Books for LGBTQIA+ History Month

By Coll Rowe | September 4 2024 | HistoryGender and Sexuality Studies

For LGBTQIA+ History Month in October, we’re celebrating the shared history of individuals within the community and the importance of the activists who have fought for their rights and the rights of others. We acknowledge the varying and diverse experiences within the LGBTQIA+ community that have shaped history and have led the way for those celebrating their sexualities and identities today and for those who will in the future.

Find a full collection of books about LGBTQIA+ History here.

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles
Selected Essays
Pedro Lemebel
9780143137085

A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America’s queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time.

$18.00 US
May 28, 2024
Paperback
272 Pages
Penguin Classics
Speak Now
Speak Now
Marriage Equality on Trial
Kenji Yoshino
9780385348829
A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality.
$17.00 US
Feb 16, 2016
Paperback
400 Pages
Crown
Diary of a Misfit
Diary of a Misfit
A Memoir and a Mystery
Casey Parks
9780593081105
Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life."Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit." —The New York Times Book Review
$18.00 US
Sep 26, 2023
Paperback
368 Pages
Vintage
The Stonewall Reader
The Stonewall Reader
9780143133513
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
$18.00 US
Apr 30, 2019
Paperback
336 Pages
Penguin Classics
All In
All In
An Autobiography
Johnette Howard, Maryanne Vollers, Billie Jean King
9781101971475
Here is an inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.
$19.00 US
Apr 25, 2023
Paperback
528 Pages
Vintage
And the Category Is.
And the Category Is.
Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Ricky Tucker
9780807003480

A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture.

$25.95 US
Jan 25, 2022
Hardcover
248 Pages
Beacon Press
Miss Major Speaks
Miss Major Speaks
Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek
9781839763342
A legendary transgender elder and activist reflects on a lifetime of struggle and the future of black, queer, and trans liberation.
$19.95 US
May 16, 2023
Paperback
176 Pages
Verso
I'm Not Broken
I'm Not Broken
A Memoir
Jesse Leon
9780593466513
In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse.
$19.00 US
Aug 23, 2022
Paperback
336 Pages
Vintage
Making Room
Making Room
Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth
Carl Siciliano
9780593444245
From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder compelled him to create the nation's largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ teens.
$18.00 US
May 21, 2024
Paperback
304 Pages
Convergent Books
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