Shut Up & Love the Rain

Robnoxious

In Shut Up and Love the Rain, Oakland-based zinester Robnoxious takes along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, über-healthy...

The Men with the Pink Triangle

The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

Heinz Heger

For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed...

The Screwball Asses

Guy Hocquenghem

First published anonymously in Félix Guattari's Recherches in the notorious 1973 issue on homosexuality (seized and destroyed by the French government), The Screwball Asses...

Portland Queer

Tales of the Rose City

Ariel Gore

At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life on one of the world's great...

The Chelsea Whistle

Michelle Tea

Told in Tea's trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this gritty, confessional memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girl's tightrope walk out of a working-class slum and the lessons she...

That's Revolting!

Queer Strategies For Resisting Assimilation

Matt Bernstein Sycamore

As the gay mainstream ironically prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. That's Revolting shows us...

Somewhere Else

Jan Guenther Braun

Jess is sixteen and aware that she is in an impossible position—being the homosexual daughter of the president of the Mennonite college. She hits the road in search of a language and the...

Whipping Girl

A Transsexual Woman On Sexism And The Scapegoating Of Femininity

Julia Serano

"With her first full-length book, biologist, writer and musician Serano positions herself as a Betty Friedan of the transsexual community. Making a case that trans discrimination is steeped in...

We Don't Need Another Wave

Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists

Melody Berger

We Don't Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today's young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy,...