Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese, and losing her meant losing his only family. Then Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she is pregnant with his baby-- and is...

Provides advice for LGBTQ people of color on unique challenges they may face when coming out to their families and responding to homophobia in their respective communities. The overarching message of the book is that there is a place for everyone to be queer and be themselves--whether they are Asian, black, Hispanic, white, disabled, or any other identity.

"Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle--of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or too "bold" or too "soft." Set in "Little Jamaica," Toronto's Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected...

The highly acclaimed debut from an author profiled by the New Yorker as her country's "unlikely literary star," Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring their identities at the cusp of adulthood. Niviaq Korneliussen is a ground-breaking young writer hailed for creating "[her] own genre" (Politiken, Denmark) in her witty and fearless debut Last Night in Nuuk. A work of daring invention about young life in Greenland,...

An intimate look at the personal journeys of five very different gay, straight and transgender people whose lives are forever changed by LGBTQ+ hate crime. As their world's intertwine, the film juxtaposes their inspirational stories of recovery with the powerful connections their public actions have produced, over three generations. Including India's only openly gay Prince, Manvendra Singh Gohil, and Victoria Cruz, transgender activist and Stonewall...

"A genre-bending memoir, a work of 'autotheory' offering ... thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and...

Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues. --Publisher.

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history:...

"Every week, five friends meet in the backroom of a comic book store to fight demons and monsters, real and imagined, and together they learn they are far stronger than they knew. Dungeons and Dragons meets Tales of the City in The Cleveland Heights LBGT Sci-fi and Fantasy Roleplaying Club, a comic literary novel about gay nerds. On Thursday nights, the players assemble in the back of Readmore Comix and Games. Celeste is the dungeon master, Valerie,...