Books for National Coming Out Day

An anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.

By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

Winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and the Stonewall Book Award; Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography • A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran.

Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all—told in full for the first time anywhere!

A fiery, heartbreaking memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a riveting story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars.

The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America, with a foreword by Dan Savage.

Winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award; Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction • Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America, Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth, love, family—and the stories that make us who we are.

A transformational story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, from the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction.

In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race.