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23) Real life
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
Author
Description
"A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits Greenwich Village, where he lives in an enchanting apartment...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar...
26) Peaces
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment--and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Savin-Williams's manuscript traces the lives of young gay men as they negotiated the transition from their teen years into adulthood. It focuses on key developmental milestones, including first sexual memories, first crushes, coming out to friends and families, and first adult relationships. The manuscript is drawn from in-depth interviews with 41 individuals from the "millennial" generation; each was interviewed multiple times across their teenage...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with...
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Edition
First Vintage International edition.
Description
Focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
31) Cleanness
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"A queer American teacher describes a series of intimate encounters with lovers, friends, and students in and around Sofia, Bulgaria." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Description
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. And then the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Description
Gabriel Harkin is the eldest of four children in a working-class family in 1960s Northern Ireland. In his staunchly Catholic community, the strict rules of belief and behavior are clear, and his upbringing is marked by bullying by peers who prey on his gentle nature and the constant battle to earn the love and respect of his father. As violence builds across the country, Gabriel must also face his own inner turmoil. He begins to suspect that he's...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian -- both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence -- spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didn't understand why he was so... over the top. From choreographed carpet figure skating routines to the unavoidable fact...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Description
World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals -- and you've never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile figures like Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to the trailblazing gender-ambiguous Queen of Sweden and a bisexual blues singer who didn't make it into your...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description
From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer, a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.
Author
Series
Seducing the Sedgwicks volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"After an unconventional upbringing, Ben is perfectly content with the quiet, predictable life of a country vicar, free of strife and turmoil. When he's asked to look after an absent naval captain's three wild children, he reluctantly agrees, but instantly falls for the hellions. And when their stern but gloriously handsome father arrives, Ben is tempted in ways that make him doubt everything." --Back cover.
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