Longer Texts (Books, Poetry, and More!)

Books 

A nice reading list of Queer and Genderqueer Literature is also provided by Brown here: https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/lgbtq/http%3A/brown.edu/campus-life/support/lgbtq/campus-resources/queer-and-genderqueer-literature  

Nonfiction 

  • Pride by Matthew Todd 
  • Good as You: From Prejudice to Pride—30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn 
  • We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown 
  • The Stonewall Reader edited by the New York Public Library 
  • Speak Now by Kenji Yoshino 
  • Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt 
  • Forcing the Spring by Jo Becker 
  • Unbound by Arlene Stein 
  • Transgender History by Susan Stryker 
  • How to Survive a Plague by David France 
  • The Gay Revolution: The Story of Struggle by Lillian Faderman 
  • Queer City by Peter Ackroyd 
  • Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker 

Fiction 

  • On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 
  • This Brutal House by Niven Govinden 
  • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 
  • Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown 
  • All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad 
  • Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay 
  • The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez 
  • Olivia by Dorothy Strachey 
  • The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan 
  • How to Survive a Summer by Nick White 
  • Prudence by David Treuer 
  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 

Memoir, Autobiographical, Anthology, etc... 

  • Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us by CN Lester 
  • Real Queer America: LGBT Storesi from Red States by Samantha Allen 
  • How We Fight for Our Lives: A memoir by Saeed Jones 
  • Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain edited by Kate Harrad 
  • Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, and Kat Gupta 
  • Untamed  by Glennon Doyle 
  • Sissy by Jacob Tobia 
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde 
  • Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel and Katya 
  • Believe Me by Eddie Izzard 
  • Mama’s Boy by Dustin Lance Black 
  • She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan 

Poetry 

  • Love Speaks Its Name [poetry anthology] 
  • Stung with Love by Sappho [collection of poems by the Greek poet, Sappho] 
  • [Insert] Boy by Danez Smith 
  • Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piezna-Smarasinha 
  • Bestiary by Donika Kelly 
  • Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong 
  • You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White 
  • When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen 
  • Nature Poem by Tommy Pico 
  • Holy Wild by Gwewn Benaway 
  • Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson 
  • Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri 
  • Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto 
  • The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi 
  • The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde 
  • Crush by Richard Siken 
  • Black Movie by Danez Smith 
  • The New Testament by Jericho Brown 
  • For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly by Yosimar Reyes 
  • A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics by C.A. Conrad 

Outlets/Sources 

  • BGD: Amplifying the Voices of Queer and Trans People of Color (https://www.bgdblog.org/) [Has many articles by nonwhite queer community members that are very informative! Provided some below]