'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.' -Sofie Hagen  ‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’  - Richard Beard...

A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life, A Queer Scrapbook offers a rich archive of histories from across Britain and Ireland. Brimming with interviews, newspaper clippings, photographs, and flyers, it traces urban, rural, and regional queer experiences from 1945 to the present. Commentaries and...

An unflinching exploration of what it means to be gay in a society where homosexuality is punishable by death.The dawn prayer calls echo through the streets. As many make their way to mosques, for some it signals the end of another illegal gay party....

The youngest of the Maitland siblings, Marie had watched her elder sisters be married off one by one, destined to take up the unavoidable path for women in sixteenth-century Scotland. However, as she neared marrying age, her father, an influential judge, poet and Keeper...

The first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay community From its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But...

August 22, 1972: Two men attempt to rob a bank in Brooklyn. They fail miserably: the money they’d hoped for isn’t there, the cops get tipped off immediately, and within 30 minutes they’re in a hostage situation with the FBI. Things really get crazy when reporters...

Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury's personal assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He lived with Mercury in London, Munich, and New York, and was by his side when he died. In this book, Freestone paints a striking portrait of the man...

Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson’s cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna...

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in...

Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of gay Black and Brown partisans of anti-capitalism and decolonization. Characterized by their playful use of theory, Bracho’s plays utilize the stage as a place for...

Sex sells, but what can it buy? Thank You, John is Best American Essays Notable Michelle Gurule’s debut a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud tragi-comedy of errors based on her time spent as an inexperienced sugarbaby in 2010s Denver. Michelle, a queer, wanna-be writer exasperated by student loans, bad teeth, and...

Published to coincide with Pride Month, this beautiful, moving tome honors the brave LGBTQ+ couples, activists, and allies who fought for and ultimately gained the right to marry. The chronological presentation of 100 inspiring stories of these dauntless partners up to the strategists of...

Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidence through the mail. They sent each other handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 21 May 2026 TBC When Katrina, a 46-year-old Midwestern mother of four, becomes consumed with feelings for her female Pilates instructor, she begins to understand that she is and always has been gay. Her husband suggests they open up their 20+...

She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn't know who she was really having sex with. Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accusation, claims she was tricked...

A captivating authorised biography of the legendary writer Jan Morris. She was the twentieth century. Who wouldn't want to write her biography? When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to London, she became...

Secretly gay school bullies. Punks with make-up tips. Heroic hairdressers. Queer parents. Suburban pride marches. Police hassle. With nods of recognition and unexpected flirtations, chosen families and desperate escapes, this is a new way of seeing suburbia: a place where things aren't always as...

A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nation's story and now lovingly restored. 'In this moving and...

A memoir of faith, sexuality and daring to stay Yehudis Fletcher was six years old when she decided to find out if there was actually a G-d.One Sabbath evening, she dared to defy a fundamental rule. She didn’t wash her hands before breaking bread....

An acclaimed biography of poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth. The Irish poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) led a life defiantly at odds with her aristocratic origins. Choosing to live and work among the poor of Manchester, she campaigned on behalf of...

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their personal journeys of self-discovery and acceptance.Featuring the work of Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, and Coco Ouwerkerk, The Out Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and...

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an Imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay.In this memoir, he explains the journey he has taken to be both the founder of a mosque in Paris and to be openly gay, after a troubled childhood in Algeria in poverty...

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image, that of a hypermacho sex...

Your pasta sucks, but it doesn't have to. Let celebrated comedian and totally legit author Matteo Lane show you how through 30 delicious recipes and laugh-out-loud stories.Organized by the most important places and people in his life, from Chicago and New York to Rome...

Recollections of Oscar Wilde is one of the most evocative and charming texts ever written about Wilde and the circles he moved in. Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), painter, illustrator, theatrical designer and publisher, was one of Wilde’s closest friends; he also worked on stage productions...

A beloved memoir from Gary Indiana—one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature whose graphic, funny, and caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments."A graphic and funny memoir, [ I Can Give You Anything But Love...

Independent bookshops are the unsung heroes of queer liberation, providing friendship, solidarity and sanctuary through the ages. 'A terrific read!' Jane Cholmeley, author of A Bookshop of One's Own.  Travelling from Shakespeare and Company in Paris to Gay’s the Word in London to the...

‘Magical … truly original … Writing of people who limited themselves and died of it, Als has overcome limits’ The New York Times Book Review What are the forces that shape us? Hilton Als’s brilliant, now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in...

This is Josephine Baker in her own words.Josephine Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Jean Cocteau and Picasso admired her; Shirley Bassey adored 'I swear in all...

The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own word With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour. Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small...