In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and clinicians from the...

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...

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...

"If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities - the expression of love - then life itself loses its meaning."- Harvey MilkIt all started in 1970 in New York City. Pride started out as a...

BBC Radio 4 Food Programme Best Book of 2017Comfort food is enjoying a renaissance as people start to shy away from exclusion diets and `clean eating' and embrace the balance of nourishing homemade meals. With the concept of hygge emphasising the importance of enjoying...

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...

In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has exuberated global geopolitical tensions and led to rising Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism worldwide. At the same time, there has been a nascent Asian diaspora consciousness emerging in the West, celebrating Asian identity and cultural heritage. In the space between...

In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un­men­­tionables de­barred from polite conver­sa­tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline ana­to­my had license to rep­re­sent and nar­rate the in­timate details of the human body, anus and genitals in­clud­ed. Figured with­in the frame of...

Tony Peake enjoyed unprecedented access to the visionary artist's archives in order to bring the extraordinary life of Derek Jarman to the page. This authorised and unique biography covers Jarman's story from the bleakness of post-war Britain and his RAF childhood, to student life...

Explore the “femininomenon” and cultural impact of the Midwest pop princess, Chappell Roan, in this richly illustrated biography. Chappell Roan is a 2025 Grammy Award winner for Best New Artist. The queer queen’s meteoric rise from small-town girl to pop icon is a story...

From neurodivergent comedian Darcy Michael, a hilarious memoir with a message about living with adult ADHD. What if ADHD isn't a disorder to overcome, but a superpower that makes you funnier, more creative, and more resilient? In Attention Seeker, comedian and card-carrying adult with...

Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness. Queer Crafts provides...

It’s 1996, and Jeremy has met the British boy of his dreams — just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights, including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts, London fashion...

This affirming and compassionate workbook is the perfect companion to Queerly Autistic, the bestselling guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens from Erin Ekins. In Queerly Autistic, Erin Ekins opened conversations around gender, sexuality, relationships and exploring your identity as a queer autistic teen. Now, in...

Sometimes when I drink wine out of a globulous glass with the thinnest of rims, blocking out the fact it's billed at £14 a pop, I think of baby Becky. Hair so blonde it's neon white, cheeks so chubby you can't see her eyes....

Dale is a Birmingham, UK based poet. His debut pamphlet “Walking Contagions” was published by Polari Press and his single poems have been published widely, including by Verve, Young Poets Network, Queerlings, The North, and Magma. “On This Stretch of Queerland” looks at queer relationships and friendships,...

A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellenSherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century, starting in New Jersey where he was born in the 1930s to a Jewish immigrant family, ending on Broadway...

Blackfriars Bridge, 1905. A Black Cherokee man is arrested and charged as a ‘wandering lunatic’. In the City of London asylum, he is photographed; looking directly at the camera, he insists and refuses. He dies in the asylum one year later.In the absence of...

In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we...

An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and letters. Christopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and set out to make a different one. Heir to an English...

The second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the...

The debut poetry collection by Troy Cabida, is an exploration of the queer Filipino body in all of its skin and glitter. Under the spinning disco ball, Cabida captures facets of pop music, fashion, jewellery, dating mishaps, and of London life. These dazzling poems...

A Queer Guided Journal on Finding Your Allies, Demanding Liberation, and Using Your Voice (Finding Yourself; Fighting Transphobia and the Gender Binary; LGBT Issues) Write down every thought, every feeling, and every doodle that pops into your mind with this high-quality guided journal destined...

The Importance of Being Me: A Trans Reality is an essential guide for anyone navigating the complexities of gender identity. Whether you’re a parent of a child questioning their gender, a teenager contemplating a transition, or someone seeking clarity on the gender/sex debate, this...

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive. Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate...

Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling...

It's time to give queer minds the attention they deserve. As a non-binary and queer psychotherapist, Katy Lees knows how crucial it is to feel seen and supported as a queer person with mental health challenges. Drawing on their own experiences and featuring interviews...

Queer people’s experiences of war have largely been invisible. Portraits like the ones in this book are rare because most recent wars have been fought in places where it is generally unsafe for queer people to come out. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is...

Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and the metabolism of Kate Moss circa 1995.There was a time before shame. A time of...