Best known for the influence of her store, Mnasidika, and her association with Janis Joplin, Peggy Caserta has the devil’s own luck. Relentless and relentlessly unafraid to use all the advantages at her disposal, her story is a wild... Read More

Stark, moving, and filled with rays of light, Lara Lillibridge’s memoir of growing up straight in a dysfunctional lesbian home takes readers far beyond names and labels into the heart of what it means to be “family.” Written as... Read More

A decade after Latisha King’s murder, Gayle Salamon reassesses what we know about King and her legacy. "The Life and Death of Latisha King" is no ordinary true-crime narrative, but a hard-hitting philosophical investigation into gender... Read More

Ann Travers’s "The Trans Generation" is an astounding and essential qualitative study that collects heartfelt, honest anecdotes from a variety of transgender children and their parents. This book explores how trans people interact with... Read More

Erin O. White’s "Given Up for You", part of the Living Out gay and lesbian autobiography series from University of Wisconsin Press, explores the intersection of faith and sexuality. As a young woman, White experienced two big firsts... Read More

Cynthia Burack’s "Because We Are Human" is an intelligent look at how national governments address the preservation of LGBTQ rights, especially as influenced by the United States. Thorough and thought-provoking, this academic book... Read More

Smart and sensual, You Can’t Buy Love Like That captures a woman coming into her own in a time of tremendous social change. Carol E. Anderson’s You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties is an immediately engaging... Read More

Hitchins’s mix of raw emotion and salty hilarity works beautifully. It takes a special kind of person to write a play-by-play description of masturbation that is simultaneously hilarious, repulsive, and sweet. That person is Shawn... Read More