O Solo Homo: by Holly Hughes

An influential anthology of queer solo performance scripts from the 1990s edited by lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes and theater critic David Roman, featuring groundbreaking pieces by performers including Holly Hughes’s ‘Clit Notes’ on lesbian sexuality, Peggy Shaw’s exploration of butch identity, Tim Miller on gay male desire, and other artists addressing AIDS, breast cancer, racism, gender, and LGBTQ+ life.

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.