LGBTQ+

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICSBi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world's largest sexual minority. It is a personal...

'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh...

This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as...

What does it mean to be transgender?How do we discuss the subject?In this eye-opening book, CN Lester, academic and activist, takes us on a journey through some of the most...

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison for...

Carrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesn't want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life. It's...

From drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. By turns serious and fantastical,...

'Necessary and illuminating' Times Literary Supplement'A writer of genuine accomplishment' Good Book GuideA story of adoption and queer parenting from the award-winning author of The Spring of Kasper Meier, The...

'It's no mystery or secret how much I enjoy Lawrence Chaney.' - RuPaul'Tackles everything from gender identity, the thrill of a wig and why Scottish talent is often overlooked.' -...

'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDrag superstars Trixie Mattel and Katya have long captivated fans with their stunning looks, onscreen chemistry, and signature wit. In Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood, the...

Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies that have changed our world, and the conversation. A sister volume to So Here...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON 'A necessary, beautiful book' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs...

50 years of Pride in the words of those who changed the world. Half a century has passed since 2,000 people marched in the very first Pride march, in New...

Polari was a language used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or...

VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the...

A socialist journal edited by gay men in the 1970sAfter the leading organizations of radical sexual politics - the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group - imploded or...

"To link socialism and lesbianism is to link the unpopular with the taboo"Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across...

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed societyIn this provocative book, Jeffrey Escoffier tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American...

Celebrate the richness of modern queer culture and its vast history with this fascinating introduction to all the essential elements that helped sculpt the LGBTQ+ community up to the present...

Language is one of the key paths to awareness, acceptance and empowerment but honestly, it can be confusing for many people. This easy-to-use dictionary introduces some of the most essential...

'Becoming Nicole is a powerful and illuminating book about one couple's journey in coming to accept and nurture their transgender daughter. It's a page turner and a heart opener. I...

'A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always...

Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits, Pocket Queer Wisdom is a tribute to some of the most inspirational people of all time. LGBTQIA+ people are some of the coolest in history -...

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities...

Young New York, Ethan James Green's first monograph, presents a selection of striking portraits of New York's millennial scene-makers, a gloriously diverse cast of models, artists, nightlife icons, queer youth,...

Celebrate and march along in the Pride Parade with this lively counting board book!1 parade in the month of June 2 DJs spin fabulous tunes 3 families of all different...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the British Armed Forces gay ban' on 12 January 2020, this book brings together a selection of LGBTQ servicemen and women...

'It tells not just the story of his life, but also the battle for LGBT equality in the UK' Guardian'Passionate and true ... A great book about love, pain and...

The definitive book on the influence of LGBT performers on modern music.From Sia to Elton John, Dusty Springfield to Little Richard, LGBT voices have changed the course of modern music....

*SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL TV SERIES**WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017**AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises...

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns,thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographicalcomic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only...

From the Fab Five - the beloved hosts of Netflix's viral hit Queer Eye - comes a book, and an official guide, that is at once a behind-the-scenes exclusive, a...

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood, a book of expert advice on beauty, homemaking and relationships. Now, they're tackling an...

'If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door'This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination...

A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these...

A reissue of Rachel Holmes's landmark biography of Dr James Barry, one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age.James Barry was one of the nineteenth century's most exceptional...

'Odets's warm and lyrical voice, his inspiring picture of how imaginative gay life can be, has sent me queuing for the couch.' Evening Standard'A gay man could read this book...

Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden...

Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most little girls. Liberated...

'My Name is Philippa offers every reader a story that will change their heart. So be prepared, with a mind open enough to hear Philippa's story, to feel altered by...

Six unwaveringly honest American teens describe what life is like for them as members of the transgender community in this Stonewall Honor book.Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed...

Sexuality in Modern German History offers both a detailed survey of this key subject and a new intervention in the history of sexuality in modern Germany. It investigates the diverse...

Not today, Satan.The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic - 'The Joan Rivers of the Drag World' (New York Times) - who isn't afraid to shock or offend brings...

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and...