LGBTQIA+ history, culture & memoir

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The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date

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Out-Side - Queer Words and Art from Regional Victoria

Michael Earp (ed.)

Out-Side: Queer Words and Art From Regional Victoria is an anthology celebrating over 30 writers and artists from Regional Victoria.

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He/She/They

Schuyler Bailar

A much-needed guide to understanding gender, becoming a better trans ally, and making the world a better place

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Love and Money, Sex and Death

McKenzie Wark

A breathtaking memoir of transition, history, art, and memory

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Transgender Australia

Noah Riseman

The first book on Australian trans history exploring the lives and impacts of trans and gender-diverse Australians

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A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining

Rachel Cargle

A memoir meets manifesto on reimagining solidarity and self through knowledge, empathy and action

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P.S. Burn This Letter Please

Craig Olsen

A personal, vivid snapshot of drag culture in 1950s New York, showing readers how modern drag culture was born through first-hand letters, photographs and lively research from incredible historians

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One of Them

Shaneel Lal

A stunning, heart-breaking yet defiant memoir by activist, model and social media sensation Shaneel Lal.

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Pageboy: A Memoir

Elliot Page

The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth.

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Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

Zachary Zane

A sex and relationship columnist bares it all in a series of essays--part memoir, part manifesto--that explore the author's coming-of-age and coming out as a bisexual man and move toward…

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Lesbian Love Story

Amelia Possanza

Remarkable stories from seven unforgettable historic lesbians and what they can teach us about love

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She and Her Pretty Friend

Danielle Scrimshaw

A joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia – from colonisation to convict times, through suffrage and liberation to today.

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Camp!

Paul Baker

By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also…

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Dress Rehearsals

Madison Godfrey

A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body.

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In/Out

Steph Lentz

At once a gripping recount, a heartfelt apology and a scathing take-down, In/Out charts Steph's course from inside Christian fundamentalism, out of the closet and into a fuller sense of…

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Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

Mx Lamya H

‘A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart’ GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed

When Lamya…

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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Through the lens of horror - from Halloween to Hereditary - queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.

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The Making of the Victorian Pride Centre

Dr. Judith Buckrich

The Making of the Victorian Pride Centre’ explores the background, conception and building of the Victorian Pride Centre.

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Not Like Other Dads

Sean Szeps

A fearless, frank and funny memoir about reinventing the rules of parenting

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In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad.

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Who Does that Bitch Think She Is?

Craig Seligman

An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish

In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and…

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Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories

An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. This…

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Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise

Jack Parlett

A scintillating, richly peopled, impeccably researched history of the New York coastal enclave that, over the last century, became an iconic site of queer liberation.

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Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir

Iliana Regan

With her first book, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In her follow-up, she digs even deeper to express…

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How to Make a Basket

Jazz Money

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.

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Gender: A Graphic Guide

Meg-John Barker

An exciting new exploration of gender from the creators of the groundbreaking Queer: A Graphic History

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Once In A Lullaby

Mia Mala McDonald

Once in a lullaby: a portrait of Australian rainbow families is Mia Mala McDonald’s long awaited book of portraits of Australian ‘Rainbow' families.

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Girls Can Kiss Now

Jill Gutowitz

Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor.

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My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Lucia Osborne-Crowley

A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation

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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller

An unconventional history of Homosexuality

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Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia

Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees, Bobuq Sayed (eds)

Nothing to Hide is Australia’s first mainstream anthology of trans and gender diverse writing, a powerful contribution to Australian letters.

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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

Dr Julia Shaw

A personal and scientific manifesto for the sexually in-between, from the internationally bestselling author and co-host of Bad People.

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The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson’s _The Argonauts _is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh…

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All Boys Aren’t Blue

George M. Johnson

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood and adolescence growing up as a gay black man.

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Queer Up

Alexis Caught

Queer Up is an uplifting guide to LGBTQ+ love, life and mental health.

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The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

An era-defining, agenda-setting call for trans liberation which will reshape our current conversation on transgender rights

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war ‘issue’. Despite making up…

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A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

A dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt.

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A Short History of Queer Women

Kirsty Loehr

Dispensing with the patriarchal bullshit, Kirsty Loehr exposes centuries of outrageous straightwashing

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No Modernism Without Lesbians

Diana Souhami

The story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.

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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

An indispensable, intimate and stylish celebration of the institution of the gay bar, from the post-AIDS-crisis 1990s to today’s fluid queer spaces.

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted…

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Growing Up Queer in Australia

Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity.

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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Akwaeke Emezi

A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.

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Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

An empowering, witty and uplifting collection of coming out stories and advice from LGBTQ+ people from around the world, based on the hugely successful podcast Coming Out Stories.

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Ten Steps to Nanette

Hannah Gadsby

The memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix…

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Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens

Ryan Pfluger

One hundred stunning photographs of queer, interracial couples, with first-person text about their relationships –

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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Angela Chen

Ace delves into the lives of those who identify using the little-known sexual orientation of asexuality and shows what all of us can learn-about desire, identity, culture, and relationships-when we…

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The Stonewall Reader

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.

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LGBTQIA+ history, culture & memoir

The House of Hidden Meanings

Out-Side - Queer Words and Art from Regional Victoria

He/She/They

Love and Money, Sex and Death

Transgender Australia

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

One of Them

Pageboy: A Memoir

Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

Lesbian Love Story

She and Her Pretty Friend

Camp!

Dress Rehearsals

In/Out

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

The Making of the Victorian Pride Centre

Not Like Other Dads

In the Dream House

Who Does that Bitch Think She Is?

Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories

Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise

Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir

How to Make a Basket

Gender: A Graphic Guide

Once In A Lullaby

Girls Can Kiss Now

My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

The Argonauts

All Boys Aren’t Blue

Queer Up

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

A History of My Brief Body

A Short History of Queer Women

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Growing Up Queer in Australia

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

Ten Steps to Nanette

Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

The Stonewall Reader