LGBTQ+ History Month: Fiction and Nonfiction
Check out these stories of LGBTQ+ folks in times past, both historical fiction and nonfiction. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Queer
Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and academia guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events that have shaped queer theory.
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The Wildes
A historical novel explores the life of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
Brings together a new collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of a diverse group of lesbian friends.
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The Disenchantment
This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost.
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
An epic tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.
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The House of Impossible Beauties
Follows a cast of gay and transgender kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Survival Is A Promise
This scintillating tour de force from poet Gumbs traces the life of feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) in a free-ranging style as distinctive as its subject. (Publishers Weekly)
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What I Know About You
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
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The Adventures of China Iron
China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Traces a lesser-known time of radical transformation of black life in early 20th-century America, revealing how a large number of black women forged relationships, families and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to moral dictates.
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