So Your Child Is Gay A Guide For Canadian Families And Their Friends by Jerald Bain
A manual for the practical anxieties that follow coming out
Coming Out
The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
A gritty debut novel set in South London following lesbian drug dealer Harry and bisexual dancer Becky as their lives intersect through Harry’s brother Pete, exploring their complex romantic relationship against the backdrop of urban struggle, family histories, and the contemporary challenges facing millennials.
Hermione by Hilda Doolittle; H.
A modernist poet’s semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman in her twenties discovering her identity, sexuality, and artistic voice through an intense friendship with another woman while engaged to Ezra Pound.
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
A bestselling food writer’s candid memoir about discovering her attraction to women at age 36, navigating the dissolution of her marriage, coming out to family and friends, and redefining her identity and understanding of family.
My Best Friend, Maybe by Caela Carter
A YA novel about former best friends Colette (a conservative religious teen) and Sadie (a lesbian) who reunite on a Greek vacation three years after their mysterious falling out, where Sadie finally reveals the secret of her sexual identity that caused her to end their friendship before high school.
My Brain Hurts by Liz Baillie
My Brain Hurts Volume One Liz Baillie A group of teenage queer punks get in perpetual trouble with the police when they aren’t flirting over loud music or postering their high school with flyers to allow same sex couples at prom. It’s like they were your actual high school peers – pissing off the administration … Read more
Harley Loco by Rayya Elias
A raw punk rock memoir chronicling Syrian-American Rayya Elias’s journey from her childhood in Aleppo through Detroit to 1980s Lower East Side New York, where she pursued music and hairstyling while exploring her sexuality with lovers of both sexes, battling heroin addiction, experiencing homelessness and incarceration, and ultimately finding redemption and sobriety.
A + E 4ever by Ilike Merey
An androgynous teenage boy named Ash and Eulalie, a tough-talking lesbian artist, form an intense friendship at the margins of high school society that blurs the boundaries between friendship, love, gender, and sexuality
The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
A gritty debut novel set in South London following lesbian drug dealer Harry and bisexual dancer Becky as their lives intersect through Harry’s brother Pete, exploring their complex romantic relationship against the backdrop of urban struggle, family histories, and the contemporary challenges facing millennials.
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
A metaliterary hybrid memoir-novel following lesbian writer Michelle through 1990s San Francisco’s queer scene and her drug-fueled relationships, as the world literally begins ending around her move to Los Angeles, blending addiction recovery with apocalyptic fiction.