Alexis De Veaux's Yabo is an inventive novella centered on Black lesbian experience. Desire, memory, and spirituality intersect in a layered narrative that lets voices crossing boundaries come forward.

An inventive novella centered on Black lesbian experience.

The Delectable Negro is a scholarly book that examines the relationship between consumption and desire under slavery. Through questions of cannibalism and homoeroticism, it illuminates the intersection of Black studies and LGBTQ scholarship.

A scholarly examination of consumption and desire under slavery.

Jeff Mann's Salvation is a gay romance novel set near the end of the Civil War. It follows a deserter and his former prisoner-lover as they try to survive a dangerous journey home.

A gay romance novel set during the final days of the Civil War.

A special award honoring Alison Bechdel’s long-standing contributions.

An award recognizing Nicola Griffith’s achievements as a mid-career novelist.

An award recognizing Michael Thomas Ford’s achievements as a mid-career novelist.

A short story collection set in El Paso and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, drawing on memory, family, and community. Its restrained narration brings out both the intimacy and the pain of lives lived at the border.

A sequence of short stories that builds a memory of the borderlands.

A coming-of-age novel in which the Mexican American boys Aristotle and Dante discover themselves through friendship, family, sexuality, and identity. Quiet conversations accumulate until they carry the feeling of first encountering the world.

Friendship becomes the doorway to self-discovery.

A novel by Mykola Dementiuk that sketches urban landscapes and shifting relationships. It connects fragments of queer city life while retaining a restless sense of embodiment and desire.

A novel tracing urban desire and the instability of relationships.

A special award honoring Katherine V. Forrest’s long-standing contributions. It recognizes her sustained influence on queer literature, including lesbian mystery writing.

A special award honoring pioneering work in lesbian mystery writing.

A special award honoring Lillian Faderman for her major influence on LGBT history and feminist scholarship. It recognizes her long contribution through research and writing.

A special award honoring pioneering work in LGBT history.

A memoir that reconsiders love, loss, and self-making while tracing childhood wounds and the shadow of family. It also reflects on how literature and storytelling can help a person survive and rework the past.

A memoir that revisits a wounded past through the power of literature.

A short story collection that traces return, loss, and desire across Ireland and Spain. It captures the ache that remains when people try to go back to the past, along with the loneliness that resists easy language.

A short story collection where return and loss quietly echo each other.

An erotica anthology that links transgender and genderqueer bodies and desire to the affirmation of being seen and desired. Through a wide range of voices, it explores visibility and self-recognition in sexual expression.

An anthology that opens overlooked desire into the pleasure of being seen.

A sweeping history that rereads LGBTQ+ life in the United States from the colonial era to the present. It reframes people pushed to the margins of history by connecting their lives to political and cultural change.

A sweeping history of the United States reorganized through a queer lens.

An experimental novel in which the life of a poet, conversations with friends, and the feeling of the city accumulate in fragments. The boundary between autobiography and fiction softens, and language itself comes to the foreground.

Writing poetry and living become the same heat.

A novel set in a small Idaho town where rumors of catastrophe, family secrets, and adolescent friendship become entangled. Rather than a single big event, the story is driven by the frail connections among lonely people.

The loneliness of a small town spreads quietly from person to person.

A novel that compresses religion, violence, and sexual abuse into a few days leading up to a boy's first communion. It is harsh, but the tight focus makes the story sharply controlled.

On the way to a sacrament, memories of violence rise to the surface.

A suspense novel in which hidden family history comes to light after a father's death. Through the brothers' relationship, the book explores memory, guilt, and the reassembly of a family.

What a family remembers is not always the truth.

CJ lives on guard, carrying secrets she cannot fully relax around. When she meets Karita, her longing for friendship, roots, and someone who knows her real name surfaces, and the two women are pulled between a kiss meant for tonight and feelings that reach further.

One kiss begins to quietly change everything between them.

This new and selected collection traces Judy Grahn’s work from the 1960s through 2008 and shows how she opens love beyond romance into community, memory, and spiritual connection.

A wide-ranging poetry collection that refuses to confine love to romance.

A novel that follows a boy's and young man's love story unfolding during an Italian summer. Desire and hesitation intensify within a brief span and become enduring memory.

One summer romance changes the shape of a life.

A novel in which a marine biologist reconsiders family, fatherhood, love, and his own identity over one summer. The delicate motion of feeling, like marine life, provides the book's quiet momentum.

A marine researcher reconsiders his life over the course of a summer.

A boxed memoir that gathers the author's early life into a collectible form. Short chapters and included objects turn memory into part of the artwork itself.

A memoir you do not just read but handle as an object.

A novel that follows wartime London and its aftermath through four characters. Secrets and desire connect slowly as the narrative moves backward through time.

Secrets and ties that do not end when the war does.

A graphic memoir set around a family funeral home, tracing the relationship with a father, sexual identity, and the instability of memory. Literary allusion and precise structure lift the personal story into an intellectually layered autobiography.

A father's death opens the family silence.

A dark comedy set in post-9/11 New York, following a young man who tries to isolate himself only to be pushed back into the city's noise. Lightness and unease coexist, revealing how hard it is to remain alone.

Withdrawal does not last long in the middle of the city.

A sweeping history of gay and lesbian life in Los Angeles, told through politics, culture, activism, and urban change. By combining archives and testimony, it expands a local history into a national one.

The queer history of Los Angeles, told through both politics and culture.

A collection of short stories and a novella set against Appalachia, exploring desire, violence, and warped power relations. The prose is dense, and bodily intensity runs through the whole book.

What draws boundaries also wounds people.

A historical novel about Henry James's later life that quietly probes a writer's interiority and the repression of desire. Though historical in setting, its center is the loneliness of a person who cannot reach intimacy.

A novel of Henry James's silence and desire.

A biography of Audre Lorde that threads together family history, poetry, politics, and the experience of being a Black lesbian. It restores not only her public significance but also the complexity of the person behind the symbol.

Reading Audre Lorde's life and work in concrete detail rather than myth.

This memoir follows the author from an immigrant childhood through poverty, show-business dreams, and precarious young adulthood to the academic life in which she found her voice. Family history, sexual identity, class, and Jewish-American experience intersect here, turning one life story into a wider portrait of twentieth-century America.

One life becomes a lens for family memory and historical change.

A coming-of-age novel in which young men and women change through love, loss, and self-discovery over one summer. Beneath the bright dialogue lies a quiet accumulation of the distance between desire and reality.

A single summer of love and growth becomes an unforgettable memory.

A collection of Bayard Rustin's writings and related materials that bridges civil-rights history and gay liberation. It is more than an edited volume: it lets readers encounter the movement through Rustin's own words.

A black gay activist at the center of the civil-rights movement, told in his own words.

Another winner entry pointing to the same Bayard Rustin collected volume, and therefore the same bibliographic record. It rereads movement history through the activist's own statements.

Reconstructing an era of activism through Rustin's political voice.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is an award-winning work.

Fingersmith remains a work that continues to attract readers.

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction, edited by Devon W. Carbado / Dwight A. McBride / Donald Weise, is an anthology that maps literary history through multiple voices.

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction remains a work that continues to attract readers.

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction, edited by Donald Weise / Devon W. Carbado, is an anthology that maps literary history through multiple voices.

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction remains a work that continues to attract readers.

A riotous libretto that turns the pain of gender transition and the energy of rock into a stage-bound confession. It traces the hurt and release of self-invention with rough humor and theatrical force.

Hedwig turns the pain of a botched operation into a furious, funny song of self-making.

A riotous libretto that turns the pain of gender transition and the energy of rock into a stage-bound confession. It traces the hurt and release of self-invention with rough humor and theatrical force.

Hedwig turns the pain of a botched operation into a furious, funny song of self-making.

A historical novel that delicately depicts gender transition and marriage. Inspired by a real painter, it quietly asks how to respond when the person you love begins to change.

A quiet historical novel about how to respond when the person you love begins to change.

A fast-moving coming-of-age novel that races through San Francisco's lesbian underground. Romance, friendship, and the heat of the city are all mixed together.

An energetic coming-of-age story set in the radical nights of San Francisco.

An essay collection about the experiences of children raised by gay, lesbian, and transgender parents. It presents family, secrecy, and identity from multiple angles.

A collection of voices on the confusion and understanding that can shape life with queer and trans parents.

An essay collection about the experiences of children raised by gay, lesbian, and transgender parents. It presents family, secrecy, and identity from multiple angles.

A collection of voices on the confusion and understanding that can shape life with queer and trans parents.

A history book that rereads American women's history and re-evaluates the achievements of historical women through a lesbian lens.

It revisits the relationships behind women’s movements, education, and professional advancement.

A history book that rereads American women's history and re-evaluates the achievements of historical women through a lesbian lens.

It revisits the relationships behind women’s movements, education, and professional advancement.

An art history that traces the representation of homosexuality across visual art from antiquity to the present. It surveys images from around the world on a broad scale.

It surveys the wide horizon of homosexual representation from the Stone Age to after Stonewall.

A memoir in lightly comic essays that captures the absurdities and pains of living as a gay man. It humorously sketches everyday mishaps and the gaps in self-presentation.

It humorously captures everyday mishaps and the gaps in self-presentation.

A substantial novel about a woman returning home with old wounds and trying to reclaim the family she lost. It is a Southern story where violence and renewal intersect.

A heavy, searching homecoming story about reconnecting a damaged family.

A retrospective look at the world of Dykes to Watch Out For, tracing Alison Bechdel's long-running comic and the creative background behind it. The book introduces the strip's context, characters, and comic sensibility with a mix of humor and critical reflection.

A look behind the strip, tracing the accumulated life of the comic.

A collection of essays and narratives in which Joan Nestle writes about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, memory, history, and life with illness. Moving between intimacy and politics, the book reflects on the fragility and hope that shape community.

It gives language to lesbian history by moving between intimacy and difference.

Michael Thomas Ford's essay collection captures the humor and bittersweet edges of queer everyday life. Mixing romance, family, pop culture, and self-deprecation, it portrays gay life in the 1990s with brisk, comic energy.

It sketches the shape of queer life through sharp observation and self-mocking humor.

Former undercover cop Aud Torvingen is drawn into a dangerous chain of events in Atlanta. Through a bombing, money laundering, and a trip to Norway, the strong but emotionally guarded heroine is pushed out of her fragile balance.

A woman who feels truly alive only in danger steps into the middle of a case.

An anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays about black lesbian coming out. Personal testimony and community experience overlap, and the diversity of voices becomes the book’s strength.

Not one confession, but many voices overlapping into a shared form.

A reflective essay collection by a doctor and poet that explores the intersections of medicine, poetry, care, and desire. It reconsiders how language works around healing.

From the space between medicine and poetry, it rethinks the meaning of body and care.

A contemporary poetry collection made of images that rise out of the city’s flow, carrying loss and desire together. Lightness and urgency coexist throughout.

It gathers poems and prose in search of light, passion, and decency.

A portrait collection that documents the everyday lives and transitions of trans men through photographs and writing. It captures not only bodily change but the texture of lived experience.

It records transition and everyday life in photographs and words at once.

A reflective essay collection by a doctor and poet that explores the intersections of medicine, poetry, care, and desire. It reconsiders how language works around healing.

From the space between medicine and poetry, it rethinks the meaning of body and care.

An anthology of essays on gay men's politics, culture, and sexual expression. It reflects community change from multiple angles, including contentious topics.

A wide-ranging essay collection on the central debates of gay male culture.

Using documents and testimony, this book traces the love and resistance of two women in Nazi-occupied Berlin. It captures the intimacy and danger that existed under historical repression.

In wartime Berlin, love confronts the violence of history.

A young-adult novel told through Melanin Sun's notebooks as he faces change in his family. Putting feelings into words gradually changes the way he sees the world.

Writing things down makes the shifting family dynamic legible.

An anthology centered on lesbian culture and reading. It brings together short essays, criticism, and experimental writing to show reading as both pleasure and politics.

It foregrounds both the pleasure and the critical force of reading.

A two-part play set in 1980s New York, intertwining AIDS, politics, religion, sexuality, and spiritual crisis.

In a breaking era, desire and faith collide.

A nonfiction narrative centered on Savannah's eccentric society and the Jim Williams murder case, where fact and storytelling intertwine.

The atmosphere of the city lingers even more strongly than the outline of the crime.

A memoir of a young doctor confronting the first AIDS patients in eastern Tennessee, capturing not only the illness but the changing atmosphere of the town itself.

From the clinic, the outlines of fear and prejudice begin to emerge.

A finely shaded novel set in a Belgian town, following teacher Edward's desire, memory, and loss.

Desire changes shape quietly and keeps resonating in memory.

The first part of Kushner's two-part epic about the AIDS crisis and Reagan-era America. Blends fantastical elements with political and personal themes in a sprawling drama.

The first part of an epic AIDS-era drama.

A love story narrated by a gender-ambiguous speaker, exploring the intensity and loss of love.

A love story of desire, loss, and ambiguity.

An autobiographical account of Monette's youth, coming out, and personal development, culminating in meeting Roger Horwitz in 1974.

A life story of coming out and self-formation.

A major biography of Jean Genet based on years of research; highly acclaimed in biographical literature.

A major biography based on years of research.

A mainstream novel exploring personal life and complex relationships; recipient of a Lambda Literary Award.

Personal life and complex relationships in a mainstream novel.

Tells the story of an escaped slave who comes of age across two centuries, reframing vampire mythology from a lesbian feminist perspective; explores community and generational linkages.

A lesbian feminist reimagining of vampire mythology.

A landmark book depicting lesbian life and culture in twentieth-century America using personal records and oral histories, discussing social changes and community formation.

A landmark history of lesbian life in America.

One of the later Brandstetter novels, dealing with relationships and crime from a mature perspective; winner of a Lambda Literary Award.

Crime and relationships seen from a mature perspective.

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past is a landmark anthology edited by Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey that brought together, for the first time, vital new scholarly work lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Spanning thirty essays by leading researchers including John Boswell, Jeffrey Weeks, and John D'Emilio, the collection illuminates same-sex life across an extraordinary range of cultures and eras—from Plato's Athens and Renaissance Italy to Jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, and post-World War II San Francisco—and across peoples as diverse as South African black miners, American Indians, Chinese courtiers, Japanese samurai, English schoolchildren, and urban working women. By demonstrating that definitions of 'normal' sexuality have varied widely across time and place, the anthology established the scholarly legitimacy of gay and lesbian history and set the agenda for decades of subsequent research.

Thirty groundbreaking essays reveal how profoundly the meaning of sexuality has differed across cultures and centuries—restoring the hidden history of gay and lesbian lives.

A selected anthology of Gertrude Stein's poetry, fiction, and drama, compiled and introduced by poet and activist Judy Grahn. Organized in three sections, each prefaced by one of Grahn's essays, the book serves as a practical primer for readers who find Stein's work daunting. Grahn offers concrete reading strategies — reading aloud, suspending judgment — and draws on lesser-known Stein pieces, including 'Marguerite, or A Novel of High Life,' to illuminate how Stein distinguished between identity and essence. The approach is personal and intuitive rather than academic, making this an accessible entry point for newcomers to Stein's modernist world.

"By suspending judgment and agreeing with myself to keep reading even when I can't find a way to recognize myself, I have begun to muddle into the landscape of her mind." — from Judy Grahn's introductory essay

A memoir chronicling partner Roger Horwitz's fight against and death from AIDS, detailing the final nineteen months and exploring loneliness, grief, and love.

Love, grief, and caregiving in the shadow of AIDS.

Second in the Henry Rios series; received strong critical acclaim.

A hard-edged mystery in the Henry Rios series.

A collection of short stories dealing with working-class life, lesbian experience, and family violence.

Stories of class, desire, and violence.

A debut novel set in London exploring gay life, desire, class and memory.

London, desire, and memory in a debut novel.

Second volume of the autobiographical trilogy, following the protagonist into young adulthood and exploring relationships and identity.

A coming-of-age novel of memory and self-recognition.