Last Updated: April 15, 2025
The Stonewall Generation: LGBT Elders On Sex, Activism, and Aging
edited by Jane Fleishman
Sexuality researcher Jane Fleishman shares the stories of nine fearless elders in the LGBTQ community who came of age around the time of Stonewall. In candid interviews, they lay bare their struggles, their strengths, their activism, and their sexual liberation in the context of the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s and today.
Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake
by Komail Aijazuddin
What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you’re ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness? Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin knew he was different. Aijazuddin began to believe his only chance at a happy, meaningful life would be found elsewhere: America, the land of the free, the home of the gays. But the hostility of a post-9/11 world and society’s rejection of his art, his desires, and his body would soon teach him that finding happiness takes a lot more than a plane ticket.
Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World
by Diane Ehrensaft, PhD.
An essential primer on gender literacy from leading experts on the front line of the cultural and political debate.
A monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979: award-winning author Jon Savage takes us on a fast and captivating journey through the history of pop music as seen through the eyes of queer artists.