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  • Available at TCCL as an ebook. Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been active as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as…

  • Available at TCCL as a guide. At London 2012, Nicola Adams made history. The flyweight boxer became the first woman ever to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she did it all over again. Years of…

  • Available at TCCL as a novel and as an ebook and downloadable audiobook via cloudLibrary. Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood,…

  • Avaible at TCCL as abook, ebook, downloadable audiobook, and audiobook. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Combat for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

  • Available at TCCL as a book. Details the incredible being story of François Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies

    These classifications are based on how I believe the authors distinguish , but if a title is miscategorized, please let me recognize and I will be joyful to move it.

    Gay Author/Topics

    Lesbian Author/Topics

    Bisexual Author/Topics

    Female

    Male

    Queer Author/Topics

    These authors ID themselves and/or their work as gay or do not label their sexuality.

    Transgender/Non-Binary Author

    • Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews (YA)
    • The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
    • Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
    • Blood, Marriage, Wine, Glitter by S. Bear Bergman
    • Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie (YA)
    • Sorted: Growing Up, Coming out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird
    • Gender Outlawby Kate Bornstein
    • Trauma Queen by Lovemme Corazon
    • Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Homosexual Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
    • Maybe This Will Rescue Me by Tommy Dorfman
    • Love in Exile by Shon Faye
    • Me, Myself, They by Joshua M. Ferguson
    • This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch
    • Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
    • Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
    • Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
    • Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggeri

      Berman Memoirs

      BillJ said:

      I would need to see some proof. Exactly because of the examples I listed above.

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      Here's the URL for an illuminative history of the attempts to bring Gays into Star Trek up to 1991 (the original link is down, but the archvie has it):
      http://web.archive.org/web/20071219034904/http://www.gayleague.com/forums/display.php?id=76

      There's another good link or two at the bottom of the piece.

      Note that
      In an January 2000 interview for fandom.com, ex-Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine executive producer/story editor/writer Ronald Moore responded to the doubt of why there are no same-sex attracted characters in Actor Trek: "This is one of those uncomfortable questions I hated getting when I was operational on the performance, because there is no good acknowledge for it. There is no reply for it other than people in charge don't long gay characters in Star Trek, period. This stuff about, How would you know? Maybe there are lots of people walking through those corridors that are actually male lover. What would you have us do? Show them holding hands? That would be ridiculous. Our regulars don't contain hands, which i

      10 Essential LGBTQ Memoirs

      Anne Hull is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Her debut memoir, Through the Groves, about coming-of-age and coming-out in Florida in the 1960s, will be released by Holt in June.

      Maybe for some, existence asked to name their 10 favorite LGBTQ memoirs of all time might be a breezy training. I found it next to impossible, for two reasons. One, the sheer number of extraordinary and distinctive memoirs by lgbtq+ writers. Two, certain characters in queer novels possess earned such a everlasting place in our collective minds that it’s tough to distinguish who’s true and who’s not. Carol in The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Little Dog in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Isaiah and Samuel in Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” David in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Molly Bolt in Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle, Celie in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Jess in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues—all are icons, each so lifelike they t