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• Bisexual Men Exist

  a Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-spec Men

  Mehta, Vaneet,

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  Navigating a range of topics, including coming out, dating, relationships and health, Vaneet shares his own lived experience as well as personal stories from others in the community to help validate and uplift other bisexual men.

• Boyslut

  a Memoir and Manifesto

  Zane, Zachary,

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  A sex and relationship columnist bares it all in a series of essays--part memoir, part manifesto--that explore the author's coming-of-age and coming out as a bisexual man and move toward embracing and celebrating sex unencumbered by shame.

• Creep

  Accusations and Confessions

  Gurba, Myriam,

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  Essays that tackle the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society, in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them, from one of the foremost explorers of intersectional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Major Speaks

  Conversations With a Black Trans Revolutionary

  Meronek, Toshio,

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  Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, New York's jail system, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Here she presents…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Community

  Plett, Casey,

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  We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black on Black

  on Our Resilience and Brilliance in America

  Black, Daniel,

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  Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the Black church, Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude and survival of Black people in a land where their body is always…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

  Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

  Baume, Matt

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  The story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favorite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America.

• Couplets

  a Love Story

  Millner, Maggie, 1991-

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  A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.

• Homeland of My Body

  New and Selected Poems

  Blanco, Richard, 1968-

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  A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his five previous volumes.

• Trace Evidence

  Shanahan, Charif

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  A piercing meditation on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad.

• What We Lost in the Swamp

  Poems

  Chemidlin, Grant,

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  A lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, inexperience, jealousy, burgeoning love, and exploring sexuality.

• Desire Museum

  Deulen, Danielle Cadena, 1979-

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  Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, this collection of poems is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied.

• Pig

  Poems

  Sax, Sam

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  From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.

• Being Ace

  An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

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  No two aces are the same in these 14 unique works that highlight asexual romance, aromantic love, and identities across the asexual spectrum.

• 2024 Lammy Finalists - Complete List

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  View the complete list of finalists in all 26 categories for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. The finalists were selected by more than 70 avid readers, critics, and literary professionals from more than 1,300 submissions.