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"Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defined by the pain."-The New York Times

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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

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Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now…

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Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming ar…

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A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir.

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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States (Little Brown Us)

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Time and Time Again

Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending—literally.

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Juliet Takes a Breath

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