Category: Memoir

The Family Outing | Jessi Hempel | A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family’s transformation, with almost all of them embracing their queer identities.

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True Chronicles of a Lesbian Love Affair | LaTresa Dewberry; Marcie Frazier | True Chronicles of a Lesbian Love Affair journals the amazingly wonderful beginning of two women taking a chance on love. This book is a no holds barr

The Change | Lori Soderlind | In the throes of a classic midlife crisis, Lori Soderlind takes a sabbatical from her community college job as a journalism professor. She sets out to

Given Up for You | Erin O. White | In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin O. White shares her hunger for both romantic and divine love, and how these desires transformed her life. I

Plain | Mary Alice Hostetter | Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Alth

Moby Dyke | Krista Burton | A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last

Untold Lies | Raga Olga D’silva | In 2019, Raga came out as a lesbian through her book Untold Lies (2019). This is a collection of stories and poems that bind seamlessly to narrate her

Native Country Of The Heart | Cherrie Moraga | From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline, and also tells t

Ma And Me | Putsata Reang | When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding s

Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy | Rachel Krantz | Can we have both freedom and love? Comfort and lust? Is a relationship ever equal? And is the pleasure worth the pain?

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