Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. It wasn't until s/he was twenty-six and encountered the term intersex. In this book, Hida describes her search for authentic identity and love in a...
LGBTQIA2S+
The acronym LGBTQIA2S+ refers to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Two Spirit peoples, as well as those who identify as pansexual, questioning, non-binary, and other gender and sexuality minorities. This is a collection of titles and resources by and about these communities. Titles include Fiction, Nonfiction, Children’s Books, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Plays and more!
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Author(s):Viloria, HidaSummary: - Author(s):Conley, GarrardSummary:
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about...
- Author(s):Levithan, DavidSummary:
What if you went to a school where it was actually all right to be who you really are? That’s the enchanting place David Levithan has created in his highly acclaimed first novel. But even if the gay kids and the straight kids all get...
- Author(s):Francis, BrianSummary:
Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left their small town before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents' dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in....
- Author(s):Aciman, AndréSummary:
"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com *Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée...
- Author(s):De Robertis, CarolinaSummary:
"Carolina's writing, as always, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution-and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again-either through tears, rage...
- Author(s):Thomas, AidenSummary:
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described...
- Author(s):Wearing, AlisonSummary:
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love. Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her...
- Author(s):Thomas, R. EricSummary:
National bestseller - The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of "funny and compulsively readable" (Vogue), "hilarious and incisive" (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after. "How is it possible that...
- Author(s):Hansen, JosephSummary:
When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing.
- Author(s):Peters, TorreySummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” ( Time ) “Reading this novel...
- Author(s):Reyne, LaylaSummary:
Miller Sykes’s meteoric rise to award-winning chef is the stuff of culinary dreams, but it’s all crashing down around him. He’s been given a diagnosis that could cost him something even more precious than his life: his sense of taste....
- Author(s):Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSummary:
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of color offering...
- Author(s):Hansen, JosephSummary:
There is a serial killer loose, targeting men with AIDS. Dave Brandstetter's search for the killer leads him into the dark side of gay Los Angeles, where death comes without warning and life is a fearful dream.
- Author(s):Washington, BryanSummary:
"A stunning look at what it really means to be family." -Michael Schaub, NPR From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide...
- Author(s):Callender, KacenSummary:
From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Felix Love has never been in love--...
- Author(s):Hart, EllenSummary:
Ellen Hart was named the 2017 MWA Grand Master, the most distinguished lifetime achievement award offered in the mystery community. In FEVER IN THE DARK by MWA Edgars Grand Master Ellen Hart, Fiona and Annie return home from their one...
- Author(s):Fannie FlaggSummary:
When dowdy housewife Evelyn Couch meets endearing old lady Ninny Threadgoode, she shares with her an enthralling story of two women. The headstrong Idgie and the gentle Ruth who in the 1930's ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, a railside eatery...
- Author(s):Bornstein, KateSummary:
Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work--one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to...
- Author(s):Baldwin, JamesSummary:
An American in post-war Paris finds himself caught between the conventional life he has planned with his fiancée and his attraction to an Italian bartender.
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