For younger than Middle Grade, see Children’s Books.
For adult memoirs and personal essays, click here.
* = Not yet released
YRE = Young Readers Edition
Middle Grade
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
Memoir
Miscellaneous
- 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
- 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
- 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
- On Top of Glass by Karina Manta
- High School by Tegan & Sara
General/Reference
Anthologies
- The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
ed. by Zena Sharman
Biography
- Margaret Webster: A Life in Theatre by Milly S. Barranger (Amz)
- Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
- Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker
- Singled Out by Andrew Maraniss
- Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
- Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
- Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J. Shields
- The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
- Barney Frank by Stuart E. Weisberg
Culture
Ballroom/Dance
- And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker
Cinema/Movies
- The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema by Thomas Waugh
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 (Amz)
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
Social
- Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Television
- Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume (Amz)
Theatre
- Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman
Visual Arts
- 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
History
Cities/Countries
- Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
- 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
- *Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City by Elyssa Maxx Goodman (B&N)
- Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall by St. Sukie de la Croix
- *Revolutionary Acts: Black Gay Men in Britain by Jason Okundaye
- Fire Island: Love, Loss, and Liberation in an American Paradise by Jack Parlett
- 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
- 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
- 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
Lifestyle and 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
- Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper (Amz)
- The Pride Atlas: 500 Iconic Destinations for Queer Travelers by Maartje Hensen (Amz)
- Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler
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
- 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)
- 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
- *Rediscovering Two-Spirits: Native American Stories of Spirituality, Resilience, and Community by Gregory Smithers
Parenting
- The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
- *Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood by Nikkya Hargrove (Memoir)
- This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids by Dannielle Owens-Reid
Self-Help/Advice/Lifestyle
- The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend by Maddy Court and Kelsey Wroten
- The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Downs, Ph D.
- *DapperQ Style Manual by Anita Dolce Vita
Sexual Orientation
Asexuality
- I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life by Cody Daingle-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
Cookbooks by Queer Authors
- Jew-ish by Jake Cohen
- Cat Cora’s Classics with a Twist by Cat Cora and Ann Krueger Spivack
- 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