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This is a glimpse into a year of an artist’s life, dazzling with wit, wisdom and heart. . When Cherry (the clown) meets Margot the Magnificent, she is shaken from her complacency on both a personal and a professional level. This is an illuminating and necessary meditation that unravels masculinity, race, tenderness, strength .
Throughout the entire book, I felt as if I were there with Jeremy at the fantastic queer spaces he visited, while feeling simultaneously inspired as a writer of the community. .
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In celebration of Pride Month, these are the books that raised us as LGBTQ+ journalists. feel purposeful and imperative as well as contagious in their joy.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Perfect for this tense and distracting moment—beautiful, small bites you can consume when you need some sustenance for the soul.” —Time
“What emerges is not a ledger of delights passively logged but a radiant lens actively searching for and magnifying them, not just with the mind but with the body as an instrument of wonder-stricken presence.” —Brain Pickings, Favorite Books of 2019
“These charming, digressive ‘essayettes,’ in the manner of Montaigne, surprise and challenge .
Still reeling from a recent near-death experience, Abraxa decides to resurrect the video game—a decision that draws all three back into one another’s orbit.
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Having freshly abandoned their gender, their name, and their corporate job, the unnamed narrator of Zee Carlstrom’s exhilarating debut is in the midst of a “bender to end all benders” when they learn that their conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing.
I had known I was gay probably before I had the language to express it (but, seriously, who plays with Barbies as rabidly as I did? Even at 5, it was obvious) and yet I found myself grappling with the same age-old questions of identity and community. – Greta Cross, national trending reporter
'Delilah Green Doesn't Care' by Ashley Herring Blake
I love romance books, and this is one of the first sapphic romance books I read.
Tracing her life from her pre-transition childhood through her sudden rise to fame as an out trans influencer, Mulvaney offers readers an intimate perspective on her journey to womanhood.
A lesbian romance between a clown and a magician is no laughing matter in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth.
.This little book is a summer companion — it will make it summer no matter the season." — The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Gay’s zest for life bursts forth on almost every page." —Bookreporter
"It’s hard not to reach for religious language when describing Gay’s work. Jakobson is a witty and lyrical contemporary writer and an Instagram must-follow for anyone identifying as bi+.
– David Oliver, Wellness editor
‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’ by David Sedaris
On one of the final days of 8th grade, my class was given a list of books we could read over the summer. For some LGBTQ+ readers, seeing ourselves in literature was the first time we felt permission to be ourselves.
So she turns for support to the only other trans woman she knows: her 17-year-old student Abigail. There really is nothing like a hole-in-the-wall bar with permanently sticky floors and stained ceiling tiles. No matter the emotional timbre, Gay’s thoughts unfurl with a lush beauty, delight the terroir of the writing and reading alike." — Orion
"Everyone could use a bit more delight in their days (particularly during the doldrums of winter) and Gay, who is the winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry, is here to provide just that, with essays celebrating everything from air quotes to candy wrappers to pickup basketball games." — New York Post
"Gay’s journey ambles back and forth in time.