Amara Moira wrestles with sex work and identity in her piercing essay collection So What If I’m a Puta. This public diary documents Moira’s decision to use sex work to embrace her identity as a travesti, a distinct cultural... Read More

The life, career, and activism of actor George Takei are chronicled in the stirring graphic novel "It Rhymes with Takei". Takei gave up studying architecture when he heard the siren call of the stage. Despite the limited roles available... Read More

Chloé Caldwell’s inventive memoir "Trying" recreates her years of attempting to become pregnant. Caldwell devoted much of her thirties to trying to get pregnant via intrauterine insemination. She developed rituals to ease the grueling... Read More

In Em Dickson’s stunning biographical collection "Beyond They/Them", nonbinary, gender-diverse, and two-spirit trailblazers are honored for their groundbreaking impacts across various media. This dynamic book highlights twenty... Read More

Bonnie Yochelson’s enlightening biography "Too Good to Get Married" captures the life and work of nineteenth-century lesbian photographer Alice Austen. Born in March 1866, Austen, an amateur photographer living among elite Staten... Read More

There have always been transgender people, shows Eli Erlick’s dynamic biographical collection "Before Gender", about thirty trans individuals of the past. This riveting, compassionate collection of life stories uses a process of... Read More

In the intrepid, intimate essays of "Edge of the World", edited by Alden Jones, travel engenders realizations about self, society, and the value of queer community. Sixteen authors of diverse sexual orientations and genders contrast here... Read More

Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof’s evocative photographic history "Queer Lens" chronicles queer representation in the medium. Arguing that representation is instrumental to visibility, this book says that photography “queered” the... Read More