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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Art of Detection	Laurie R. King	In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards--winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco ho…	OL14860162W
Genet	Edmund White	A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosex…	OL15073198W
PoMoSexuals	Lawrence Schimel,Carol Queen	PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: th…	OL15741122W
Quarantine	Rahul Mehta	With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in Quarantine are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship an…	OL16140178W
Telling tales out of school	Kevin Jennings	In more than 30 essays, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals look back at their school days to find that they are still trying to unlearn a basic lesson imparted by the educational system to homosexuals: "H…	OL16457817W
Two Boys Kissing	David Levithan	Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS—Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour…	OL16807251W
Normal Miguel	Erik Orrantia	Miguel Hernández is a teacher who has left Mexico City to complete a one year student internship in the rural hills of Puebla. He came to the school intending to focus on his teaching and his student…	OL17494629W
[insert] boy	Danez Smith	Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books, 2014. 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. …	OL17933506W
The indelible Alison Bechdel	Alison Bechdel	Go behind the pen and into the psyche of dyke to watch out for Alison Bechdel--cartoon chronicler extraordinaire--as the inner workings of lesbiania's most quick-witted, longest-running social commen…	OL1835950W
The gender frontier	Mariette Pathy Allen,Grady T. Turner	Mariette Pathy Allen documents the lives of extraordinary individuals, their partners, families and friends. Through photographs and short texts, the reader is offered an intimate connection to the b…	OL18606402W
Izzy and Eve	Neal Drinnan	Gay Izzy is an erotic cartoonist; his best pal Eve makes exotic jewelry and works as a receptionist in a whorehouse. She collects clippings of unsolved murders of women and has flashes of psychic abi…	OL1921477W
How we get free	Javier Sáez del Álamo,Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor	The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1…	OL19722079W
The breath of the sun	Isaac Fellman	Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really tell anything. For years she guided pilgrims up the foothills of the…	OL19754158W
Portland queer	Ariel Gore	At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life in one of the world’s great queer mecca…	OL19936137W
He do the gay man in different voices	Stephen S. Mills	Poetry. LGBT Studies. In this debut collection, Stephen S. Mills transports himself to dank prison cells, international executions, and the minds of murderers that unravel through the kinky underbell…	OL19964673W
Clean slate	Andrea Bramhall	After a vicious attack, Morgan Masters wakes up to find that nothing is how she remembers it. John Major isn’t the prime minister anymore, the Millennium has been and gone, and it’s been a very long …	OL19996693W
The Angel of History	Rabih Alameddine	The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy fat…	OL20038316W
Sprout	Dale Peck	Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.	OL2007305W
Punishing Disease	Trevor Hoppe	From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the di…	OL20218841W
The Deep	Rivers Solomon	Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be …	OL20411800W