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Diversity Reads - 2SLGBTQ+ Voices

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Diversity Reads is based on the Read Woke reading challenge, started by Cecily Lewis. Books give us a fantastic opportunity to explore beyond our lived experience. Diversity Reads challenges you to discover the world from different perspectives, in the hope that learning about and celebrating our differences will bring us closer together. These titles feature experiences of members of the LGBTQ community.

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Young Mungo

Young Mungo

A Novel

by Stuart, Douglas

Book - 2022

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They should be sworn enemies. As they begin to fall in lo...Show more Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They should be sworn enemies. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. Show less

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They should be sworn enemies. As they begin to fall in lo...Show more Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They should be sworn enemies. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. Show less

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Girls Can Kiss Now

Girls Can Kiss Now

Essays

by Gutowitz, Jill

Book - 2022

Jill Gutowitz's life has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweet...Show more Jill Gutowitz's life has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values -- always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us. Show less

Jill Gutowitz's life has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweet...Show more Jill Gutowitz's life has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values -- always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us. Show less

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Ten Steps to Nanette

Ten Steps to Nanette

A Memoir Situation

by Gadsby, Hannah

Book - 2022

Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success -- and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But lik...Show more Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success -- and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But like everything else about Hannah, there's more to her success than meets the eye. The queer Australian comedian takes us through the key moments in her life that ultimately led to the creation of Nanette and her startling declaration that she was quitting comedy. Show less

Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success -- and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But lik...Show more Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success -- and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But like everything else about Hannah, there's more to her success than meets the eye. The queer Australian comedian takes us through the key moments in her life that ultimately led to the creation of Nanette and her startling declaration that she was quitting comedy. Show less

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

by Lavery, Grace E.

Book - 2022

Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she ...Show more Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her "penis problem," she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound. Show less

Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she ...Show more Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her "penis problem," she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound. Show less

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Making Love With the Land

Making Love With the Land

Essays

by Whitehead, Joshua

Book - 2022

This book brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, n...Show more This book brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, confession). It's a startling, heartwrenching look at what it means to live as a queer Indigenous person in the rupture between identities. Show less

This book brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, n...Show more This book brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, confession). It's a startling, heartwrenching look at what it means to live as a queer Indigenous person in the rupture between identities. Show less

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People Change

People Change

by Shraya, Vivek

Book - 2022

Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to bl...Show more Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to blend in or to stand out. In fact, nobody knows this better than Vivek, who's made a career of embracing many roles. What emerges is a meditation on change itself: why we fear it, why we're drawn to it, what motivates us to change, and what traps us in place. This handbook is a guide to celebrating our many selves and the inspiration to discover who we'll become next. Show less

Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to bl...Show more Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to blend in or to stand out. In fact, nobody knows this better than Vivek, who's made a career of embracing many roles. What emerges is a meditation on change itself: why we fear it, why we're drawn to it, what motivates us to change, and what traps us in place. This handbook is a guide to celebrating our many selves and the inspiration to discover who we'll become next. Show less

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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

A Novel

by Austin, Emily

Book - 2021

Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Responding to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic ...Show more Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Responding to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, Gilda finds herself mistakenly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend, but can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. Show less

Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Responding to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic ...Show more Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Responding to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, Gilda finds herself mistakenly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend, but can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. Show less

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Care of

Care of

Letters, Connections, and Cures

by Coyote, Ivan

Book - 2021

Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special comm...Show more Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members. Then came Spring, 2020, and, like artists everywhere, Ivan was grounded by the pandemic. Care Of combines the most powerful of these letters with Ivan's responses, creating a body of correspondence of startling intimacy, breathtaking beauty, and heartbreaking honesty and openness. Show less

Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special comm...Show more Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members. Then came Spring, 2020, and, like artists everywhere, Ivan was grounded by the pandemic. Care Of combines the most powerful of these letters with Ivan's responses, creating a body of correspondence of startling intimacy, breathtaking beauty, and heartbreaking honesty and openness. Show less

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Memorial

Memorial

A Novel

by Washington, Bryan

Book - 2020

Benson and Mike -- Black and Japanese, respectively; both gay -- have an “okay” relationship that both are hesitant to define, just as Mike flies to his d...Show more Benson and Mike -- Black and Japanese, respectively; both gay -- have an “okay” relationship that both are hesitant to define, just as Mike flies to his dying father in Japan and leaves his mother with Benson in Houston. Through unfussy language and spartan dialogue, the author emphasizes the silences in our relationships, calling attention to what’s left unsaid when it comes to matters of sex, race, class, and family. Show less

Benson and Mike -- Black and Japanese, respectively; both gay -- have an “okay” relationship that both are hesitant to define, just as Mike flies to his d...Show more Benson and Mike -- Black and Japanese, respectively; both gay -- have an “okay” relationship that both are hesitant to define, just as Mike flies to his dying father in Japan and leaves his mother with Benson in Houston. Through unfussy language and spartan dialogue, the author emphasizes the silences in our relationships, calling attention to what’s left unsaid when it comes to matters of sex, race, class, and family. Show less

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The Thirty Names of Night

The Thirty Names of Night

A Novel

by Joukhadar, Zeyn

Book - 2020

The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry...Show more The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. It's an imaginative and intimate exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are. Show less

The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry...Show more The Thirty Names of Night is a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. It's an imaginative and intimate exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are. Show less

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A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

A Memoir

by Belcourt, Billy-Ray

Book - 2020

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. Show less

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. Show less

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Crosshairs

Crosshairs

A Novel

by Hernandez, Catherine

Book - 2020

In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the B...Show more In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled and the LGBTQ2S into labour camps in the city of Toronto. Show less

In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the B...Show more In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled and the LGBTQ2S into labour camps in the city of Toronto. Show less

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The Gospel of Breaking

The Gospel of Breaking

by Christmas, Jillian

Book - 2020

The author extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. The author extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Show less

The author extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. The author extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Show less

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I Hope We Choose Love

I Hope We Choose Love

A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

by Thom, Kai Cheng

Book - 2019

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. Show less

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. Show less

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We Have Always Been Here

We Have Always Been Here

A Queer Muslim Memoir

by Habib, Samra

Book - 2019

Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not. Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not. Show less

Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not. Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not. Show less

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Theory

Theory

A Novel

by Brand, Dionne

Book - 2018

A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. It centers on an unnamed, ungendered, Ph. D. student reflecting on a visit from older brother Wendell. A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. It centers on an unnamed, ungendered, Ph. D. student reflecting on a visit from older brother Wendell. Show less

A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. It centers on an unnamed, ungendered, Ph. D. student reflecting on a visit from older brother Wendell. A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. It centers on an unnamed, ungendered, Ph. D. student reflecting on a visit from older brother Wendell. Show less

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Misfit

Misfit

Autistic, Gay, Immigrant, Changemaker : A Memoir

by Souvaliotis, Andreas

Book - 2018

Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good. Everyone has wh...Show more Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good. Everyone has what it takes to trigger positive change, and that none of us should see our differences and quirks as handicaps. Show less

Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good. Everyone has wh...Show more Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good. Everyone has what it takes to trigger positive change, and that none of us should see our differences and quirks as handicaps. Show less

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Boy Erased

Boy Erased

A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

by Conley, Garrard

Book - 2018

The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about hi...Show more The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Show less

The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about hi...Show more The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Show less

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A Novel

by Greer, Andrew Sean

Book - 2017

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes, and...Show more You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes, and you can't say no -- it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? Show less

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes, and...Show more You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes, and you can't say no -- it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? Show less

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