For younger than Middle Grade, see Children’s Books.
For adult memoirs and personal essays, click here.

* = Not yet released
YRE = Young Readers Edition

Biographies and memoirs are ordered by last name of subject.

Middle Grade

Biography/Memoir

• *What Kind of Queen? A Royal Biography of José Sarria by Kyle Casey Chu, Andrew W. Shaffer (text), and Cindy Lozito (art)
• Who is Amy Schneider?: Questions on Growing Up, Being Curious, and Winning It Big in Jeopardy by Amy Schneider (YRE)

History

• Gender Rebels by Katherine Locke (text) and Shanee Benjamin (art)
• The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E. Pitman
• Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager
• Queer History Project: No Way, They Were Gay? by Lee Wind

How-To/Self-Help

• Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU by Cory Silverberg

Young Adult

History

• Stonewall by Ann Bausum
• *Stonewall by George M. Johnson, ill. by Theo Lorenz
• *The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels
• Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager
• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

Identity/Orientation

• Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke

Memoir/Biography

• Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (YRE)
• Rapture Practice: Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family by Aaron Hartzler
• Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith, Jr.
• On Top of Glass by Karina Manta
• Bless the Blood: a Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda
• High School by Tegan & Sara

How-To/Self-Help

• Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peintzmeier, PhD
• The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide by Cody Daigle-Orions

General/Reference

Biography

• Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
• Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes by Jon Macy
• Singled Out: the True Story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss
• Barney Frank by Stuart E. Weisberg
• Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker
• Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
• Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J. Shields
• Marsha: the Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline
• The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
• The Power of Adrienne Rich by Hilary Holladay
• Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
• *Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven by David Ben
• Margaret Webster: A Life in Theatre by Milly S. Barranger (Amz)

Culture

Ballroom/Dance

• And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker

Culinary Arts

• What is Queer Food? by John Birdsall
• Queers at the Table ed. by Alex Ketchum and Megan J. Elias

Drag/Performance

• Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City by Elyssa Maxx Goodman (B&N)
• The Big Reveal: an Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour
• Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure by Sara Warner (Amz)
• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance by James F. Wilson

Film and Television

• Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume
• Hollywood Pride: a Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film by Alonso Duralde
• *Queer Slashers by Peter Marra
• The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema by Thomas Waugh

Lifestyle/Hobbies

• Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot Canaday
• Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
• The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship by Maddy Court and Kelsey Wroten
• Queer Astrology for Men by Jill Dearman
• Queer Astrology for Women by Jill Dearman
• Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler
• A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queen Women’s Culture by June Thomas
• DapperQ Style Manual by Anita Dolce Vita

Literary Arts

• Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
• Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
• Pedro’s Theory by Marcos Gonsalez
• Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott
• Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms ed. by Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill

Music

• *Sappho Was a Pop Star by Trish Bendix
• Queer Country by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher
• Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Nadine Hubbs

Nightlife

• Moby Dyke: a Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
• Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani
• *The Last Lesbian Bars: Stories from America’s Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces by Rachel Karp
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
• *Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries and America’s Gay Restaurants by Erik Piepenburg

Theatre

• Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman

Travel

• Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
• Moby Dyke: a Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
• *(Out) on the Road: How Queer Travel is Different and Why it Matters by Lindsey Danis
• The Pride Atlas: 500 Iconic Destinations for Queer Travelers by Maartje Hensen
• Edge of the World: an Anthology of Queer Travel Writing ed. by Alden Jones

Visual Arts

• It Was Her New York: True Stories & Snapshots by C.O. Moed
• Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall by Thomas Waugh
• Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection by Thomas Waugh

Gender Identity

• Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis
• Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
• How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi
• Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery

Health/Self-Help/Advice

• *Genderqueer Menopause: Navigating Menopause for Trans, Gender-Nonconforming, Genderfluid, and Other Queer-Bodied Folx by Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW
• The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Downs, Ph D.
• The Trans Self Care Workbook by Theo Nicole Lorenz
• The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
  ed. by Zena Sharman

History

Cities/Countries/Eras

• Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
• Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender & Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt
• Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 by Julio Capo Jr.
• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
• Gay and Lesbian Atlanta by Wesley Chenault and Stacy Braukman
• Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall by St. Sukie de la Croix
• Queer Moderns: Max Ewing’s Jazz Era New York by Alice T. Friedman
• Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City by Elyssa Maxx Goodman
• Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick
• It Was Her New York: True Stories & Snapshots by C.O. Moed
• Revolutionary Acts: Black Gay Men in Britain by Jason Okundaye
• Fire Island: Love, Loss, and Liberation in an American Paradise by Jack Parlett
• Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970 by Andrea Rottman
• When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
• And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker
• Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada by Tom Warner
• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance by James F. Wilson (Amz)

Gay and/or Lesbian History

• Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
• Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard J. Brown, M.D.
• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
• Charity and Sylvia: a Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
• Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past ed. by Martin Duberman
• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America by Lillian Faderman
• The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging by Jane Fleishman
• Making Gay History by Eric Marcus
• We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution by Martha Shelley
• My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years by Sarah Schulman

HIV/AIDS Crisis

• How to Survive a Plague by David France
• It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
• Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
• Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles by Eric C. Wat

Legal Battles and Discrimination

• The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson
• *Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of Anti-Trans Backlash by Sarah Lamble
• The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon

Military and Politics

• Fighting Proud: the Untold Stories of the Gay Men Who Served in the Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
• Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Wendy L. Rouse
• Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts

Stonewall

• Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
• Stonewall by Martin Duberman

Transgender and/or Intersex History

• Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift by Linda Heidenreich
• Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
• Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
• Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker
• The Other Olympians by Michael Waters

Intersectionality

• Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi (Amz)
• Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey
• Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
• Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in the Jewish Community by Noach Dzmura
• Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences ed. by Alex Iantaffi
• Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
• Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones
• Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin J. Mumford
• Revolutionary Acts: Black Gay Men in Britain by Jason Okundaye
• Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics by Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Amz)
• Queer Communion: Religion in Appalachia ed. by Davis Shoulders
• Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
• A View From the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation by Hoang Tan Nguyen
• Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latino/a Activism by Uriel Quesada
• *Autistically Me by Bradley Riches
• *Rediscovering Two-Spirits: Native American Stories of Spirituality, Resilience, and Community by Gregory Smithers

Parenting

General

• *Raised to Be Free: a Queer Perspective on Parenting by Jane Ward

Queer/Trans Kids

• Raising the Transgender Child by Michele Angello and Ali Bowman
• My Child is Trans, Now What? A Joy-Centered Approach to Support by Ben V. Greene
• Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition by Elijah C. Neeley
• This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids by Dannielle Owens-Reid
• My Child Told Me They’re Trans. What Do I Do? ed. by Brynn Tannehill

Queer/Trans Parents

• The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
• Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by S. Bear Bergman
• Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood by Nikkya Hargrove (Memoir)

Sexual Orientation

Asexuality

• Ace and Aro Journeys: A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity by the Ace and Aro Advocacy Project
• I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life by Cody Daigle-Orions
• The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality by Julie Sondra Decker

Bisexuality

• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
• Bisexual Men Exist by Vaneet Mehta
• Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Dr. Julia Shaw

Other

• Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa M. Diamond
• How to Queer the World: Worldbuilding Through Video Games by Bo Ruberg

Cookbooks by Queer/Trans Authors

• Jew-ish by Jake Cohen
• I Could Nosh by Jake Cohen
• Dinner Party Animal by Jake Cohen
• Cat Cora’s Classics with a Twist by Cat Cora and Ann Krueger Spivack
• Sh*t You Will Actually Cook by Cody Harman
• Second Generation by Jeremy Salamon
• Cooking from the Hip by Cat Cora and Ann Krueger Spivack
• The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

Anthologies with Queer Representation

• Feminism for the Real World ed. by Kelly Jensen
• The (Other) F Word ed. by Angie Manfredi