Yterday saw the release of Choire Sicha’s excellent book Very Recent History, which follows a group of young gay men as they make their way through New York Cy the midst of the fancial crisis of the late ghts. While never even…
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GAY NONFICTN BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-nonfictn: Boys Like Us by ed. Merla, Patrick, Why Are Faggots So Aaid of Faggots?: Flamg Challeng to Masculy, Objectific... * non fiction gay books *
Trans, nonbary, pansexual, bisexual, lbian, gay, queer, agenr, asexual, people live all rners of our world. I recently read a review of an Ain queer novel that claimed that the kd of vlent homophobia the protagonist feared and wnsed was no longer a realy. To be te global alli, we need to read perspectiv of queerns om around the world, and open our mds and hearts to the reali of homosexualy and genr-nonnformy around our globe.
LGBTQIA: GAY NON-FICTN
Books shelved as gay-non-fictn: And the Band Played On: Polics, People, and the AIDS Epimic by Randy Shilts, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Ath... * non fiction gay books *
One Day I Will Wre About This Place: A Memoir by Byavanga WaaaThis award-wng memoir by Kenyan thor Waaa tells his story of his g-of-age the ’70s, of gog to learn puter programmg South Ai, of a later fay rnn Uganda and return to was one of the first Kenyan public figur to be open about beg gay — homosexualy is still crimalized and illegal Kenya — sharg that he had known he was gay sce he was 5.
Eventually, she would n away om home and jo the Hijra muny, experiencg physil and sexual abe, discrimatn, poverty, sex work, and homophobia, she would eventually get work at NGO Sangama workg for the rights of queer people, and rise to bee the director.
Each subject is teeterg on the le of a global ph-and-pull, whether be a gay Ugandan refugee stuck Nairobi, or a lbian uple nng a fé Cairo, or a trans woman tryg to w ctody of her child Rsia. KochCuban thor Arenas wr a sometim excciatg memoir of beg gay first unr Batista and then Castro’s Cuba.
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For younger than Middle Gra, see Children's Books. For adult memoirs and personal says, click here. * = Not yet released YRE = Young Rears Edn Middle Gra History *Genr Rebels by Kathere Locke (text) and Shanee Benjam (art) The Stonewall Rts: Comg Out the Streets by Gayle E. Pman Rabow Revolutnari by Sarah Prager… * non fiction gay books *
It’s rich, tough, and sometim ugly — he wr of his impoverished childhood, of fightg for Castro as a teen, and of his life as a journalist and edor Castro’s Cuba, which the ernment supprsed his wrg and eventually imprisoned him for his homosexualy — or more accurately, for “iologil viatn” and for publishg abroad whout official nsent. And so he channeled his emotn to creatg: to buildg a garn the back of Prospect Cottage astal, sea-sprayed Dungens, and as he worked the soil, he wrote his journals about the plants, the solace he found nature, and his life a now-lost but once flourishg gay muny. Abuja, Nigeria, where he had grown up, had disvered his secret: he was gay.
They Called Me Queer piled by Kim Wdvogel and Kelly-Eve KoopmanThis book featur a llectn of says, stori, and narrativ by Ains who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex, and asexual.
Wrers are able to maximize the visibily of the many ways to be queer, om beg a queer kid to how heteronormativy sneaks to gay spac to beg poly to beg open, soft, and vulnerable. Unfortunately, the people around Ali are not ready to give him the love he serv, and addn to the racism and Islamophobia all around them, he experienc paful homophobia and abe om wh his own wrote this book when he was livg a homels shelter, and was published by the Universy of Rega Prs as part of a seri “wrten by thors who have ught social and polil circumstanc beyond their ntrol.
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs.
June is Pri Month, which means there are plenty of pri paras to attend, ralli to go to, and books to check off of your Pri Month readg list. From personal stori of activism to plete histori of the gay civil rights movement, the… * non fiction gay books *
Before the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg led to the birth of the morn gay rights movement, a young astronomer and ernment employee named Frank Kameny found the Washgton, D. , chapter of the Mattache Society, an advocy group that would lead the charge agast persecutn of gay feral employe — many of whom, like Kameny, were fired on the basis of their sexual orientatn the pre-Stonewall era. Don’t miss this unflchg look at the Last Call Killer, so named bee he targeted gay men New York bars the 1980s and 1990s.