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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

ROBERT W FIESELER - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans' subterranean gay community. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement....
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Silas House - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book." - Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath...
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Forward: A Memoir

Abby Wambach - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." - NPR"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." - Sheryl Sandberg,...
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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

SARAH MCBRIDE - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover

"A brave, powerful memoir." - PEOPLEA captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride...
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The Diamond Setter

Moshik Sakal - Other Press
Format: eBook

Inspired by true events, this best-selling Israeli novel traces a complex web of love triangles, homoerotic tensions, and family secrets across generations and borders, illuminating diverse facets of life in the Middle East.The uneventful life of a jeweler from Tel Aviv changes abruptly...
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Take Me Out: A Play

Richard Greenberg

"A funny and troubling look at athletes and identity . . . Take Me Out is a dynamic, involving play." -- Donald Lyons, New York PostDarren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. An extraordinary athlete, he fills bo
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Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

André Aciman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during...
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When the moon was ours.

Anna-Marie Mclemore - A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureStonewall Book Award Honor"McLemore's second novel is such a lush surprising fable, you half expect birds to fly out of the pages ... McLemore uses the supernatural to remind us that the body's need to speak...
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