Read if you’re glad to be gay
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Marking the anniversary of the New York Stonewall riots in 1969, June has been celebrated for several years in many countries as LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Prepare for a month of fun, frolics, protest and allyship with this selection from our shelves.
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'Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love. I relished every page.' SIR IAN MCKELLEN 'I was staggered…
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An unconventional history of homosexualityToo many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have…
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white…
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Ten captivating stories of adventure and resilience celebrating LGBTQ+ characters, published as an illustrated collection of queer classics for the first time.These are the fairy tales that history forgot - or concealed. Tales in which…
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Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer.In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk…
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'An Opinionated Guide to Queer London'. Text by Frank Gallaugher. 160pp, paperback, 112 x 162mm. Contains 55 places, an introduction, a map and seasonal events.If it’s queer, it’s definitely here: culturally and…
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'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' Ocean Vuong'Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery' Tracy K. Smith'Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance' Ralf…
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A stunning reimagining of the classic tale, The Frog Prince that proves anyone can have their happily ever after! Inspired by a picture he sees in a book, a lonely frog decides to go in search of a kiss. But will he ever find a princess who…
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‘Paul Baker captures essence of an essentially uncapturable phenomenon making it just knowable enough for all. My dear, she’s on fire!’ DAMIAN BARR‘The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one…
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD‘S BLOCKBUSTER BOOK TRENDS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARNOMINATED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR ROMANCEA ZOELLA BOOK CLUB…
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'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' -Jamie Lee Curtis'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it…
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No one knows Yami is gay, least of all her mum, and Yami intends to keep it that way . . . Until, uh oh, she's falling in love again.…
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Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'Tender and heartbreaking... Delving back into the visceral themes that made his 2019 novel On…
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Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here…
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Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, works double shifts at his waiter job, never cleans his apartment and gets black-out drunk with his restaurant comrades, Nik and Darby. He's been struggling to manage his transition to …
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