen as socially typical for boys and girls. The report examines the controversy over the operations inside the medical community, and the pressure on parents to opt for surgery.
"You Don't Want Second Best" by Human Rights Watch (Organization) Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781623136383

Publication Date: 2018-01-01

"This report documents some of the obstacles that LGBT people face when seeking mental and physical healthcare services. Many LGBT people are unable to find services in their area, encounter discrimination or refusals of service in healthcare settings, or delay or forego care because of concerns of mistreatment."--Publisher website, viewed August 15, 2018.
Bearing Witness: Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Politics of AIDS by Philip M. Kayal
ISBN: 9780813317281

Publication Date: 1993-05-23

The untold story in the AIDS crisis is that of the mobilization of the gay community. Bearing Witness is a compelling study of how a community-based initiative--Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York--neutralized the immobilizing power of homophobia and fear of AIDS. From his unique perspective as both a sociologist and volunteer at Gay Men's Health Crisis, Philip Kayal illuminates the social and political meanings of volunteerism by showing how gay/AIDS volunteerism is radical political and religious work.
Black LGBT Health in the United States by Lourdes Dolores Follins (Editor, Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781498535762

Publication Date: 2016-12-13

Focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, homonegativity, biphobia, transphobia, and social class.
A Changing Paradigm: US medical provider discomfort with intersex care practices by Kyle Knight; Human Rights Watch (Organization) Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781623135393

Publication Date: 2017-01-01

Since the 1960s, doctors in the United States have routinely performed surgeries on intersex infants and children - or those born with chromosomes, gonads, or genitalia that do not correspond to traditional notions of "male" or "female" - to make their bodies conform to conventional gender presentation. But the surgeries are medically unnecessary, irreversible, often traumatizing, and carry a risk of lifelong harm. They can also be safely deferred . Despite increasing controversy within the medical community and condemnation from human rights organizations, however, some specialist doctors continue to recommend and carry out the operations on children too young to consent. In [this report] Human Rights Watch and interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth document the increasing discomfort healthcare providers feel with the default-to-surgery paradigm .
Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis
ISBN: 9781479814152

Publication Date: 2015-09-11

When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to "protect" the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis' experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy and shame about being intersex. Yet, the rise of intersex activism and visibility in the US has called into question the practice of classifying intersex as an abnormality, rather than as a mere biological variation. This shift in thinking has the potential to transform entrenched intersex medical treatment. In Contesting Intersex, Davis draws on interviews with intersex people, their parents, and medical experts to explore the oft-questioned views on intersex in medical and activist communities, as well as the evolution of thought in regards to intersex visibility and transparency.
The Fenway guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health by Makadon, Harvey J. et al
Publication Date: 2015

This new 2nd edition of The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health reflects clinical and social changes since the publication of the first edition. Written by leading experts in the field of LGBT health in conjunction with The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health, one of the most trusted and respected community- based research, education, and care centers, this edition continues to present the important issues facing patients and practitioners, including: Principles for taking an LGBT-inclusive health history Caring for LGBTQ youth, families, and older adults Behavioral Health Care: coming out, intimate partner violence, drug, alcohol, and tobacco use Understanding health care needs of transgender people Development of gender identity in children and adolescents Sexual health and HIV prevention Policy and legal issues The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, 2nd edition is a must-have resource for clinicians, students, and researchers working in hospitals, clinics, universities, libraries, and private practices in every community.
Gender Born, Gender Made by Diane Ehrensaft; Edgardo Menvielle (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781615190607

Publication Date: 2011-05-17

A groundbreaking guide to caring for children who live outside binary gender boxes We are only beginning to understand gender. Is it inborn or learned? Can it be chosen'or even changed? Does it have to be one or the other? These questions may seem abstract'but for parents whose children live outside of gender ?norms,? they are very real. No two children who bend the ?rules? of gender do so in quite the same way. Felicia threw away her frilly dresses at age three. Sam hid his interest in dolls and ?girl things? until high school'when he finally confided his desire to become Sammi. And seven-year-old Maggie, who sports a boys? basketball uniform and a long blond braid, identifies as ?a boy in the front, and a girl in the back.' But all gender-nonconforming children have one thing in common'they need support to thrive in a society that still subscribes to a binary system of gender. Dr. Diane Ehrensaft has worked with children like Felicia, Sam, and Maggie for over 30 years. In Gender Born, Gender Made, she offers parents, clinicians, and educators guidance on both the philosophical dilemmas and the practical, daily concerns of working with children who don't fit a ?typical? gender mold. She debunks outmoded approaches to gender nonconformity that may actually do children harm. And she offers a new framework for helping each child become his or her own unique, most gender-authentic person.
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: building a foundation for better understanding by Medicine Institute Staff (Contribution by); Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities Staff (Contribution by); Institute of Medicine Staff; Board on the Health of Select Populations Staff
ISBN: 9780309210621

Publication Date: 2011-06-24

The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People assesses the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations, identifies research gaps and opportunities, and outlines a research agenda for the National Institute of Health.
The Health of Sexual Minorities: public health perspectives on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations by Ilan H. Meyer (Editor); Mary E. Northridge (Editor)
ISBN: 9780387313344

Publication Date: 2007-03-12

This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. This resource offers a multidimensional picture of LGBT health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding of these diverse populations. It contains real-world matters of definition and self-definition, meticulous analyses of stressor and health outcomes, a extensive coverage of research methodology concerns, and critical insights into the sociopolitical context of LGBT individuals' health and lives.
How to Survive a Plague: the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France
ISBN: 9780307700636

Publication Date: 2016-11-29

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic--from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments.
Out in Psychology by Victoria Clarke (Editor); Elizabeth Peel (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470066423

Publication Date: 2007-04-04

There has been a recent explosion of interest in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Perspective Psychology amongst students and academics, and this interest is predicted to continue to rise. Recent media debates on subjects such as same-sex marriage have fuelled interest in LGBTQ perspectives. This edited collection showcases the latest thinking in LGBTQ psychology. The book has 21 chapters covering subjects such as same sex parenting, outing, young LGBTQ people, sport, learning disabilities, lesbian and gay identities etc. The book has an international focus, with contributors from UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Seeing Patients: unconscious bias in health care by Augustus A. White; David Chanoff
ISBN: 9780674049055

Publication Date: 2011-01-15

Uses extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment.
Social Injustice and Public Health by Barry S. Levy (Editor); Victor W. Sidel (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199939220

Publication Date: 2013-08-29

This second edition of Social Injustice and Public Health is a comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based resource on the relationship of social injustice to many aspects of public health. With contributions from leading experts in public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and otherfields, this integrated book documents the adverse effects of social injustice on health and makes recommendations on what needs to be done to reduce social injustice and thereby improve the public's health.
Transgender Care: recommended guidelines, practical information, and personal accounts by Gianna E. Israel; Donald E. Tarver; Joy Diane Shaffer (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781566395717

Publication Date: 1997-12-02

By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care.
Transgender Health Issues by Sarah Boslaugh
ISBN: 9781440858871

Publication Date: 2018-08-03

Transgender individuals face unique challenges when it comes to their physical, psychological, and social health and well-being. This accessible reference investigates these concerns in depth, offering readers insights into topics such as discrimination and access to health care. * Confronts a topic that has historically been ignored by researchers and public health officials * Examines key issues that affect transgender individuals, such as discrimination and access to health services * Offers illuminating case studies that use engaging real-world scenarios to highlight key ideas and debates discussed in the book * Provides a Directory of Resources to guide readers to reliable sources of additional information

Religion

Coming Out in Christianity by Melissa M. Wilcox
ISBN: 0253216192

Publication Date: 2003-10-03

For many Christians, "homosexuality" is an issue. It is often considered a matter of "us" versus "them," or worse, for gay men and women, a question of their behavior, not something intrinsic to their identity. Coming Out in Christianity examines this conflict from the point of view of a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Christians. It focuses on current and former members of two Metropolitan Community Churches in California that serve predominantly LGBT Christians. Based on original research, including more than 70 in-depth interviews, the book explores life histories, current beliefs, cultural settings, and community influences to learn what helped each forge an identity as both gay and Christian. These powerful case studies will help to deepen our understanding of both religion and personal identity.
Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity by Momin Rahman
ISBN: 9781137002952

Publication Date: 2014-02-05

This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic.
Living Out Islam: voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
ISBN: 9780814744482

Publication Date: 2013-12-06

Living Out Islam documents the rarely-heard voices of Muslims who live in secular democratic countries and who are gay, lesbian, and transgender. It weaves original interviews with Muslim activists into a compelling composite picture which showcases the importance of the solidarity of support groups in the effort to change social relationships and achieve justice. This nascent movement is not about being "out" as opposed to being "in the closet." Rather, as the voices of these activists demonstrate, it is about finding ways to live out Islam with dignity and integrity, reconciling their sexuality and gender with their faith and reclaiming Islam as their own.
Queering religion, religious queers by Taylor, Yvette
ISBN: 9781135013769

Publication Date: 2014

This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. It asks how these intersections are formed, negotiated and resisted across time and places.
Queer Religion by Donald Boisvert (Editor); Jay E. Johnson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313353581

Publication Date: 2011-12-13

This ground-breaking and eye-opening book examines the intersections of religion and same-sex desire, from St. Augustine to Hinduism to contemporary LGBT and queer culture. * Contributions from 28 distinguished North American and international scholars and activists from a variety of religious traditions * A comprehensive index of key ideas and concepts
Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition by Steven Greenberg
ISBN: 9780299190934

Publication Date: 2004-02-01

In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged the Orthodox Jewish tradition of rejecting homosexuality when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality. Wrestling with God and Men is the product of Rabbi Greenberg's ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities. In this compelling and groundbreaking work, Greenberg challenges long held assumptions of scriptural interpretation and religious identity as he marks a path that is both responsible to human realities and deeply committed to God and Torah. But Greenberg goes beyond the question of whether homosexuality is biblically acceptable to ask how such relationships can be sacred. This book will appeal not only to members of the Orthodox faith but to all religious people struggling to resolve their belief in the scriptures with a desire to make their communities more open and accepting to gay and lesbian members.

Leisure Reading Featuring Lesbian Identities

Leisure reading is books to read recreationally or for pleasure. These books are any of the following:

Nonfiction on issues important to the identity featured.
Memoirs by those claiming the featured identity.
Fiction featuring a leading character who identifies as that identity.
Fiction considered a classic work by members of that identity's community.

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
ISBN: 9781607014010

Publication Date: 2013-12-03

Fiction.
Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairingstarship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargovessel stops by her shipyard looking for her spiritually-advanced sister Nova,Alana stows away. Maybe her boldness will land her a long-term gig on the crew.But the Tangled Axon proves to be more than star-watching and plasmacoils. The chief engineer thinks he's a wolf. The pilot fades in and out of existence. The captain is all blond hair, boots, and ego... and Alana can't keep her eyes off her. But there's little time for romance: Nova's in danger and someone will do anything -- even destroying planets -- to get their hands on her!
Ash by Malinda Lo
ISBN: 9780316040099

Publication Date: 2009-09-01

Fiction:
The haunting, romantic lesbian retelling of Cinderella and modern queer classic by award-winning author Malinda Lo--now with an introduction by Holly Black, a letter from the author, a Q&A, and more!
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780156028356

Publication Date: 2003-05-28

Fiction.
A landmark novel. Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually, Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves.
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN: 9780451464163

Publication Date: 2012-03-06

India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. She can no longer trust her own mind, because she is convinced that her memories have somehow betrayed her, forcing her to question her very identity. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about an encounter with a vicious siren, or a helpless wolf that came to her as a feral girl, or neither of these things but something far, far stranger . . .
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780618477944

Publication Date: 2006-06-08

Nonfiction.
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist Alison Bechdel, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
ISBN: 9780593108178

Publication Date: 2019-09-17

Fiction.
Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she's not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before flying to Portland, Oregon, to intern with her favorite feminist writer--what's sure to be a life-changing experience. And when Juliet's coming out crashes and burns, she's not sure her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan--sort of. Her internship with legendary author Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women's bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff, is sure to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing. Except Harlowe's white. And not from the Bronx. And she definitely doesn't have all the answers . . . In a summer bursting with queer brown dance parties, a sexy fling with a motorcycling librarian, and intense explorations of race and identity, Juliet learns what it means to come out--to the world, to her family, to herself.
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
ISBN: 9781947793309

Publication Date: 2019-06-04

What does it take to come back to life? For Jessa-Lynn Morton, the question is not an abstract one. In the wake of her father's suicide, Jessa has stepped up to manage his failing taxidermy business while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the taxidermy shop to make provocative animal art, while her brother, Milo, withdraws. And Brynn, Milo's wife--and the only person Jessa's ever been in love with--walks out without a word. It's not until the Mortons reach a tipping point that a string of unexpected incidents begins to open up surprising possibilities and second chances. But will they be enough to salvage this family, to help them find their way back to one another? Kristen Arnett's breakout bestseller is a darkly funny family portrait; a peculiar, bighearted look at love and loss and the ways we live through them together.
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
ISBN: 9781250244499

Publication Date: 2021-06-01

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.But then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old school punk rocker. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all.
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag by A. K. Summers
ISBN: 9781593765408

Publication Date: 2014-03-18

Nonfiction.
First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging: Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, "Can butches even get pregnant?" Of course, as she and her pragmatic femme girlfriend Vee discover, they can. But what happens when they do? Written and illustrated by A.K. Summers, and based on her own pregnancy,Pregnant Butch strives to depict this increasingly common, but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity.
The Second Mango by Shira Glassman; Erika Hammerschmidt (Cover Design by); Jane Dominguez (Cover Design by); Jessica St. Ama (Editor)
ISBN: 9781537756455

Publication Date: 2016-09-30

Fiction.
Queen Shulamit never expected to inherit the throne of the tropical land of Perach so young. At twenty, grief-stricken and fatherless, she's also coping with being the only lesbian she knows after her sweetheart ran off for an unknown reason. Not to mention, she's the victim of severe digestive problems that everybody thinks she's faking. Things change when she meets Rivka, an athletic and assertive warrior from the north who is willing to take her around the kingdom on the back of her dragon in search of other women who might be open to same-sex romance. The real world outside the palace is full of adventure, however, and the search for a royal girlfriend quickly turns into a rescue mission when they discover a temple full of women turned to stone by an evil sorcerer.

Leisure Reading Featuring Gay Identities

Leisure reading is books to read recreationally or for pleasure. These books are any of the following:

Nonfiction on issues important to the identity featured.
Memoirs by those claiming the featured identity.
Fiction featuring a leading character who identifies as that identity.
Fiction considered a classic work by members of that identity's community.

Almost History by Christopher Bram
ISBN: 0452269660

Publication Date: 1993-04-01

Fiction.
Dramatizes 35 years in the life of a career diplomat who comes out of the closet; the backdrop consists of political intrigue in the Philippines during the Marcos era.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
ISBN: 9781559360616

Publication Date: 1993-05-01

Fiction.
In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs.
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima; Meredith Weatherby (Translator)
ISBN: 9780811201186

Publication Date: 1958-01-17

Fiction.
The story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal." Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality, he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers the fate of Japan and his place within its deeply rooted propriety. Confessions of a Mask reflects Mishima's own coming of age in post-war Japan. Its publication in English--praised by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, and Christopher Isherwood-- propelled the young Yukio Mishima to international fame.
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
ISBN: 9781555977856

Publication Date: 2017-09-05

Nonfiction.
Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality--the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood--and a diagnosis of HIV positive.
Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America by C. Winter Han
ISBN: 9781479855209

Publication Date: 2015-05-08

Nonfiction.
In Geisha of a Different Kind, C. Winter Han travels from West Coast Asian drag shows to the internationally sought-after Thai kathoey, or "ladyboy," to construct a theory of queerness that is inclusive of the race and gender particularities of the gay Asian male experience in the United States. Through ethnographic observation of queer Asian American communities and Asian American drag shows, interviews with gay Asian American men, and a reading of current media and popular culture depictions of Asian Americans, Han argues that gay Asian American men, used to gender privilege within their own communities, must grapple with the idea that, as Asians, they have historically been feminized as a result of Western domination and colonization, and as a result, they are minorities within the gay community, which is itself marginalized within the overall American society. Han also shows that many Asian American gay men can turn their unusual position in the gay and Asian American communities into a positive identity. In their own conception of self, their Asian heritage and sexuality makes these men unique, special, and, in the case of Asian American drag queens, much more able to convey a convincing erotic femininity. Challenging stereotypes about beauty, nativity, and desirability, Geisha of a Different Kind makes a major intervention in the study of race and sexuality in America.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781101907740

Publication Date: 2016-03-01

Fiction.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella's return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy. Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night--"the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life." With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
ISBN: 9781590517697

Publication Date: 2016-03-08

Fiction.
Set over the course of 24 hours, Last Round At Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country trying to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and religious upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. Then one morning Rasa's grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches them in bed together?
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
ISBN: 9781551527253

Publication Date: 2018-05-15

Fiction.
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer and NDND glitter princess, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead. Off the rez and trying to find ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one week before he must return to his home--and his former life--to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and heartbreaking recollections of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of First Nations life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
ISBN: 9780316316132

Publication Date: 2018-05-22

Fiction.
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.

QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?

ANSWER: You accept them all.
Money Boy by Paul Yee
ISBN: 9781554980932

Publication Date: 2013-03-26

Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It's tough getting grades that will please his army veteran father when speaking English is still a struggle. But when his father accesses Ray's Internet account and discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, his belongings are thrown on the front lawn and suddenly he's homeless.
Moose by Max de Radiguès (Artist)
ISBN: 9781894994934

Publication Date: 2015-05-08

Fiction.
Joe is a shy high school student who is relentlessly bullied, and must find comfort in the natural world. Soon however, the story twists into a tale of power and fear complete with visual symbolism and beautiful cartooning. The morally ambiguous ending will keep you thinking long after you close the covers.

Leisure Reading Featuring Bisexual+ Identities

Please note this collection uses the definition of Bisexuality+ endorsed by the Bi Resource Center:

The Bisexual Resource Center, and many other leaders in the bi+ community uses “bi” “bisexual” and “bi+” to mean anyone who is attracted romantically and/or sexually to more than one gender, otherwise called “non-monosexual” or “middle” identities. This includes labels like pansexual, queer, omnisexual, sexually fluid, and more, and even folks who decide not to take a label. In this way, we hope to unite our community even if we’re using different personal or individual labels.

Leisure reading is books to read recreationally or for pleasure. These books are any of the following:

Nonfiction on issues important to the identity featured.
Memoirs by those claiming the featured identity.
Fiction featuring a leading character who identifies as that identity.
Fiction considered a classic work by members of that identity's community.

Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
ISBN: 9781580054744

Publication Date: 2013-07-02

Nonfiction.
Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics- from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either too bisexual" (promiscuous and incapable of fidelity) or not bisexual enough" (not actively engaging romantically or sexually with people of at least two different genders). In this forward-thinking and eye-opening book, feminist bisexual and genderqueer activist Shiri Eisner takes readers on a journey through the many aspects of the meanings and politics of bisexuality, specifically highlighting how bisexuality can open up new and exciting ways of challenging social convention.Informed by feminist, transgender, and queer theory, as well as politics and activism, Bi is a radical manifesto for a group that has been too frequently silenced, erased, and denied- and a starting point from which to launch a bisexual revolution.
Bi Any Other Name by Loraine Hutchins (Editor); Lani Kaahumanu (Editor)
ISBN: 9781555831745

Publication Date: 1994-07-01

Nonfiction.
In this groundbreaking anthology, more than seventy women and men from all walks of life describe their lives as bisexuals in prose, poetry, art, and essays
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
ISBN: 0525938087

Publication Date: 1994-05-01

Fiction.
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
ISBN: 9780060118433

Publication Date: 1983-03-01

Nonfiction.
An in-depth biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo details her haunting and original painting style, her turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her association with communism, and her love of Mexican culture and folklore.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
ISBN: 9780062362599

Publication Date: 2017-06-13

Nonfiction.
Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.
In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 0452282438

Publication Date: 2001-06-01

Fiction.
Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another.
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
ISBN: 9781481405959

Publication Date: 2015-03-03

Fiction.
Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown. Everywhere she turns, someone feels she's too fringe for the fringe. Not gay enough for the Dykes, her ex-clique, thanks to a recent relationship with a boy; not tiny and white enough for ballet, her first passion; not sick enough to look anorexic (partially thanks to recovery). Etta doesn't fit anywhere--until she meets Bianca, the straight, white, Christian, and seriously sick girl in Etta's therapy group. Both girls are auditioning for Brentwood, a prestigious New York theater academy that is so not Nebraska. Bianca might be Etta's salvation...but can Etta be saved by a girl who needs saving herself?
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf; Suzanne Raitt (Editor); Ian Blyth (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521878968

Publication Date: 2018-06-07

Fiction.
Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction charts the birth of the novel in the romance between Woolf and Sackville-West, and the role it played in the evolution and eventual fading of that romance. Extensive explanatory notes reveal the extent to which the novel is embedded in Woolf's knowledge of Sackville-West, her family history and her writings. Thorough annotation of every literary and historical allusion in the text establishes its significance as a parodic literary and social history of England, as well as a spoof of one of Woolf's favorite forms, the biography. It also includes all variants from the extant proofs, as well as editions of the novel produced during Woolf's lifetime.
Torch Song Trilogy: Three Plays by Harvey Fierstein
ISBN: 039453428X

Publication Date: 1983-08-12

Fiction.
A collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s. Look to the first play when Arnold meets Ed, who is uncomfortable with his bisexuality.
Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
ISBN: 9781250217349

Publication Date: 2021-09-21

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
ISBN: 9780449000946

Publication Date: 1997-06-23

Fiction.
Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy's landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures--and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity--and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow.

Leisure Reading Featuring Transgender Identities

Leisure reading is books to read recreationally or for pleasure. These books are any of the following:

Nonfiction on issues important to the identity featured.
Memoirs by those claiming the featured identity.
Fiction featuring a leading character who identifies as that identity.
Fiction considered a classic work by members of that identity's community.

The Black Tides of Heaven by J. Y. Yang
ISBN: 9780765395412

Publication Date: 2017-09-26

Fiction.
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While Mokoya received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, they saw the sickness at the heart of their mother's Protectorate. A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue as a pawn in their mother's twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the bond they share with their twin?
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
ISBN: 1250250463

Publication Date: 2020-09-01

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He's determined to find out what happened and tie off some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780399592287

Publication Date: 2019-03-05

Fiction.
Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript--a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess's adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess's tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined--and only a miracle will save them all.
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
ISBN: 0415908973

Publication Date: 1994-05-12

Nonfiction.
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions.
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
ISBN: 9781549304002

Publication Date: 2019-05-28

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Little Fish by Casey Plett
ISBN: 9781551527208

Publication Date: 2018-05-01

Fiction.
It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) -- a devout Mennonite farmer -- might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth. Can Wendy unravel the mystery of her grandfather's world and reckon with the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She's determined to try.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves by Laura Erickson-Schroth (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199325351

Publication Date: 2014-06-10

Nonfiction.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource - a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors. Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful compendium written for and by women, Trans Bodies,Trans Selves is widely accessible to the transgender population, providing authoritative information in an inclusive and respectful way and representing the collective knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. Each chapter takes the reader through an important transgender issue, such as race,religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more.
Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity by Arlene Stein
ISBN: 9781524747459

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Nonfiction.
Ben, Parker, Lucas, Nadia are four patients of Florida's Dr. Charles Garramonepreparing to receive surgery to masculinize their chests on the same day. In the following years, they, along with more than a hundred others across the country, opened up to the award-winning professor of gender and sexuality Arlene Stein about how they conceive of their identities and sexuality, how they decided to transition, how they were received by their families and communities, and the joys and challenges they continue to face after transitioning.
What's Normal Anyway? A Comic About Being Trans male by Morgan Boecher (Artist)
ISBN: 9780989586849

Publication Date: 2015-10-10

Nonfiction.
A comic that discusses the trans male experience through the story of Mel, who takes the big risk of being himself and transitioning from female to male.
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
ISBN: 9781580056229

Publication Date: 2016-03-08

Nonfiction.
Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist, shares her powerful experiences and observations,both pre- and post-transition,to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. Serano's well-honed arguments stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. In this provocative manifesto, she exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive, and how this feminine" weakness exists only to attract and appease male desire. In addition to debunking popular misconceptions about transsexuality, Serano makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activists must work to embrace and empower femininity,in all of its wondrous forms.

Leisure Reading Featuring Queer Identities

Leisure reading is books to read recreationally or for pleasure. These books are any of the following:

Nonfiction on issues important to the identity featured.
Memoirs by those claiming the featured identity.
Fiction featuring a leading character who identifies as that identity.
Fiction considered a classic work by members of that identity's community.

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
ISBN: 9781435600393

Publication Date: 2006-01-01

Nonfiction.
Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN: 0553296590

Publication Date: 1978

Fiction.
This is the haunting story of an extraordinary woman and her dangerous quest to reclaim her healing powers. Revered healer Snake must undertake a journey in search of the dreamsnake, whose bite eases the fear and pain of death.
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono; Lawrence Schimel (Translator)
ISBN: 9781936932238

Publication Date: 2018-04-24

Fiction.
The first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English,La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned teen Okomo, who lives under the watchful eye of her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. Forbidden from seeking him out, she enlists the help of other village outcasts: her gay uncle and a gang of "mysterious" girls reveling in their so-called indecency. Drawn into their illicit trysts, Okomo finds herself falling in love with their leader and rebelling against the rigid norms of Fang culture.
Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto (Editor)
ISBN: 9781937658786

Publication Date: 2018-05-01

Fiction and Nonfiction.
The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States. In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States. Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U.S. history, including literary legends such as Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Ai, and Pat Parker alongside contemporaries such as Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Robin Coste Lewis, Joy Harjo, Richard Blanco, Erika L. Sánchez, Jericho Brown, Carl Phillips, Tommy Pico, Eduardo C. Corral, Chen Chen, and more!
No Tea, No Shade by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822362227

Publication Date: 2016-10-28

Nonfiction.
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study.
Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature by Qwo-Li Driskill (Editor); Chris Finley (Editor); Scott Lauria Morgensen (Editor); Brian Joseph Gilley (Editor)
ISBN: 9780816529070

Publication Date: 2011-03-15

Nonfiction.
Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people experience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival,” this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change.
Stone Butch Blues by Feinberg, Leslie
Publication Date: 2003

Fiction.
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie and Harriet" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.
The Trouble with Normal by Michael Warner
ISBN: 0674004418

Publication Date: 2000-11-01

Nonfiction.
Michael Warner, a social critic, argues that gay marriage and other moves toward normalcy are bad not just for the gays but for everyone. In place of sexual status quo, Warner offers a vision of true sexual autonomy that will forever change the way we think about sex, shame, and identity.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde
ISBN: 0895941228

Publication Date: 1982-01-01

Nonfiction blended with Fiction.
"I have always wanted to be both man and woman," thus opens Zami, considered both a classic in queer literature and the first book in a genre Lorde coins as biomythography "has the elements of biography and history of myth. In other words, it’s fiction built from many sources. This is one way of expanding our vision."

Leisure Reading Featuring Intersex Identities

Leisure reading is books to read recreationally or for pleasure. These books are any of the following:

Nonfiction on issues important to the identity featured.
Memoirs by those claiming the featured identity.
Fiction featuring a leading character who identifies as that identity.
Fiction considered a classic work by members of that identity's community.

Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes by Gerald N. Callahan
ISBN: 9781556527852

Publication Date: 2009-07-01

Nonfiction.
Every year in the United States, more than two thousand children are born with an intersex condition or disorder of sex development. What makes someone a boy or a girl? Is it external genitalia, chromosomes, DNA, environment, or some combination of these factors? Not even doctors or scientists are entirely clear. What is clear is that sex is not an either-or proposition: not girl/boy, XX/XY, switching between two poles like an on-off switch on a radio. Rather, sex is like the bass and treble knobs on that radio. Between XX and XY provides a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female. There are people born XXY, XXXY, or XXXXY, or with any number of variations in X or Y chromosomes, but those who do not fit into society's preconceived notions about sex often face a difficult path in life.
Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism by David RUBIN; David A. Rubin
ISBN: 9781438467559

Publication Date: 2017-11-01

Nonfiction.
Analyzes the medicalization of people diagnosed as "intersex," which is an umbrella term for individuals born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific, scholarly, political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth century to the present, Rubin argues that the medical regulation of atypical sex is fundamentally a feminist and a queer issue, and an intersectional and transnational one as well.
Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture by Viola Amato
ISBN: 9783839434192

Publication Date: 2016-02-22

Nonfiction.
This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
ISBN: 9780374199692

Publication Date: 2002-09-04

Fiction.
The breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
ISBN: 9780062335319

Publication Date: 2015-04-07

Fiction.
What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant? When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen into place. She's a champion hurdler with a full scholarship to college and she's madly in love with her boyfriend. In fact, she's decided that she's ready to take things to the next level with him. But Kristin's first time isn't the perfect moment she's planned--something is very wrong. A visit to the doctor reveals the truth: Kristin is intersex, which means that though she outwardly looks like a girl, she has male chromosomes, not to mention boy "parts." Dealing with her body is difficult enough, but when her diagnosis is leaked to the whole school, Kristin's entire identity is thrown into question. As her world unravels, can she come to terms with her new self?
Pantomime by Laura Lam
ISBN: 9781908844378

Publication Date: 2013-02-05

Fiction.
Nestled among the glowing blue Penglass - remnants of a mysterious civilisation long gone - are wonders beyond the wildest imagination. It's a place where anything seems possible, where if you close your eyes you can believe that the magic and knowledge of the vanished Chimeras is still there. It's a place where anyone can hide. Iphigenia Laurus, or Gene, the daughter of a noble family, is uncomfortable in corsets and crinoline, and prefers climbing trees to debutante balls. Micah Grey, a runaway living on the streets, joins the circus as an aerialist's apprentice and soon becomes the circus's rising star. But Gene and Micah have balancing acts of their own to perform, and a secret in their blood that could unlock the mysteries of Ellada.

Leisure Reading Featuring Asexual Identities

Asexualities by Megan Milks (Editor); Karli June Cerankowski (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415714426

Publication Date: 2014-03-05

Nonfiction.
Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume, the authors expand this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, disability, and medical discourse. Together, these essays challenge the ways in which we imagine gender and sexuality in relation to desire and sexual practice.
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger; Rovina Cai (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781646140053

Publication Date: 2020-08-25

Elatsoe--Ellie for short--lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals--most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and it's dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
ISBN: 9780765385505

Publication Date: 2016-04-05

Fiction.
Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. No matter the cost.
Let's Talk about Love by Claire Kann
ISBN: 9781250136121

Publication Date: 2018-01-23

Fiction.
Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating ... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge, Alice has to decide if she's willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated-- or understood.
Understanding Asexuality by Anthony F. Bogaert
ISBN: 9781442200999

Publication Date: 2012-08-09

Nonfiction.
Distinct from celibacy, which refers to sexual abstinence by choice where sexual attraction and desire may still be present, asexuality is experienced by those having a lack or sexual attraction or a lack of sexual desire. More and more, those who identify as asexual are "coming out," joining up, and forging a common identity. The time is right for a better understanding of this sexual orientation, written by an expert in the field who has conducted studies on asexuality and who has provided important contributions to understanding asexuality.

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